J. Edgar Hoover and The great American Inquisitions
Chicago Filmmakers
World Premiere . Tracing the life of the former director of the FBI, from the Palmer raids to his death in 1972, J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition (135 min., 1994) uses archival footage and interviews with former special agents to present an unforgiving expose of the inner workings of the FBI.
Tracing the life of the former director of the FBI, from the Palmer raids to his death in 1972, J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition (135 min., 1994) uses archival footage and interviews with former special agents to present an unforgiving expose of the inner workings of the FBI.
Activists such as Stokely Charmichael, Carl Davidson, and a rare interview with Alger Hiss outline FBI abuses and atrocities (slander, forgery, blackmail and murder) comparable to those anywhere in the world, with the exception that they happened right here in America.