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Legacy

Wondery

History, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

FBI spying reaches new depths, as Hoover persecutes civil rights campaigner Dr Martin Luther King. But then a daring break-in exposes the FBI's tactics.

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0:00.0	Follow legacy on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:04.4	We've updated Wondery Plus with new and improved features just for our UK members.
0:09.2	If you haven't already, please join Wondry Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts
0:13.8	to elevate your listening experience and discover your next obsession.
0:23.4	Hello and welcome to Legacy.
0:26.2	This is the third episode in our series on J. Edgar Hoover.
0:30.6	We've got to the end of the Second World War.
0:33.2	Peace has broken out all around the world.
0:35.7	Hoover is still in business.
0:37.5	He's age 50 and running the FBI.
0:40.2	He's built an institution and alongside that, personal fame, an enormous public popularity.
0:46.4	More than that, he's transformed the FBI into a respected crime-fighting outfit.
0:50.4	But now there's a new president, the fourth of Hoover's time in office.
0:55.4	Harry Truman fears the FBI as becoming a Gestapo or secret police. He's outraged by the
1:01.9	secret recordings, rumors of blackmail, gathering of personal information that's become
1:06.5	endemic under Hoover. And Truman wants to get rid of him.
1:14.4	According to one agent, Hoover was frightened of his life with Truman.
1:18.5	Hoover knows his empire could be about to topple. Hoover. From Wondry and Gollhanger, I'm Peter Frankapur.
1:35.4	I'm Afwa-Hush.
1:36.6	And this is Legacy, the show that tells the lives of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived, and asks if they have the reputation that they deserve.
1:55.4	This is Hoover, Episode 3, Civil Rights and Dirty Tricks.
2:10.6	Thank you. Hoover. Episode 3. Civil Rights and Dirty Tricks. So, Afuette, Truman's in office. He doesn't want a Gestapo to be built by Hoover or by anybody
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