by Curt Gentry
FBI personnel, criticisms from, 600, 604
“FBI” TV program, 580, 581, 582
files of, see files of J. Edgar Hoover
final days, 717-20
firing of, Nixon’s plans for, 691, 699-703
food preferences, 117
funeral, 37-38, 41-42, 46-47, 48-50, 525, 526, 721-23
germs, fear of, 280, 462, 618
on ghetto riots of 1967, 601, 603
GID, appointment to, 78, 79
Goldman-Berkman deportations, 85-88
good name, concern for, 57, 117, 706
hats worn by, 22
health problems, 461-62, 705-6, 727
height of, 65
high school student, 62, 64-65
Hiss, campaign against, 347-49
history, alteration of, 389-90
hobbies, 190
homosexuality rumor, 159, 179-80, 192, 240, 531
HUAC appearances, 354
Hughes “contribution” to Nixon, 648-50
Huston Plan, 652-58
informants for, 412-13
interviews given by, 660-64, 712-13
Johnson and, 557-60, 614
Justice Department, hired by, 68-69
Justice Department scandals (1950-52), 394-97
Katzenbach and, 583-84
Kennedy, John, and, 480-81, 536
Kennedy, John, assassination, 537
Kennedy, Robert, and, 472-73, 474, 475-80, 494, 536, 662-63
King:
denunciations of, 573
summit meeting with, 574-75
leaks to press, 553n
library work, 67
McCarthy and, 378-80, 430-32, 435-36
memos, affinity for, 136
Mexico visit, 215
military commissions, 279
misappropriation of government time, money, equipment, and services, 725-26, 743-44, 746
mother’s death, 216-17
murder rumor, 32, 36, 726-28
New York visits, 217, 221-22
Nichols’s resignation, 450-51
nicknames, 65-66
Nixon administration “homosexualists,” 624-26
Nixon and, 613, 616-18, 640-41, 683, 710
Nixon’s inauguration, 615-16
nose of, 65, 66
office of, 617-18
organized crime, attitude toward, 327-30, 453-55, 529-30
OSS super-agency plan, 312, 313, 314
paranoia, 239-40, 462
phobias, 462
policy-making role, 243
Popov and, 270-71, 272
prejudices, 265n, 500n
presidential aspirations, 437, 438
press relations, see press coverage of Hoover
public opinion on, 681n, 717
Red raids of 1919-20, 79, 82, 84, 90, 91-92, 94-102
religious life, 64
retirement issue, 472n, 536, 560-61, 601, 623-24, 673, 677-79, 681, 684, 688, 713
Roosevelt, Eleanor, and, 299-306, 390-91
Roosevelt, Franklin:
death of, 317-18
relationship with, 223-24, 263-64
salary, 194, 380n
self-perception, 64, 65
seventieth birthday, 576
sleeping habits, 21
socializing, 683-84
special favors for supporters, 383-84
sports, love for, 65-66
statistics, use of, 115-16
steel price-fixing incident, 491
Stone, affection for, 143
stuttering, 64-65
Supreme Court and, 410-12, 627-30
symbolic status for, 179
taping of conversations, 618
tax evasion, 448, 726, 730n
temper tantrums, 659
thirty-eighth anniversary as director, 492-93
Tolson, relationship with, 190-92
Truman and, 321-22, 429-30
twenty-fifth anniversary as director, 364
vacations, 217-18, 658-59
Victorian sensibility, 62-63
on Vietnam antiwar movement, 604-5
Warren Commission and, 546-47, 548, 552, 555-56
Washington, D.C., feelings for, 63
Wheeler prosecution, 121
White case, 349-52
will of, 39, 691-92, 730
work ethic, 149
World War I service, avoidance of, 68
writings, 176, 388, 447-48, 666
see also Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoover, Lillian (sister), 63, 68, 216-17
Hoover home (Seward Sq.), 63, 247
Hoover home (Thirtieth Place), 21, 39, 217, 514, 515, 640
Hoover’s FBI: The Man and the Myth (Turner), 387-88
Hopkins, Harry, 181, 294, 301, 305, 307, 308, 311, 313
Hopkins, Louise Macy, 311, 315
Hopper, Hedda, 384
Hosty, James P., Jr., 543-47, 549-50, 556
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 303, 352-53, 357-58
Ernst and, 235
Fascist threat and, 204
FBI, relationship with, 240-42, 353-55
film industry, investigation of, 353-54, 383
Hiss investigations, 344-45, 360, 361-63
Lowenthal and, 386
Houston, Lawrence R., 460, 491-92
Howard, Bill, 659
Howard, Edward Lee, 755
Howe, Kenneth, 545
Howe, Louis, 157, 158, 181
Howell, Glenn, 153
Howland, Weston, 267
Hruska, Roman, 407
Hudson, Rock, 719
Hughes, Charles Evans, 100, 242
Hughes, Harold, 679
Hughes, Howard, 625, 648-49
Hughes, Maury, 457
Hughes, Vincent, 132, 148, 149
Hull, Cordell, 207, 307, 309-10
Hume, Brit, 717
Hummer, Ed, 361, 362
Humphrey, Hubert H., 571, 586, 608
Humphreys, Murray, 456, 457
Hundley, William, 531, 536
Hunt, E. Howard, 36, 47, 686
Hunt, H. L., 432
Hunter, Fred, 188, 192, 194
Hunter, Capt. Samuel A. D., 469
Hurt, Clarence, 169, 174, 194, 254
Huston, Tom Charles, 653-54, 655, 656, 657, 658
Ichord, Richard, 666
Ickes, Harold, 160, 227, 311n
Ingram, Timothy, 390
Innis, Roy, 719
Internal Revenue Service, 412
International Association of Chiefs of Police, 416-17
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, 245
International Workers of the World (IWW), 70, 71, 96
Irey, Elmer, 160, 161, 163, 180-81
Irvine v. California (1954), 406
ITT memo incident, 27, 715-17
Jackson, Robert, 206, 215-16, 223, 229, 230, 231-33, 240, 241, 244, 300
Jackson, William “Action,” 478
Jacobson, Buddy, 535
Jacobson, Don, 447
Jacobson, Max, 692n
Jaffe, Philip, 339, 340n
Japanese-Americans, internment of, 244-45
J. Edgar Hoover Building, 56-57, 526, 617, 746-47, 760
J. Edgar Hoover Foundation, 364-65
J. Edgar Hoover on Communism (Hoover), 448
Jencks, Clinton, 449
Jenkins, Thomas, 484, 751
Jenkins, Walter, 547, 560, 569, 570, 577, 578-80
Jenner, William, 429
Jesus Christ, 395
John Birch Society, 430
John Jay College, 660
Johnson, Albert, 97, 110
Johnson, Donald, 99
Johnson, Jack, 115
Johnson, Lady Bird, 577
Johnson, Lyndon B., 30, 65, 323, 407, 522, 549n, 562, 585, 596-97, 599, 602, 625
on Clark, Ramsey, 601
corrupt practices, 472, 559
Dodd and, 591, 592
enemies, intimidation of, 561-62
> FBI protection for, 561
FBI’s political espionage for, 577-78
Hoover and, 557-60, 614
Hoover retirement issue, 560-61
Jenkins incident, 578-80
Kennedy, John F., assassination, 542, 548, 597-99
King investigation, 569, 570, 574, 575
Ku Klux Klan investigation, 562, 563
Liuzzo murder case, 585
presidential election of 1968, 608-9
reelection, decision against, 606
taping of conversations, 614
vice president, selection of, 582n
Vietnam antiwar movement, 604-5
Johnson, Marlin, 455, 456
Johnson, Sam Houston, 625
Jones, Bob, 169
Jones, Clarence, 509
Jones, Courtland, 633-34, 636, 638n
Jones, Gus T., 169
Jones, Jessie, 384
Judd, Walter H., 580
Juliana, Jim, 435
Justice Department, U.S.:
General Intelligence Division, 78, 79, 103, 111
Hoover hired by, 68-69
scandals of 1950-52, 393-97
Walsh-Wheeler investigation of, 118-22
see also Federal Bureau of Investigation; Red raids of 1919-20
Kalb, Marvin, 637n
Kalugin, Oleg D., 719
Kane, Francis Fisher, 98-99
Kansas City massacre, 168-69
Kantor, Seth, 551
Karpis, Alvin “Creepy,” 114, 183, 184, 188, 192-93, 194-95, 254, 255
Katz, Leonard, 329
Katzenbach, Nicholas deB., 532, 547, 548, 553n, 564, 582, 583-84, 586
Kaufman, Irving R., 422, 424, 425, 426, 427
Keating, Kenneth, 450
Keats, John, 387
Kefauver, Estes, 397-98, 402, 445
Keith, John M., 132, 169, 170n, 250, 281
Keller, Helen, 141
Kelley, Clarence M., 645n, 692, 740, 747, 748-52, 754, 756
Kelley, John J., 737n
Kelly, George “Machine Gun,” 178
Kendall, Donald, 639n, 651
Kennan, Joseph B., 520
Kennedy, Edward M., 638, 642n, 671, 679
Kennedy, Ethel, 479
Kennedy, Joan, 638
Kennedy, John F., 65, 376n, 403, 458, 479-80, 522, 527, 692n
Arvad affair, 467-70
assassination, see Kennedy, John F., assassination
civil rights movement, 485, 506
FBI Academy speech, 497
FBI file on, 352, 463, 470
FBI surveillance of, 467-69, 470-72
Hoover and, 480-81, 536
King and, 500, 503, 507-8
Monroe and, 493
organized crime, Kennedy family and, 488-90
presidential election of 1960, 471-72
taping of conversations, 536
Kennedy, John F., assassination, 537, 597-98
congressional investigation, 547-48, 550, 551, 552, 557
FBI investigation, 541-42
organized crime and, 494-97, 534-35, 551-52
Warren Commission, 546-47, 548-49, 552-57, 584-85
Kennedy, Joseph P., 266, 365n, 384, 397, 432, 436, 468, 469, 470, 471, 473, 488, 642
Kennedy, Dr. Joseph V., 461, 735, 738, 739, 740
Kennedy, Regis, 529-30, 551
Kennedy, Robert F., 39, 403, 454, 458, 482, 487, 497, 522, 532, 547, 577, 692n
assassination, 597, 606-7
assassination plot (1962), 495
attorney general appointment, 472-73
civil rights movement, 485, 503, 504, 505-6, 507, 509, 510, 527, 528, 529, 562
COINTELPROs, 474
Hoffa case, 597
Hoover and, 472-73, 474, 475-80, 494, 536, 662-63
Kennedy, John, assassination, 537, 557n
King investigation, 569, 570, 578
Ku Klux Klan investigation, 562
Monroe and, 493-94, 562
organized crime:
CIA connection, 492
Kennedy family and, 488
war on, 529, 530, 533, 534
presidential campaign, 605-6
resignation as attorney general, 582
as senator, 589, 593, 595-97, 605n
steel price-fixing incident, 491
surveillance authorization controversy (1966), 593, 595-97
Kennedy, Stephen, 415
Kent State incident, 644, 650
Kerr, Jean, 380-81, 431, 434
Kessler, Ronald, 37, 672
Kienast, Anna, 217n
Kilsheimer, James B., 425
King, Coretta Scott, 34, 500, 572, 574, 719
King, Mackenzie, 341n
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 30, 64, 500-501, 518, 602, 641
assassination, 506, 606-7
criticism of FBI, 497-98
FBI investigation of, 501, 505-6, 527-28, 567-76, 578, 599
Kennedy, John, and, 500, 503, 507-8
“liar” charge by Hoover, 573
Liuzzo murder case, 585-86
“Man of the Year” award, 567-68
Nobel Peace Prize, 571, 575, 664
suicide plot against, 568, 571-73, 575-76
summit meeting with Hoover, 574-75
see also civil rights movement
Kingman, Capt. Howard F., 469
Kirkpatrick, Lyman, 380
Kissinger, Henry, 632-33, 635-36, 637, 638, 639-40, 665, 687, 690
Klanzi party, 595n
Kleindienst, Richard, 27-28, 30-31, 32, 38, 42, 48, 49, 642n, 678-79, 715, 726-27, 748
Knebel, Fletcher, 95
Knight, Frances, 409
Knopf, Alfred and Blanche, 439n
Knowland, William, 377
Kohlberg, Alfred, 432
Kopechne, Mary Jo, 642n
Kosner, Edward, 462
Kraft, Joseph, 25, 639-40, 690
Kraslow, David, 233n, 448n
Krock, Arthur, 403, 468
Krogh, Egil “Bud,” 650, 684n, 685-86, 693, 699, 701
Kuhn, Fritz, 205
Ku Klux Klan, 147, 441, 483, 484-85
COINTELPRO against, 562-66, 602-3
Kunkel, Robert, 678, 733, 747
Kunstler, William, 36, 754
Kutler, Stanley I., 206, 356n, 410n
Ladd, D. M. “Mickey,” 289, 349-50, 362n, 369-70, 372, 375, 379, 420, 424-25, 427, 428
La Follette, Robert, 119n