014: Wayne Davis - Director Hoover and FBI Diversity

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Retired Special Agent in Charge Wayne Davis, one of the first African American special agents to attend the FBI Academy and meet all standard special agent qualifications, provides a fascinating personal and historical account of diversity in the FBI and his private meeting with Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1965, at which time the Director Hoover expressed his views about Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement. Wayne Davis served 25 years with the FBI. During his career, he ran the Detroit and Philadelphia Offices.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to episode 14 of FBI retired case file review with
0:09.2	Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by actual FBI cases.
0:16.0	In this episode I am honored to interview retired special agent in charge Wayne Davis. Now today's
0:26.3	episode is a little different. Instead of reviewing a case Wayne Davis provides a
0:32.4	fascinating personal and historical account of
0:36.4	diversity in the FBI. Wayne talks qualified African American special agents.
0:47.0	The FBI had no fully qualified African American special agents.
0:52.0	Hoover was under the pressure of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and the Department of Justice to diversify the Special Agent Ranks.
1:01.0	Wayne Davis was the third African American candidate to go through the FBI Academy.
1:07.0	This is a fascinating interview.
1:10.0	Wayne Davis was actually summoned to meet Director Hoover and what Director Hoover
1:16.2	told him about the Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King was unbelievable.
1:23.0	And in 1992, when Director Hoover died,
1:27.0	an acting director El Patrick Gray began hiring women as special agents, Wayne Davis was selected to head up efforts
1:36.5	to hire more women and to increase minority recruitment. So I hope you listen to the interview. I hope you find it
1:45.7	entertaining and informative. One of the things I want you to think about as you
1:51.3	listen to this interview, if I were in the FBI still today I
1:55.9	would be one of 134 black female agents 1% of special agents in the FBI today.
2:05.0	Everyone, I am extremely excited to introduce my guest for today.
2:11.0	Former Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Division, Wayne
2:15.9	Wayne, and it's still hard for me to call you Wayne, I'm so used to calling your
2:20.6	boss, but Wayne welcome to the show.
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