artifacts that we have our of florence khan and i'm fond of it, is this one it's a letter from j edgar hoover, to the congresswoman, and the important part of this is not what he is writing, what is important is dear mother khan's, and it's an odd phrase from j edgar hoover. but she was known very much as the mother of the fbi. so that was often he referred to her. but it's a fascinating piece of you know the interesting article. and playing up that affiliation, and that close tie that they had. >> by the time we get to the late 1930s, early 1940s, we begin to see a different group from that pioneer group of women coming into congress. world war ii, kind of reshapes the role of women in society generally. women hold a lot of jobs, that men previously held, as men went off to fight in service. and women who come into congress, during that era begin to advocate more of a role for women outside of the home. mary norton was one of them. she was constantly, urging women to be involved in politics. to be involved outside of the home. even when the war ended, she feared that might contract again and

time of the break-in, he was a professor of religion at temple university. >> the problem was, j edgar hooverhable. he was a national icon. he had presidents who were afraid of him. the people that we elected to oversee j edgar hoover's fbi were enamored of him or terrified of him. nobody was holding him accountable. that meant somebody had to get objective evidence of what his fbi was doing, and that led us to the idea that bill suggested to us -- let's break into an fbi office, get their files come and get what they're doing in their own handwriting. amy: that was john raines speaking on democracy now! in 2014. he died in 2017. raines' wife bonnie also helped break in to the fbi office in media, pennsylvania, 50 years ago. at the time of the break-in, john and bonnie had three young children. she joins us now from her home in philadelphia. we are also joined by paul coates, the founder and director of black classic press and bcp digital printing. he is a former member and defense captain of the black panther party in baltimore. as a black bookseller, he was targeted by the fbi as part of it

j. edgar hoover, it was revered.re untouchable, and they thought they were the good guys, which is something i want you to think about. most politicians, whether donald trump or andrew cuomo, they also think that they're the good guys. and they're often drawn to do the wrong things by that faith in themselves and their cause. an adversarial press and an informed public, not to mention assertive, legislative and judicial branches of government, that is all part of a check on that power. keep that in mind next time anyone challenging those in power with facts annoys you, because it's the only way any of this works. happy anniversary to the eight heroes of that pennsylvania break-in. thanks for spending your sunday morning with us. the news continues next. see every delivery... every yikes... and even every awwwwwwww... wait, where was i? introducing self protection from xfinity. designed to put you in control. with real-time notification and a week of uninterrupted recording... all powered by reliable, secure wifi from

j. edgar hoover, it was revered.nk about. most politicians, whether donald trump or andrew cuomo, they also think that they're the good guys. and they're often drawn to do the wrong things by that faith in themselves and their cause. an adversarial press and an informed public, not to mention assertive legislative and judicial branches of government, that is all part of a check on that power. keep that in mind next time anyone challenging those in power with facts annoys you, because it's the only way any of this works. happy anniversary to the eight heroes of that pennsylvania break-in. thanks for spending your sunday morning with us. the news continues next. [singing in korean] ♪another day will return♪ [singing in korean] ♪like nothing ever happened♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> so here we are in milan, the fashion and industrial powerhouse of italy. i have only been to milan a few times and always in passing. i never have stayed here long enough to really get a sense of it. the first thing that strikes you about milan is its dynami

jesse plemons is roy mitchell, a federal agent instructed by martin sheen's dracula—like j edgar hooverbring hampton down by any means necessary. yet despite having no previous political allegiances, o'neill finds himself torn between the desire to save his own skin and his growing admiration for hampton. these ain't no terrorists. it's a credit to stanfield that he manages to keep the complexities of his character alive throughout the movie, leaving us constantly wondering exactly where his loyalties lie. by contrast, kaluuya, who seems certain to earn a second oscar nomination next week, is steadfast and determined as hampton — unexpectedly shy in person, but inspirational in public. chanting. the result is a terrific drama that mixes fact and fiction with thrilling, thought—provoking results. i advise you to check it out. it's available for home rental now. whilejudas and the black messiah may be a worthy awards contender, never forget that all awards are essentially flawed and foolish. for proof, look no further than the fact that jared leto recently received a golden globe nominati

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jesse plemons is roy mitchell, a federal agent instructed by martin sheen's dracula—like j edgar hooveris own skin and his growing admiration for hampton. these ain't no terrorists. it's a credit to stanfield that he manages to keep the complexities of his character alive throughout

j. edgar hoover from the fbi building. >> the answer is yes.would rename the building and strip any evidence of hoover from the fbi's pennsylvania avenue headquarters, but actually i'll let one of the congressmen tell you why in his own words. >> hello. gerry connolly. i introduced hr1290 for the commission to rename the j. edgar hoover namen from the fbi building. we need do this because he was a maligned character. he was a riisist who went after martin luther king in extraordinary ways. he was a homophobe, a misogynist. he was somebody who denied the existence of the mafia for decades, allowing the organized crime to get a toehold in the united states. it's time we renamed the building after somebody who deserves it. >> ideagree more, congressman. changing the name of our premier law enforcement agency so it doesn't honor a racist tyrant who trampled civil liberties, i don't know, seems like a pretty logical step to me. if you don't know about j. edgar hoover, he lorded over the fbi for nearly 50 years and spent the 1950s, '60s, and '70s to

puerto rican -- he built the rainbow coalition before jesse jackson's rainbow chorus so the fbi, j edgar hoover talked about the need to stop the rise of the black messiah and they identified three people they felt could be the black messiah, someone who brings black people together in a way that would be so powerful that they could actually change the way the united states is run and they were malcolm x, martin luther king and fred hampton. by the time hampton had taken power, malcolm x and martin luther king were dead and america -- black america was getting angrier and i think more desperate and there was this belief that this is where it was going to go, this is what hoover thought, there's going to be a race war. all the blacks will get together and bring the puerto ricans and the poor whites who were too stupid to realize that we don't want them around either, and for that fred hampton was killed, targeted by the fbi and the chicago police department, a paid informant was infiltrating the panthers and he provided detailed information on the apartment where fred was staying, he drugged the

j edgar hoover talked about the need to stop the rise of a black messiah and they had identified three people that they felt could be the black messiah. somebody that would bring them together in a way that would be so powerful they could actually change the way the united states was run and those three people were malcolm x, and fred hampton. by the time he had taken power, both malcolm x and martin luther king were dead and americorps was getting angrier and i think more desperate this is what hoover thought. they were too stupid to realize we don't want them around either and so for that, fred hampton was killed. he was targeted by the fbi and there was a paid informant. he drugged the food so fred would fall asleep and wouldn't be able to awake when a team of cops who were plain clothed cops showed up at one in the morning without anyone and came in with guns blazing. jesus and the black messiah is about that whole incident in chicago and what happened in la is la was the first chapter that was trying to criticize the street gangs. they were both murdered very early on and what app

monroe street at relatively the corner of 21st and monroe another forgotten visitor to toledo was j edgar hoover hoover came here in 1936. he actually flew in from cleveland. four in the morning and arrived at this location at that time. there would have been a row of apartment buildings behind me. and hoover kicked the door down.

j. edgar hoover. on march 8, 1971, a group of activists broke into an fbi office in media, pennsylvania, where they stole documents detailing the secret counter-intelligence program to monitor, infiltrate and disrupt social and political movements, in 2014, democracy now! spoke with three members of the citizens' commission to investigate the fbi just after they made their identities public for the first time. keith forsyth, who served as designated lock-picker during the caper, was hoping to speed the end of the vietnamar. >> the war was escalating and not de-escalating. i think what really pushed me over the edge was shortly after the invasion of cambodia, there were four students killed that kid state and two more killed at jackson state. sorry. i did not think -- you would think i would have this down after all these years. that really pushed me over the edge that it was time to do more than just protest and march with a sign. amy: just air interviews with those who broke into the fbi offices in m

and he told me a marvelous story about the day that nixon and j edgar hoover were coming on the television live and apparently it was to announce the arrest of the killer of violence and in the mississippi free riders so shoemaker told him to go down to the studio, the cameras are hot and he runs down to the studio and they put him on the air and he said that the president and the fbi director were due soon and they don't show up. there's a long delay and shoemaker has got to fill the time . and he hears in his ear phil slowly found several telluride lunch a few blocks away and shoemaker is figuring three blocks away, he's at least 60 years old, it's going to take him 20 minutes to get here so he's telling time. he's in makeup and he's about to die because he's run out of stuff to say and suddenly comes in and they got him hooked up and he says what are you thinking and eric talks for 20 minutes about what he thinks and he's never been so relieved in his life and eric is sitting next to him, bailing him out this terrible moment when he's run out of information , run out of stuff to say . >

. >> so, we don't take it is the only reason white j edgar hoover and robert kennedy did not get alongwhen he was attorney general. >> that sounds like it could be the basis she did not with the information out did not at the mafia attack. probably not the only basis i am sure. >> again i cover a lot of this in my book. giving a very short version to the stores. give the auto dealer sure favorite profile oh boy, you are going to be surprised by what i'm about to say. my favorite story that i did, why had the most fun, was trouble hunting in italy. where i was able to go out with the dogs and hunt for truffles. and of course, me being who i am i'm made it into an investigative story where i found out the chinese were flooding the truffle market with phony truffles. a handful of truffles, the black truffle could cause 1000 white truffles much more expensive. they figured out a cheaper version a knockoff version of the truffle they were selling for $20 a pound. so they then started flooding the market. when cheating the delightful fun story in the hills of italy. then having an italian ch

j. edgar hoover fbi head described the black panther party as the greatest threat to the internal securityas a tremendous organizer, a brilliant man and a powerful speaker. and also he was against the exploitation of oppressed people, colonized in the u.s. and around the world. he became a threat because he was able to pull together tremendous coalition which became known as the rainbow coalition, began to unite various groups across various racial lines to fight against the attack that we were experiencing in colonized communities all over the country. so the fear as the documents show, the fear of a black messiah. someone that could electrify and unify the masses of people. in that clip right there you see the bed where they came in and stood over chairman fred and shot him point blank after they got me and everybody else out of the room. >> shaka, errin haines has a question for you. errin? >> yes, good morning. congratulations on this film, which really is just such a triumph of truth telling about something that happened in our country that all americans need to know about. i want to

really involved in this loyalty implementing the loyalty program and truman disliked its director j edgar hoover. charges could be based only on unfounded accusations and there are a number of employees who lost their jobs some of them, you know for legitimate reasons but others because they were they were just rooted out and unfairly rooted out standards of procedural safeguards and standards of evidence were lacking. so i think we'll move on here. i'll pass it. pass it on to you tim. okay? well, just a little quick background eisenhower following world war ii. became the army chief of staff. he eventually retired from the army and becomes the president of columbia university. during that time. he's he's called back to service sort of part-time in washington since they're combining some of the military services. and eisenhower becomes the first sort of informal chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. then also while i still at columbia. the president truman taps ike to become the first allied commander of nato in december of 1950 and then an early 1951 eisenhower goes to france. somebody was sti

j. edgar hoover against the black panthers and martin luther king because he didn't like the ideology.dn't break laws. there's a memo saying we investigated the black panthers. they serve breakfast to black children and he told them to find something and having the right guy at the right time makes a huge difference. >> i think what you are saying is so important to understand as the investigation into the insurrection proceeds. there's not going to be some secret mem row. it is this climate that you just articulated. they were there at the invitation and direction of donald trump doing what he told them to do. can you talk about how that hangs over everything from the intel to the response of the pentagon to the law enforcement response to the ability to understand how this all happened? >> yeah. it is not just that it's the president's team but also it's the president himself and the way he conducts himself through fear and intimidation and bullying. when you have a secretary of defense who by the way just installed largely to try to make this happen in my opinion to allow for it to

jesse plemons is roy mitchell, a federal agent instructed by martin sheen's dracula—like j edgar hooverbetween the desire to save his own skin and his growing admiration for hampton. these ain't no terrorists. it's a credit to stanfield that he manages to keep the complexities of his character alive throughout the movie, leaving us constantly wondering exactly where his loyalties lie. by contrast, kaluuya, who seems certain to earn a second oscar nomination next week, is steadfast and determined as hampton — unexpectedly shy in person, but inspirational in public. chanting. the result is a terrific drama that mixes fact and fiction with thrilling, thought—provoking results. i advise you to check it out. it's available for home rental now. whilejudas and the black messiah may be a worthy awards contender, never forget that all awards are essentially flawed and foolish. for proof, look no further than the fact that jared leto recently received a golden globe nomination for one of the most eye—rollingly terrible performances i have ever seen in the little things. i saw the for sale sign. t

monroe street at relatively the corner of 21st and monroe another forgotten visitor to toledo was j edgar hoover hoover came here in 1936. he actually flew in from cleveland. four in the morning and arrived at this location at that time. there would have been a row of apartment buildings behind me. and hoover kicked the door down. and arrested the america's most number one wanted criminal harry campbell. and threw him in the back of the car drove him back to the airport flew him back to cleveland where he held a press conference and announced that he had just captured america's most number one wanted criminal now campbell by the way was wanted he was part of the parker carpet gang and they had a kidnapped a brewer's son in saint paul, minnesota in 34 and ransomed them for 200. they got the money released the guy unharmed but hoover promised he was going to get every single person involved in that crime and here he campbell was the last person and here he was in toledo living here for a few months under the nosa everybody and in fact after the arrest it came out that the sheriff of lucas county h