j. edgar hoover was was we found out what -- because we found out what j. over was down in the south. he hated martin luther king, he hated the civil rights movement. he wanted things to return to quiet, to to his kind of life. he was not a good man. he would, he has been the largest subversive in american history fighting, as he said, subversion and subverting the freedoms of this country. and he very nearly got away with it. he was the most powerful man in washington, without any question. second not touch him. they could not touch him. so somebody had to do something about that man. and that became our task. [applause] >> and he did get away with it for half a century. and there are many people who think at that time and still that the fbi in the 1970s would have never been investigated, none of the change -- none of the questions would have been raised had the change occurred if it had not been for what the burglary did. despite all of the courage that you had and the willingness to go ahead, i know there also was a great deal of various kinds of fear. a

j. edgar hoover and the fbi.tunately when i accidentally found two of the burglars, in 1989, fortunately they had agreed to come forward and tell their story. they first came forward on the day that the burglaries book was published. it was also about their story that will be shown here for the first time on may 28 that at the constitution center, it seems like a very appropriate thing at the constitution center. and so things to this, that they would no longer be silent, this includes the significance of what they did and hope that it is remembered. i will start with a question that i think a lot of people ask and it was just asked of me by reporter today who is trying to figure out how we were able to do this. what made it possible for you to do such a radical thing. was it in your evolution at that time? how would you describe how it was possible? >> i think that that is probably harder for the younger people to understand and there were an awful lot of things very wrong with our country at that time. not that

j. edgar hoover would refer to, that woman who came into the office. >> j. edgar, she is right here. [laughter] >> that but there were so many young women who were active at that time. any one of 500, 29-year-old women. >> having your door broken down in that sort of thing. >> i would like to thank you very much and i would also just like to say that given everything that we now know about the impact of what they did, we have hear people who have pulled off one of the most powerful nonviolennonviolen t acts of persistence in the country. [applause] [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] next on booktv daniel stashower recalls the plot to assassinate abraham lincoln prior to the abrahams -- this is about 40 minutes. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you for coming out. it's a real pleasure to be here in illinois and especially because this is literally where the wheels of the story started turning both figuratively and literally. the book is the story to a large extent of the famous detective of the 19th century who got his start about a half-hour to

j. edgar hoover flew down for the victory party in austin. so they were very close and, of course, hoover had his own motives. he knew he was facing mandatory retirement. he knew the kennedys would put him out to past year in 1954. so his motive was clear. in any event, johnson's matches for kennedy was, you need me, you need texas, and if you don't put me on the ticket, i'll just take this dossier and i'll give it to dick nixon. remember, nixon and kennedy were locked in a skin tight race for president. so kennedy vineyard and he put johnson on the ticket. the next day a reporter was in shock, how to give up the most powerful jobs in washington, u.s.a. majority leader to be vice president, a job with no power at all? lyndon johnson said, i checked. wenwaiting for vice president he become president of the united states upon the death of the president. and, frankly, i'm a gambling man and i like the odds. maybe this is why oddie baker who is secretary of u.s. senate describe i lyndon johnson as my right hand man, quote unquote, said at the 1961

even if we think today we have benign rulers who would not use that information in the way that j edgar hooverchard nixon did. protection of the constitution has to be the worst-case scenario, not the best case scenario. >> does that protection extend also to things like patents and is this innovation? >> does this innovation and patents were thought by the framers of the constitution to be very important. very rare that the constitution protects patents and copyrights ante achievements because jefferson and madison and others were so interested in that. we have to make sure they are appropriately protected. while also protecting the right of the public to have access to material. >> to go back to your comments about national security, and other corporations around the world do not respect the same kinds of patent rights, should that mean that u.s. corporations should be able to behave in the same way? >> it is a hard question. we have the overseas bribery act which prevents american companies from doing what many other foreign companies do. that is -- has worked fairly effectively. i think th

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j. edgar hoover ran the fbi even hoover's files did not reach 33,000 pages. >>> with scrutiny on the filesounting the national archives announced it would begin up loading the pages to the national archive's web site starting at noon central time today. a process that will take two weeks to complete. it could prove problematic as clinton bids for the job her husband once held. >>> listen to what bill de blaj yo is doing. >> he is bringing the hammer town on three charter schools. escobaring them from using space inside traditional public school buildings. this is sri versing a decision. he will fund universal pre-k in the city starting the next school year. a lot of people upset about that. >>> one couple's luck yie fiy f could be a jackpot for the u.s. is. they will owe 47 percent of the coin's value in taxes whether or not they sell the coins or not. it falls under a law it is taxable the year it is found. >> jim lang is the host of the dating game has died. >> welcome once again to "the dating game." we have our three eligible bachelors. here are the guys. >> dak in 1932 lang became the

j. edgar hoover stated liston and the suspected mob boss reportedly made $1 million on the fight. >> itly a cinderella story and not just any cinderella story but the upset of the century. >> reporter: among the more than 100 pages, there is no evidence that the then 22-year-old ali knew about the scheme. the bureau ended their probe in june, 1966, citing a lack of information. important to note, at the time, under j. edgar hoover, the fbi looked into the conduct of many, many americans and the guidelines were much less stringent than they r now. there is no evidence indicating ali was in on the scheme or even knew about it. his camp is not offering a comment at this time. carol? >> you certainly can't see muhammad ali wasn't a great fighter. he certainly proved it over the years after that fight. >> that's absolutely right. >> pamela brown, thanks so much. a senate investigation slams a swiss banking giant accusing it of hiding billions of dollars from uncle sam. you will not believe how they did it. christine romans is here with details. >> imagine getting your bank statements pushed

j. edgar hoover.t the reality is if you stay in a government job for 50 years and assume it's your personal property, they will take over and that's a very real lesson. and as for nixon, we all know of the strange twist associated with that in better figure. and as for mccarthy his critics often for trade him as a representative of a midwestern populism that often produce demagoguery and responsible figures. the former professor has long noted that mccarthy probably produced more anti-communist and i think there is a great deal of truth in that. my first paying job in high school was shelving books in the silver spring library and one of the subjects that was fascinating to me at the time of the books and the literature on the atomic spider was the most interesting thing in the world in this industry of books, half of which that said that the rosenbergs were innocent and the others were villains and the other habits i bet chambers and mccarthy were national heroes in the rosenbergs were guilty. so mov

unjustly fired or whatever, but he also took on the cases of victims who have been targeted by j edgar hoover'snterinsurgency program, a war against the black freedom movement in the 1960's and 1970's. assata shakur was one of those people. in the case he had with assata shakur, the case was dismissed. he was also cocounsel in the , anothereronimo pratt person targeted by cointelpro. he handled the cases that maybe others would shy away from. he definitely believed -- even though chokwe did believe in humanity and love all humanity, he did believe that the united states government was an unjust government, was a government that had a legacy of committing crimes against life people and other people of color and other oppressed people in the united states. so he was committed as an attorney and as an activist to try and have self-determination and a new system of social justice. chokwe, even though he ran for mayor and believed in using every opportunity you had within the system to try and govern ourselves and use whatever influence we had inside of government to improve the lives of people, he

j. edgar hoover, the longest serving fbi director, now comes from general alexander, the longest serving nsa director. it says something about not letting people stay in a job too long. and nsa played a role back in those days too evidence dropping on antiwar protesters and so forth. so nsa would pick up some of the information and pass it on to the fbi. so in terms of reforms now, you know, those are -- i couldn't see anything that i really disagreed with on those 46 recommendations that came from the white house panel, you know, hearing all these rumors that the president's not going to -- he's going to do sort of cosmetic changes tomorrow and not anything really substantive which would be very disappointing. but actually it goes along with his track record. i mean, he's the guy that tripled the number of people, tripled the number of forces in iraq instead of ending it in the first six months. i'm sorry, in afghanistan. tripled the number of forces in afghanistan when he first got into office instead of ending it in the first six months. george bush had one drone attack in yemen in ei

j. edgar hoover ran the fbi, even hoover's secret files did not quite reach 33,000 pages. >> reporter: late today with scrutiny on the secret files mounting, the national archives announced it would begin uploading all 33,000 pages of the withheld documents to the national archives website starting at noon central time on friday, a process that will take about two weeks to complete. even clinton allies agree the drip, drip, drip disclosure of '90s era documents could prove problematic as mrs. clinton mulls over another bid to hold the job her husband once had. >> while it was a successful one, i don't think at this point bill or hillary wants to relitigate issues from the past. i think they would like to look to the future. >> reporter: by way of context, the eisenhower library in abilene, kansas houses 20 million records of which 350,000 still considered to contain sensitive national security data remain classified. bret? >> james, thank you. what do you think? do you think the clinton files will produce much? do you think those documents could factor into secretary clinton's decision to r

j. edgar hoover investigated all kind -- >> anything. that's why -- he had a book.. >> let me talk to you about the second fight, though. because this idea that fights can be rigged, even fights with ali and liston, that's nothing new. the second match a year later, there was the phantom punch. liston went down, ali didn't seem to touch him. a will the lot of people said that fight was rigged. so you know there are these allegations swirling. >> you've got to understand how fast ali was. >> faster than the camera? >> this is what you -- this is what you keep missing. because it's so phenomenal. i can understand that a normal person and even a super normal, like yourself, you know what i mean? you would miss some of these things. ali, you know, your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see. >> float like a butterfly sting like a bee. >> your eyes hands can't hit what your eyes can't see. you get back into bed before the doctors came in. you've got to see that, john. what's so fabulous to make this happen -- that's why i want to bring the renewed and dedicated -- this

j edgar hoover, the g-man wizard of oz -- he had called jane addams the most dangerous woman in america shortly before she became the first american woman to win the nobel peace prize. 50 years later, at the helm of the fbi, he bestowed that same honor on my partner, bernadine dorn, and it was possibly the only time we agreed. there are countless women sweating out jane addams' hopes all over america, naming circumstances and situations as unacceptable, working to right wrongs, fighting for more peace and more democracy, more joy and ore justice. these men and women's propel themselves to act in solidarity with, not in service to, the people with whom they work. they are what is so great about america. what else? my list contains multitudes. the spirit of democracy. he precious and fragile ideal that every single human being is of incalculable value. using faith in the biblical sense of faith unseen. the conviction that people me know kings, queens, or rulers of any kind and we are capable of aching the decisions that affect our lives and the people what the problems are also the people

. >> and here is j edgar hoover, wearing a suit. >> he is wearing man clothing for the 100th anniversaryf things special, of course. we want to make certain we put out a perfect issue. >> how does bowlers journal prosper when magazines and newspapers are dying off in troafs? >> i would say what has become, i mean the most important part of the magazine is our ball reviews. >> new high tech bowling balls are rolling out constantly, and a bowler has to keep up. >> i have about 20 bowl balls. i seem to buy one every month. >> those black rubber balls of old have become kinetic art with intimidating names like primal rage and cruel intent. and more advanced engineering than the mars rover. >> >> they drill the holes into the top. >> actually the top is here. >> cutting edge implants and polymers determine speed, rotation, and hook. >> all that is missing is gps. >> and it is not only the balls that have been modernized. >> this is a bowling alley? >> do you have any budweiser? >> no, we have none. >> this is the future. >> people here are here to bowl, not to sleep in the chair an not to wor

j. edgar hoover, the longest-serving director, that comes from general alexander, the longest-serving nsa director. it says something that not letting people stay in a job too long. and nsa played a role back in those days and liberal as part of eavesdropping on antiwar protesters and so forth. they would pick up some of the information and pass it on to the fbi. in terms of reforms now, i couldn't see anything that i really disagreed with on those 46 recommendations that came out from the white house panel. you know, i'm hearing all these rumors that the president is not going counties going to do sort of cosmetic changes her own. not a new a substantive which we very to the 20 -- disappointing but goes along with his track record. he's the guy that tripled the number of people, triple the number of forces in iraq instead of ending it the first six most. i'm sorry, in afghanistan. tripled the number of forces in afghanistan when he first got into office instead of ending it in the first six months. george bush had one drone attack in yemen in eight years, and obama has declared war on ye

j. edgar hoover across 48 years of directorship of the fbi and a man known to have a penchant for secrecyaway a total of 33,000 pages of secret files. scholar also cautioned us about the actual volume of records that will become public after march 26th. >> i will believe what's released, i think, when you see what's released. because there are all kinds of technical categories of release. for example, a document is released even if -- it's considered released even if one line of it is unredacted and the rest remains blacked out. >> reporter: one interesting fact here, both former president clinton and the incumbent, president barack obama, had to sign off on the release of those 20-25,000 pages that are going to become public sometime after march 26th, martha. martha: well, folks would be interested in this even if there wasn't the possibility of hillary clinton running for president, but now that there is, they will have an even more interest in, take an interest in seeing those. james, thank you very much. >> reporter: thank you. ♪ bill: there are new questions being raised as u.s. troo

j edgar hoover, the g-man wizard of oz -- jane addams the most dangerous woman in america shortly form-- before she became the first american woman to win the nobel peace prize. 50 years later, at the helm of the fbi, he bestowed that same honor on my partner, bernadine possibly thewas only time we agreed. there are countless women sweating out jane addams' hopes all over america, naming circumstances and situations as unacceptable, working to right wrongs, fighting for more peace and more democracy, more joy and more justice. these men and women's propel themselves to act in solidarity with, not in service to, the people with whom they work. they are what is so great about america. what else? my list contains multitudes. the spirit of democracy. he precious and fragile ideal that every single human erring -- being is of incalculable value. using faith in the biblical sense of faith unseen. the conviction that people me know kings, queens, or rulers of any kind and we are capable of aching the decisions that affect our lives and the people what the problems are also the people with the

j. edgar hoover. if you were a scriptwriter of a certain profession could you ask for a better trio to deal with? the reality is more subtle than sometimes hollywood makes it. hoover for one, had resigned or died in 1930s would probably be considered one of the great figures in 20th century criminology and one of the few people in washington in 1942 opposed the relocation of the japanese on the west coast was herbert hoover -- was j. edgar hoover. but the reality is if you stay in a government job for 50 years and assume it is your personal property hubris is going to take over. that is a real lesson in that case. as for nixon we all know the strange twists associated with that figure. as for mccarthy his critics often portray him more as an evil aberrations and as a representative of a midwestern populism that often produce demagoguery and irresponsible figures. my former professor who just turned 90 has long noted that mccarthy in the end probably produced more anti anti-communist than anti-communis