Secrets of the Kennedy’s depicted in Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘J. Edgar’ - VIDEO

J. Edgar Hoover wasn't the founder of the F.B.I. As the movie illustrated, Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone offered him the job, in 1924. He was the acting director, shortly to become the Director of the Bureau of Investigation. In 1935, it became the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is my opinion that he was NOT gay! After all, he went out with Dorothy Lamour & Leia Rodgers, mother of Ginger. Mark Felt ("Deep Throat") claimed that Hoover & Tolson were merely like brothers. In his day, suspicion clouded many men who never got married. I read the book, "Young J. Edgar", which much of the movie is based on. Hoover had nude caricatures of women, on some furniture, I think lamps. This would hardly be the style of a gay men! The evidence of his homosexuality is only circumstantial.

obpiper I know he was gay but he ran anti gay campaigns and gave the appearance of been anti gay.He never came out of the cupboard.

I don't think J Edgar was evil, but he was sick!

Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover, there wasn't someone with more a more serious mien to play the part, what was Clint Eastwood thinking? Put DiCaprio in Titanic type movies playing soft cute guys until he gets some lines of character in his face. And whatever fault Hoover had, he kept presidents in line, where's the man that could do that with the lowlife current president?

No, SeanOMelbourne, Hoover was gay. In fact, his Federal felonies should have landed him in Federal Prison housed with the women where he couldn't enjoy being forceably sodomized.

If only the Kennedys knew he was an anti gay cross dresser.

The blackmailing of the Kennedy's is a fine example of why strong moral character is so important in public officials. If the politicians are going to police the police, they had better have the moral base from which to do it.

In his book, The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover (1993), Anthony Summers claims that Hoover and Tolson became lovers. For the next forty years the two men were constant companions. In the FBI the couple were known as "J. Edna and Mother Tolson". Mafia boss, Meyer Lansky, obtained photographic evidence of Hoover's homosexuality and was able to use this to stop the FBI from looking too closely into his own criminal activities. When the journalist, Ray Tucker, hinted at Hoover's homosexuality in an article for Collier's Magazine, he was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Information about Tucker's private life was leaked to the media and when this became known, other journalists were frightened off from writing about this aspect of Hoover's life. Eastwood was also warned off.

How could Eastwood know that he never allowed himself to give full expression to the relationship?

Such a twit. Whenever he'd go to the track, his driver wasn't allowed to make a left turn (or maybe a right i forget which) as Hover considered it unlucky. So his driver had to plan his route accordingly. Ane he was charged with protecting our nation!

He was evil, pure and simple.