J. Edgar Hoover & Clyde Tolson: Investigating the Sexual Secrets of America's Most Famous Men and Women (Paperback) - Common
Language: English
Pages: 564
ISBN: B00FFBQKR6
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Darwin Porter's saga of power and corruption has a revelation on every page-cross dressing, gay parties, sexual indiscretions, hustlers for sale, alliances with the Mafia, criminal activity by the FBI, and an obsessive and voyeuristic interest in the sex lives of Hollywood celebrities. It's all here, with chilling details about the abuse of power on the dark side of the American saga. But mostly,
weakened condition. Often, very late at night, his family heard him cursing J. Edgar. “That god damn son of a bitch. He ruined my life.” On February 29, 1960, Melvin committed suicide, or so it is believed. He shot himself using a pistol given to him by his fellow agents when he resigned from the FBI in 1935. It was rumored to have been the weapon used to take down Dillinger. It may not have been a suicide after all, and the coroner agreed. Melvin may have shot himself accidentally trying to
the days that followed, accusing J. Edgar of “trying to steal the glory.” He issued an FBI press release, claiming that who captured Brunette wasn’t the issue. “The issue is that we have this crook in Federal custody.” Much to J. Edgar’s amusement, Clyde became known as “Killer Tolson.” *** One day while lunching at the Mayflower, Clyde clutched his lower stomach, complaining of a sharp, jabbing pain. J. Edgar went into a panic and ordered a nearby agent to rush him to the hospital in the
frequently in later years, Guy dined out on stories about his years with J. Edgar and Clyde. At one point in the 1980s, he agreed to “tell all” to the author James Kirkwood Jr., who won the Pulitzer Prize for his Broadway musical, A Chorus Line. “Jimmy,” as he was called by his friends, was the lover of another novelist, James Leo Herlihy author of Midnight Cowboy, the book that inspired the Oscar-winning movie (in 1969) with the same name. Jimmy was also a personal friend of Clay Shaw, a
working so intimately with him. Their paths had never crossed since he left the Bureau to become a highly paid lobbyist in Washington. After the United States entered WWII, it became illegal for lobbyists to solicit money from businessmen hoping to get congressional approval to set up munitions factories. Using his powerful connections, Jimmy ignored the ban and sought help from some congressmen to open such a wartime factory. For his services, he was to be paid somewhere around $80,000. Not
mysterious call came in from “somewhere in the islands,” stating that a way of thinking.” large fleet of planes with the rising sun Over the decades, many historion their bodies was heading toward ans have come down hard on J. Edgar, Honolulu. At FBI headquarters, a memo was typed up and placed on J. especially Leslie Rout and John Bratzel Edgar’s desk, where he discovered it in their American Historical Review. Monday morning. They blamed J. Edgar for failing to The attack had occurred on the