Official and Confidential_ The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover - Anthony Summers [255]
Chapter 4
Interviews included H.’s godson, J. Edgar Ruch, Guy Hottel, Justice Frankfurter’s former law clerk Joseph Rauh, and James Thompson of Aspin Hill pet cemetery. Without Understanding: The FBI and Political Surveillance 1908–1941, a doctoral dissertation by David Williams (see Bibliography), was especially useful, as were the papers of Sen. Thomas Walsh, LC, the several 1920 congressional probes of illegal practices at the Justice Department under Attorney General Palmer, Hse. of Reps. 66th Cong., 2nd and 3rd Sessions, the Drew Pearson Diaries, 1949-S9, ed. Tyler Abell, NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974, the Felix Frankfurter Papers, LC, and the papers of Denis Dickason in the collection of Harriet Pickering. A list of H.’s library books was supplied by the FBI Library at Quantico. His Masonic record is in HSF. Frank Baughman’s inscribed photo is in HC, and his FBI file is no. 67–691–2.
Chapter 5
Interviews included a second godson of H., J. Edgar Nichols, author Ralph de Toledano, Roger Baldwin of the ACLU, former FBI Assistant Directors Charles Bates and Cartha DeLoach, former agents Edward Armbruster Jr., Robert Domalewsky, Aubrey Lewis, Neil Welch, Leo McClairen, Ed Duff, Erwin Piper, Kenneth Whittaker, Wm. South, and Mervin O’Melia. Lavonne Cowley, widow of agent Sam Cowley, and reporter Fletcher Knebel on letters written to an agent’s wife. The papers of President Herbert Hoover, at HHL, were especially useful, as were the Harlan Stone Papers, gen. corr. 1889–1946, at LC, the Melvin Purvis personnel file, FBI 67–7489, the Denis Dickason letters in Harriet Pickering’s collection, and the chapter on H. in Public Entrepreneurship: Toward a Theory of Bureaucratic Political Power, by Eugene Lewis (see Bibliography), and the lecture outline for agent recruits, by Bernard Suttler, at RG65NA.
Chapter 6
Interviews included neighbour Anthony Calomaris, TV journalist Eames Yates, former agents Duane Eskridge, Erwin Piper, Joseph Schott and Kenneth Whittaker and author Ralph de Toledano on H.’s habits, FBI historian Susan Falb on FBI women, Guy Hottel’s relative Chandler Brossard, Florida restaurateur Jo-Ann Weiss, and former Asst. AG Robert Mardian on H. and Jews, former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee on H.’s xenophobia, former Asst. AG Harold Tyler and John Howe on his limousines, Kennedy era officials Wm. Hundley, Edwin Guthman, John Seigenthaler, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark on H. and Robert Kennedy, Aubrey Lewis, James Barrow, Donald Stewart, Gerard Tracey and Cartha DeLoach on black agents, hotelier Mara Forbes on red ties, Michael Fooner, Arthur Murtagh and – in 1972 – journalist Guy Richards on FBI bugging of James Farley. Victor Navasky’s book Kennedy Justice, NY, Atheneum, 1971, provided H.’s ‘Baloney’ comment on the Mafia, and Jack Levine’s report to Asst. AG Miller, Jan. 23, 1962, illuminated H.’s handling of agents. Also used were the files of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at LC, the Joseph Bayliss letter to Cong. Carl Mapes, Mar. 26, 1929, HH, HHL, and the Cummings Papers at the University of Virginia. Herbert Hoover’s talk with incoming President Roosevelt came from Scheidt’s note to H., Jun. 2, 1950, and Nichols’ note to Tolson, Feb. 24, 1956, in Crime Records Research, RG65NA. The Ku Klux Klan allegation is at Drew Pearson’s Diaries, op.cit., p. 285, and Garvan’s recommendation to FDR appears in a letter from Garvan to FDR, Jun. 16, 1933, Personal Files FDRL.
Chapter 7
For my reporting of H.’s relationship with Melvin Purvis I am grateful to Purvis’ son Alston, who gave me access to the remarkable Purvis/H. Letters in the Purvis Collection at the University of Boston. Interviews included Alston Purvis and Doris Lockerman, H.’s niece Marjorie Stromme on threats made by ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly, former agent William Turner on Kathryn Kelly, and Anita