1 00:03:16,256 --> 00:03:17,693 The man is dead. 2 00:03:17,736 --> 00:03:19,172 The Director died this morning. 3 00:03:20,739 --> 00:03:22,219 A coronary. 4 00:03:22,262 --> 00:03:24,656 I'll be right there. 5 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:26,005 I know what to do about the files. 6 00:03:31,663 --> 00:03:35,232 NIXON: It is with a profound sense of personal loss 7 00:03:35,275 --> 00:03:37,277 that I learned of the death of J. Edgar Hoover. 8 00:03:39,105 --> 00:03:41,107 This truly remarkable man 9 00:03:41,151 --> 00:03:46,852 has served his country for 48 years under eight presidents. 10 00:03:46,896 --> 00:03:50,813 As Director of the FBI with unparalleled devotion and ability 11 00:03:50,856 --> 00:03:51,552 and dedication. 12 00:03:54,425 --> 00:03:59,212 For 25 years, from the time I came to Washington as a freshman Congressman. 13 00:03:59,256 --> 00:04:01,998 He's been one of my closest, personal friends and advisors. 14 00:04:03,869 --> 00:04:07,003 And every American, in my opinion 15 00:04:07,046 --> 00:04:09,266 owes J. Edgar Hoover a great debt. 16 00:04:10,310 --> 00:04:11,660 For building the FBI 17 00:04:13,052 --> 00:04:15,011 into the finest law enforce... 18 00:04:15,054 --> 00:04:17,013 You've been after Hoover's ass for over thirty years, Dave, 19 00:04:17,056 --> 00:04:19,015 you're gonna miss him. 20 00:04:19,058 --> 00:04:22,409 Sure. I'm going to miss having my room searched, my phone tapped. 21 00:04:22,453 --> 00:04:24,411 [LAUGHS] 22 00:04:24,455 --> 00:04:27,937 Boy, that city will have something on everybody in this town. 23 00:04:27,980 --> 00:04:30,722 I wonder what's going to happen to that information now. 24 00:04:30,766 --> 00:04:32,158 MAN: How many years were you an agent? 25 00:04:32,202 --> 00:04:34,726 DWIGHT: I quit after almost 20 years. 26 00:04:34,770 --> 00:04:36,423 Hoover shipped me out to Detroit 27 00:04:36,467 --> 00:04:38,817 because I got hot nuts over a secretary. 28 00:04:38,861 --> 00:04:40,863 Can you believe that? 29 00:04:40,906 --> 00:04:44,518 You know how Mr. Hoover was about anything sexual. 30 00:04:44,562 --> 00:04:47,870 Well, whatever is in that file, I want to have it. 31 00:04:47,913 --> 00:04:50,220 I'm not speaking for myself alone. 32 00:04:50,263 --> 00:04:51,700 There are a good many others... 33 00:04:51,743 --> 00:04:53,876 All of us are afraid now 34 00:04:53,919 --> 00:04:55,704 that what he held may fall into Nixon's hands. 35 00:04:57,967 --> 00:05:00,186 I guess Nixon's been wanting to get his hands 36 00:05:00,230 --> 00:05:03,015 on the Bureau ever since they turned him down to be an agent years ago. 37 00:05:04,190 --> 00:05:06,802 I'll see what I can do, sir. 38 00:05:06,845 --> 00:05:08,804 We've waited a long time for this to happen, Mr. President. 39 00:05:08,847 --> 00:05:10,631 NIXON: Thanks to Mr. Hoover's files, 40 00:05:10,675 --> 00:05:12,590 we're finally going to pay back all those people 41 00:05:12,633 --> 00:05:14,287 who've been kicking us around. 42 00:05:14,331 --> 00:05:17,073 And I'm particularly interested to see what Hoover had on us. 43 00:05:17,116 --> 00:05:19,205 AIDE: He'll shred them before he lets us get our hands on them. 44 00:05:19,249 --> 00:05:21,294 The President has to move in physically 45 00:05:21,338 --> 00:05:22,731 and simply take possession of those files. 46 00:05:44,622 --> 00:05:47,930 DWIGHT: If it wasn't for the files, there might never have been a J. Edgar Hoover 47 00:05:47,973 --> 00:05:49,322 or an FBI as we know it. 48 00:05:49,366 --> 00:05:52,021 Back after World War One, 49 00:05:52,064 --> 00:05:55,241 the Bureau of Investigation was the most corrupt branch in the Federal Government. 50 00:05:55,285 --> 00:05:58,549 It was a nest of strike breakers and crooked appointees. 51 00:05:58,592 --> 00:06:00,769 Mr. Hoover was just an obscure clerk 52 00:06:00,812 --> 00:06:02,727 in the Alien Registration Section 53 00:06:02,771 --> 00:06:06,078 who had a fixation about Communists and radicals. 54 00:06:06,122 --> 00:06:09,342 He started spying on them on his own time. 55 00:06:09,386 --> 00:06:12,781 [SPEAKING ITALIAN] 56 00:06:18,612 --> 00:06:20,789 [CROWD CHEERING] 57 00:06:23,226 --> 00:06:25,097 DWIGHT: September 16th, 1920, 58 00:06:25,141 --> 00:06:27,839 the J.P. Morgan Bank on Wall street was bombed. 59 00:06:27,883 --> 00:06:30,015 38 were killed. 60 00:06:30,059 --> 00:06:32,409 The public demanded something to be done about these radicals. 61 00:06:32,452 --> 00:06:36,413 And the only man who knew anything about them was J. Edgar Hoover. 62 00:06:36,456 --> 00:06:40,417 He came up with the idea of deporting all aliens who were Communists. 63 00:06:40,460 --> 00:06:41,374 But he wanted to do it legally. 64 00:06:42,811 --> 00:06:44,638 [ALL CLAMORING] 65 00:06:47,903 --> 00:06:50,296 [SCREAMING] 66 00:06:50,340 --> 00:06:51,950 We ought to put all these Reds on a boat 67 00:06:51,994 --> 00:06:53,430 and take it out to sea and set fire to it. 68 00:07:04,789 --> 00:07:07,313 Well, you're Mr. Palmer's man, aren't you? 69 00:07:07,357 --> 00:07:10,360 You boys in Washington sure threw us a hot potato. 70 00:07:10,403 --> 00:07:12,536 Why are these people being held incommunicado? 71 00:07:12,579 --> 00:07:14,625 Well, just take a look at 'em. 72 00:07:14,668 --> 00:07:16,932 Half of 'em can't even talk. 73 00:07:16,975 --> 00:07:19,108 We'll be well rid of the lot. 74 00:07:19,151 --> 00:07:21,023 HOOVER: It's the same thing at the other houses of detention. 75 00:07:21,066 --> 00:07:23,373 Hundreds of persons are being picked up 76 00:07:23,416 --> 00:07:25,549 that don't belong to any communist organization. 77 00:07:25,592 --> 00:07:28,291 Your people set it up. We're just following out orders. 78 00:07:28,334 --> 00:07:30,946 I wrote those orders. There was to be no violence. 79 00:07:30,989 --> 00:07:33,905 They resisted arrest and they got what was coming to 'em. 80 00:07:33,949 --> 00:07:37,430 It was your job to make the arrests, not to mete out punishment. 81 00:07:37,474 --> 00:07:40,433 You throw a lot of weight around for such a young fellow. 82 00:07:40,477 --> 00:07:43,436 Are you familiar with rule 22 of your immigration regulations? 83 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,352 I thought we were supposed to deport them, not kiss their asses. 84 00:07:46,396 --> 00:07:49,268 Every one of those aliens has the right to legal council before his hearing. 85 00:07:49,312 --> 00:07:52,532 I want them given that immediately. 86 00:07:52,576 --> 00:07:54,621 You're a real bleeding heart, ain't you? 87 00:07:54,665 --> 00:07:57,842 I'd like to make use of your telephone to call Washington. 88 00:07:57,886 --> 00:08:01,585 You go ahead. Ryan, show him where the phone is. 89 00:08:01,628 --> 00:08:03,282 For all the good it'll do him. 90 00:08:03,326 --> 00:08:06,459 Just get out of there, Edgar. Nobody cares about it. 91 00:08:06,503 --> 00:08:09,462 We're responsible. I drew up the justification for these raids. 92 00:08:09,506 --> 00:08:11,682 But I relied on Rule 22. 93 00:08:11,725 --> 00:08:14,163 Rule 22 has been suspended. 94 00:08:14,206 --> 00:08:16,469 Attorney General Palmer doesn't want these aliens to have lawyers. 95 00:08:22,562 --> 00:08:24,477 All these people were picked up illegally. 96 00:08:24,521 --> 00:08:27,089 We're kicking them out of the country, aren't we? 97 00:08:27,132 --> 00:08:29,221 Let 'em complain to their friends back in Moscow. 98 00:08:31,006 --> 00:08:33,312 [ALL CLAMORING] 99 00:08:38,535 --> 00:08:40,624 Please, do you speak English? 100 00:08:40,667 --> 00:08:43,148 Anybody speak English? 101 00:08:43,192 --> 00:08:46,282 You're stepping on too many toes, young fellow. 102 00:08:46,325 --> 00:08:48,240 You're finished in the Justice Department I promise you that. 103 00:09:14,353 --> 00:09:15,224 Coming? 104 00:09:18,444 --> 00:09:20,359 I live with my father. 105 00:09:20,403 --> 00:09:22,057 I knew we had something in common. 106 00:09:22,100 --> 00:09:23,362 I live with my mother. 107 00:09:31,327 --> 00:09:32,328 Well, come on in, Edgar. 108 00:09:35,157 --> 00:09:37,594 Well, this is it. 109 00:09:37,637 --> 00:09:41,337 Father's not here. He's gone to visit my sister in Mobile. 110 00:09:41,380 --> 00:09:43,556 Sometimes it gets a bit lonesome. But... 111 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:46,255 I see how it could. 112 00:09:48,648 --> 00:09:49,954 Would you like to hear a new piano piece? 113 00:09:50,781 --> 00:09:51,869 Thank you very much. 114 00:09:59,572 --> 00:10:00,356 Please, sit down. 115 00:10:15,414 --> 00:10:16,372 Come on over and have a seat by me. 116 00:10:41,484 --> 00:10:42,485 Edgar. 117 00:10:57,282 --> 00:10:58,501 What is it? 118 00:11:03,114 --> 00:11:05,551 Edgar, you must think me terribly forward. 119 00:11:05,595 --> 00:11:07,727 You're a very pretty girl, 120 00:11:07,771 --> 00:11:09,164 and I'm glad you like me. 121 00:11:09,207 --> 00:11:12,341 I do. You're so very sweet. 122 00:11:12,384 --> 00:11:13,603 Come on, come sit down. 123 00:11:22,699 --> 00:11:23,526 I want you to stay with me? 124 00:11:45,939 --> 00:11:47,724 That's okay. 125 00:11:47,767 --> 00:11:50,596 I have to do everything, but I understand. 126 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:51,771 I don't mind. 127 00:12:18,668 --> 00:12:20,931 Who put you up to this? What? 128 00:12:20,974 --> 00:12:24,152 Don't look so innocent. Am I being kidded? 129 00:12:24,195 --> 00:12:26,458 I mean, why else would a girl want me? 130 00:12:26,502 --> 00:12:28,330 A girl like you. Unless somebody paid her. 131 00:12:28,373 --> 00:12:30,027 I like you, Edgar. 132 00:12:30,070 --> 00:12:32,029 Is there a photographer in the hall? 133 00:12:32,072 --> 00:12:33,204 Are you joking? 134 00:12:35,075 --> 00:12:37,643 You fool. Stop. 135 00:12:41,386 --> 00:12:43,954 What are you looking for? Are you crazy? 136 00:12:43,997 --> 00:12:45,260 You know there's nothing in there. 137 00:12:48,654 --> 00:12:50,700 Stop! 138 00:12:50,743 --> 00:12:52,441 Is it so little you think of yourself? 139 00:13:04,714 --> 00:13:05,584 Come in, Mr. Hoover. 140 00:13:10,067 --> 00:13:12,243 Mr. Attorney General. 141 00:13:12,287 --> 00:13:17,727 So you're the young man that we have to thank for the Palmer raid. 142 00:13:17,770 --> 00:13:23,167 Unfortunately I drafted those legal briefs that were responsible for the arrests. 143 00:13:23,211 --> 00:13:28,346 You're aware that I was a outspoken opponent of those raids. 144 00:13:28,390 --> 00:13:30,740 And you defended the conscientious objectors during the war. 145 00:13:30,783 --> 00:13:32,872 Yes. 146 00:13:32,916 --> 00:13:35,614 Rather an odd choice for an Attorney General, 147 00:13:35,658 --> 00:13:38,574 but I imagine President Coolidge had his reasons. 148 00:13:40,315 --> 00:13:42,665 Won't you sit down? 149 00:13:42,708 --> 00:13:45,494 I expected this to be a very brief meeting, sir. 150 00:13:45,537 --> 00:13:48,845 You thought I'd be asking for your resignation. 151 00:13:48,888 --> 00:13:51,674 The Bureau of Investigation's director, Mr. Burns, 152 00:13:51,717 --> 00:13:53,806 was fired this morning. 153 00:13:53,850 --> 00:13:57,245 I suppose this Teapot Dome scandal means the end of the Bureau. 154 00:13:57,288 --> 00:13:59,725 On the contrary. 155 00:13:59,769 --> 00:14:01,336 See, I waited for over a month. 156 00:14:01,379 --> 00:14:05,253 The problem was that we had to get a successor 157 00:14:05,296 --> 00:14:07,167 who I could trust. 158 00:14:07,211 --> 00:14:10,649 I have decided, young man, that I want you to become 159 00:14:10,693 --> 00:14:13,652 the acting director of the Bureau of Investigation. 160 00:14:15,785 --> 00:14:20,746 Say, by the way, how old are you?29. 161 00:14:20,790 --> 00:14:24,359 Oh, that's right. Yeah, the Boy Scout. 162 00:14:24,402 --> 00:14:26,839 Well, what do you say? Do you want the job or don't you? 163 00:14:26,883 --> 00:14:30,060 I'll accept the job, Mr. Stone, under certain conditions. 164 00:14:31,453 --> 00:14:33,106 What conditions? 165 00:14:33,150 --> 00:14:35,848 Appointments to the Bureau are to be based on merit only. 166 00:14:35,892 --> 00:14:38,329 Promotions will be given with proven ability, 167 00:14:38,373 --> 00:14:40,897 and the Bureau will be responsible only to the Attorney General. 168 00:14:40,940 --> 00:14:42,202 Well, that's an innovation. 169 00:14:44,204 --> 00:14:45,815 But it's the only way I'd give it to you. 170 00:14:49,906 --> 00:14:51,951 Well, now you can go to work. 171 00:14:51,995 --> 00:14:53,779 No, Sir. I want it in writing. 172 00:14:53,823 --> 00:14:55,477 In writing? 173 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:57,870 I want the Bureau staffed with lawyers and accountants. 174 00:14:57,914 --> 00:14:59,176 The highest caliber of men. 175 00:15:00,786 --> 00:15:02,397 Is there anything else? No, Sir. 176 00:15:03,398 --> 00:15:04,399 Not for now. 177 00:15:18,064 --> 00:15:20,850 DWIGHT: My father was in the Bureau of Investigation under Burns, 178 00:15:20,893 --> 00:15:23,896 attached to the Oklahoma City field office. 179 00:15:23,940 --> 00:15:26,072 When Mr. Hoover took over, 180 00:15:26,116 --> 00:15:27,900 he summoned many of the agents to Washington to meet with him. 181 00:15:27,944 --> 00:15:31,861 Among them my father and another young agent named Melvin Purvis. 182 00:15:31,904 --> 00:15:34,907 HOOVER: We're no longer going to be known as the Bureau of Easy Virtue. 183 00:15:34,951 --> 00:15:37,083 Tapping of telephones will be forbidden. 184 00:15:37,127 --> 00:15:39,608 I want investigators, not eavesdroppers. 185 00:15:39,651 --> 00:15:42,350 Drinking, non-payment of debts, easy sexual practices 186 00:15:42,393 --> 00:15:43,873 will lead to summary dismissal. 187 00:15:48,443 --> 00:15:50,793 Pretty impressive, huh? 188 00:15:50,836 --> 00:15:53,056 He's just a clerk. 189 00:15:53,099 --> 00:15:56,407 One of those night school lawyers who joined Justice to beat the draft. 190 00:15:56,451 --> 00:15:58,844 I, uh, Bob 191 00:15:58,888 --> 00:16:01,499 I understand he wants to start a crime laboratory and 192 00:16:01,543 --> 00:16:03,153 put in a national fingerprint file. 193 00:16:03,196 --> 00:16:04,720 Now those aren't bad ideas. 194 00:16:04,763 --> 00:16:07,853 Webb... I give him six months. 195 00:16:11,509 --> 00:16:13,337 Excuse me, sir. Shannahan. Bureau of Investigation. 196 00:16:13,381 --> 00:16:14,599 May I have a word with you, please? 197 00:16:19,299 --> 00:16:20,692 You guys don't carry any guns, do you? 198 00:16:26,524 --> 00:16:29,527 It's become open season on FBI agents. 199 00:16:29,571 --> 00:16:33,618 I am sick of the newspapers and pulp magazines glorifying these gunmen. 200 00:16:33,662 --> 00:16:37,013 Making heroes out of outlaws. 201 00:16:37,056 --> 00:16:38,580 It's about time to fight fire with fire. 202 00:16:40,190 --> 00:16:42,888 You know something? 203 00:16:42,932 --> 00:16:46,631 The press seems to enjoy writing stories about these bank robbers and killers. 204 00:16:46,675 --> 00:16:49,286 They're supposed to be colorful. 205 00:16:49,329 --> 00:16:51,767 I think it's time we acquired a little color ourselves. 206 00:16:51,810 --> 00:16:53,333 DWIGHT: Hoover brought in Henry Suydam 207 00:16:53,377 --> 00:16:56,119 to create a publicity image for the Bureau. 208 00:16:56,162 --> 00:16:58,338 You write a series of articles for an American Magazine. 209 00:16:58,382 --> 00:17:00,906 Hard-hitting crime-busting stories. 210 00:17:00,950 --> 00:17:02,821 That'll excite the reader. 211 00:17:02,865 --> 00:17:04,910 Where'd you get that busted nose, Edgar? In a fight? 212 00:17:04,954 --> 00:17:07,522 He had a cyst removed from his nose when he was 11. 213 00:17:08,958 --> 00:17:10,394 Well, we'll compromise. 214 00:17:10,438 --> 00:17:12,701 You were hit in the snoot by a pitched ball. 215 00:17:12,744 --> 00:17:14,137 A few fibs can't hurt. 216 00:17:14,180 --> 00:17:15,834 Look, I've never actually arrested anyone. 217 00:17:15,878 --> 00:17:19,708 I'm an attorney, not a cop. An administrator. 218 00:17:19,751 --> 00:17:21,840 You'd better start thinking like America's top cop. 219 00:17:21,884 --> 00:17:23,407 "Top Cop" 220 00:17:23,451 --> 00:17:25,583 has a nice ring to it. 221 00:17:25,627 --> 00:17:28,673 I have a friend in New York, a popular columnist named Winchell, Walter Winchell. 222 00:17:28,717 --> 00:17:31,937 I met him. He gave us some good leads in the Lindbergh ransom. 223 00:17:31,981 --> 00:17:34,505 He's starting a nationwide radio program shortly. 224 00:17:34,549 --> 00:17:37,334 He might be very helpful. 225 00:17:37,377 --> 00:17:41,251 Mr. and Mrs. United States, hats oil to America's top cop, J. Edgar Hoover. 226 00:17:41,294 --> 00:17:43,601 Top cop Hoover, who wages a never-ending war 227 00:17:43,645 --> 00:17:46,125 in all 48 states against that criminal army 228 00:17:46,169 --> 00:17:48,345 that threatens each and every man, woman and child in this great country. 229 00:17:50,695 --> 00:17:53,089 DWIGHT: When Roosevelt was elected, 230 00:17:53,132 --> 00:17:56,527 it seemed like Mr. Hoover, a Republican appointee, would be replaced. 231 00:17:56,571 --> 00:17:59,095 Then in Kansas City, police and 232 00:17:59,138 --> 00:18:01,880 FBI men were escorting gangster Frank Nash back to Hot Springs, Arkansas when... 233 00:18:05,928 --> 00:18:08,844 [WOMAN SCREAMING] 234 00:18:08,887 --> 00:18:12,978 Police Chief Reed, two detectives and one FBI man were killed. 235 00:18:13,022 --> 00:18:15,024 Two other FBI men were wounded. 236 00:18:15,067 --> 00:18:17,548 The nation's sympathy went out to the Bureau, 237 00:18:17,592 --> 00:18:19,202 and it saved the Director's job. 238 00:18:32,128 --> 00:18:32,868 [WOMAN SCREAMING] 239 00:18:37,350 --> 00:18:39,962 Yeah. We carry guns now. 240 00:18:47,143 --> 00:18:48,927 Don't shoot, G-man. Don't shoot. 241 00:18:52,365 --> 00:18:56,674 G-man. Machine Gun Kelly has given us the hook we've been looking for. 242 00:18:56,718 --> 00:18:59,547 G-man, I want to see that on the newsstands. 243 00:18:59,590 --> 00:19:02,071 In the publications. In the headlines. 244 00:19:02,114 --> 00:19:04,421 WINCHELL: One after another, public enemies, 245 00:19:04,464 --> 00:19:06,989 Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Ma Barker and her son Fred Barker, 246 00:19:07,032 --> 00:19:09,774 have been cut down in their tracks by your agents 247 00:19:09,818 --> 00:19:12,081 of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 248 00:19:12,124 --> 00:19:14,997 Another feather in the cap of bloodhound John Edgar Hoover. 249 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:16,999 Real life "Dick Tracy" Hoover, 250 00:19:17,042 --> 00:19:20,611 whose very name strikes terror in the hearts of the nation's underworld. 251 00:19:20,655 --> 00:19:22,265 Purvis, how is it in Chicago? 252 00:19:22,308 --> 00:19:25,007 Record heat wave in the city. 23 deaths. 253 00:19:25,050 --> 00:19:27,226 Mr. Dillinger will make it an even 24. 254 00:19:27,270 --> 00:19:30,012 Our informant called. Ana Cumpanas. 255 00:19:30,055 --> 00:19:31,753 She says she'll finger Dillinger for us, 256 00:19:31,796 --> 00:19:34,538 if we drop deportation proceedings against her. 257 00:19:34,582 --> 00:19:37,628 They're going to either the Marbro or the Biograph Theater. 258 00:19:37,672 --> 00:19:38,760 What's playing there? 259 00:19:46,115 --> 00:19:48,683 You should be there, Edgar. 260 00:19:48,726 --> 00:19:51,163 If he were to get away again, Nanny, it might prove embarrassing. 261 00:19:52,774 --> 00:19:53,949 For the Bureau. 262 00:20:19,235 --> 00:20:20,758 MAN: Dillinger! 263 00:20:20,802 --> 00:20:21,498 [WOMAN SCREAMS] 264 00:20:30,072 --> 00:20:31,203 I'm going to be bigger than Hoover. 265 00:20:32,814 --> 00:20:34,119 [SIREN BLARING] 266 00:20:40,125 --> 00:20:41,561 Dillinger is dead. 267 00:20:44,434 --> 00:20:45,696 How many bystanders? 268 00:20:45,740 --> 00:20:47,742 Two. But they'll be all right. 269 00:20:47,785 --> 00:20:50,658 What about our informant, Mrs. Cumpanas? 270 00:20:50,701 --> 00:20:52,921 Keep her from talking to the press and deport her. 271 00:20:52,964 --> 00:20:53,965 Yes, sir. 272 00:21:06,456 --> 00:21:08,240 There's no romance in a dead rat. 273 00:21:16,684 --> 00:21:20,165 DWIGHT: After that, Hoover always had a kind of obsession about Dillinger. 274 00:21:20,209 --> 00:21:23,908 He kept his death mask in his outer office, like a hunting trophy. 275 00:21:23,952 --> 00:21:26,519 But he couldn't stand it that he hadn't shot Dillinger personally. 276 00:21:26,563 --> 00:21:28,347 Purvis. 277 00:21:28,391 --> 00:21:30,175 Particularly when Purvis began getting his name in the newspapers. 278 00:21:34,614 --> 00:21:36,181 How do you do, Mr. Hoover?Get in. 279 00:21:46,278 --> 00:21:47,802 I see you and the press have become fast friends. 280 00:21:50,369 --> 00:21:53,242 You don't have to worry about me anymore, Mr. Hoover. 281 00:21:53,285 --> 00:21:55,113 I'm resigning. 282 00:21:55,157 --> 00:21:56,854 I'm going on the radio for Post Toasties. 283 00:21:59,770 --> 00:22:01,990 I always kinda liked Post Toasties. 284 00:22:04,601 --> 00:22:06,081 You ought to try the radio, Mr. Hoover. 285 00:22:07,735 --> 00:22:09,432 I bet you'd sell a lot of breakfast cereal. 286 00:22:15,351 --> 00:22:17,222 I've been reading a good deal of your publicity. 287 00:22:18,876 --> 00:22:21,096 And I don't believe anybody is 288 00:22:21,139 --> 00:22:24,708 doing more injury to honest law enforcement in this country, 289 00:22:24,752 --> 00:22:28,059 than you are with your publicity seeking feats. 290 00:22:28,103 --> 00:22:31,062 A detective who advertises his exploits 291 00:22:31,106 --> 00:22:33,325 every opportunity he gets. 292 00:22:33,369 --> 00:22:35,197 Who spends the public money 293 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,156 to get his name spread all over the pages of newspapers 294 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:39,331 in flaming headlines. 295 00:22:39,375 --> 00:22:41,203 Senator. 296 00:22:41,246 --> 00:22:44,423 How many actual men have you arrested in your career? 297 00:22:44,467 --> 00:22:46,599 [CLEARS THROAT] 298 00:22:46,643 --> 00:22:48,340 My duties here in Washington keep me out of the field. 299 00:22:48,384 --> 00:22:51,735 You mean, America's "Top Cop" 300 00:22:51,779 --> 00:22:56,435 hasn't even made one arrest in his entire career. 301 00:22:56,479 --> 00:22:58,394 I've got to make a goddamn arrest. 302 00:22:58,437 --> 00:23:00,875 And no small fish. It has to look good. 303 00:23:00,918 --> 00:23:03,486 This son of a bitch Purvis is making a celebrity out of himself, 304 00:23:03,529 --> 00:23:06,141 while I'm supposed to be a desk jockey. 305 00:23:06,184 --> 00:23:09,492 How about Alvin "Creepy" Karpis? That big enough? 306 00:23:09,535 --> 00:23:12,712 DWIGHT: Karpis, was the last surviving member of the Ma Barker gang. 307 00:23:12,756 --> 00:23:14,976 Mr. Hoover wanted to arrest him single-handed, 308 00:23:15,019 --> 00:23:17,326 but everybody else got into the act. 309 00:23:17,369 --> 00:23:18,327 Let's go. 310 00:23:45,876 --> 00:23:47,269 HOOVER: You're under arrest, Karpis. 311 00:23:48,748 --> 00:23:49,880 The man himself. 312 00:23:51,926 --> 00:23:53,275 Give me your cuffs. 313 00:23:53,318 --> 00:23:54,276 Handcuffs. 314 00:23:55,451 --> 00:23:56,887 Well, who's got the cuffs? 315 00:23:56,931 --> 00:23:58,976 Shit! 316 00:23:59,020 --> 00:24:01,283 Sorry, Mr. Hoover. 317 00:24:01,326 --> 00:24:04,025 What about this? Tie his hands with that. 318 00:24:04,068 --> 00:24:06,114 [LAUGHING] Your boys are pretty nervous, huh? 319 00:24:06,157 --> 00:24:07,593 Probably worried about you. 320 00:24:15,036 --> 00:24:17,908 Hey, where you going? Why? 321 00:24:17,952 --> 00:24:20,432 'Cause, if it's the federal post office building you're looking for, 322 00:24:20,476 --> 00:24:22,347 you're driving in the wrong direction. 323 00:24:22,391 --> 00:24:24,784 Are you lost, young man? Yes, Sir. 324 00:24:24,828 --> 00:24:26,917 Don't worry, I can tell you where to go. 325 00:24:26,961 --> 00:24:28,745 I was planning to rob it. 326 00:24:28,788 --> 00:24:32,357 Now when you get to the next corner take a left. 327 00:24:32,401 --> 00:24:34,359 Before my next arrest, I promise you 328 00:24:34,403 --> 00:24:36,666 I'll bring my own handcuffs and a road map. 329 00:24:36,709 --> 00:24:38,537 Mr. Hoover. 330 00:24:38,581 --> 00:24:41,323 Before any more photographs are taken, you get a tie on. 331 00:24:43,978 --> 00:24:46,806 DWIGHT: Purvis' notoriety faded. 332 00:24:46,850 --> 00:24:48,896 He opened up his own detective agency, 333 00:24:48,939 --> 00:24:52,116 but Hoover saw to it that Purvis didn't keep any important clients. 334 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,337 Kind of quietly put him out of business, you see, ruined him. 335 00:24:55,380 --> 00:24:56,947 And finally Purvis broke. 336 00:25:08,002 --> 00:25:11,092 Hello. You're there, aren't you? 337 00:25:13,311 --> 00:25:14,443 You're always there. 338 00:25:15,748 --> 00:25:16,749 I know. 339 00:25:18,186 --> 00:25:19,187 I hear the click. 340 00:25:20,405 --> 00:25:21,276 I always hear the click. 341 00:25:31,547 --> 00:25:32,374 I've got a message for you. 342 00:25:35,203 --> 00:25:36,552 I want you to give it to Hoover. 343 00:25:44,734 --> 00:25:45,953 [GUN FIRES] 344 00:25:51,610 --> 00:25:55,179 DWIGHT: Murder Inc. boss Lepke was the nation's number one fugitive. 345 00:25:55,223 --> 00:25:57,312 Hoover warned the underworld 346 00:25:57,355 --> 00:26:02,012 that every Italian gangster would be fair game for the FBI if he didn't get Lepke. 347 00:26:02,056 --> 00:26:05,755 The syndicate itself ordered Lepke to surrender to Hoover. 348 00:26:05,798 --> 00:26:07,409 Hello, Edgar, we've been waiting for you. 349 00:26:07,452 --> 00:26:09,541 Uh, this is Mr. Hoover. 350 00:26:09,585 --> 00:26:12,805 Edgar, meet Louis Buchalter Lepke. 351 00:26:14,982 --> 00:26:16,984 My pleasure, Mr. Hoover. 352 00:26:17,027 --> 00:26:18,594 You wanna go through the pockets now? 353 00:26:18,637 --> 00:26:20,857 No need to search him. He's not armed. 354 00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:22,467 Would you wait in the front seat of my car, Mr. Lepke? 355 00:26:25,731 --> 00:26:29,561 You bet, Walter. Anything you say. 356 00:26:29,605 --> 00:26:32,651 Don't worry, Edgar. You'll get all the credit. 357 00:26:32,695 --> 00:26:35,393 Single-handed, America's "Top Cop." 358 00:26:35,437 --> 00:26:38,048 But don't forget the deal. 359 00:26:38,092 --> 00:26:40,224 You're going to take him as a federal prisoner, 360 00:26:40,268 --> 00:26:42,835 so he won't have to be handed over to New York State to face the chair. 361 00:26:45,490 --> 00:26:47,927 His ass is going to burn in Sing Sing. 362 00:26:49,886 --> 00:26:51,192 Edgar. 363 00:26:52,715 --> 00:26:56,066 You are one son of a bitch. 364 00:26:56,110 --> 00:26:58,068 DWIGHT: Thus when the books and the movies started, 365 00:26:58,112 --> 00:27:00,244 it was all strictly controlled. 366 00:27:00,288 --> 00:27:03,595 Nothing critical was ever written about the Bureau. 367 00:27:03,639 --> 00:27:05,467 The bestselling books that bore Hoover's name 368 00:27:05,510 --> 00:27:09,384 were actually written by employees of the Crime Records Division. 369 00:27:09,427 --> 00:27:12,430 federal employees on the federal payroll. 370 00:27:12,474 --> 00:27:14,954 So Hoover received the author's royalties 371 00:27:14,998 --> 00:27:18,306 for work that was done by government employees under government salary. 372 00:27:18,349 --> 00:27:23,224 Edgar, you didn't acquire this bird in a pet shop, did you, dear? 373 00:27:23,267 --> 00:27:25,095 You're right, Mother. 374 00:27:25,139 --> 00:27:27,358 There's a prisoner named Stroud allowed to breed birds in his cell. 375 00:27:27,402 --> 00:27:29,665 I paid him five dollars for it. 376 00:27:29,708 --> 00:27:32,276 Mmm-hmm. Well, he belongs in a cell. 377 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,453 This particular canary happens to be 378 00:27:35,497 --> 00:27:38,891 an artificially colored sparrow. 379 00:27:38,935 --> 00:27:41,851 You've been taken advantage of again son. Gullible. 380 00:27:45,942 --> 00:27:48,466 DWIGHT: After his mother died, the Director was left alone. 381 00:27:48,510 --> 00:27:50,686 Well, he had a maid, of course, to look after him. 382 00:27:50,729 --> 00:27:52,992 But for all intents and purposes, he lost his best friend. 383 00:28:08,486 --> 00:28:11,533 HOOVER: I am not criticizing the so-called glamour girl. 384 00:28:11,576 --> 00:28:16,103 They're attractive in their way but they don't seem real or sincere. 385 00:28:16,146 --> 00:28:18,235 And they certainly don't live up to my expectations 386 00:28:18,279 --> 00:28:20,672 of what a woman should be. 387 00:28:20,716 --> 00:28:23,675 I've always held girls and women on a pedestal. 388 00:28:23,719 --> 00:28:27,897 Something to be looked up to. Honored, worshipped. 389 00:28:27,940 --> 00:28:30,639 If men would remember this and keep them there, 390 00:28:30,682 --> 00:28:33,685 their married life would be a lot better. 391 00:28:33,729 --> 00:28:36,079 I've had this idea about women all the days of my life. 392 00:28:41,650 --> 00:28:44,566 ROOSEVELT: I'd like to know more about this German-American Bund. 393 00:28:46,089 --> 00:28:48,091 Let's find out whether they're just a bunch of 394 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:50,485 Lindbergh lovers 395 00:28:51,877 --> 00:28:54,576 or whether they're actual Nazi agents. 396 00:28:57,187 --> 00:29:00,582 Well, that would entail going underground, planting informants. 397 00:29:00,625 --> 00:29:02,932 Placing wiretaps. 398 00:29:02,975 --> 00:29:05,804 I've been against wiretaps ever since I took over the Bureau. 399 00:29:05,848 --> 00:29:08,198 Probably unconstitutional. 400 00:29:08,242 --> 00:29:10,548 Well, let's not ask Congress anything. 401 00:29:10,592 --> 00:29:12,855 I've had enough trouble with them as it is. 402 00:29:12,898 --> 00:29:15,205 Well, we're already breaking the law, 403 00:29:15,249 --> 00:29:19,166 passing along classified information to British Intelligence, 404 00:29:19,209 --> 00:29:20,471 so why don't we just go right ahead? 405 00:29:20,515 --> 00:29:22,256 We'll both go to jail together. 406 00:29:22,299 --> 00:29:24,345 All right, Edgar, 407 00:29:24,388 --> 00:29:26,738 you've always wanted to play a master spy. 408 00:29:26,782 --> 00:29:30,089 Go to it. Mr. President, you wouldn't 409 00:29:30,133 --> 00:29:31,961 uh, like to give me that in writing, would you? 410 00:29:32,004 --> 00:29:36,313 No, it's not for the record. Just don't get caught 411 00:29:36,357 --> 00:29:40,143 DWIGHT: This conversation with Roosevelt was the only authority Mr. Hoover ever had 412 00:29:40,187 --> 00:29:42,189 to tap the phones of American citizens, 413 00:29:42,232 --> 00:29:45,235 burglarize their homes and bug their bedrooms. 414 00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:47,542 And he kept right on doing it for the next 30 years. 415 00:29:53,548 --> 00:29:55,941 Care to meet Ginger Rogers? She's sitting over there. 416 00:29:55,985 --> 00:29:58,944 Yeah, I know the lady. I used to take her mother out. 417 00:29:58,988 --> 00:30:01,817 So now we know, huh?It was purely a friendship, that's all. 418 00:30:01,860 --> 00:30:04,080 Oh, for a moment there I though the boss was slipping. 419 00:30:04,123 --> 00:30:05,995 I can't tell you how many times I tried to introduce him 420 00:30:06,038 --> 00:30:08,519 to a couple of very agreeable chorus girls. 421 00:30:08,563 --> 00:30:11,000 Take a fling. J. Edgar Hoover won't catch you. 422 00:30:11,043 --> 00:30:13,263 [ALL LAUGH] 423 00:30:13,307 --> 00:30:15,918 Look, I don't fit in. Take a look at this kisser. 424 00:30:15,961 --> 00:30:17,528 Did you ever see anybody look more like a cop? 425 00:30:17,572 --> 00:30:18,790 Or a hood. 426 00:30:18,834 --> 00:30:20,314 HOOVER: All right, I've heard enough. 427 00:30:20,357 --> 00:30:22,272 You see, Edgar's in a very delicate position. 428 00:30:22,316 --> 00:30:24,535 I mean, he keeps himself so busy at that Bureau 429 00:30:24,579 --> 00:30:26,015 he hasn't got time to consider marriage. 430 00:30:26,058 --> 00:30:29,018 And a man in his position can't very well afford to 431 00:30:29,061 --> 00:30:30,541 uh, be caught playing around, huh? 432 00:30:30,585 --> 00:30:32,369 But if you don't they'll get you for that. 433 00:30:32,413 --> 00:30:36,591 You know, sort of sly innuendos, limp wrist stuff. 434 00:30:36,634 --> 00:30:38,941 All right, all right, stop razzing me. 435 00:30:42,858 --> 00:30:44,816 RUNYON: I've never seen him walk out this mad. 436 00:30:44,860 --> 00:30:46,688 REYNOLDS: I don't think he liked the subject matter very much. 437 00:30:46,731 --> 00:30:47,950 Come on, we were just ribbing him. 438 00:30:47,993 --> 00:30:51,475 He's right. Look what women have done to us. 439 00:30:51,519 --> 00:30:53,434 Taken all our dough. 440 00:30:53,477 --> 00:30:55,436 Broken our hearts. 441 00:30:55,479 --> 00:30:58,482 Maybe, uh, maybe Edgar never got started. 442 00:30:59,701 --> 00:31:00,832 REYNOLDS: You don't, you don't suppose... 443 00:31:00,876 --> 00:31:02,704 What are you mugs saying? 444 00:31:02,747 --> 00:31:05,794 You wouldn't pull the same line of stuff on Cardinal Spellman. 445 00:31:05,837 --> 00:31:07,274 BENCHLEY: He's a priest. 446 00:31:07,317 --> 00:31:10,102 What the hell, so is Edgar. And we ordained him. 447 00:31:28,077 --> 00:31:30,862 22 minutes before air-time, Mr. President. 448 00:31:30,906 --> 00:31:32,386 And Mr. Hoover is in the outer office. 449 00:31:39,784 --> 00:31:41,699 I know you're hot under the collar, Edgar. 450 00:31:41,743 --> 00:31:43,962 I see I've been preceded by the liberal opposition. 451 00:31:44,006 --> 00:31:46,704 I suppose you know Mr. Earl Warren, 452 00:31:46,748 --> 00:31:47,879 the Attorney General of California. 453 00:31:47,923 --> 00:31:49,751 How are you? 454 00:31:49,794 --> 00:31:52,144 All right, Edgar, speak your peace and get it over with. 455 00:31:52,188 --> 00:31:53,755 Well, I was wondering if the Japanese are gonna get their property back 456 00:31:53,798 --> 00:31:55,539 when the war is over. 457 00:31:55,583 --> 00:31:58,716 I think our first task is to win the victory, Edgar. 458 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,545 It makes about as much sense as rounding up the Italian-Americans. 459 00:32:01,589 --> 00:32:04,113 You're the last person I would have expected to object. 460 00:32:04,156 --> 00:32:06,333 The only thing I object to is stupidity. 461 00:32:06,376 --> 00:32:07,899 Now they bombed Pearl Harbor, 462 00:32:07,943 --> 00:32:10,032 and you're letting the Japs in Hawaii go completely free. 463 00:32:10,075 --> 00:32:12,643 What in the hell are you arresting them in California for? 464 00:32:12,687 --> 00:32:15,733 Let's say we're just... Guaranteeing their safety 465 00:32:15,777 --> 00:32:17,909 by putting them where they won't provoke violence. 466 00:32:17,953 --> 00:32:19,781 Oh, that's a new twist. 467 00:32:19,824 --> 00:32:21,913 Arresting the perspective victim, huh? 468 00:32:21,957 --> 00:32:26,353 Edgar realizes that right must yield to the necessities of war. 469 00:32:28,093 --> 00:32:32,533 Mr. Lincoln was criticized at one time. 470 00:32:32,576 --> 00:32:34,752 And I suppose I should be criticized in my time, too. 471 00:32:36,885 --> 00:32:38,190 We're going ahead with this project, Edgar. 472 00:32:39,757 --> 00:32:40,715 I trust you understand that. 473 00:32:42,281 --> 00:32:44,283 I do now, Mr. President. 474 00:32:45,850 --> 00:32:49,811 Oh, and uh, be a good soldier and stand silent. 475 00:32:49,854 --> 00:32:50,812 Yes, Sir. 476 00:32:57,949 --> 00:33:01,344 DWIGHT: My father had been transferred to the New York field office. 477 00:33:01,388 --> 00:33:03,999 One night he and my mother where on their way to watch the fight 478 00:33:04,042 --> 00:33:05,740 between Joe Louis and Billy Cohn. 479 00:33:28,937 --> 00:33:29,590 WEBB: Hold it! 480 00:33:30,373 --> 00:33:31,722 FBI. 481 00:33:41,079 --> 00:33:42,603 You'll be okay, Webb 482 00:33:42,646 --> 00:33:44,996 I got an ambulance coining. You'll be okay. 483 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,651 Mr. Hoover's going to be embarrassed. 484 00:33:47,695 --> 00:33:49,523 A lousy purse snatcher. 485 00:33:53,222 --> 00:33:56,268 My kid wants to be a G-Man. 486 00:33:56,312 --> 00:33:57,922 He'll be one. He'll be one. 487 00:34:04,886 --> 00:34:06,757 DWIGHT: That's how my father died. 488 00:34:06,801 --> 00:34:08,063 Shot down by a purse snatcher who was never caught. 489 00:34:16,550 --> 00:34:19,944 The shape of crime was changing in America. 490 00:34:19,988 --> 00:34:22,381 The gangs, the bank robbers, the kidnappers, 491 00:34:22,425 --> 00:34:25,384 were giving way to organized crime, which was going underground. 492 00:34:25,428 --> 00:34:29,432 Hiding its operations behind legitimate business fronts. 493 00:34:29,476 --> 00:34:32,696 But crime on the streets was beginning to grow. 494 00:34:32,740 --> 00:34:35,873 Senseless violent crime, that would some day 495 00:34:35,917 --> 00:34:38,876 make people afraid to leave their homes after dark. 496 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:42,314 INSTRUCTOR: Just a little bit. Getting that arm straight. 497 00:34:42,358 --> 00:34:45,056 Let's, uh, watch that weak hand so we don't get a hold through it. 498 00:34:45,970 --> 00:34:46,884 Give it over. 499 00:34:48,016 --> 00:34:49,887 Stroke that trigger twice. 500 00:34:49,931 --> 00:34:51,106 [WHISTLE BLOWS AND GUNS FIRE] 501 00:34:53,761 --> 00:34:56,633 Break up that wrist. 502 00:34:56,677 --> 00:34:57,895 If you're satisfied with your position holster up. 503 00:35:01,203 --> 00:35:03,988 You want an instructor to take a look at it, give a holler. 504 00:35:04,032 --> 00:35:06,077 Holster up. 505 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,648 Pick up your brass box take one step forward. 506 00:35:18,263 --> 00:35:20,788 Come to a ready gun position. Elbow on the hip... 507 00:35:33,409 --> 00:35:38,109 DWIGHT: In 1951, after graduating law school at Southern Methodist University 508 00:35:38,153 --> 00:35:40,764 I applied to join the Bureau. 509 00:35:40,808 --> 00:35:43,593 It was something I looked forward to all my life. 510 00:35:43,637 --> 00:35:46,814 I entered the training program at Quantico, Virginia. 511 00:35:46,857 --> 00:35:49,251 And that's where I had my first meeting with Mr. Hoover. 512 00:35:51,209 --> 00:35:54,473 Good afternoon, Mr. Hoover. Dwight Webb, Putnam, Texas, Sir. 513 00:35:54,517 --> 00:35:56,606 Webb, Texas, huh? 514 00:35:56,650 --> 00:35:58,782 You have a tendency to five o'clock shadow. 515 00:35:58,826 --> 00:36:00,741 Shave twice a day.Yes, Sir. 516 00:36:06,790 --> 00:36:09,097 Orchids to Commie hunter J. Edgar Hoover, 517 00:36:09,140 --> 00:36:11,490 who leads the fight against pinkos and fellow travelers, 518 00:36:11,534 --> 00:36:14,102 who would hand our nation over to Mr. Joseph Stalin. 519 00:36:14,145 --> 00:36:16,713 And Mr. and Mrs. America 520 00:36:16,757 --> 00:36:19,934 don't ever forget, that for every one of those 850,000 Commie party members, 521 00:36:19,977 --> 00:36:22,023 there are 10 Commies working underground. 522 00:36:23,677 --> 00:36:25,113 DWIGHT: The gangsters were gone. 523 00:36:25,156 --> 00:36:28,116 But now Mr. Hoover had the Communist menace 524 00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:30,684 to keep the FBI up in the headlines. 525 00:36:30,727 --> 00:36:33,991 And he used his stooges in Congress to spread fear. 526 00:36:34,035 --> 00:36:38,169 A fear that would dictate American foreign policy for the next 20 years. 527 00:36:38,213 --> 00:36:39,649 MCCARTHY: ...issued this warning. 528 00:36:39,693 --> 00:36:42,260 There were still eleven agents, 529 00:36:42,304 --> 00:36:45,437 10 Communists, and 11 sympathizers 530 00:36:45,481 --> 00:36:48,397 and 24 suspects on that State Department payroll. 531 00:36:50,181 --> 00:36:53,054 And I ask you Senators, how is this possible? 532 00:36:53,097 --> 00:36:57,014 Who, who was protecting these communists? 533 00:36:58,581 --> 00:37:01,062 The big question is, where McCarthy got that chart. 534 00:37:01,105 --> 00:37:04,021 The suggestion is you've been feeding him confidential FBI files. 535 00:37:04,065 --> 00:37:05,632 I wonder where they got that idea? 536 00:37:09,157 --> 00:37:11,246 The trouble with you is you don't do your homework. 537 00:37:11,289 --> 00:37:14,205 I tell you that there are 23 homosexuals in the State Department. 538 00:37:14,249 --> 00:37:16,730 Then you turn around and announce to the whole world it's 40. 539 00:37:21,256 --> 00:37:25,739 Edgar, I, uh, I need 300 government security risks. I promised to name them. 540 00:37:27,697 --> 00:37:29,003 You pulled that figure out of the hat. 541 00:37:29,046 --> 00:37:30,744 I couldn't give you three that would stick. 542 00:37:30,787 --> 00:37:32,702 They don't have to stick. 543 00:37:32,746 --> 00:37:35,096 You can go way back to the '20s for the names. 544 00:37:35,139 --> 00:37:37,185 Oh, shut up and play cards Joe. 545 00:37:39,448 --> 00:37:42,146 I'm generally well-liked. People do like me. 546 00:37:48,326 --> 00:37:50,677 But I don't understand why they're so down on me now. 547 00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:53,418 You accused a man of 20 years of treason. 548 00:37:53,462 --> 00:37:55,203 Then offer to buy him a drink. 549 00:37:55,246 --> 00:37:57,118 And you're surprised when he tries to spit in your eye. 550 00:37:58,772 --> 00:38:00,556 Edgar, sometimes I have the feeling 551 00:38:00,599 --> 00:38:03,385 that you're only using me to get even with Truman, 552 00:38:03,428 --> 00:38:06,301 because he didn't give you the CIA. 553 00:38:06,344 --> 00:38:09,652 If Truman won't let me fight the Communist menace overseas, 554 00:38:09,696 --> 00:38:12,437 I still have the power to weed out any security risks 555 00:38:12,481 --> 00:38:15,266 in his Executive Branch right here at home. 556 00:38:15,310 --> 00:38:17,355 Look, Joe, I'll give you all the information you need, 557 00:38:17,399 --> 00:38:19,706 but for Christ's sake, will you please get it right for a change? 558 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,928 You know, some day they're gonna get us. Both of us. 559 00:38:26,756 --> 00:38:27,888 You, not me. 560 00:38:29,628 --> 00:38:32,806 I'm not gettable. 561 00:38:32,849 --> 00:38:35,199 AGENT: Brunette's held up in that house across the street, Mr. Hoover. 562 00:38:35,243 --> 00:38:37,288 Where's New York's finest? 563 00:38:37,332 --> 00:38:38,420 Well, two of the local detectives tracked him down. 564 00:38:38,463 --> 00:38:40,552 They're up at the cafe having coffee. 565 00:38:40,596 --> 00:38:42,859 That's why I don't allow coffee breaks. 566 00:38:42,903 --> 00:38:44,643 Let's grab 'em before they get back, huh? 567 00:38:44,687 --> 00:38:46,733 Well, shall I alert the precinct first? Oh, the hell with that. 568 00:38:46,776 --> 00:38:48,299 Brunette belongs to us, not them. 569 00:38:48,343 --> 00:38:50,693 But his wife's in there, sir. 570 00:38:50,737 --> 00:38:52,086 Well, If they want to share the same fate as Bonnie and Clyde, 571 00:38:52,129 --> 00:38:53,217 we'll give them every chance. 572 00:38:53,261 --> 00:38:54,697 Come on, Walter follow me. 573 00:38:54,741 --> 00:38:55,872 I don't know what's keeping the boys from the Mirror.. 574 00:38:55,916 --> 00:38:57,787 Oh, that's tough luck, Walter. 575 00:38:57,831 --> 00:38:59,441 Well, should I clear the area first? 576 00:38:59,484 --> 00:39:01,269 Get rid of that red polka dot tie. Only pimps wear those. 577 00:39:02,574 --> 00:39:03,401 Yes, Sir. 578 00:39:11,061 --> 00:39:12,628 Mr. Hoover's going to get somebody killed tonight. 579 00:39:16,850 --> 00:39:18,155 Let's let them know we're here. 580 00:39:18,199 --> 00:39:19,026 What if he opens fire? 581 00:39:20,288 --> 00:39:23,944 Brunette...this is J. Edgar Hoover. 582 00:39:23,987 --> 00:39:25,075 The hell it is. 583 00:39:25,119 --> 00:39:27,164 We want you alive. 584 00:39:27,208 --> 00:39:28,992 Now come on out and send your wife out. 585 00:39:29,036 --> 00:39:31,908 Why don't you come on in and ask her to dance, Hoover? 586 00:39:31,952 --> 00:39:32,735 Or don't you like girls? 587 00:39:35,172 --> 00:39:36,304 Give 'em the teargas. 588 00:39:39,568 --> 00:39:40,395 Another one. 589 00:39:43,006 --> 00:39:44,442 HOOVER: Open fire. 590 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,195 We're coming out. 591 00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,198 We're coming out. 592 00:40:01,242 --> 00:40:02,896 [COUGHING] 593 00:40:02,939 --> 00:40:04,854 She can't walk, she's shot. 594 00:40:04,898 --> 00:40:06,029 Somebody go in and get her. 595 00:40:07,378 --> 00:40:09,424 [COUGHING] 596 00:40:13,776 --> 00:40:15,386 AGENT: Get that dog out of there. 597 00:40:17,954 --> 00:40:20,914 Hoover, you asshole. You shot my wife. 598 00:40:20,957 --> 00:40:22,567 That asshole's Winchell, I'm Hoover. 599 00:40:23,917 --> 00:40:26,615 I hope you rot in hell Mr. Hoover. 600 00:40:26,658 --> 00:40:29,748 You big nelly, faggot, queer. 601 00:40:29,792 --> 00:40:31,881 Well, at least she recognized you. 602 00:40:45,503 --> 00:40:46,896 Yes, sir, can I get you something, Mr. Hoover? 603 00:40:49,029 --> 00:40:51,727 Did I ever give you a tip? 604 00:40:51,770 --> 00:40:54,295 Well, uh, there's never been a check, so there's never been a tip, 605 00:40:54,338 --> 00:40:55,600 but that's all right, Mr. Hoover. 606 00:40:57,211 --> 00:40:58,299 Go on, sit down, sit down. 607 00:40:59,953 --> 00:41:01,302 Well, that's highly irregular. I don't think I can. 608 00:41:01,345 --> 00:41:02,999 Oh, it's all right. Sit down. 609 00:41:10,659 --> 00:41:13,923 Frank, you know your daughter, Jodie? 610 00:41:13,967 --> 00:41:16,578 The one that goes to City College. Yes, Sir. 611 00:41:16,621 --> 00:41:20,016 Well, tell her that social club she joined is a communist front organization. 612 00:41:22,845 --> 00:41:25,282 I don't want my favorite waiter's daughter on the subversive list. 613 00:41:27,371 --> 00:41:29,286 I understand, Sir. 614 00:41:29,330 --> 00:41:31,767 And another thing uh, 615 00:41:31,810 --> 00:41:34,204 your son, the one that got that girl pregnant in Jersey. 616 00:41:35,771 --> 00:41:36,815 How'd that all come out? 617 00:41:38,078 --> 00:41:38,861 You know about that, too? 618 00:41:38,905 --> 00:41:40,080 Uh-huh. 619 00:41:43,561 --> 00:41:44,780 It's been taken care of. 620 00:41:44,823 --> 00:41:46,434 Well fine, I'm glad to hear it. 621 00:41:46,477 --> 00:41:48,436 We checked her out. Boy, she'd been around. 622 00:41:50,612 --> 00:41:51,613 You know, a girl tried to trap me once. 623 00:41:54,442 --> 00:41:55,922 A girl by the name of Carrie DeWitt. 624 00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,490 Ah, she was a beautiful girl. 625 00:42:02,189 --> 00:42:04,191 She died in Memphis a week ago. 626 00:42:08,499 --> 00:42:09,457 Is your mother still alive? 627 00:42:10,893 --> 00:42:12,286 Don't you know, Mr. Hoover? 628 00:42:14,549 --> 00:42:17,334 My mother's been dead for 17 years and I miss her. 629 00:42:18,857 --> 00:42:20,729 I'm sorry. 630 00:42:20,772 --> 00:42:22,949 Do you know Rudyard Kipling? 631 00:42:22,992 --> 00:42:25,038 Look, I don't know no Rudyard Kipling, and I don't want to know him. 632 00:42:26,996 --> 00:42:28,389 He was a novelist, a poet. 633 00:42:30,913 --> 00:42:35,135 When I was a boy my mother taught me a verse. 634 00:42:35,178 --> 00:42:36,614 "The Dirty Road." I memorized it. 635 00:42:36,658 --> 00:42:38,225 I used to say it for her and it pleased her. 636 00:42:38,268 --> 00:42:40,531 It pleased her very much. 637 00:42:40,575 --> 00:42:44,318 "If you can dream and not make dreams your master 638 00:42:44,361 --> 00:42:47,147 "If you can think and not make thought your aim 639 00:42:48,409 --> 00:42:50,498 "If you can meet triumph with disaster 640 00:42:50,541 --> 00:42:52,413 "and treat those two imposters just the same 641 00:42:54,981 --> 00:42:58,549 "If you can bear to hear the words you've spoken. 642 00:42:58,593 --> 00:43:01,161 "Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools 643 00:43:01,204 --> 00:43:03,685 "or watch the thing that you gave your life to broken. 644 00:43:05,556 --> 00:43:07,776 "Then stop, build'em up with worn out tools 645 00:43:13,608 --> 00:43:17,133 "If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew 646 00:43:17,177 --> 00:43:21,007 "to serve your turn long after they are gone 647 00:43:21,050 --> 00:43:22,356 "And so, hold on when there is nothing in you. 648 00:43:24,749 --> 00:43:28,014 "Except the will that says: 'Hold on.'" 649 00:43:31,060 --> 00:43:32,409 That's very nice, Mr. Hoover. Uh... 650 00:43:34,498 --> 00:43:37,066 If you can please excuse me. 651 00:43:37,110 --> 00:43:39,068 Bring me another one of these, will you? 652 00:43:39,112 --> 00:43:40,287 Yes, Sir. 653 00:43:44,856 --> 00:43:45,509 Son of a bitch. 654 00:43:46,902 --> 00:43:48,643 That son of a bitch. 655 00:43:48,686 --> 00:43:50,427 He has no right to cut people up like this. 656 00:43:52,125 --> 00:43:53,604 [SOBBING] 657 00:43:58,479 --> 00:44:00,829 DWIGHT: The only serious threat to Mr. Hoover's power 658 00:44:00,872 --> 00:44:03,223 began with the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. 659 00:44:05,703 --> 00:44:07,140 No, Bobby, you wouldn't. 660 00:44:10,143 --> 00:44:12,580 Besides, uh, McNamara would take a dim view 661 00:44:12,623 --> 00:44:13,668 of you looking over his shoulder. 662 00:44:13,711 --> 00:44:15,583 [LAUGHS] 663 00:44:15,626 --> 00:44:17,193 The problem is I've got myself a Cabinet and uh 664 00:44:19,413 --> 00:44:20,501 I don't know anyone in it. 665 00:44:22,677 --> 00:44:24,157 Not, uh, close. 666 00:44:26,159 --> 00:44:29,423 I got the feeling you've discussed this with dad. 667 00:44:32,991 --> 00:44:34,080 Look, um... 668 00:44:35,690 --> 00:44:37,431 I'm going to take the rap for civil rights, 669 00:44:37,474 --> 00:44:38,997 so I may as well take all the credit. 670 00:44:40,738 --> 00:44:41,696 I got to have you. 671 00:44:44,394 --> 00:44:46,179 I need you there more than anywhere else. 672 00:44:48,833 --> 00:44:49,747 But it's dangerous, Jack. 673 00:44:52,185 --> 00:44:54,143 There are a lot of people saying I'm not... 674 00:44:54,187 --> 00:44:56,537 Qualified to, uh, run the Justice Department. 675 00:44:56,580 --> 00:44:59,105 And then there's Hoover. 676 00:44:59,148 --> 00:45:00,323 You don't think you can handle him? 677 00:45:02,934 --> 00:45:05,111 Well, no one ever has. 678 00:45:08,331 --> 00:45:11,334 Mr. Hoover is in favor of your appointment. 679 00:45:12,727 --> 00:45:14,598 That's a surprise. 680 00:45:14,642 --> 00:45:19,125 Why? He was six years younger than you when he took over the Bureau. 681 00:45:19,168 --> 00:45:20,996 You both got your start uh, trying to 682 00:45:21,953 --> 00:45:23,738 hunt Reds and uh 683 00:45:23,781 --> 00:45:26,306 you made your names trying to nab racketeers. 684 00:45:26,349 --> 00:45:28,090 He had this thing about Dillinger, you got your Jimmy Hoffa. 685 00:45:31,224 --> 00:45:33,139 Maybe, in fact, you're too much alike. 686 00:45:35,402 --> 00:45:37,317 I think Mr. Hoover has me pegged as an easy mark. 687 00:45:38,405 --> 00:45:40,407 Bobby, you just have to remind him 688 00:45:41,756 --> 00:45:43,410 that you're his boss. 689 00:45:47,457 --> 00:45:48,676 All right, now, 690 00:45:49,764 --> 00:45:53,159 Mr. Attorney General. 691 00:45:56,771 --> 00:45:58,164 Let's grab their balls with both hands and go. 692 00:46:00,166 --> 00:46:01,515 We'll make the announcement at two o'clock. 693 00:46:05,301 --> 00:46:08,348 There's, uh, gonna be a lot of people 694 00:46:08,391 --> 00:46:11,786 pissed off at this appointment. 695 00:46:11,829 --> 00:46:14,092 What's wrong with giving a kid a little legal experience 696 00:46:14,136 --> 00:46:15,268 before he starts practicing law. 697 00:46:21,143 --> 00:46:22,753 Yes, Mr. Attorney General. 698 00:46:22,797 --> 00:46:24,364 Yes, uh, who is this? 699 00:46:24,407 --> 00:46:26,409 This is Mr. Hoover's secretary. 700 00:46:26,453 --> 00:46:28,977 Well, the next time I call on this telephone 701 00:46:29,020 --> 00:46:31,762 I want the Director on the other end of the line. 702 00:46:31,806 --> 00:46:34,809 So, put the telephone on his desk 703 00:46:34,852 --> 00:46:36,419 and tell Mr. Hoover I want to see him. 704 00:46:36,463 --> 00:46:38,682 What time will you be coming by? 705 00:46:38,726 --> 00:46:41,642 Tell, uh, Mr. Hoover to come by my office. 706 00:46:41,685 --> 00:46:43,818 I'm afraid he's in a meeting, Mr. Kennedy. 707 00:46:43,861 --> 00:46:45,211 I said now! 708 00:46:50,607 --> 00:46:52,174 MAN: It's policy to go to his office. 709 00:46:52,218 --> 00:46:54,089 Well, that policy is being changed as of today. 710 00:47:10,453 --> 00:47:14,849 Tell the Director I'm growing impatient. 711 00:47:14,892 --> 00:47:16,720 Kennedy's office again. He's still waiting. 712 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,425 I'll be in the Attorney General's conference room. 713 00:47:26,208 --> 00:47:27,427 He'll be right over. 714 00:47:37,306 --> 00:47:39,265 Looks like the Attorney General has passed the word. 715 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,145 What's your name? Collins, Sir. Franklyn J. Collins. 716 00:47:55,281 --> 00:47:58,414 How long have you been with the Bureau? One year, seven months, Sir. 717 00:47:58,458 --> 00:47:59,807 Send him a copy of Masters of Deceit 718 00:47:59,850 --> 00:48:02,157 transfer him to Knoxville, Tennessee. 719 00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,202 He'll have plenty of time to improve his mind down there. 720 00:48:30,403 --> 00:48:32,056 ...secret ambition is 721 00:48:32,100 --> 00:48:34,058 to reappoint a Supreme Court Justice. 722 00:48:34,102 --> 00:48:35,277 Not a chance. 723 00:48:36,931 --> 00:48:39,325 You, uh, hear that Edgar? 724 00:48:42,763 --> 00:48:45,243 Mr. Hoover, the Attorney General would like you to join him 725 00:48:45,287 --> 00:48:46,810 in Mr. Goldfarb's office. 726 00:49:00,998 --> 00:49:03,566 He's giving me the runaround. Walking me over this whole building. 727 00:49:03,610 --> 00:49:05,307 Now you keep out of this. Let me handle it in my own way. 728 00:49:22,672 --> 00:49:24,239 Mr. Director. 729 00:49:26,981 --> 00:49:28,765 Is it something urgent? 730 00:49:28,809 --> 00:49:30,854 Well, I was, uh, looking over the 731 00:49:32,726 --> 00:49:36,164 employment statistics and uh 732 00:49:36,207 --> 00:49:40,516 surprising how few Negroes are on the payroll in the... 733 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:42,257 We have Negroes. 734 00:49:42,300 --> 00:49:45,434 No, aside from your five chauffeurs. 735 00:49:45,478 --> 00:49:47,828 Well, you know we don't recruit. 736 00:49:47,871 --> 00:49:49,960 Well, I think we should uh, be cognizant of the 737 00:49:50,004 --> 00:49:52,572 outside criticism of the Bureau. 738 00:49:52,615 --> 00:49:55,270 Well, very few blacks apply. 739 00:49:55,313 --> 00:49:57,925 And very few can pass the exams. 740 00:49:57,968 --> 00:50:00,144 Yes, well, I think you can manage it 741 00:50:00,188 --> 00:50:03,757 in the way that you place some of the few token Jews 742 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,281 that you have in invisible positions 743 00:50:06,324 --> 00:50:09,502 I know you'll manage this task with all due speed. 744 00:50:09,545 --> 00:50:11,504 Mr. Kennedy, we uh... 745 00:50:11,547 --> 00:50:14,550 We hire on merit, not race, creed or color. 746 00:50:14,594 --> 00:50:15,986 But I'll do what I can. Yes, you uh... 747 00:50:16,030 --> 00:50:18,554 Do what you can and I'll do what I can. 748 00:50:18,598 --> 00:50:21,122 You know what, uh, puzzles the hell out of me 749 00:50:21,165 --> 00:50:23,516 is that every year, uh, the crime rate goes up 750 00:50:23,559 --> 00:50:25,996 and you get more money and the Bureau gets bigger, 751 00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,303 the Mafia seems to flourish with all of that. 752 00:50:28,346 --> 00:50:32,220 That word again. Mafia. 753 00:50:32,263 --> 00:50:35,876 It's a myth. A fiction for mystery readers. 754 00:50:35,919 --> 00:50:38,400 Oh, is that your official position? 755 00:50:38,444 --> 00:50:39,662 It doesn't exist? 756 00:50:41,142 --> 00:50:44,101 There's organized crime, but no national syndicate. 757 00:50:44,145 --> 00:50:47,409 Besides, that's a problem for local law enforcement, not us. 758 00:50:47,453 --> 00:50:50,456 Oh, yes, that's the uh, the story about the 50 men on the case 759 00:50:50,499 --> 00:50:52,501 for three years and they come up with one mob conviction. 760 00:50:52,545 --> 00:50:54,329 Yes, that's bad statistics. 761 00:50:54,372 --> 00:50:57,593 You'd have these 50 men out there arresting car thieves 762 00:50:57,637 --> 00:51:01,423 and bringing them back into... It would look good on your yearly report to Congress. 763 00:51:01,467 --> 00:51:04,034 I'm not going to subject my men to that kind of corruption. 764 00:51:04,078 --> 00:51:06,167 What are you uh... What are you saying? 765 00:51:08,430 --> 00:51:11,389 I don't understand. I'm confused. 766 00:51:11,433 --> 00:51:15,002 Are you acknowledging the fact now that there is a Mafia? 767 00:51:15,045 --> 00:51:18,832 Cosa Nostra, or whatever you want to call it. 768 00:51:18,875 --> 00:51:23,532 Any investigative agency that ever went after the mob was contaminated by it. 769 00:51:23,576 --> 00:51:26,622 There has never been one case of bribery in my Bureau. 770 00:51:26,666 --> 00:51:29,930 And there never will be as long as I live. 771 00:51:29,973 --> 00:51:33,890 Yes, I'm sure you do a wonderful job protecting the Bureau. 772 00:51:33,934 --> 00:51:37,851 What I'm worrying about is protecting the public. 773 00:51:37,894 --> 00:51:40,462 If you're so hot and bothered about gangsters, 774 00:51:40,506 --> 00:51:41,942 why are you doing business with them? 775 00:51:41,985 --> 00:51:43,073 What was that? 776 00:51:43,117 --> 00:51:45,554 I'm referring to Mr. Giancana. 777 00:51:45,598 --> 00:51:50,124 Yes, well, that matter is, uh, solved. 778 00:51:50,167 --> 00:51:52,953 It's uh, the President is not seeing Mrs. Campbell at this time 779 00:51:52,996 --> 00:51:54,955 and I, uh, as far as I'm concerned... 780 00:51:54,998 --> 00:51:58,959 I am not talking about sharing a bed companion with a gangster. 781 00:51:59,002 --> 00:52:01,091 Or using the White House phone to receive calls 782 00:52:01,135 --> 00:52:04,094 from Mr. Giancana's residence. 783 00:52:04,138 --> 00:52:05,966 I've already ironed that out with the President. 784 00:52:06,009 --> 00:52:08,229 Did you 785 00:52:08,272 --> 00:52:11,014 personally uh, tap those phones? 786 00:52:11,058 --> 00:52:14,496 What concerns me now is the CIA employing Mr. Giancana 787 00:52:14,540 --> 00:52:17,543 for the purpose of assassinating Fidel Castro. 788 00:52:19,109 --> 00:52:21,503 I don't believe that. 789 00:52:21,547 --> 00:52:22,635 Check it out. 790 00:52:22,678 --> 00:52:25,159 I... I will. 791 00:52:25,202 --> 00:52:28,031 I don't supposed you'd mind massive wiretaps surveillance 792 00:52:28,075 --> 00:52:31,600 on the Mafia chiefs, as you call them. 793 00:52:31,644 --> 00:52:33,994 No. 794 00:52:34,037 --> 00:52:36,823 Prepare the authorizations on 'em. 795 00:52:36,866 --> 00:52:37,824 Sign them. 796 00:52:37,867 --> 00:52:39,739 Fine. 797 00:52:39,782 --> 00:52:45,745 Oh. and I uh, appreciate your walking to my office. 798 00:52:45,788 --> 00:52:47,398 Well, I needed the exercise. 799 00:52:47,442 --> 00:52:48,661 Oh! 800 00:52:51,228 --> 00:52:55,058 In that case I'll be sure that I can 801 00:52:55,102 --> 00:52:58,888 help you anyway I can to fulfill that program of exercise. 802 00:53:07,767 --> 00:53:09,116 Rough? It was a pushover. 803 00:53:10,900 --> 00:53:13,163 He was so shaken by the Giancana connection, 804 00:53:13,207 --> 00:53:15,601 that he went for the wiretaps right away. 805 00:53:15,644 --> 00:53:18,038 But he always had a weakness for wiretapping. 806 00:53:18,081 --> 00:53:20,562 Wait a minute, wait a minute. 807 00:53:20,606 --> 00:53:22,172 Do you know I could smell it? 808 00:53:22,216 --> 00:53:23,739 They were drinking beer in there. 809 00:53:26,829 --> 00:53:28,439 [RINGING] 810 00:53:31,138 --> 00:53:32,226 Yes, Mr. Attorney General? 811 00:53:34,837 --> 00:53:35,969 I just wanted to see if you were there. 812 00:53:42,323 --> 00:53:45,413 All right, Williams. This is the FBI. 813 00:53:45,456 --> 00:53:47,458 The money's on the way from the bank. 814 00:53:47,502 --> 00:53:49,112 Just relax. 815 00:53:49,156 --> 00:53:51,114 Yeah, he's let most of the passengers go. 816 00:53:51,158 --> 00:53:53,247 He's keeping 17 hostages. 817 00:53:53,290 --> 00:53:54,640 Yes, Sir. 818 00:53:54,683 --> 00:53:56,424 Well, right now I've convinced the hijacker 819 00:53:56,467 --> 00:53:58,252 there's a malfunction in the engine. 820 00:53:58,295 --> 00:53:59,688 Does he buy it? 821 00:53:59,732 --> 00:54:01,908 I got two guys working on it. 822 00:54:01,951 --> 00:54:03,736 Yeah, well stall him. Give us time. 823 00:54:03,779 --> 00:54:05,172 I don't know how long I can make him believe it. 824 00:54:05,215 --> 00:54:06,216 I'm with the Director now. 825 00:54:07,870 --> 00:54:11,091 The Bureau's not going to lift a hand to help TWA. 826 00:54:11,134 --> 00:54:13,049 But, boss, you've forbidden all the Bureau personnel to ever fly TWA. 827 00:54:13,093 --> 00:54:14,442 Isn't that enough? 828 00:54:14,485 --> 00:54:16,574 The last time we helped TWA with a hijacker, 829 00:54:16,618 --> 00:54:18,533 son of a bitching pilot called us trigger happy. 830 00:54:20,274 --> 00:54:23,233 I gave Tildagast the chance to fire that pilot. 831 00:54:23,277 --> 00:54:26,019 And even dug up his service record to prove he was sick in the head. 832 00:54:26,062 --> 00:54:28,238 No. TWA backed him up. 833 00:54:28,282 --> 00:54:29,631 I'll talk with the Director. 834 00:54:31,720 --> 00:54:35,115 Boss you know damn well it's our responsibility. 835 00:54:35,158 --> 00:54:36,725 Clyde, please don't ruin my day. 836 00:54:36,769 --> 00:54:38,466 Just get my agents off the field. That's it. 837 00:54:51,087 --> 00:54:53,916 Hey, you aren't going to believe this, but we just got orders to pull out. 838 00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:55,265 There must be some mistake. 839 00:54:55,309 --> 00:54:56,919 Yeah, the orders are from up top, 840 00:54:56,963 --> 00:54:59,966 just walk away, like it isn't even happening. 841 00:55:00,009 --> 00:55:02,620 Uh, this is Webb, you know, there is a wild man in here. 842 00:55:02,664 --> 00:55:04,492 He's got a gun and a lot of helpless people. 843 00:55:04,535 --> 00:55:06,973 We'd like to go in and take him. Over. 844 00:55:07,016 --> 00:55:09,410 Mr. Hoover says vacate the field. Move out. 845 00:55:09,453 --> 00:55:10,541 Okay. 846 00:55:23,729 --> 00:55:26,035 McCoy, wait a minute. Let me tell you.. 847 00:55:26,079 --> 00:55:27,428 Wait for me in Mr. Kennedy's office. 848 00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:31,998 Listen, I'm on my way to the Attorney General. 849 00:55:32,041 --> 00:55:34,304 I'm going to see to it that our agents get those people off that plane. 850 00:55:35,828 --> 00:55:36,916 All right, go ahead. 851 00:55:38,352 --> 00:55:39,962 This is Mr. McCoy. 852 00:55:40,006 --> 00:55:41,311 Tell the men the preceding orders. 853 00:55:41,355 --> 00:55:42,617 Go in and get that plane. 854 00:55:42,660 --> 00:55:44,967 Mr. McCoy, I'm sorry, 855 00:55:45,011 --> 00:55:47,187 but we have orders from the Director to vacate the field. 856 00:55:49,798 --> 00:55:51,800 Ed, this is Tolson. 857 00:55:51,844 --> 00:55:53,933 It's all right, get those people off the plane. 858 00:55:53,976 --> 00:55:56,283 Yes, sir, Mr. Tolson. Right away. 859 00:55:56,326 --> 00:55:57,327 Okay, let's go. 860 00:56:01,070 --> 00:56:02,898 I never knew you to go against him before. 861 00:56:02,942 --> 00:56:06,336 Well, Edgar will calm down by morning. I hope. 862 00:56:06,380 --> 00:56:11,515 Well, he's tired and irrational. His time is past. 863 00:56:11,559 --> 00:56:14,344 He ought to step down before he tears down everything he's built up. 864 00:56:16,694 --> 00:56:18,305 [LAUGHING] And who's going to replace him? You? 865 00:56:37,672 --> 00:56:39,369 See the men in the white coats. 866 00:56:40,283 --> 00:56:42,024 Stay back. 867 00:56:43,460 --> 00:56:44,244 Drop the bag. 868 00:56:45,462 --> 00:56:47,160 Drop the bag. 869 00:56:47,203 --> 00:56:49,379 Listen, Chief, I'm just here to fix the hydraulic gear 870 00:56:49,423 --> 00:56:51,251 so you can take this plane off. You know? 871 00:56:51,294 --> 00:56:52,948 Isn't that the rest of my money? 872 00:56:52,992 --> 00:56:54,689 Well, I don't know anything about that department chief, 873 00:56:54,732 --> 00:56:56,430 I'm just here to fix the plane. 874 00:56:56,473 --> 00:56:59,215 Then get off. Do you hear me? Get off of my plane. 875 00:57:00,042 --> 00:57:01,739 Yes.Do you hear me? 876 00:57:01,783 --> 00:57:03,263 Yes, sir.Wait a minute. 877 00:57:05,439 --> 00:57:08,398 Come on back. Just you. Come on, come on. 878 00:57:09,660 --> 00:57:12,707 Come on, get your hands up. 879 00:57:12,750 --> 00:57:14,361 For Christ's sake, do as he says. Come on, come on. 880 00:57:15,579 --> 00:57:17,233 Keep your hands above your head. 881 00:57:18,931 --> 00:57:19,845 See. I'll kill her. 882 00:57:21,803 --> 00:57:23,587 Joe, let's get the hell out of here. 883 00:57:23,631 --> 00:57:25,459 Let the fucking police and the FBI handle this mess. 884 00:57:26,590 --> 00:57:27,853 Don't move. 885 00:57:29,898 --> 00:57:31,552 You're both FBI agents. 886 00:57:34,555 --> 00:57:37,514 When we get this plane up in the air, 887 00:57:37,558 --> 00:57:41,301 I'm gonna have 'em crash this mother into the White House. 888 00:57:43,085 --> 00:57:45,305 [LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY] Or the Pentagon. 889 00:57:45,348 --> 00:57:48,351 I'll be a national hero. 890 00:57:48,395 --> 00:57:52,486 Take the hundred thousand dollars they gave you. Nobody's stopping you. 891 00:57:52,529 --> 00:57:53,574 You're supposed to be... 892 00:57:55,271 --> 00:57:56,969 [PASSENGERS SCREAMING] 893 00:58:18,512 --> 00:58:19,600 I hear you did quite a job out at the airport. 894 00:58:24,213 --> 00:58:28,652 Sadist. What I wouldn't do for a Chesterfield. 895 00:58:28,696 --> 00:58:32,395 Well, you know Mr. Hoover's regulations. Only the boys are allowed to smoke. 896 00:58:32,439 --> 00:58:33,701 I'll bring you a carton tonight. 897 00:58:34,832 --> 00:58:36,834 About six o'clock? 898 00:58:36,878 --> 00:58:41,752 Make it 8:30 or 9:00. I've got to put in two hours of free overtime. 899 00:58:41,796 --> 00:58:44,364 Pick up the statistics. 900 00:58:44,407 --> 00:58:47,584 How do we know Mr. Hoover isn't listening to us, right now? 901 00:58:47,628 --> 00:58:48,281 We don't. 902 00:59:00,423 --> 00:59:01,947 HOOVER: He brought Brumis with him again. 903 00:59:01,990 --> 00:59:05,167 He wants a Justice Department employee to walk him. 904 00:59:05,211 --> 00:59:06,995 Send him a memo that bringing an animal in the building 905 00:59:07,039 --> 00:59:09,519 violates Section 201 Chapter 8. 906 00:59:09,563 --> 00:59:11,652 What the hell does he care about rules? 907 00:59:11,695 --> 00:59:14,698 An Attorney General who smokes marijuana at parties. 908 00:59:14,742 --> 00:59:16,744 Look what's going on at Hickory Hill. 909 00:59:16,787 --> 00:59:19,486 The drunken brawls. People getting pushed in the pool with their clothes on. 910 00:59:19,529 --> 00:59:21,488 And those sex things. 911 00:59:21,531 --> 00:59:24,056 He's got a helluva lot of nerve coming over to your field office on his own. 912 00:59:25,187 --> 00:59:27,363 He's trying to humiliate you. 913 00:59:27,407 --> 00:59:29,365 It's an old Washington gag, they're making it so rough, you'll have to resign. 914 00:59:29,409 --> 00:59:32,455 Resign? I can outwit him. 915 00:59:32,499 --> 00:59:35,502 I've outwitted six presidents. 916 00:59:35,545 --> 00:59:37,591 You know, old Joe Kennedy used to bring little Bobby to see me. 917 00:59:37,634 --> 00:59:39,506 He was eight years old. 918 00:59:39,549 --> 00:59:41,334 He'd sit on my lap and ask me if I was packing a rod. 919 00:59:42,465 --> 00:59:43,510 I was his idol. 920 00:59:51,344 --> 00:59:54,521 Yes, Mr. Director. Mr. Tolson. 921 00:59:54,564 --> 00:59:57,306 Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Freeman. 922 00:59:57,350 --> 01:00:00,527 I was up, uh reviewing the field office and meeting all the new faces. 923 01:00:00,570 --> 01:00:03,356 If you want any information about my men, please get it from me. 924 01:00:05,053 --> 01:00:06,968 Ah. 925 01:00:07,012 --> 01:00:09,536 Do you mind walking a few blocks? Not at all. 926 01:00:09,579 --> 01:00:10,972 Got a matter to discuss with you. 927 01:00:13,105 --> 01:00:15,803 The taps on the Bobby Baker case. 928 01:00:15,846 --> 01:00:18,501 Can I be assured this will come to fruition. 929 01:00:18,545 --> 01:00:21,330 I would need written authorization on Mr. Baker. 930 01:00:21,374 --> 01:00:25,291 Yes. I'm also going to need it on Martin Luther King. 931 01:00:25,334 --> 01:00:30,165 Oh, I see. If I don't sign both of them then I don't get either. 932 01:00:30,209 --> 01:00:32,385 Well, they're both equally important. 933 01:00:32,428 --> 01:00:35,910 You see Baker as a possible criminal link to Vice President Johnson. 934 01:00:35,953 --> 01:00:38,652 I see Dr. King as a possible link to the Communists. 935 01:00:38,695 --> 01:00:39,827 And I hope we're both wrong. 936 01:00:39,870 --> 01:00:41,655 Well the idea that Dr. King is associated 937 01:00:41,698 --> 01:00:44,092 with any fellow travelers is absolutely ridiculous. 938 01:00:44,136 --> 01:00:45,702 Oh, Mr. Kennedy. Yes? 939 01:00:45,746 --> 01:00:48,662 If you want to go on record saying that Dr. King is betrothed 940 01:00:48,705 --> 01:00:50,664 to subversive influences, you go right ahead. 941 01:00:50,707 --> 01:00:53,710 You're the Attorney General. Not me. 942 01:00:53,754 --> 01:00:57,497 No. Continue the, uh surveillance. 943 01:00:57,540 --> 01:00:59,455 I'll send the papers to your office for your signature immediately. 944 01:00:59,499 --> 01:01:00,717 Yes, you do that. 945 01:01:08,464 --> 01:01:10,075 Bobby, the baby-faced bastard. 946 01:01:10,118 --> 01:01:12,381 What? Bobby, the baby-faced bastard. 947 01:01:12,425 --> 01:01:14,601 [LAUGHS] 948 01:01:14,644 --> 01:01:16,559 Well outside of the wiretaps, 949 01:01:16,603 --> 01:01:18,170 we're going to put mics in every hotel room 950 01:01:18,213 --> 01:01:20,563 that Martin Luther King stays in. 951 01:01:20,607 --> 01:01:24,872 We'll get enough dirt on him to expose his entire subversive movement. 952 01:01:24,915 --> 01:01:26,439 That bastard's a degenerate and I'm going to prove it, Clyde. 953 01:01:29,224 --> 01:01:30,834 My dear lady, Martin Luther King, 954 01:01:30,878 --> 01:01:33,098 is the biggest damn liar in the United States. 955 01:01:34,577 --> 01:01:36,666 May we quote you on that? 956 01:01:36,710 --> 01:01:38,190 I want you to quote me. That's why I said it. 957 01:01:42,324 --> 01:01:46,676 Kennedy revoked my White House press credentials. You know what that means. 958 01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:48,591 Well, you can see, I've got a pretty heavy schedule here. 959 01:01:48,635 --> 01:01:51,333 I've got a lot of important people to spy on. 960 01:01:51,377 --> 01:01:52,465 You drop back any time, Walter. 961 01:02:01,778 --> 01:02:02,605 [FLY BUZZING] 962 01:02:03,693 --> 01:02:04,825 There's a fly in here. 963 01:02:08,698 --> 01:02:10,135 Bring in the fly swatter. 964 01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:20,841 Excuse me, Mr. Hoover. 965 01:02:22,059 --> 01:02:23,757 What's the matter? 966 01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:25,933 The fly is on your shoulder. 967 01:02:25,976 --> 01:02:27,543 Well, hit it. 968 01:02:27,587 --> 01:02:28,936 How hard? 969 01:02:28,979 --> 01:02:30,111 Hard enough. 970 01:02:43,820 --> 01:02:44,560 Welcome. 971 01:02:45,996 --> 01:02:46,997 [MUMBLING] 972 01:02:49,957 --> 01:02:52,786 Sorry the kids couldn't wait up. School tomorrow. 973 01:02:55,354 --> 01:02:58,183 Well, some agent wrote this anonymous letter to the Attorney General 974 01:02:58,226 --> 01:03:00,663 complaining about Hoover. 975 01:03:00,707 --> 01:03:02,970 And so I had to check all the typewriters and find out who the troublemaker was. 976 01:03:05,364 --> 01:03:06,669 What'll happen to him? 977 01:03:09,194 --> 01:03:12,719 Give him a letter of censure. Then they'll transfer him to Butte, Montana. 978 01:03:12,762 --> 01:03:14,024 Ha, lovely. 979 01:03:15,809 --> 01:03:19,247 Once he gets settled there and he rents a house 980 01:03:19,291 --> 01:03:23,208 and gets his kids into school, they'll transfer him to Seattle. 981 01:03:23,251 --> 01:03:27,299 You know, they'll bicycle him around until he resigns. 982 01:03:27,342 --> 01:03:30,867 Can't you appeal to Mr. Hoover as a human being? 983 01:03:30,911 --> 01:03:33,435 Are you kidding? There was this psych 984 01:03:33,479 --> 01:03:35,263 they moved out to the bricks, 985 01:03:35,307 --> 01:03:38,440 because he gave Hoover a bad tip on the stock market. 986 01:03:38,484 --> 01:03:40,181 Mr. Hoover don't like nobody but Tolson. 987 01:03:42,052 --> 01:03:44,185 Then is it all worth it? 988 01:03:44,229 --> 01:03:46,056 Well, you're working there, aren't you, lady. 989 01:03:46,100 --> 01:03:48,668 I mean, you know, best pay and 990 01:03:48,711 --> 01:03:50,583 retirement in the government. 991 01:03:50,626 --> 01:03:53,629 I guess I kind of admire the old bastard, still, you know. 992 01:03:53,673 --> 01:03:55,762 He reminds me of my father. 993 01:03:56,415 --> 01:03:57,416 Let's go. 994 01:04:00,854 --> 01:04:03,422 Too late to get a babysitter? 995 01:04:04,988 --> 01:04:06,251 It's raining, we can stay here. 996 01:04:09,689 --> 01:04:12,779 I have locks on the doors. And the girls never wake up. 997 01:04:12,822 --> 01:04:13,780 Well, I'd just feel a little bit better... 998 01:04:13,823 --> 01:04:15,260 You're such a prude. 999 01:04:16,130 --> 01:04:17,262 [LAUGHS] 1000 01:04:20,047 --> 01:04:23,268 I'm a G-Man, ain't I? It comes natural. 1001 01:04:24,094 --> 01:04:25,182 My dinner. 1002 01:04:31,450 --> 01:04:32,189 Who's a prude? 1003 01:04:55,082 --> 01:04:56,692 Mr. Attorney General. 1004 01:04:56,736 --> 01:04:59,652 I dropped by to express my sympathy. 1005 01:04:59,695 --> 01:05:03,264 I heard somebody stole Mr. Hoover's Christmas tree lights from outside his house. 1006 01:05:03,308 --> 01:05:05,440 I believe you had an appointment tomorrow at... 1007 01:05:05,484 --> 01:05:07,007 I don't need an appointment I'm his boss. 1008 01:05:07,050 --> 01:05:08,965 Is he alone? 1009 01:05:09,009 --> 01:05:11,316 Yes, but... Gentlemen. 1010 01:05:24,633 --> 01:05:25,808 HELEN: If you will just. [ROBERT SHUSHES] 1011 01:05:38,995 --> 01:05:41,824 Is this a habit? A regular occurrence in the afternoon. 1012 01:05:41,868 --> 01:05:43,652 Does he need a nap? No, sir. 1013 01:05:44,958 --> 01:05:46,133 It could be a while. 1014 01:05:56,796 --> 01:05:59,799 If and when the Director ever wakes up. 1015 01:05:59,842 --> 01:06:02,018 Tell him I've sent 20 Justice Department lawyers 1016 01:06:02,062 --> 01:06:04,107 down to Jackson, Mississippi to look into the voter registration problem. 1017 01:06:06,066 --> 01:06:07,894 It should take some load off the Bureau. 1018 01:06:09,374 --> 01:06:10,723 He's been working awfully hard. 1019 01:06:11,985 --> 01:06:14,422 Yes, I'll so inform Mr. Hoover. 1020 01:06:14,466 --> 01:06:15,162 Yes, do that. 1021 01:06:17,338 --> 01:06:19,253 And when you inform him, tell him 1022 01:06:19,296 --> 01:06:20,733 it's the same young Turks that made up my "Get Hoffa" squad. 1023 01:06:23,431 --> 01:06:25,477 But don't tell him I sat on his table. 1024 01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:28,393 He might get mad. Yes, sir. 1025 01:06:29,524 --> 01:06:30,873 Ma'am. 1026 01:06:38,794 --> 01:06:41,188 What I would like to do is stick a naked lady on 1027 01:06:41,231 --> 01:06:42,929 the couch next to him and watch his face when he wakes up. 1028 01:06:42,972 --> 01:06:44,278 [BOTH LAUGH] 1029 01:07:04,385 --> 01:07:08,433 You got enough to hang that Kennedy kid. Edgar, why don't you use it? 1030 01:07:12,872 --> 01:07:13,568 Yes, sir? 1031 01:07:14,917 --> 01:07:17,180 Webb, uh, 1032 01:07:20,053 --> 01:07:20,793 that tie. 1033 01:07:23,970 --> 01:07:26,886 I'm pulling you out of the field and putting you in charge of the techs. 1034 01:07:29,541 --> 01:07:32,021 Sir, I'd go crazy sitting out there all night listening to bugs. 1035 01:07:35,808 --> 01:07:37,679 Who have I offended, sir? 1036 01:07:37,723 --> 01:07:39,507 I'm certain that you're aware 1037 01:07:39,551 --> 01:07:44,338 of how the Director frowns on fraternization with female employees 1038 01:07:44,381 --> 01:07:48,124 of the Bureau, and when it's a married woman with 1039 01:07:48,168 --> 01:07:49,822 children, it's out of the question. 1040 01:07:49,865 --> 01:07:52,912 Sir, Janice filed for divorce before we ever met. 1041 01:07:52,955 --> 01:07:56,872 The Director does not impose limitations on others that he does not place upon himself. 1042 01:07:56,916 --> 01:07:59,875 Sir, I don't believe this came directly from Mr. Hoover. 1043 01:07:59,919 --> 01:08:03,183 Perhaps that's because you don't know Mr. Hoover. 1044 01:08:03,226 --> 01:08:07,492 In that case, sir, I request to speak to him personally. 1045 01:08:07,535 --> 01:08:09,929 I'm afraid the Director won't be available for several weeks. 1046 01:08:09,972 --> 01:08:13,149 The racing season is open at Del Mar. 1047 01:08:13,193 --> 01:08:18,503 You know, I suggest that you consider writing a mea culpa letter of apology. 1048 01:08:18,546 --> 01:08:21,070 You write that letter, sir. This was all your idea, not Mr. Hoover's. 1049 01:08:23,812 --> 01:08:26,249 It has come to my attention that you've been operating a Bureau 1050 01:08:26,293 --> 01:08:30,906 vehicle for personal use. Disciplinary action will probably result in 1051 01:08:30,950 --> 01:08:31,864 three weeks suspension. 1052 01:08:32,734 --> 01:08:33,996 Without pay. 1053 01:08:37,043 --> 01:08:38,087 Yes, sir. 1054 01:08:48,576 --> 01:08:50,622 Honey, you can't believe what they're doing to me. 1055 01:08:50,665 --> 01:08:53,581 Please, Dwight, two special agents visited Charles. 1056 01:08:53,625 --> 01:08:54,974 And whatever they said to him, he took 1057 01:08:55,017 --> 01:08:57,106 my two daughters out of school this morning. 1058 01:08:57,150 --> 01:08:59,935 Oh, those sorry bastards. Well, we'll fight 'em. 1059 01:08:59,979 --> 01:09:04,200 No! Look, we had fun, we've been friends, okay. 1060 01:09:04,244 --> 01:09:05,985 Fine. I can't fight. 1061 01:09:06,028 --> 01:09:08,117 I don't know how to. I just get hurt. 1062 01:09:22,218 --> 01:09:27,267 Still the same characteristic hard-hitting style, Edgar? But Dillinger? 1063 01:09:27,310 --> 01:09:30,096 I mean, aren't you reaching back a little far? 1064 01:09:30,139 --> 01:09:32,054 Well, nostalgia goes over well at dinner parties. It aids the digestion. 1065 01:09:34,187 --> 01:09:35,754 Hey, my deepest sympathy 1066 01:09:35,797 --> 01:09:38,713 on the passing of the ambassador. 1067 01:09:38,757 --> 01:09:40,889 He was always a great fan of yours. 1068 01:09:40,933 --> 01:09:42,325 We had a weakness for the same horses. 1069 01:09:44,153 --> 01:09:45,590 You going to stay on here at Georgetown? 1070 01:09:45,633 --> 01:09:47,983 Well, all my friends are here. 1071 01:09:48,027 --> 01:09:50,246 Well, if there's anything we can do for you, anything at all. 1072 01:09:52,031 --> 01:09:53,946 I don't think any of my maids are suspected 1073 01:09:53,989 --> 01:09:57,340 Communists, but I do have one unfulfilled desire. 1074 01:09:57,384 --> 01:09:59,212 So what's that? 1075 01:09:59,255 --> 01:10:00,387 I've always want to go for a ride 1076 01:10:00,430 --> 01:10:01,997 in one of your bullet-proof Cadillacs. 1077 01:10:04,173 --> 01:10:06,219 Bullet-proof. But it doesn't sound any different. 1078 01:10:10,440 --> 01:10:14,140 Yes, Florence, you're looking at an old confirmed lace-curtain bachelor. 1079 01:10:14,183 --> 01:10:16,751 [LAUGHS] Everything they say about me is true. 1080 01:10:16,795 --> 01:10:19,014 I'm stiff, smug, and very self-satisfied. 1081 01:10:19,058 --> 01:10:22,235 [FLORENCE LAUGHS] 1082 01:10:22,278 --> 01:10:25,151 It's natural. A man who spends his entire life prying 1083 01:10:25,194 --> 01:10:28,197 into other people's private lives, should be jealous of his own. 1084 01:10:29,155 --> 01:10:31,940 But just what is it? 1085 01:10:31,984 --> 01:10:34,073 That you're afraid that we might find out about you. 1086 01:10:34,116 --> 01:10:36,075 You should be one of my agents. 1087 01:10:36,118 --> 01:10:38,207 [LAUGHING] You don't allow lady agents. 1088 01:10:40,732 --> 01:10:44,039 Either you have no use for women or, 1089 01:10:44,083 --> 01:10:47,216 you're very much afraid of them. 1090 01:10:47,260 --> 01:10:49,828 Florence, why are you acting like this? 1091 01:10:51,917 --> 01:10:54,136 I believe you really like to be Dillinger. 1092 01:10:56,138 --> 01:10:59,794 Like the good boy who's envious of the bad boy. 1093 01:11:01,448 --> 01:11:03,798 Only you're afraid to be bad. 1094 01:11:03,842 --> 01:11:07,802 The Dillinger's of this world break all the rules and they're adored. 1095 01:11:07,846 --> 01:11:09,630 The worse they are the more fascinating they are. 1096 01:11:11,066 --> 01:11:13,808 The women worship them. 1097 01:11:13,852 --> 01:11:18,160 Oh, I've read all the reports about their sexual exploits and 1098 01:11:18,204 --> 01:11:21,424 [STAMMERING] Well, it disgusts me, that's all. 1099 01:11:25,167 --> 01:11:28,257 You know, you're kind of a funny person, really. 1100 01:11:28,301 --> 01:11:31,739 Why can't you ever laugh at yourself. Be silly. 1101 01:11:31,783 --> 01:11:35,134 And go out and get into some mischief. 1102 01:11:35,177 --> 01:11:39,442 To tell you the truth, I just wouldn't know how. 1103 01:11:39,486 --> 01:11:42,271 Oh, you've peeked through enough keyholes to know the facts of life by now. 1104 01:11:43,403 --> 01:11:44,970 You're making this very difficult. 1105 01:11:45,579 --> 01:11:46,885 I know. 1106 01:11:49,409 --> 01:11:51,498 I'm offering my services to you as a coach. 1107 01:11:56,895 --> 01:11:58,287 [LAUGHS] 1108 01:11:58,331 --> 01:12:00,115 Believe it or not, 1109 01:12:00,159 --> 01:12:02,596 I used to be quite a gay young lassie before I married Wallace. 1110 01:12:04,641 --> 01:12:05,599 I'm going to have to go, Florence. 1111 01:12:05,642 --> 01:12:07,253 Why? 1112 01:12:07,296 --> 01:12:08,297 Well, my driver's out in the car, he's waiting. 1113 01:12:08,341 --> 01:12:10,256 I don't want him to... 1114 01:12:10,299 --> 01:12:12,911 You mean you'd like to try, but you can't stand your driver knowing it. 1115 01:12:12,954 --> 01:12:14,260 There are no secrets in Washington. 1116 01:12:16,697 --> 01:12:17,829 Oh, how they look forward to those little 1117 01:12:17,872 --> 01:12:20,440 sexual tidbits I throw 'em. 1118 01:12:20,483 --> 01:12:22,529 I whet their appetite for it. 1119 01:12:22,572 --> 01:12:24,183 They demean each other, wallow in that filth. 1120 01:12:26,489 --> 01:12:28,361 I'm pleased to say I'm no part of that. 1121 01:12:28,404 --> 01:12:30,276 You're a purveyor of it. 1122 01:12:30,319 --> 01:12:33,409 I understand you distribute obscene material all over Washington. 1123 01:12:33,453 --> 01:12:34,149 I've got to go, Florence. 1124 01:12:52,994 --> 01:12:55,562 MAN ON TAPE: The following unedited material was recorded 1125 01:12:55,605 --> 01:13:00,306 at the Marriott Motor Lodge Twin Bridges, suite number 12 on November 17th. 1126 01:13:00,349 --> 01:13:03,918 The voices are that of Henry Parkland President of the National Machinists' Union 1127 01:13:03,962 --> 01:13:06,573 and Virginia Eclair, a campaign worker who has a long record 1128 01:13:06,616 --> 01:13:08,531 of membership in Communist front organizations. 1129 01:13:10,533 --> 01:13:11,883 [HENRY AND VIRGINIA SPEAKING SOFTLY] 1130 01:13:14,537 --> 01:13:16,235 [PHONE RINGS] 1131 01:13:16,278 --> 01:13:19,325 VIRGINIA: Don't answer the phone. 1132 01:13:19,368 --> 01:13:20,979 HENRY: Did you tell anybody I was coming here? No. 1133 01:13:21,022 --> 01:13:23,546 Then why's the goddamn phone ringing? I don't know. 1134 01:13:23,590 --> 01:13:25,505 Baby, I'm sorry I'm so harsh with you... 1135 01:13:28,856 --> 01:13:29,814 [BOTH SPEAKING SOFTLY] 1136 01:13:55,448 --> 01:13:57,450 [HENRY AND VIRGINIA MOANING] 1137 01:14:32,006 --> 01:14:33,660 [TAPE STOPS] 1138 01:14:52,897 --> 01:14:54,072 [GUN FIRES] 1139 01:14:56,204 --> 01:14:57,336 [SIRENS BLARING] 1140 01:15:01,470 --> 01:15:03,516 Put me through to White House extension 163 1141 01:15:03,559 --> 01:15:04,386 to Hickory Hill, please. 1142 01:15:06,519 --> 01:15:08,956 [PHONE RINGS] 1143 01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:10,915 Yes? This is Edgar Hoover. 1144 01:15:12,090 --> 01:15:14,179 Yes, Mr. Hoover? 1145 01:15:14,222 --> 01:15:15,528 I have some very bad news for you. 1146 01:15:15,571 --> 01:15:16,616 Yes? 1147 01:15:16,659 --> 01:15:18,226 The President has been shot. 1148 01:15:20,576 --> 01:15:22,448 Is it serious? 1149 01:15:22,491 --> 01:15:24,711 I think so. I'm trying to get the details. 1150 01:15:26,452 --> 01:15:27,757 I'll call you back when I know more. 1151 01:15:30,456 --> 01:15:32,545 We have just arrived here at Parkland Hospital. 1152 01:15:32,588 --> 01:15:34,851 Uh, it's hard to tell what's really going on. 1153 01:15:35,983 --> 01:15:41,119 Yes? When? Uh huh. 1154 01:15:43,860 --> 01:15:44,861 He's gone. 1155 01:15:52,217 --> 01:15:53,870 Get me Hickory Hill again. 1156 01:15:53,914 --> 01:15:56,395 Why don't you let me call him. 1157 01:15:56,438 --> 01:16:00,094 No matter what my differences with the Attorney General, it's my duty to inform him. 1158 01:16:02,357 --> 01:16:03,445 [PHONE RINGS] 1159 01:16:03,489 --> 01:16:04,185 Yes. 1160 01:16:07,058 --> 01:16:08,668 The President is dead. 1161 01:17:53,077 --> 01:17:55,383 [PHONE RINGING] 1162 01:18:05,915 --> 01:18:08,309 Now get that goddamn phone back on my secretary's desk. 1163 01:18:12,008 --> 01:18:14,750 Mr. President, you should get a kick out of this. 1164 01:18:14,794 --> 01:18:17,101 Some of your staunchest congressional opponents of your Vietnam policy, 1165 01:18:17,144 --> 01:18:20,016 compromised by young war protestors, 1166 01:18:20,060 --> 01:18:22,062 and two of them... 1167 01:18:22,106 --> 01:18:24,891 Two of them young girls in their early teens. 1168 01:18:24,934 --> 01:18:28,677 Are you sure you haven't overlooked the amatory adventures of 1169 01:18:28,721 --> 01:18:29,417 of the eager Kennedy boys? 1170 01:18:30,462 --> 01:18:31,115 Here are the reports. 1171 01:18:34,944 --> 01:18:36,207 Fully illustrated. 1172 01:18:44,519 --> 01:18:46,695 Now, how do they get away with that? 1173 01:18:46,739 --> 01:18:49,045 Well, nobody prints anything bad about the Kennedys. 1174 01:18:49,089 --> 01:18:50,308 Oh. 1175 01:18:54,486 --> 01:18:56,227 I had that kind of charm once. 1176 01:18:56,270 --> 01:18:57,663 I'm going to miss this 1177 01:18:58,751 --> 01:19:01,667 bedside reading when you step down. 1178 01:19:01,710 --> 01:19:03,538 Are you trying to get rid of me, Mr. President? 1179 01:19:03,582 --> 01:19:06,672 Isn't it about time? 1180 01:19:06,715 --> 01:19:09,631 You can have any ambassadorship you want. 1181 01:19:09,675 --> 01:19:14,419 Over 70% of my top executives are ready for retirement. 1182 01:19:14,462 --> 01:19:17,117 Well, once the ball starts rolling, it won't be the FBI as we know it. 1183 01:19:17,813 --> 01:19:19,163 No. No. 1184 01:19:21,426 --> 01:19:22,992 But general opinion 1185 01:19:23,036 --> 01:19:24,211 says you ought to go. 1186 01:19:27,083 --> 01:19:29,085 You know, when I took over the Bureau they called me "That Boy Scout." 1187 01:19:30,696 --> 01:19:32,611 Now they call me "that senile old man." 1188 01:19:34,700 --> 01:19:36,615 Mr. President I thought you wanted people 1189 01:19:36,658 --> 01:19:38,486 around you loyal enough to kiss your ass 1190 01:19:38,530 --> 01:19:40,445 in Macy's window at high noon. 1191 01:19:40,488 --> 01:19:42,882 And say it smells like a rose? 1192 01:19:42,925 --> 01:19:46,059 Better to have you on the inside of the tent pissing out. 1193 01:19:46,102 --> 01:19:47,974 Then on the outside pissing in. 1194 01:19:48,017 --> 01:19:50,759 I'll issue a proclamation, 1195 01:19:50,803 --> 01:19:54,241 waiving the mandatory retirement age in your case. 1196 01:19:54,285 --> 01:19:59,203 You know, Edgar, you're going to be here after we've long gone. 1197 01:19:59,246 --> 01:20:02,336 I'd better be. Someone has to look after the files. 1198 01:20:11,432 --> 01:20:12,346 Send Mr. King in. 1199 01:20:18,657 --> 01:20:19,614 Well come in, Mr. King. 1200 01:20:22,226 --> 01:20:26,012 Well, I see we've been locking horns in the newspapers lately. 1201 01:20:26,055 --> 01:20:30,669 I'm here to find out why you have been tapping my telephones. 1202 01:20:30,712 --> 01:20:32,627 A year ago you were told some of your advisors 1203 01:20:32,671 --> 01:20:35,282 had communist connections, but you wouldn't break with them. 1204 01:20:35,326 --> 01:20:38,111 Would that account for your planting microphones in hotel rooms 1205 01:20:38,154 --> 01:20:40,809 I occupied during my travels? 1206 01:20:40,853 --> 01:20:43,595 Oh, we've used the same procedure on 14 others. 1207 01:20:43,638 --> 01:20:46,075 The Panthers, the Muslims, the Klan. 1208 01:20:46,119 --> 01:20:49,514 Were you as free with the recording of their private activities? 1209 01:20:50,689 --> 01:20:52,908 What do you mean "free"? 1210 01:20:52,952 --> 01:20:57,609 I'm led to believe that certain tapes were offered to the newspapers 1211 01:20:57,652 --> 01:21:01,743 and played for the listening pleasure of politicians friendly to you. 1212 01:21:01,787 --> 01:21:04,877 And that these same tapes, were used by you, 1213 01:21:04,920 --> 01:21:08,750 to stop certain guests from attending my Noble Prize banquet. 1214 01:21:08,794 --> 01:21:11,057 I really know nothing about that. 1215 01:21:11,100 --> 01:21:13,842 I'm sure you're well aware that one of these tapes was mailed to my... 1216 01:21:13,886 --> 01:21:15,757 Mr. King. 1217 01:21:15,801 --> 01:21:19,108 I've retained complete control of all the recordings and transcripts. 1218 01:21:23,809 --> 01:21:24,897 You can rely on my discretion. 1219 01:21:26,855 --> 01:21:29,858 Does that mean I don't have to bother committing suicide? 1220 01:21:29,902 --> 01:21:31,817 Like one of your anonymous letters suggested. 1221 01:21:32,992 --> 01:21:34,167 I know nothing about that either. 1222 01:21:35,777 --> 01:21:38,432 The damage is done, Mr. Hoover. 1223 01:21:38,476 --> 01:21:40,913 But it might be worthwhile for the people to know 1224 01:21:40,956 --> 01:21:43,785 how America's number one blackmailer operates. 1225 01:21:43,829 --> 01:21:46,440 Don't give me all the credit. 1226 01:21:46,484 --> 01:21:47,702 I'd like you to take a look at something. 1227 01:21:50,966 --> 01:21:52,316 The authorizations for the wiretaps. 1228 01:21:55,188 --> 01:21:57,930 And you'll notice they're signed by the Attorney General of the United States. 1229 01:21:57,973 --> 01:21:58,626 Robert F. Kennedy. 1230 01:22:00,759 --> 01:22:02,761 Yeah, they're genuine. 1231 01:22:02,804 --> 01:22:05,590 There's one covering SCLC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. 1232 01:22:05,633 --> 01:22:07,461 And another one in New York, dated 10-10-63. 1233 01:22:09,463 --> 01:22:12,901 How did you get him to sign these papers? 1234 01:22:12,945 --> 01:22:16,296 I only followed orders when Bobby told me to wiretap you and Malcolm X 1235 01:22:16,340 --> 01:22:17,732 and other members of your movement. 1236 01:22:19,517 --> 01:22:21,475 You know, you're going to have to take a very firm stand against 1237 01:22:21,519 --> 01:22:22,346 Bobby on this. 1238 01:22:24,913 --> 01:22:27,786 Now who's going to profit, Mr. King? 1239 01:22:27,829 --> 01:22:30,615 Your political enemies, that's all. 1240 01:22:30,658 --> 01:22:35,663 The country has survived your being in power over 40 years. 1241 01:22:35,707 --> 01:22:39,014 Well I guess we just have to wait a little bit longer. 1242 01:22:39,058 --> 01:22:40,407 That's right. 1243 01:22:40,451 --> 01:22:41,408 How much more time have I got? 1244 01:22:42,931 --> 01:22:43,845 Oh, Mr. King. 1245 01:22:44,977 --> 01:22:47,240 Mr. King, I've 1246 01:22:47,283 --> 01:22:50,417 asked some of the newspaper people to wait for you in the outer office. 1247 01:22:50,461 --> 01:22:53,377 I'm sure you'll find something very nice to say about your FBI, won't you? 1248 01:23:07,913 --> 01:23:14,354 My meeting with Mr. Hoover led to a clearer understanding on both sides. 1249 01:23:15,964 --> 01:23:18,880 Again I would like to, 1250 01:23:18,924 --> 01:23:24,756 commend the FBI for solving the murder of the three young civil rights workers. 1251 01:23:26,540 --> 01:23:30,414 It renews my faith in democracy. 1252 01:23:32,459 --> 01:23:33,155 Thank you. 1253 01:23:38,291 --> 01:23:43,601 Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice, 1254 01:23:43,644 --> 01:23:45,254 for his fellow human beings. 1255 01:23:45,298 --> 01:23:50,042 And he died because of that effort. 1256 01:23:50,085 --> 01:23:53,915 In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, 1257 01:23:53,959 --> 01:23:56,570 it is perhaps well to ask, what kind of a nation 1258 01:23:56,614 --> 01:23:59,617 we are and what direction we want to move in. 1259 01:24:01,096 --> 01:24:03,055 For those of you who are black, 1260 01:24:03,098 --> 01:24:05,318 considering the evidence there evidently is, 1261 01:24:05,361 --> 01:24:08,016 that there were white people who were responsible. 1262 01:24:08,060 --> 01:24:13,457 You can be filled with bitterness, with hatred and a desire for revenge. 1263 01:24:13,500 --> 01:24:16,764 We can move in that direction as a country in great polarization. 1264 01:24:16,808 --> 01:24:18,244 Black people among black. 1265 01:24:18,287 --> 01:24:20,202 White people among white, 1266 01:24:20,246 --> 01:24:22,466 with hatred toward one another. 1267 01:24:22,509 --> 01:24:25,120 Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, 1268 01:24:25,164 --> 01:24:28,254 to understand and to comprehend 1269 01:24:28,297 --> 01:24:31,387 and to replace that violence, that strain of bloodshed 1270 01:24:31,431 --> 01:24:37,263 that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand and love. 1271 01:24:37,306 --> 01:24:42,442 Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago, 1272 01:24:42,486 --> 01:24:48,404 "To tame savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world." 1273 01:24:48,448 --> 01:24:52,060 Let us dedicate ourselves to that and say a prayer 1274 01:24:52,104 --> 01:24:54,106 for our country and for our people. 1275 01:25:22,264 --> 01:25:24,005 One of those men is a pinhead. Get rid of him. 1276 01:25:28,096 --> 01:25:28,880 Still have the touch, boss. 1277 01:25:36,365 --> 01:25:39,107 ROBERT: I'm announcing, today, my candidacy 1278 01:25:39,151 --> 01:25:41,545 for the President of the United States. 1279 01:25:41,588 --> 01:25:44,722 I run to seek new policies. 1280 01:25:44,765 --> 01:25:49,422 Policies to end the, uh, bloodshed in Vietnam and in our cities. 1281 01:25:49,465 --> 01:25:52,686 Policies to close the gap that now exists between black and white, 1282 01:25:52,730 --> 01:25:55,254 between rich and poor. 1283 01:25:55,297 --> 01:25:58,213 Between young and old, in this country and around the rest of the world. 1284 01:25:58,257 --> 01:26:00,433 I do not lightly dismiss the dangers 1285 01:26:00,476 --> 01:26:03,697 and difficulties of challenging an incumbent president. 1286 01:26:03,741 --> 01:26:06,091 But these are not ordinary times. 1287 01:26:06,134 --> 01:26:08,310 At stake is not simply the leadership of our party, 1288 01:26:08,354 --> 01:26:10,051 or even our country. 1289 01:26:10,095 --> 01:26:14,186 It is the right to moral leadership of this planet. 1290 01:26:14,229 --> 01:26:15,622 If I retire before the democratic convention, 1291 01:26:15,666 --> 01:26:18,277 I'll be able to name my own successor. 1292 01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:21,106 Kennedy wouldn't dare fire a director that's only been in for a couple of months. 1293 01:26:21,149 --> 01:26:22,934 That way we'd have our own men on the inside, at least. 1294 01:26:24,196 --> 01:26:27,155 I can't believe it has to end this way. 1295 01:26:27,199 --> 01:26:30,376 Well, anyway now you'll be able to build your own home in La Jolla, near the track. 1296 01:26:30,419 --> 01:26:32,770 Oh, shut up, junior. 1297 01:26:32,813 --> 01:26:34,293 They haven't got us out yet. 1298 01:26:39,777 --> 01:26:40,778 [CROWD CHEERING] 1299 01:26:48,176 --> 01:26:51,789 So my thanks to all of you. And it's on to Chicago. Let's win there. 1300 01:27:13,158 --> 01:27:16,117 I don't care what you say, boss, it doesn't look like real grass to me. 1301 01:27:16,161 --> 01:27:17,553 Yeah, sure it does. 1302 01:27:17,597 --> 01:27:18,772 No, that looks like real grass. 1303 01:27:18,816 --> 01:27:20,818 That looks like fake grass. 1304 01:27:20,861 --> 01:27:22,341 Why don't you get a new gardener? 1305 01:27:22,384 --> 01:27:25,779 Ah, he was awfully old. I couldn't let him go. 1306 01:27:25,823 --> 01:27:27,215 Some of the agents came up on their weekend off 1307 01:27:27,259 --> 01:27:28,129 and laid this down for me. 1308 01:27:28,173 --> 01:27:29,435 On their own time, mind you. 1309 01:27:29,478 --> 01:27:32,003 They said it looks exactly like grass. 1310 01:27:32,046 --> 01:27:34,005 Well, the Washington Redskins play on it. 1311 01:27:34,048 --> 01:27:36,268 Yeah, but this is your lawn, not a football field. 1312 01:27:36,311 --> 01:27:37,661 Still looks like grass. 1313 01:27:37,704 --> 01:27:39,401 And look at the weeds growing up in it. 1314 01:27:39,445 --> 01:27:42,056 It's grass. Grass. 1315 01:27:48,454 --> 01:27:50,891 I'm thinking of doing my whole backyard in this stuff. 1316 01:28:02,686 --> 01:28:06,254 I can't. Don't you understand. I need an additional source. 1317 01:28:06,298 --> 01:28:07,255 All right, all right, you do that. 1318 01:28:14,480 --> 01:28:15,960 Hey, hey, wait a minute. 1319 01:28:16,003 --> 01:28:18,223 Oh, that hits awfully close to home, doesn't it? 1320 01:28:18,266 --> 01:28:20,268 Well, that ought to shake'em up at Ninth and Pennsylvania Avenue. 1321 01:28:20,312 --> 01:28:24,272 "What American Bureau Chief, a national hero for decades, 1322 01:28:24,316 --> 01:28:27,406 "has been engaged in a lifelong homosexual affair 1323 01:28:27,449 --> 01:28:28,712 "with a key member of his staff?" 1324 01:28:28,755 --> 01:28:30,409 Did I spell homosexual right? 1325 01:28:30,452 --> 01:28:32,890 Jesus Christ, Can you have evidence for this? 1326 01:28:32,933 --> 01:28:35,066 Oh, Christ, there's been speculation 1327 01:28:35,109 --> 01:28:38,373 about these guys for the last 20 years. They're always seen together. 1328 01:28:38,417 --> 01:28:42,900 At the race track, the ball park. At lunch, at dinner. 1329 01:28:42,943 --> 01:28:44,771 Christ, I couldn't spend that much time with my wife. 1330 01:28:44,815 --> 01:28:46,773 Well, maybe you should have dated Tolson. 1331 01:28:46,817 --> 01:28:49,167 Two confirmed bachelors. Neither one very attractive. 1332 01:28:49,210 --> 01:28:51,256 What woman would want them? 1333 01:28:51,299 --> 01:28:55,826 Hoover's married to the FBI. A strange combination of jealousy and devotion. 1334 01:28:55,869 --> 01:28:58,176 They were at George Washington University at the same time 1335 01:28:58,219 --> 01:29:00,613 and they're never seen with any girls. 1336 01:29:00,656 --> 01:29:02,267 Come on now, let's bring it out in the open. 1337 01:29:02,310 --> 01:29:04,922 And if Hoover wants to deny that he's a fag, 1338 01:29:04,965 --> 01:29:07,359 why you'll give him plenty of space, won't ya? 1339 01:29:07,402 --> 01:29:08,142 [LAUGHS] 1340 01:29:09,840 --> 01:29:11,276 Did you read that bastard Hindley's column? 1341 01:29:12,277 --> 01:29:13,452 Yes. 1342 01:29:13,495 --> 01:29:16,150 Why the hell didn't you say so? 1343 01:29:16,194 --> 01:29:18,065 I didn't think it worthy of comment. 1344 01:29:20,676 --> 01:29:22,374 I sent a couple of agents over to Hindley's office 1345 01:29:22,417 --> 01:29:24,071 to tell him to put up or shut up. 1346 01:29:24,115 --> 01:29:27,379 He couldn't have anything. They'll go on snickering 1347 01:29:27,422 --> 01:29:28,859 behind our backs like we're a couple of old fairies. 1348 01:29:31,426 --> 01:29:33,254 It's the old communist smear. But I know who's in back of it. 1349 01:29:35,300 --> 01:29:37,781 They've been trying to persecute me since the Palmer raids. 1350 01:29:37,824 --> 01:29:38,782 Let it pass. 1351 01:29:45,310 --> 01:29:48,226 Hoover wouldn't dare show his face around here. He hasn't got the nerve. 1352 01:29:58,366 --> 01:29:59,977 I have to hand it to the son of a bitch, 1353 01:30:00,020 --> 01:30:01,195 he's got the hide of a bull elephant. 1354 01:30:06,940 --> 01:30:09,290 Hello, Captain. What have you got for me today? 1355 01:30:09,334 --> 01:30:10,770 I've got a surprise for you, sir. 1356 01:30:10,814 --> 01:30:12,380 How are you, Mr. Tolson?Fine thank you. 1357 01:30:12,424 --> 01:30:13,817 Bring me a menu please... Mr. Tolson will have his usual. 1358 01:30:13,860 --> 01:30:14,948 Please, Joe. 1359 01:30:15,775 --> 01:30:17,255 Bring him a menu. 1360 01:30:20,432 --> 01:30:25,263 Boss, next month, I don't think I feel up to Miami this year. 1361 01:30:25,306 --> 01:30:26,612 Oh, you decrepit old bastard you're going to go 1362 01:30:26,655 --> 01:30:28,919 if you have to go in a wheelchair. 1363 01:30:28,962 --> 01:30:30,790 You're all that stands between me and an assassin's bullet. 1364 01:30:30,834 --> 01:30:32,183 Besides that I can't pick winners without you. 1365 01:30:35,360 --> 01:30:40,365 In Mr. Hoover's eyes, the new left was a Fifth Column directed from Moscow. 1366 01:30:40,408 --> 01:30:42,889 We'd go to peace demonstrations and take photographs 1367 01:30:42,933 --> 01:30:45,500 and copy down license numbers, and we'd open dossiers 1368 01:30:45,544 --> 01:30:48,242 on anybody whose name we could get. 1369 01:30:48,286 --> 01:30:50,288 When Mr. Hoover went before Congress, 1370 01:30:50,331 --> 01:30:53,204 we'd get orders to pull out most of our wiretaps, 1371 01:30:53,247 --> 01:30:56,598 so we could testify that there were less than a hundred in operation. 1372 01:30:56,642 --> 01:30:59,297 Then the next day we'd put all the taps back in again. 1373 01:31:01,560 --> 01:31:03,388 What are you doing here, Boss? 1374 01:31:03,431 --> 01:31:05,216 Inspection tour. 1375 01:31:08,349 --> 01:31:11,875 Anything cooking?No, nothing. 1376 01:31:11,918 --> 01:31:14,486 You know, if we told anybody we spent $87,000 1377 01:31:14,529 --> 01:31:16,009 in the past 42 days just to listen 1378 01:31:16,053 --> 01:31:18,403 in on a couple of crazy Niggers and it's not 1379 01:31:18,446 --> 01:31:21,972 even admissible, cause we don't even have a warrant. 1380 01:31:22,015 --> 01:31:25,279 We asked for a warrant to put a tap on the Cardone family 1381 01:31:25,323 --> 01:31:26,585 and the courts turned us down. 1382 01:31:26,628 --> 01:31:27,934 Now, I know you want to work your way back into 1383 01:31:27,978 --> 01:31:29,283 the good graces of the Director. 1384 01:31:30,806 --> 01:31:33,809 So you want me to place a suicide tap and 1385 01:31:33,853 --> 01:31:37,030 take full responsibility in case it's discovered, is that right? 1386 01:31:37,074 --> 01:31:39,467 No. Now you know we lean more toward electronic surveillance, 1387 01:31:39,511 --> 01:31:41,948 it keeps the telephone company off our backs. 1388 01:31:41,992 --> 01:31:44,124 And you know it's just as illegal. 1389 01:31:44,168 --> 01:31:46,431 I don't know what you're worried about. 1390 01:31:46,474 --> 01:31:48,302 Back in New York I've been burglarizing the Socialist Workers' Party 1391 01:31:48,346 --> 01:31:50,130 every three weeks for years. Relax. 1392 01:31:51,827 --> 01:31:54,134 What in the hell ever happened to the Fourth Amendment? 1393 01:31:54,178 --> 01:31:57,137 Well, Mr. Hoover repealed it years ago. 1394 01:31:57,181 --> 01:32:00,314 You put one bug into their uh, telephone 1395 01:32:00,358 --> 01:32:02,926 instrument where it can easily be found and then, 1396 01:32:02,969 --> 01:32:04,536 you plant a couple of sophisticated 1397 01:32:04,579 --> 01:32:05,885 microphone devices elsewhere in the house. 1398 01:32:10,324 --> 01:32:14,111 DWIGHT: I wasn't anxious, to stick my neck out with a suicide tap, 1399 01:32:14,154 --> 01:32:17,636 but I was glad to see the Bureau was finally taking some action against the Mob. 1400 01:32:17,679 --> 01:32:20,030 I suppose, in the back of my mind, I should have known, 1401 01:32:20,073 --> 01:32:21,553 I was being set up. 1402 01:32:47,405 --> 01:32:50,451 Yes. He's inside the house right now. 1403 01:33:08,817 --> 01:33:10,341 Aah! 1404 01:33:22,222 --> 01:33:23,571 You're going to jail, G-Man. 1405 01:33:25,530 --> 01:33:26,444 [SCREAMS] 1406 01:33:52,470 --> 01:33:53,645 Fucking! 1407 01:33:54,515 --> 01:33:55,212 FBI! 1408 01:34:12,620 --> 01:34:13,708 Hey, what's new? 1409 01:34:13,752 --> 01:34:15,449 Huh, what's new? 1410 01:34:15,493 --> 01:34:17,538 You set me up, that's what's new. 1411 01:34:17,582 --> 01:34:19,149 Don't you think you're being a little paranoid? 1412 01:34:19,192 --> 01:34:20,846 Listen, I'm used to this bicycle routine. 1413 01:34:20,889 --> 01:34:22,630 I've lived through the suspension. But what you don't like is 1414 01:34:22,674 --> 01:34:24,458 I keep sending letters to Mr. Hoover, that's what. 1415 01:34:24,502 --> 01:34:26,547 Christ, you make him sound like fucking George Washington. 1416 01:34:26,591 --> 01:34:28,549 But Washington kept slaves and mistresses. 1417 01:34:28,593 --> 01:34:30,986 Mr. Hoover would have had him transferred. 1418 01:34:31,030 --> 01:34:33,641 I want to talk to him about this personally, you know. 1419 01:34:33,685 --> 01:34:35,687 Why don't you kiss his ass and tell him 1420 01:34:35,730 --> 01:34:37,297 he saved America and you hope he lives forever. 1421 01:34:37,341 --> 01:34:39,517 I want to tell him how I felt last night 1422 01:34:39,560 --> 01:34:42,302 running down the street like a common criminal. About sending out phony letters 1423 01:34:42,346 --> 01:34:44,870 on a stolen letterhead to discredit these radical groups. 1424 01:34:44,913 --> 01:34:48,352 About these burglaries. About giving aid to terrorist groups. 1425 01:34:48,395 --> 01:34:49,657 I want to tell him how I felt 1426 01:34:49,701 --> 01:34:51,442 breaking the bones of the anti-war movement. 1427 01:34:51,485 --> 01:34:53,226 Yes, sir, I'm going to talk to him about it. 1428 01:34:53,270 --> 01:34:54,662 Look, you're coming up for retirement. 1429 01:34:54,706 --> 01:34:56,534 Now why don't you just grab it and run. 1430 01:34:56,577 --> 01:34:58,492 I've given just as much to the Bureau, 1431 01:34:58,536 --> 01:35:00,755 as you or Mr. Hoover, and I think it's about 1432 01:35:00,799 --> 01:35:03,323 high time he knows what's going on in the field. 1433 01:35:03,367 --> 01:35:05,108 What's happening to the men and moral. 1434 01:35:05,151 --> 01:35:08,067 What's happened to the goddamn country, if you want to know, sir. 1435 01:35:08,111 --> 01:35:11,026 Right. Give my regards to the Wizard of Oz, hmm? 1436 01:35:17,337 --> 01:35:19,252 ANNOUNCER: And they're off and running... 1437 01:35:27,173 --> 01:35:29,828 Mr. Hoover, sir 1438 01:35:29,871 --> 01:35:31,656 Mr. Hoover? 1439 01:35:31,699 --> 01:35:35,573 Dwight Webb, sir. Why aren't you in Detroit? 1440 01:35:35,616 --> 01:35:37,140 Sir, I flew down here at own expense. 1441 01:35:37,183 --> 01:35:39,490 I've been requesting an opportunity to speak with you. 1442 01:35:39,533 --> 01:35:41,492 This is not the time or the place. 1443 01:35:41,535 --> 01:35:43,624 Well, I don't think you know what's going on. What they're doing to me. 1444 01:35:43,668 --> 01:35:45,583 This is a breach of discipline, you know that, don't you? 1445 01:35:45,626 --> 01:35:48,281 Mr. Hoover, sir, we're not only spying on extremists, 1446 01:35:48,325 --> 01:35:51,980 now, sir, we're spying on everyone. Newsmen and reporters, 1447 01:35:52,024 --> 01:35:54,766 and, sir, our agents are being encouraged 1448 01:35:54,809 --> 01:35:59,727 to entrap these radicals by giving them explosives and guns even. 1449 01:35:59,771 --> 01:36:00,946 I know all about you, Webb. 1450 01:36:00,989 --> 01:36:02,513 You're trying to sabotage the Bureau 1451 01:36:02,556 --> 01:36:04,167 to satisfy your own paranoid delusions. 1452 01:36:04,776 --> 01:36:06,647 [LAUGHS] 1453 01:36:06,691 --> 01:36:08,649 Well, they told me you'd say that, but I wouldn't buy it. 1454 01:36:08,693 --> 01:36:10,260 Get this man out of here. 1455 01:36:10,303 --> 01:36:13,350 You don't have to bicycle me around anymore, I'm resigning. 1456 01:36:13,393 --> 01:36:16,179 And by tomorrow, or you get a letter of dismissal with prejudice. 1457 01:36:18,572 --> 01:36:20,748 Who the hell is winning this race? 1458 01:36:20,792 --> 01:36:22,272 I don't know. I wasn't looking. 1459 01:36:26,754 --> 01:36:29,192 DWIGHT: What a hypocritical son of a bitch I was. 1460 01:36:29,235 --> 01:36:33,239 After a career of tapping people's phones and bugging their bedrooms. 1461 01:36:33,283 --> 01:36:36,895 Well, I just tore up twenty years like a ticket on the wrong horse. 1462 01:36:44,294 --> 01:36:46,731 What do you look so unhappy about? You had the last three winners. 1463 01:36:46,774 --> 01:36:48,950 Let me help you. 1464 01:36:48,994 --> 01:36:51,257 I don't feel good, boss. What's the matter, Clyde? 1465 01:36:52,911 --> 01:36:55,392 I've had indigestion all day, you know. And then... 1466 01:36:57,307 --> 01:36:59,396 I've had a hard time catching my breath. 1467 01:37:01,659 --> 01:37:02,964 Let me sit down, just a minute. 1468 01:37:03,008 --> 01:37:04,749 Let's get him back inside. Give us a hand here. 1469 01:37:04,792 --> 01:37:06,533 Come on, help me, help me. See if we can find a doctor. 1470 01:37:10,842 --> 01:37:12,539 [PROTESTERS CHANTING] 1471 01:37:22,332 --> 01:37:24,725 It's the goddamn Russian Revolution. 1472 01:37:24,769 --> 01:37:26,597 I was in the Attorney General's house back in 1920, 1473 01:37:26,640 --> 01:37:28,425 when they blew up the place. 1474 01:37:28,468 --> 01:37:30,514 Seeing kids pee on the lawn isn't going to raise my blood pressure. 1475 01:37:30,557 --> 01:37:32,907 I feel it's anti-human in this situation. 1476 01:37:32,951 --> 01:37:35,475 President Nixon thinks that all these bombings and riots 1477 01:37:35,519 --> 01:37:38,913 are the work of the Cuban government, the Egyptians and the Soviets. 1478 01:37:38,957 --> 01:37:42,047 The President's called for a meeting of all the National Security Organizations. 1479 01:37:42,090 --> 01:37:46,094 CIA, NSA, BIA. And three military Counter-Intelligence Agencies. 1480 01:37:46,138 --> 01:37:48,271 All in the Oval Room. 1481 01:37:48,314 --> 01:37:50,838 You want me to eavesdrop electronically on anybody 1482 01:37:50,882 --> 01:37:53,058 you think is a threat to internal security. 1483 01:37:53,101 --> 01:37:54,668 Read the mail of American citizens. 1484 01:37:54,712 --> 01:37:57,889 Break into the homes of anybody you consider disloyal. 1485 01:37:57,932 --> 01:37:59,804 And monitor all the activity of the student political groups. 1486 01:37:59,847 --> 01:38:02,110 Is that right? 1487 01:38:02,154 --> 01:38:04,069 Come on, Edgar, you've-been doing this black bag stuff for 25 years now. 1488 01:38:04,112 --> 01:38:05,592 When did you get religion? 1489 01:38:05,636 --> 01:38:06,593 It's been 30 years. 1490 01:38:07,681 --> 01:38:10,554 But never on such a grand scale. 1491 01:38:10,597 --> 01:38:13,034 And it was always my idea, not the administration's. 1492 01:38:13,078 --> 01:38:15,428 If you can do it, why can't we all? 1493 01:38:15,472 --> 01:38:17,778 Because I have no political ambitions. 1494 01:38:17,822 --> 01:38:19,476 And that's where we differ, gentlemen. 1495 01:38:19,519 --> 01:38:20,912 Yes, but the nation's never been threatened 1496 01:38:20,955 --> 01:38:23,784 by so many extremist elements before in its history. 1497 01:38:23,828 --> 01:38:26,874 We don't want to stop you, Edgar. We just want to get in on it. 1498 01:38:26,918 --> 01:38:28,876 And run it, in what we believe to be 1499 01:38:28,920 --> 01:38:31,923 the best interests of the American way of life. 1500 01:38:31,966 --> 01:38:34,229 All of the intelligence agencies working together 1501 01:38:34,273 --> 01:38:36,841 with the President in control. 1502 01:38:36,884 --> 01:38:39,365 But you're not cooperating, Edgar. 1503 01:38:39,409 --> 01:38:43,064 You've broken off all direct communication of the CIA. 1504 01:38:43,108 --> 01:38:46,067 When they had to break into one of the embassies here in Washington, 1505 01:38:46,111 --> 01:38:49,114 you sent your agents to turn on their sirens and drive off the CIA. 1506 01:38:49,157 --> 01:38:50,811 [ALL LAUGH] 1507 01:38:50,855 --> 01:38:52,291 You're the old master at this, Edgar. 1508 01:38:53,814 --> 01:38:55,860 We'll ask you to draw up guidelines. 1509 01:38:55,903 --> 01:38:57,252 Along with Mr. Houston. 1510 01:39:02,301 --> 01:39:06,784 Despite my objections to the lifting of investigative restraint, 1511 01:39:06,827 --> 01:39:09,134 the FBI is prepared to follow the instructions of the White House. 1512 01:39:09,177 --> 01:39:10,483 At your direction, Mr. President. 1513 01:39:11,310 --> 01:39:12,267 But in writing. 1514 01:39:18,622 --> 01:39:20,363 Good afternoon, gentlemen. 1515 01:39:23,453 --> 01:39:26,412 Good afternoon, Mr. Hoover. 1516 01:39:26,456 --> 01:39:28,588 I'll bug and burglarize whoever I please. 1517 01:39:28,632 --> 01:39:30,982 I'll be damned if I'll let somebody else do it. 1518 01:39:31,025 --> 01:39:33,854 Oh, you gotta watch those guys in the White House. 1519 01:39:33,898 --> 01:39:35,943 I don't mean just Nixon, all of them. 1520 01:39:35,987 --> 01:39:37,815 Self-appointed cop for president. 1521 01:39:37,858 --> 01:39:41,645 That's right, junior. 1522 01:39:41,688 --> 01:39:43,168 I'm the only man that ever held the job or ever will. 1523 01:39:45,997 --> 01:39:49,783 A man doesn't have much in the way of morality unless he's scared of somebody. 1524 01:39:49,827 --> 01:39:52,090 And I gave them somebody to be scared of. 1525 01:39:52,133 --> 01:39:55,702 At night they look under the bed to see if I'm there. 1526 01:39:55,746 --> 01:39:57,791 They wonder how much I know. It's good. 1527 01:39:59,010 --> 01:40:00,359 Holds them back. 1528 01:40:00,403 --> 01:40:03,275 Nixon's frustrated. 1529 01:40:03,318 --> 01:40:07,366 He's going to do something, with or without you. 1530 01:40:07,410 --> 01:40:09,542 Whatever we say, what ever we do, the next morning 1531 01:40:09,586 --> 01:40:11,065 it winds up in the New York Times. 1532 01:40:11,109 --> 01:40:13,067 How are we going to find the leak? 1533 01:40:13,111 --> 01:40:15,766 Hoover won't let us polygraph, State Department employees. 1534 01:40:15,809 --> 01:40:18,508 What do you mean he won't let us. Who the hell is he? 1535 01:40:18,551 --> 01:40:20,466 He has to be told who's president. 1536 01:40:20,510 --> 01:40:23,513 Yes, but he did implement our request for 17 wiretaps. 1537 01:40:23,556 --> 01:40:26,907 Only so he could use them against us. 1538 01:40:26,951 --> 01:40:30,955 Taps on our own staff and on newsmen. He could blow us out of the water with that. 1539 01:40:30,998 --> 01:40:32,173 He suckered us into it. 1540 01:40:32,217 --> 01:40:34,437 NIXON: You mean it was a trap? 1541 01:40:34,480 --> 01:40:36,308 Well, we can protect our national security, 1542 01:40:36,351 --> 01:40:38,658 with or without Mr. Hoover. 1543 01:40:38,702 --> 01:40:40,051 We don't need him or the CIA. 1544 01:40:41,879 --> 01:40:45,404 We have our own people who can be depended upon. 1545 01:40:45,448 --> 01:40:48,015 You can be certain they'll be selected carefully 1546 01:40:48,059 --> 01:40:50,104 and paid through the Committee to Reelect. 1547 01:40:50,148 --> 01:40:55,066 If Ellsberg can be a hero for bending the law a bit, why shouldn't we? 1548 01:40:55,109 --> 01:40:57,503 Sooner or later the old man will hear about it and raise holy hell. 1549 01:40:57,547 --> 01:40:59,940 Ah, shit, yes. 1550 01:40:59,984 --> 01:41:03,204 But now, what can we do about getting those laws back in? 1551 01:41:03,248 --> 01:41:05,729 I have people on the inside. 1552 01:41:05,772 --> 01:41:08,340 People who know that Hoover can't live much longer. 1553 01:41:08,383 --> 01:41:09,776 They want to be on the right team 1554 01:41:09,820 --> 01:41:12,431 when the time comes to pick a new director. 1555 01:41:12,475 --> 01:41:15,869 Have they access? Opportunity's no problem. 1556 01:41:15,913 --> 01:41:17,958 The question is, will they have the balls to do it. 1557 01:41:18,002 --> 01:41:20,961 [ALL LAUGH] 1558 01:41:21,005 --> 01:41:25,966 Well, there'll be a certain perverse satisfaction of being the man 1559 01:41:26,010 --> 01:41:28,882 who robbed J. Edgar Hoover. 1560 01:41:28,926 --> 01:41:32,407 How the hell did we get to be villains, Edgar? 1561 01:41:32,451 --> 01:41:35,541 Look at the Rosenbergs. Oppenheimer. Alger Hiss. 1562 01:41:35,585 --> 01:41:39,763 All of them made into martyrs and suddenly we're some kind of Gestapo. 1563 01:41:39,806 --> 01:41:43,375 Remember back when it was good, favorable? Why they couldn't get enough. 1564 01:41:43,418 --> 01:41:45,116 It's not the same country. 1565 01:41:45,159 --> 01:41:46,596 I can get'em back. 1566 01:41:46,639 --> 01:41:49,120 I'm waiting for a big break. Like the Dillenger case. 1567 01:41:49,163 --> 01:41:50,904 That'd turn it all around. 1568 01:41:50,948 --> 01:41:52,558 I know what you're thinking. 1569 01:41:52,602 --> 01:41:55,387 Nixon's plumbers, goddamn amateurs. 1570 01:41:55,430 --> 01:41:57,084 And they're getting in deeper every minute. 1571 01:41:57,128 --> 01:42:00,523 Cubans being paid off with campaign slush funds, 1572 01:42:00,566 --> 01:42:03,395 laundered through Mexican covers. 1573 01:42:03,438 --> 01:42:04,962 Well, I've been careful to keep clear of the whole thing. 1574 01:42:05,005 --> 01:42:07,530 But I've recorded every detail. 1575 01:42:07,573 --> 01:42:11,055 I'm just waiting them out. What we don't have is time. 1576 01:42:11,098 --> 01:42:15,494 Junior, if I can't outlast this shitty administration, 1577 01:42:15,538 --> 01:42:17,627 I just might take them with me when I go. 1578 01:42:44,131 --> 01:42:45,132 McCoy. 1579 01:42:47,874 --> 01:42:51,138 Problems? The long arm of the White House. 1580 01:42:51,182 --> 01:42:54,315 17 Kissinger wiretap authorizations are missing from the safe. 1581 01:42:54,359 --> 01:42:56,579 Did they get every copy? 1582 01:42:56,622 --> 01:42:58,972 Everything that was in there. 1583 01:42:59,016 --> 01:43:02,715 What about the logs you were keeping. 1584 01:43:02,759 --> 01:43:05,109 I thought it was my duty to turn them over to Mr. Mardian. 1585 01:43:05,152 --> 01:43:06,676 The President's request. 1586 01:43:06,719 --> 01:43:09,200 Look, I'm sorry, Edgar, 1587 01:43:09,243 --> 01:43:10,984 I just couldn't allow you to use those logs against the White House. 1588 01:43:12,725 --> 01:43:16,076 How long have we been together? 25? 30 years? 1589 01:43:16,120 --> 01:43:17,121 29. 1590 01:43:17,730 --> 01:43:20,167 29. 1591 01:43:20,211 --> 01:43:23,518 Yeah, they're right. I'm getting old and sloppy. 1592 01:43:23,562 --> 01:43:25,651 It's time for you to step down, Edgar. 1593 01:43:25,695 --> 01:43:27,087 For your good and the sake of the Bureau. 1594 01:43:28,132 --> 01:43:29,350 Let go. 1595 01:44:08,563 --> 01:44:11,218 "To force your heart and nerve and sinew 1596 01:44:15,745 --> 01:44:19,792 "To serve your turn long after they are gone 1597 01:44:19,836 --> 01:44:22,099 "And so hold on, when there is nothing in you, 1598 01:44:23,448 --> 01:44:25,842 "Except the will which says: 1599 01:44:25,885 --> 01:44:27,452 "'Hold on.'" 1600 01:44:29,193 --> 01:44:33,893 Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. 1601 01:44:43,163 --> 01:44:45,035 Get Kedrow and Wilson in here right now. 1602 01:44:46,689 --> 01:44:47,733 [KNOCKING AT DOOR] 1603 01:44:47,777 --> 01:44:48,734 Come in. 1604 01:44:50,518 --> 01:44:52,129 Yes, Mr. Hoover. 1605 01:44:52,172 --> 01:44:55,306 I want Assistant Director McCoy's office emptied and locked. 1606 01:44:55,349 --> 01:44:57,700 He's to have access to none of his papers. He is retiring as of tonight. 1607 01:44:57,743 --> 01:44:58,831 Now take care of that right now. 1608 01:44:58,875 --> 01:44:59,919 Yes sir. 1609 01:44:59,963 --> 01:45:00,746 You wait. 1610 01:45:05,142 --> 01:45:07,361 It's been brought to my personal attention that 1611 01:45:07,405 --> 01:45:09,233 the President has been recording his private 1612 01:45:09,276 --> 01:45:11,844 conversations on quarter-inch tape. 1613 01:45:11,888 --> 01:45:14,629 Secret Service is storing them in Room 175 and a half 1614 01:45:14,673 --> 01:45:17,284 of the executive office building. 1615 01:45:17,328 --> 01:45:19,330 Now I think we should have access to those tapes, 1616 01:45:19,373 --> 01:45:21,724 in order to duplicate some for, shall we say 1617 01:45:21,767 --> 01:45:23,377 historical accuracy? 1618 01:45:23,421 --> 01:45:24,074 Yes, Sir. 1619 01:45:51,797 --> 01:45:52,929 [GROANS] 1620 01:46:26,353 --> 01:46:27,224 [CRYING] So long, boss. 1621 01:46:42,282 --> 01:46:44,154 HINDLEY: Well, I wouldn't waste any tears on Clyde. 1622 01:46:46,417 --> 01:46:49,855 He's got Hoover's house. Half a million dollar estate. 1623 01:46:52,379 --> 01:46:56,166 Ha. That's sweet, isn't it. 1624 01:46:58,995 --> 01:47:01,649 Well, Nixon may take over the Bureau, 1625 01:47:01,693 --> 01:47:05,088 but he's not going to get Hoover's P.F. files, because they've got them 1626 01:47:05,131 --> 01:47:08,874 at the Washington field office right now being shredded. 1627 01:47:08,918 --> 01:47:11,790 Well, if you know that, don't you think the White House would know that? 1628 01:47:15,228 --> 01:47:18,188 Hey, wait a minute, wait, relax. 1629 01:47:18,231 --> 01:47:19,363 You're not going to get inside that building. 1630 01:47:31,766 --> 01:47:33,681 How are things at the White House, gentlemen? 1631 01:47:35,205 --> 01:47:36,859 What brings you here, Webb? 1632 01:47:36,902 --> 01:47:39,470 Probably the same personal files you're after. 1633 01:47:39,513 --> 01:47:41,211 You have no more connection with the Bureau. 1634 01:47:41,254 --> 01:47:42,995 Now you get the hell out of here. 1635 01:47:43,039 --> 01:47:45,258 Gentlemen, it might interest you to know you're being photographed 1636 01:47:45,302 --> 01:47:48,131 from across the street, and this conversation is being recorded. 1637 01:47:48,174 --> 01:47:50,307 You're on Candid Camera, Mr. McCoy. 1638 01:47:54,354 --> 01:47:56,269 Who put you up to this? 1639 01:47:56,313 --> 01:47:59,446 The Democratic National Committee, who else? 1640 01:47:59,490 --> 01:48:01,622 Jesus. You'll be sorry for this, Webb. 1641 01:48:01,666 --> 01:48:03,146 I promise you that. 1642 01:48:05,278 --> 01:48:06,584 Still Hoover's man, huh? 1643 01:49:11,779 --> 01:49:14,086 Mr. Tolson, sir, my sympathies. 1644 01:49:15,653 --> 01:49:17,263 Webb, is it? 1645 01:49:19,309 --> 01:49:21,398 You're burning the midnight oil, sir. 1646 01:49:21,441 --> 01:49:23,400 So to speak. 1647 01:49:23,443 --> 01:49:25,402 I suppose you lost all respect for him? 1648 01:49:27,665 --> 01:49:32,583 Not all. He hurt a lot of people. 1649 01:49:32,626 --> 01:49:36,326 But he controlled the politicians and never let the politicians 1650 01:49:36,369 --> 01:49:39,546 control the Bureau.The Bureau. 1651 01:49:39,590 --> 01:49:43,768 They'll get their coffee breaks now. The ladies will smoke and wear slacks. 1652 01:49:43,811 --> 01:49:46,553 And the boys will have mustaches and sideburns. 1653 01:49:47,641 --> 01:49:49,730 A year from now there won't be any FBI. 1654 01:49:49,774 --> 01:49:52,690 The way we know it. 1655 01:49:52,733 --> 01:49:55,127 Edgar took over after the worst scandal, in our history. 1656 01:49:55,171 --> 01:49:57,042 The Harding mess. 1657 01:49:57,086 --> 01:49:59,784 He managed to hush everything up for 48 years. 1658 01:49:59,827 --> 01:50:02,134 Now it's all going to come tumbling down. 1659 01:50:02,178 --> 01:50:04,136 FBI, CIA, 1660 01:50:05,398 --> 01:50:08,010 maybe even the administration itself. 1661 01:50:08,053 --> 01:50:10,490 He isn't there to cover for them, 1662 01:50:10,534 --> 01:50:14,364 manage their dirty linen. Oh, they'll miss him all right. 1663 01:50:32,338 --> 01:50:35,385 DWIGHT: Within two years of the death of J. Edgar Hoover, 1664 01:50:35,428 --> 01:50:37,256 the Vice President was forced to resign, 1665 01:50:37,300 --> 01:50:39,780 facing criminal indictment. 1666 01:50:39,824 --> 01:50:42,653 The closest aides to the President of the United States were dismissed 1667 01:50:42,696 --> 01:50:46,700 and indicted because of alleged illegal activities. 1668 01:50:46,744 --> 01:50:49,660 Two Attorney Generals were removed from office 1669 01:50:49,703 --> 01:50:52,097 and faced criminal conspiracy charges. 1670 01:50:52,141 --> 01:50:55,448 And the President of the United States resigned his office for the 1671 01:50:55,492 --> 01:50:56,797 first time in history. 1672 01:50:56,841 --> 01:50:59,409 Under the threat of impeachment. 1673 01:50:59,452 --> 01:51:01,672 The sources of information that brought about this upheaval 1674 01:51:01,715 --> 01:51:04,501 in government have never been fully disclosed. 1675 01:51:04,544 --> 01:51:07,156 And some have been heard to speculate 1676 01:51:07,199 --> 01:51:09,549 that if the hand of J. Edgar Hoover 1677 01:51:09,593 --> 01:51:12,378 had reached back from beyond the grave, 1678 01:51:12,422 --> 01:51:14,293 he couldn't have done it any better himself.