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Sep 3, 2023

Instructive Coloring Book for NYC Schoolchildren

Sept. 3, 1963 - A coloring exercise that carries a serious safety measure will be distributed starting tomorrow to elementary school...

Jul 18, 2023

U.S. Crime Rate Soars

July 18, 1963 - FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said today the crime rate in this country is outstripping the population growth by almost...

Jul 16, 2023

Federal Judge to FBI: Stop Harassing Giancana

July 16, 1963 - A federal judge today ordered the FBI to scale back its intensive shadowing of Sam Giancana (pictured in 1959), Chicago’s...

Jun 4, 2023

Hoover: Communist Party “This Nation’s Most Formidable Enemy”

June 4, 1963 - FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (pictured last month) has warned that the Communist Party, “this nation’s most formidable...

Apr 4, 2023

Brooklyn Hoods Face Wrath of Government and Underworld for Attack on FBI Man

Apr. 4, 1963 - Four Brooklyn hoodlums accused of attacking and stomping an FBI agent outside a church just before the funeral of Carmello...

Apr 3, 2023

FBI Agent Beaten by Mafia Thugs

Apr. 3, 1963 - An FBI agent was severely beaten and stripped of his pistol today while observing a funeral gathering outside a Brooklyn...

Dec 13, 2022

Alabama’s Governor-Elect calls RFK “Sapling Caesar”

Dec. 13, 1962 - Alabama Governor-elect George C. Wallace (pictured) today called Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy a “sapling Caesar”...

Nov 18, 2022

MLK: FBI Sides with Segregationists

Nov. 18, 1962 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King charged today that FBI agents in Albany, Ga., side with the segregationists. For that...

Oct 31, 2022

Oct. 31, 1962 - JFK Remarks to FBI National Academy

Oct. 31, 1962 - Here are President Kennedy’s remarks today at the graduation exercises of the FBI National Academy in Washington, D.C....

Sep 9, 2022

Two Negro Churches Burn in Georgia, Arson Suspected

Sept. 9, 1962 - Two Negro churches in Georgia, one of them the scene of weekly voter registration rallies, were destroyed by fire early...

Jul 2, 2022

Director Hoover Wants All Teachers and School Employees Fingerprinted

July 2, 1962 - J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F.B.I., advocates fingerprinting of teachers and other school employees to screen out...

May 10, 2022

President Acclaims Hoover on 38th Year as F.B.I. Director

May 10, 1962 - J. Edgar Hoover finished his 38th year as Director of the FBI today, adding to what President Kennedy called “one of the...

Jan 28, 2022

Alvin "Creepy" Karpis Seeks Deportation Parole from Alcatraz

Jan. 28, 1962 - Alvin “Creepy” Karpis (pictured in 1936), once listed as United States Public Enemy No. 1, is seeking a deportation...

Sep 30, 2021

Hoover Says American Reds Moving Underground

Sept. 30, 1961 - The American Communist party is moving farther underground in order to resist the Supreme Court's ruling that the party...

Aug 3, 2021

FAA Authorizes Airlines to Arm Crews on All Flights

Aug. 3, 1961 - The Federal Aviation Agency authorized U.S. airlines today to arm their crews on all flights. Meanwhile, the...

Aug 3, 2021

Father-and-Son Team Try to Hijack Jet Airliner, Arrested by FBI

Aug. 3, 1961 - Leon Bearden (left), a 38-year-old former convict, and his 16-year-old son Cody (right) hijacked a jet airliner in the air...