G-Man, page 154
U
Uniform Crime Report (UCR), 129
Union of Russian Workers, 72
United Auto Workers, 212
United Mine Workers, 205, 212
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), 96
University Club, 109
Untouchables, The, (television series) 634
Urschel, Charles, 153–54
US Organization, 685
V
Valachi, Joseph, 492
Vandenberg, Arthur, Jr., 408
Vandenberg, Arthur, Sr., 201
Vandenberg, Hoyt, 305–6
Van Landingham, Zack, 497, 498
Vaughan, Harry, 299, 302
Velde, Harold, 371, 411, 422
Venable, James, 619
Venona project. See under postwar Red Scare
Vetterli, Reed, 119, 151, 152
Vietnam War, 676, 694–95
See also anti-Vietnam War movement
von Hoffman, Nicholas, 592
Voting Rights Act (1965), 621–22, 623
W
Wagner, Robert, 308, 595
Walker, Edwin, 572
Walker, Wyatt Tee, 522
Wall, Robert, 711
Wallace, George, 545–46, 548, 598, 606, 628, 672
Walsh, Thomas, 149
War on Crime, 627–36
COINTELPRO and, 638
Crime Commission, 633
crime statistics and, 628–30
election of 1964 and, 628
FBI National Academy and, 633
gangster violence campaigns and, 628
JEH’s racist beliefs and, 629–31
Johnson on, 628, 631–32
Law Enforcement Assistance Act and, 632
National Crime Information Center, 632–33
public relations and, 627, 628, 633–36
Ward, Clara, 588
Warner, Jack, 343, 634
Warren, Earl, 438–39, 569, 570, 571, 572, 574, 579
See also Warren Commission
Warren Commission, 568–77
attempts to prevent, 565–67
Church Committee on, 728
devil’s advocate approach to FBI, 573–74
FBI political maneuvering, 575–77
FBI report, 571–72, 573
final report, 600
first meeting, 570–71
JEH’s testimony, 579–80
membership, 568–69
Oswald confidential informant status and, 574–75
Washington, D.C.
civil rights enforcement, 439–40
civil rights movement, 281
desegregation, 439–40
early twentieth-century transformation of, 38–39
end of World War II and, 301
flu pandemic (1918), 60
founding of, 5
Great Depression and, 130–31
JEH’s childhood and, 13–14, 15
JEH’s family background in, 5, 6
JEH’s law education and, 43
late nineteenth-century expansion of, 13
Lavender Scare and, 402–3, 428
New Year’s celebrations, 12–13
postwar Red Scare and, 402
postwar religious awakening, 369
progressivism and, 39
race riot (1919), 67–68
race riots, 660, 661
racist real estate covenants, 222
segregation, 15, 28, 34, 439
social institutions, 109–10
War on Crime and, 630
World War I and, 52–53, 60
World War II and, 276–77
Washington Confidential (Mortimer and Lait), 402–3
Watergate scandal, 723–24, 725–27
Wayne, John, 416
Weatherman, 688–89, 690
Weather Underground Organization (WUO), 692, 729
Wechsler, James, 429, 454–55, 518, 555
Weidley, John, 25–26
Weisband, William, 381
Welch, Joseph, 433, 434, 435
Welch, Robert, 511, 513–14
Welch Bill, 133
Welles, Sumner, 279–80, 398
Wesley, Cynthia, 554
Weyl, Walter, 38
Wheeler, Burton, 98, 99, 232
Wherry, Kenneth, 403
White, Harry Dexter
Bentley’s identification of, 328, 329
HUAC testimony, 350
IMF position, 331
Joseph McCarthy and, 425, 434
notoriety of, 321
Venona project and, 421–22
White, Walter, 281–82, 311, 315, 443
Whitehead, Don, 453, 616
white supremacist groups, xvi
Whitson, Lish, 609
Wicker, Tom, 622
Wickersham Commission, 127–30, 132, 153
Wilkins, Roy, 438, 606, 610, 614
Willis, Ed, 587–88
Wilson, William B., 65, 67, 81, 82, 85
Wilson, Woodrow, and administration
A. Mitchell Palmer and, 64
Palmer Raids and, 84
race riots and, 67
racism, 38, 39–40, 45
stroke (1919), 71
World War I and, 49, 51, 52, 55, 60, 229
Winchell, Walter
Cohn and, 427
death of, 710–11
JEH heterosexual dating rumors and, 220, 221
JEH’s social life and, 219
organized crime investigations and, 226
public relations and, 186–87
The Untouchables and, 634
World War II era political surveillance and, 249
Winning of the West, The (Roosevelt), 22
Withers, Ernest, 661
Woodard, Isaac, 311–12, 315
Woods, Rose Mary, 474
Woodward, Bob, 725
World War I, 48, 49–56
FBI development and, 94
George Washington University and, 50–51
German sabotage during, 264
political surveillance during, 50, 57–59, 66, 253
Socialist Party and, 77
vigilantism during and after, 55–56, 199, 253
Washington, D.C. and, 52–53, 60
World War II political surveillance and, 229–30
World War II
beginning of, 227
civil rights movement, 280–83, 311
end of, 300–301
FBI expansion and, 104, 237
Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings, 300–301
invasion of France, 237–38
isolationism and, 242, 243, 245
Japanese-American internment, xvi, 50, 250, 253, 258–61, 439
Manhattan Project, 285, 299, 300–301, 372, 373
Joseph McCarthy and, 384
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, 243, 284
sexual policing and, 279–80, 398
U.S.-Soviet alliance, 322, 326
war with Japan, 250–51, 253
Washington, D.C. and, 276–77
See also World War II era political surveillance under Hoover’s FBI
Worthy, William, 552
Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 18
Wright, Richard, 210
X
X, Malcolm, 584, 600, 620, 648–49
Y
You Can’t Get Away With It! (film), 177–78, 199
Young, Andrew, 609, 611
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), 508, 694
Youth for Christ, 365
Z
Ziegler, Ron, 718
Zimbalist, Efrem, 627, 634
Zwicker, Ralph, 430
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Beverly Gage is professor of 20th-century American history at Yale. She is the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded, which examined the history of terrorism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She writes frequently for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, among other publications.
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