New film highlights FBI abuses as House Democrats push to strip Hoover s name from building Michael Isikoff © Provided by Yahoo! News The Pennsylvania Avenue entrance of the FBI s J. Edgar Hoover building. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
WASHINGTON A group of House Democrats is mounting a renewed push to strip J. Edgar Hoover’s name off the FBI headquarters in the wake of a powerful new film that highlights one of the bureau’s worst abuses under his leadership: a secret, decades-long program known as COINTELPRO that was aimed at discrediting civil rights activists, and which ultimately led to the 1969 killing by law enforcement of Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.
New film highlights FBI abuses as House Democrats push to strip Hoover s name from building
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systematically trying to squash dissent and dissent is the life s blood of democracy. determined to get proof they were crossing the line, fellow activists and physics professor, william davanon hatched a plan, reached out to the raines and six others, a sougs woerk kerr, graduate student and taxi driver named keith forsyth. he we agreed to meet. he said, what would you think of the idea of breaking into an fbi office? i looked at him. i thought, he was serious, aren t you? i was pretty vehement. i felt like marches up and down the street with a sign was not cutting it anymore. it was like, time to kick it up a notch. the crew decided to break into a small fbi field office in media, pennsylvania. once i got over the shock of thinking this was the nuttiest thing i had ever heard in my life, it was like, this is a