American Decades
The Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover Before the House Un-American Activities Committee
Testimony
By: J. Edgar Hoover
Date: March 26, 1947
Source: "The Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover Before the House Un-American Activities Committee." March 26, 1947. Reprinted in Cold War. Cable News Network. Available at CNN online at http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/06/documents/... ; website home page http://www.cnn.com (accessed March 17, 2003).
About the Author: J[ohn] Edgar Hoover (1895–1977) served as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until his death. The size and scope of the FBI expanded greatly under his controversial leadership. He is best known for his aggressive investigation of communists both inside and outside of the U.S. government, his surveillance of so-called "political radicals" from Ku Klux Klan...
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1940's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- "The Four Freedoms"
- "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech"
- Letter from James Y. Sakamoto to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
- "Letters from Los Alamos"
- The Road to Serfdom
- "Serve Your Country in the WAVES"
- "Charter of the United Nations Preamble"
- "President Harry S. Truman's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947"
- The Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover Before the House Un-American Activities Committee
- "Address by General George C. Marshall Secretary of State of the United States at Harvard University, June 5, 1947"
- "Dewey Defeats Truman"
- "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges"
- "Wipe Out Discrimination"
- "Indian Self-Government"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
