1 00:00:09,725 --> 00:00:12,560 I don't know who I can trust anymore. 2 00:00:14,396 --> 00:00:15,479 Only you. 3 00:00:17,983 --> 00:00:19,442 Only you, Mother. 4 00:00:20,152 --> 00:00:23,654 You're all I have to keep me safe, you understand that? 5 00:00:24,698 --> 00:00:26,907 Please, Mother, let me take you to a doctor. 6 00:00:27,075 --> 00:00:30,119 A simple examination isn't unholy, is it? 7 00:00:31,997 --> 00:00:33,038 Mother. 8 00:00:35,333 --> 00:00:36,459 Mother, please. 9 00:00:39,337 --> 00:00:41,672 Faith, Edgar. 10 00:00:42,340 --> 00:00:43,758 Faith. 11 00:00:45,343 --> 00:00:48,137 Don't wilt like a little flower. 12 00:00:48,847 --> 00:00:50,222 Be strong. 13 00:00:51,266 --> 00:00:52,767 Yes, Mother. 14 00:00:55,145 --> 00:01:00,107 I will. 15 00:01:04,613 --> 00:01:08,657 HOOVER: if what Congress valued more than wits and brains was muscle... 16 00:01:08,825 --> 00:01:11,911 ...if what they hungered for was an armed American hero... 17 00:01:12,078 --> 00:01:15,873 ...then I was willing to risk my very life and give them both. 18 00:01:16,041 --> 00:01:17,208 Move. 19 00:01:17,375 --> 00:01:18,667 Go. 20 00:01:18,835 --> 00:01:20,127 AGENT: Hold it, government agents! 21 00:01:20,295 --> 00:01:22,046 [AGENTS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY] 22 00:01:22,214 --> 00:01:23,297 [GUN COCKS] 23 00:01:24,674 --> 00:01:25,716 [HORSE WHINNIES] 24 00:01:35,018 --> 00:01:37,186 HOOVER: The arrest is mine to make! 25 00:01:37,896 --> 00:01:38,896 Move. 26 00:01:39,064 --> 00:01:41,524 Mr. Karpis, you are under arrest. 27 00:01:42,734 --> 00:01:46,529 Mr. Hoover himself. I'm gonna be famous. 28 00:01:47,405 --> 00:01:49,198 Put the handcuffs on him. 29 00:01:51,159 --> 00:01:53,118 [GUN COCKS] 30 00:01:54,162 --> 00:01:56,205 Don't move, Mr. Mahan. 31 00:01:57,249 --> 00:01:58,666 Blow it down. 32 00:02:02,379 --> 00:02:03,420 Move. 33 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:04,922 [DOOR OPENS] 34 00:02:09,219 --> 00:02:11,011 [EXPLOSION] 35 00:02:12,848 --> 00:02:15,057 [MAN COUGHING] 36 00:02:15,225 --> 00:02:17,601 Mr. Brunette, you are under arrest. 37 00:02:17,769 --> 00:02:22,064 Alvin Karpis said he couldn't be taken alive, but we took him without firing a shot. 38 00:02:22,232 --> 00:02:26,068 And let me tell you, he shook all over. His voice, his hands, and his knees. 39 00:02:26,236 --> 00:02:29,280 You arrested Harry Campbell in Toledo and Brunette in Manhattan? 40 00:02:29,447 --> 00:02:30,948 And William Mahan in California. 41 00:02:31,157 --> 00:02:33,659 But let me clarify without a shadow of a doubt... 42 00:02:33,827 --> 00:02:36,412 ...this was a "we" job, not an "I" job. 43 00:02:43,211 --> 00:02:45,963 Edgar, look at this. We made the Post Toasties box. 44 00:02:46,965 --> 00:02:50,301 "Melvin Purvis, the FBl agent that caught Dillinger." 45 00:02:51,011 --> 00:02:52,803 Write the cereal-maker. Let them know... 46 00:02:53,722 --> 00:02:56,140 Oh. "Junior G-Man." Hmm. 47 00:02:56,308 --> 00:03:01,478 Tell them they ought to print any further boxes to read "former agent of the FBl." 48 00:03:02,147 --> 00:03:04,064 Sit down, Clyde. I'm gonna read something. 49 00:03:08,486 --> 00:03:10,279 "Only eight more days. 50 00:03:10,447 --> 00:03:13,490 Funny how even the dearest face will fade away in time. 51 00:03:13,658 --> 00:03:15,367 Most clearly, I remember your eyes... 52 00:03:15,535 --> 00:03:19,747 ...with a sort of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot... 53 00:03:19,915 --> 00:03:23,500 ...just northeast of the corner of your mouth against my lips." 54 00:03:23,668 --> 00:03:25,085 TOLSON: What is it? 55 00:03:25,253 --> 00:03:26,879 It's a letter from Lorena Hickok... 56 00:03:27,047 --> 00:03:31,133 ...the White House reporter with the bad breath, to Mrs. Roosevelt. 57 00:03:31,801 --> 00:03:34,678 No. What are you gonna do with it? 58 00:03:34,846 --> 00:03:37,431 Nothing. I accused her of having an affair with a man... 59 00:03:37,599 --> 00:03:40,517 ...and Old Horse Face is having an affair with Mrs. Bat Breath! 60 00:03:40,685 --> 00:03:41,685 [CHUCKLING] 61 00:03:41,853 --> 00:03:44,271 - A woman! Can you believe it? - Mm. 62 00:03:44,439 --> 00:03:45,731 [LAUGHING] 63 00:03:45,899 --> 00:03:47,441 [KNOCKING ON DOOR] 64 00:03:48,693 --> 00:03:51,862 Oh, excuse me, Mr. Hoover. They'd like to see you in the laboratory. 65 00:03:52,030 --> 00:03:55,282 Yes, Miss Gandy. You tell them I'll be there in one minute. Thank you. 66 00:03:55,533 --> 00:03:56,700 We'll get to this later. 67 00:03:57,327 --> 00:04:01,997 Speaking of horses, Clyde, I'm going to Del Mar this weekend. 68 00:04:02,832 --> 00:04:04,833 I was thinking of taking a quick vacation... 69 00:04:05,001 --> 00:04:08,170 ...and, well, I thought you'd like to join me. 70 00:04:08,338 --> 00:04:10,547 Well, I've never been to the horse races, Edgar. 71 00:04:10,715 --> 00:04:11,799 Well, it's wonderful. 72 00:04:11,967 --> 00:04:17,221 And between me and you, when I lose, the track, they actually cover the losses. 73 00:04:17,389 --> 00:04:21,058 - So, what happens if you win? - They still pay. 74 00:04:21,226 --> 00:04:22,309 Then where's the thrill? 75 00:04:22,477 --> 00:04:26,355 In the sun that falls on the stands, the hotel rooms, the service... 76 00:04:26,523 --> 00:04:29,900 ...the restaurants, but, most of all, Clyde, it's the company. 77 00:04:31,569 --> 00:04:33,654 - Come with me. - I'd love to. 78 00:04:33,822 --> 00:04:36,991 Fantastic. I'll have Miss Gandy make all the arrangements. 79 00:04:37,158 --> 00:04:40,411 Well, I can't go now. But maybe in a couple months after I've saved up. 80 00:04:40,578 --> 00:04:43,914 - It's completely covered, Clyde. - Edgar, I can't let you do that. 81 00:04:44,082 --> 00:04:48,335 Listen, you've done so much for me, for this Bureau. Consider it a thank you. 82 00:04:48,503 --> 00:04:50,671 I don't know that I'd feel comfortable. 83 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:54,717 Tell you what, Clyde: I'll get a suite with adjoining rooms... 84 00:04:54,884 --> 00:04:58,387 ...rather than having us stay separate. That'll be savings enough. 85 00:04:58,847 --> 00:04:59,888 Deal. 86 00:05:00,682 --> 00:05:02,433 What do you have for me, Mr. Koehler? 87 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,936 Well, as you can see, ahem, there are several kinds of wood here. 88 00:05:06,104 --> 00:05:10,441 Pine, birch, fir, and, if you look closely, you will see... 89 00:05:10,608 --> 00:05:11,775 - Thank you. - Mr. Tolson. 90 00:05:11,943 --> 00:05:15,612 That each has its own internal markings, rings and knots... 91 00:05:15,780 --> 00:05:19,616 ...and its own external markings from the machinery used to mill the raw timber... 92 00:05:19,784 --> 00:05:23,203 ...and these that mark the tools used to build the ladder. 93 00:05:23,371 --> 00:05:27,458 The question is, how does this help us identify the kidnappers, Mr. Koehler? 94 00:05:27,625 --> 00:05:29,251 I need more money, sir. 95 00:05:29,419 --> 00:05:31,920 - More money, sir, for what? - Postage. 96 00:05:32,088 --> 00:05:34,590 I need to write every mill on the East Coast... 97 00:05:34,758 --> 00:05:38,135 ...and see if their blades match these marks. 98 00:05:38,303 --> 00:05:39,678 Hmm. 99 00:05:40,138 --> 00:05:43,307 I want a report from each mill and a map tracking all leads. 100 00:05:43,475 --> 00:05:46,810 By the time I get back from New York, I want something to report. 101 00:05:46,978 --> 00:05:48,145 Good day. 102 00:05:57,155 --> 00:05:59,323 HOOVER: Just like the communist radicals before them... 103 00:05:59,491 --> 00:06:00,991 ...the gangster fell from favor. 104 00:06:01,159 --> 00:06:05,329 Now, finally, children dreamed of joining the FBl. 105 00:06:05,497 --> 00:06:06,997 [GRUNTS] 106 00:06:13,588 --> 00:06:16,090 MAN [ON SCREEN]: On your feet. On your feet. 107 00:06:17,133 --> 00:06:18,884 [PHONE RINGING ON SCREEN] 108 00:06:20,428 --> 00:06:21,470 Yeah? 109 00:06:22,263 --> 00:06:24,431 He's taking his shower. Any message? 110 00:06:24,599 --> 00:06:27,017 There ain't any shower there, copper. 111 00:06:27,185 --> 00:06:29,937 [ALL CHUCKLE] 112 00:06:34,484 --> 00:06:36,527 [ALL CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY] 113 00:06:40,198 --> 00:06:41,365 MAN: Miss Temple! 114 00:06:41,533 --> 00:06:45,244 Mr. Hoover, I was wondering if you would join my police force. 115 00:06:45,411 --> 00:06:46,787 Why, yes, Miss Temple. 116 00:06:46,955 --> 00:06:51,166 If you agree to be an honorary G-Woman, and give me one little kiss. 117 00:06:52,001 --> 00:06:54,545 I don't know if your wife would approve, Mr. Hoover. 118 00:06:54,712 --> 00:06:55,963 [BOTH CHUCKLE] 119 00:06:56,131 --> 00:06:58,298 But, you see, I still live with my mother. 120 00:06:59,384 --> 00:07:01,969 SHIRLEY: Oh. Okay. 121 00:07:02,137 --> 00:07:04,388 REPORTER 1: Look this way! REPORTER 2: That's real spiffy. 122 00:07:04,556 --> 00:07:06,515 REPORTER 3: Nice smile. Thank you very much. 123 00:07:09,811 --> 00:07:11,728 REPORTER: Excuse me, sir. Can we get a statement? 124 00:07:11,896 --> 00:07:13,480 PHOTOGRAPHER: How'd you like the picture? 125 00:07:13,648 --> 00:07:15,357 [REPORTERS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 126 00:07:15,525 --> 00:07:16,733 MAN: This way, Mr. Hoover! 127 00:07:16,901 --> 00:07:18,277 After you, Mother. 128 00:07:25,618 --> 00:07:27,578 [HORN HONKS] 129 00:07:30,915 --> 00:07:32,749 Should we go to the club? 130 00:07:33,418 --> 00:07:36,170 After we drop Mother off at the hotel. 131 00:07:38,256 --> 00:07:39,923 [HORN HONKING] 132 00:07:44,929 --> 00:07:46,763 [BAND PLAYING JAZZ MUSIC] 133 00:07:56,149 --> 00:07:58,650 I have you at a table with Anita Colby. 134 00:07:59,569 --> 00:08:02,863 Lela Rogers and her daughter Ginger have asked if they can join. 135 00:08:03,031 --> 00:08:04,573 HOOVER: As long as it's near the front. 136 00:08:04,741 --> 00:08:07,784 Miss Rogers, pleasure to meet you. This must be your mother. 137 00:08:07,952 --> 00:08:08,952 Hello. 138 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,080 J. Edgar Hoover. This is Clyde Tolson. Anita, good to see you. 139 00:08:20,715 --> 00:08:22,633 The bullet entered the back of the head... 140 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,260 ...and exited through the front near his cheek. 141 00:08:25,428 --> 00:08:28,805 The thing that most people don't realize is that there is little blood. 142 00:08:28,973 --> 00:08:32,643 The heat from the bullet actually seals the wound as it enters... 143 00:08:32,810 --> 00:08:37,606 ...so the crime scene is far more peaceful than is depicted in your moving pictures. 144 00:08:37,774 --> 00:08:41,151 And little Lindy. Did you see the child with your own eyes? 145 00:08:41,986 --> 00:08:44,029 Those are details I wouldn't disclose... 146 00:08:44,197 --> 00:08:46,865 ...with a refined group of women such as yourselves. 147 00:08:47,033 --> 00:08:52,913 I couldn't bear to make you shed a tear. But I assure you this, we are on the case. 148 00:08:53,081 --> 00:08:56,166 I saw the Lindberghs in Paris. I hardly recognized them. 149 00:08:56,334 --> 00:08:57,334 HOOVER: Hmm. 150 00:08:57,502 --> 00:09:00,671 Only justice can bring reason back to their lives. 151 00:09:01,172 --> 00:09:05,634 But I might share one confidential clue with you, if you swear to secrecy. 152 00:09:05,802 --> 00:09:07,052 [LELA GASPS AND GINGER CHUCKLES] 153 00:09:07,220 --> 00:09:08,345 Of course. 154 00:09:08,513 --> 00:09:10,973 The gold notes from the ransom money have surfaced. 155 00:09:11,140 --> 00:09:12,849 And can you guess where? 156 00:09:13,017 --> 00:09:14,518 Tell us. Please, Mr. Hoover. 157 00:09:14,686 --> 00:09:16,895 In the Bronx, on three occasions. 158 00:09:17,063 --> 00:09:18,939 And each one of the shop owners claim... 159 00:09:19,107 --> 00:09:23,360 ...they received them from a man with a pointed chin and a German accent. 160 00:09:25,863 --> 00:09:28,699 Take my word for it, Mr. Hoover. 161 00:09:28,866 --> 00:09:31,702 All the admiration in the world can't fill the spot love goes. 162 00:09:31,869 --> 00:09:32,911 Hmm. 163 00:09:33,079 --> 00:09:34,705 Or keep your bed warm. 164 00:09:37,208 --> 00:09:39,084 I serve my country, Miss Colby. 165 00:09:39,252 --> 00:09:42,296 The nation's admiration is more than enough for me. Heh. 166 00:09:42,964 --> 00:09:45,716 But it likely makes for a cold bed. 167 00:09:47,218 --> 00:09:50,679 Mr. Hoover, would it be out of the question to bother you for a dance? 168 00:09:50,847 --> 00:09:52,723 Oh, uh, how do you mean? 169 00:09:53,975 --> 00:09:55,809 Well, simply a dance. 170 00:09:56,102 --> 00:09:57,811 You do dance, don't you? 171 00:09:57,979 --> 00:10:01,481 Well, that is a skill that, um, I haven't yet mastered. 172 00:10:01,691 --> 00:10:04,818 And the night is getting long, isn't it, Mr. Tolson? Mr. Tolson? 173 00:10:04,986 --> 00:10:07,696 No time like the present. It's my favorite song, come on. 174 00:10:07,864 --> 00:10:10,365 It's time we leave. Uh, we have a great deal of work. 175 00:10:10,533 --> 00:10:12,743 We... We... We have a great deal of work tomorrow... 176 00:10:12,910 --> 00:10:16,663 ...and I'm afraid we don't have time to dance. We're very busy, aren't we? 177 00:10:16,831 --> 00:10:18,123 Yes. 178 00:10:18,291 --> 00:10:20,584 And my sincere apologies. I... 179 00:10:20,752 --> 00:10:22,711 Right now, Mr. Tolson. Thank you very much. 180 00:10:22,879 --> 00:10:24,338 - Good evening. LELA: Ha, ha. 181 00:10:24,505 --> 00:10:25,756 Good night. 182 00:10:25,923 --> 00:10:27,758 [BOTH CHUCKLE] 183 00:10:29,802 --> 00:10:31,011 I don't... 184 00:10:31,763 --> 00:10:32,804 I... 185 00:10:32,972 --> 00:10:35,766 I don't... I don't like to... I don't like to dance, Mother. 186 00:10:35,933 --> 00:10:38,894 - I don't like to da... - Edgar, go look in the mirror. 187 00:10:39,062 --> 00:10:42,189 Talk the way the doctor taught you to. Be my little Speedy. 188 00:10:49,989 --> 00:10:52,449 [SIGHS] 189 00:10:53,284 --> 00:10:55,452 I can spit my words out with... With... 190 00:10:55,620 --> 00:10:56,703 [EXHALES] 191 00:10:56,871 --> 00:11:00,290 I can spit my words out with precision, diction, and clarity. 192 00:11:00,458 --> 00:11:04,961 I can sp... Spit my words out with precision, diction, and clarity. 193 00:11:06,923 --> 00:11:12,886 I'm a proficient, remarkable lad, capable of remarkable feats. 194 00:11:13,054 --> 00:11:15,972 I'm a profic... Mother. Mother, I don't like to dance. 195 00:11:17,141 --> 00:11:19,893 Mostly I don't like to dance with women. 196 00:11:20,061 --> 00:11:22,020 I think it's time you knew this. 197 00:11:22,188 --> 00:11:24,815 And I find it humiliating and I refuse to be humiliated. 198 00:11:24,982 --> 00:11:27,150 Edgar, stop. 199 00:11:28,486 --> 00:11:29,986 Do you remember Barton Pincus? 200 00:11:31,697 --> 00:11:33,281 Yes, Mother. 201 00:11:33,449 --> 00:11:35,492 His father was a watchmaker. 202 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:39,371 He was 10 years younger than me and you used to call him... 203 00:11:41,290 --> 00:11:44,334 ...Birdy or Daffy or something to that effect. 204 00:11:44,502 --> 00:11:47,003 And do you remember what happened to Daffy? 205 00:11:47,171 --> 00:11:51,341 After the school custodian discovered him in a hoop skirt and flower bonnet? 206 00:11:53,511 --> 00:11:56,012 He was made to stand outside in front of the school... 207 00:11:56,180 --> 00:11:59,349 ...wearing the bonnet and skirt as punishment. 208 00:12:00,059 --> 00:12:02,519 Did you ever wonder why we called him Daffy? 209 00:12:03,729 --> 00:12:07,357 For his odd behavior, I believe. 210 00:12:08,568 --> 00:12:11,236 It's short for "daffodil," Edgar. 211 00:12:13,030 --> 00:12:15,490 Do you remember what happened to Daffodil Pincus? 212 00:12:17,118 --> 00:12:18,535 Yes, Mother. He... 213 00:12:19,704 --> 00:12:21,580 He shot himself six weeks after. 214 00:12:21,747 --> 00:12:22,789 That's right. 215 00:12:23,708 --> 00:12:27,711 And I thank God every day that my own sons don't suffer from his condition. 216 00:12:28,713 --> 00:12:29,963 Edgar. 217 00:12:31,924 --> 00:12:35,051 I'd rather have a dead son than a daffodil for a son. 218 00:12:39,891 --> 00:12:43,226 And now, I'm gonna teach you to dance. 219 00:12:47,273 --> 00:12:48,648 Yes, Mother. 220 00:12:55,531 --> 00:12:57,157 [HOOVER HUMMING] 221 00:13:23,476 --> 00:13:25,936 - Bring this right over here, please. - Sure, sir. 222 00:13:26,771 --> 00:13:30,273 All right. Now, when did you get this shipment? 223 00:13:30,983 --> 00:13:35,278 It's a long while back. I'm thinking, uh, November 1931. 224 00:13:36,322 --> 00:13:38,323 Three months before the kidnapping. 225 00:13:39,825 --> 00:13:41,201 All right. Thank you. 226 00:13:41,410 --> 00:13:44,871 The lumberyard is a cash business, there aren't any receipts or names. 227 00:13:45,039 --> 00:13:47,916 It tells us where he was shopping before we were looking. 228 00:13:48,084 --> 00:13:50,961 Show me the addresses of where the ransom bills have shown up. 229 00:13:51,128 --> 00:13:53,547 AGENT: It's 456 West Third. 230 00:13:54,131 --> 00:13:56,508 And 476 West Third. 231 00:13:57,802 --> 00:13:59,302 And down the street right here. 232 00:14:02,807 --> 00:14:05,141 HOOVER: We knew who we were looking for. 233 00:14:05,309 --> 00:14:08,478 Someone who'd done business in this neighborhood for years. 234 00:14:08,646 --> 00:14:09,938 Someone who was still there. 235 00:14:10,106 --> 00:14:12,232 He was average height, blue eyes. 236 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,317 High cheekbones and a pointy chin. 237 00:14:14,485 --> 00:14:18,655 Yes, sir, a pointed chin and an accent, like a... 238 00:14:18,823 --> 00:14:20,490 German accent, maybe? 239 00:14:20,658 --> 00:14:23,326 A German with big cheekbones. 240 00:14:24,161 --> 00:14:26,788 Am I, uh, going to get him in some kind of trouble? 241 00:14:26,956 --> 00:14:31,334 Not if he didn't do anything wrong. We're the FBl, son. We're the good guys. 242 00:14:33,004 --> 00:14:35,338 It was deposited by Walter Lyle. 243 00:14:35,506 --> 00:14:39,676 He manages the gas station up on Lexington and 127th. 244 00:14:39,844 --> 00:14:41,469 AGENT: Walter Lyle? 245 00:14:41,929 --> 00:14:43,638 You remember the man that paid with this? 246 00:14:43,806 --> 00:14:46,266 Yes, I remember him. He bought 89 cents worth of gas. 247 00:14:46,434 --> 00:14:49,185 And he paid with this bill? 248 00:14:49,353 --> 00:14:52,272 Yes, sir. But I don't know him. I haven't seen him since. 249 00:14:52,773 --> 00:14:55,525 You would remember him if he came in again? 250 00:14:55,693 --> 00:14:59,029 Yeah, he was German, I think, I mean, with an accent and pointed chin. 251 00:14:59,196 --> 00:15:01,865 - High cheekbones, right? - Yeah. I looked at the bill funny. 252 00:15:02,033 --> 00:15:04,534 He assured me he had a hundred more like it at home. 253 00:15:04,702 --> 00:15:06,161 You had a conversation with him? 254 00:15:06,996 --> 00:15:08,163 No, that was it. 255 00:15:09,081 --> 00:15:10,123 Thank you, Mr. Lyle. 256 00:15:10,291 --> 00:15:13,001 I wrote down the license plate number. 257 00:15:13,878 --> 00:15:16,087 That's the writing along the edge of the bill. 258 00:15:18,633 --> 00:15:19,716 Let's go. 259 00:15:26,390 --> 00:15:28,600 Miss Gandy, get Mr. Tolson. 260 00:15:37,568 --> 00:15:38,735 Agent Sisk. 261 00:15:38,903 --> 00:15:42,614 The New York Motor Vehicles Bureau describes it as a blue 1930 Dodge sedan. 262 00:15:42,782 --> 00:15:44,741 The owner is a carpenter born in Germany... 263 00:15:44,909 --> 00:15:49,245 ...lives at 1279 East 222nd Street in the Bronx. 264 00:15:49,413 --> 00:15:51,081 His name is Bruno Richard Hauptmann. 265 00:15:51,457 --> 00:15:52,916 [CHUCKLES] 266 00:16:02,635 --> 00:16:03,718 Let's move. 267 00:16:03,886 --> 00:16:06,096 HOOVER: On September 19th, 1934... 268 00:16:06,263 --> 00:16:09,099 ...before we could arrest the most wanted man in America... 269 00:16:09,266 --> 00:16:13,520 ...he'd been pulled over by a local cop for a broken tail light. 270 00:16:13,688 --> 00:16:14,938 Can't believe this. 271 00:16:17,358 --> 00:16:18,525 Pull over. 272 00:16:27,118 --> 00:16:28,368 FBl, put your hands up! 273 00:16:28,536 --> 00:16:30,412 - Put them up! - Ls there a problem? 274 00:16:30,579 --> 00:16:32,956 Get out of the car! 275 00:16:43,008 --> 00:16:44,050 Bruno Hauptmann... 276 00:16:44,218 --> 00:16:48,138 ...you are under arrest for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. 277 00:16:48,305 --> 00:16:50,432 Cuff him, boys. 278 00:16:50,599 --> 00:16:53,226 [HANDCUFFS CLICK] 279 00:16:55,813 --> 00:16:57,814 HOOVER: We finally had him. 280 00:16:57,982 --> 00:17:01,151 Now we had to convict, but unlike trials of the past... 281 00:17:01,318 --> 00:17:06,614 ...we now had forensics, expert witnesses, and facts. 282 00:17:10,828 --> 00:17:12,078 We need a title, Agent Garrison. 283 00:17:12,246 --> 00:17:13,288 [INTERCOM BUZZES] 284 00:17:13,456 --> 00:17:14,831 GARRISON: Right away, Mr. Hoover. 285 00:17:16,876 --> 00:17:18,668 We are working, Miss Gandy. 286 00:17:18,836 --> 00:17:20,378 HELEN [OVER PHONE]: The tape came in. 287 00:17:21,005 --> 00:17:23,256 Bring it to my private office. 288 00:17:24,341 --> 00:17:26,342 That'll be all for now, Agent Garrison. 289 00:17:43,778 --> 00:17:46,488 MAN [ON RECORDING]: I just have to say... 290 00:17:46,655 --> 00:17:50,074 ...you looked so beautiful sitting across that bar. 291 00:17:50,242 --> 00:17:52,035 WOMAN: I saw you watching me. 292 00:17:52,203 --> 00:17:54,078 MAN: I have to admit I was watching you... 293 00:17:54,246 --> 00:17:55,622 ...for a long time. 294 00:17:55,790 --> 00:17:57,582 [RECORDING FAST-FORWARDING] 295 00:18:00,127 --> 00:18:01,461 WOMAN: Slow down a little bit. 296 00:18:01,629 --> 00:18:02,670 MAN: All right. 297 00:18:03,214 --> 00:18:04,756 [BOTH MOANING] 298 00:18:04,924 --> 00:18:06,549 WOMAN: Let me take this off. 299 00:18:07,176 --> 00:18:08,551 MAN: Turn around. 300 00:18:11,222 --> 00:18:12,472 WOMAN: You got it? 301 00:18:18,979 --> 00:18:21,064 [BOTH MOANING] 302 00:18:29,365 --> 00:18:30,990 [INTERCOM BUZZES] 303 00:18:34,703 --> 00:18:37,080 Miss Gandy, I told you I am not to be disturbed. 304 00:18:37,248 --> 00:18:38,873 HELEN [OVER PHONE]: I'm sorry. Mr. Hoover? 305 00:18:39,041 --> 00:18:42,669 Yes, it's urgent. I have Agent Shanklin on the line from Dallas. 306 00:18:42,837 --> 00:18:44,420 SHANKLIN: My apologies, Mr. Hoover. 307 00:18:44,588 --> 00:18:46,130 I told Miss Gandy to put me through. 308 00:18:46,298 --> 00:18:48,591 What is it, Agent Shanklin? 309 00:18:49,051 --> 00:18:52,136 Sir, the president has been shot. 310 00:18:54,139 --> 00:18:55,515 Who else knows about this? 311 00:18:55,683 --> 00:18:59,143 No one, sir. I thought you should know before the press reports it. 312 00:19:00,271 --> 00:19:02,564 - Thank you, Agent Shanklin. - Yes, sir. 313 00:19:10,030 --> 00:19:12,448 MAN [ON RECORDING]: Oh, that feels so good. 314 00:19:38,559 --> 00:19:41,144 Get me Robert Kennedy immediately. 315 00:19:47,693 --> 00:19:48,985 Mr. Hoover? 316 00:19:49,612 --> 00:19:53,239 Mr. Kennedy, the president has been shot. 317 00:19:54,700 --> 00:19:55,742 What? 318 00:19:56,285 --> 00:19:58,328 Mr. Hoover? What? 319 00:20:00,998 --> 00:20:02,332 Mr. Hoover? 320 00:20:11,175 --> 00:20:13,176 [BELL RINGS] 321 00:20:13,344 --> 00:20:15,386 ANNOUNCER [OVER PA]: It's Frosty Mountain in front... 322 00:20:15,554 --> 00:20:16,638 ...by a length and a half. 323 00:20:16,805 --> 00:20:19,182 That's Jazz third by six. 324 00:20:19,350 --> 00:20:23,895 Slapjack's fourth, final head. Popstar Merell three quarters. 325 00:20:24,063 --> 00:20:28,858 Turning for home, Frosty Mountain under the left by a fraction and a length and a half. 326 00:20:29,026 --> 00:20:32,070 HOOVER: Number five. He's gaining on them. 327 00:20:33,530 --> 00:20:35,156 ANNOUNCER: It's Frosty Mountain, now. 328 00:20:35,324 --> 00:20:36,491 [CROWD CHEERING] 329 00:20:36,659 --> 00:20:38,868 I'm not sure if I bet on that one. 330 00:20:39,036 --> 00:20:42,205 Ah. We lost again, Clyde. 331 00:20:42,414 --> 00:20:44,832 ANNOUNCER: Dextro back by a half-length on the rail. 332 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,086 Dextro now making his move. Findlay gives him the whip. 333 00:20:48,253 --> 00:20:50,004 Oh, there he goes, there he goes! 334 00:20:50,172 --> 00:20:52,048 Come on, Dextro, come on, Dextro! 335 00:20:52,216 --> 00:20:53,883 [ALL CHEERING] 336 00:20:55,010 --> 00:20:56,719 [ANNOUNCER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER PA] 337 00:21:16,657 --> 00:21:18,741 [CLEARS THROAT] 338 00:21:35,592 --> 00:21:36,843 [HOOVER SIGHS] 339 00:21:37,011 --> 00:21:39,345 - Did you see his shoes? - Ha, ha. 340 00:21:39,638 --> 00:21:40,722 HOOVER: Desi Arnaz? 341 00:21:40,889 --> 00:21:44,392 You mean the crocodile ones with the horrible buckles across the top? 342 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,102 No, I didn't notice them one bit. 343 00:21:46,270 --> 00:21:48,938 You'd think with their money they'd have a bit of fashion sense... 344 00:21:49,106 --> 00:21:51,357 HOOVER: Ha, ha. - ...or at least pay someone to have it. 345 00:21:51,525 --> 00:21:53,109 Oh, and his faux-ginger wife. 346 00:21:53,277 --> 00:21:57,864 When she walked in, I thought a hunter was gonna pull a rifle on that hat of hers. 347 00:21:58,032 --> 00:21:59,073 [BOTH LAUGH] 348 00:21:59,241 --> 00:22:01,075 It was like this, you see, like... 349 00:22:01,243 --> 00:22:03,286 TOLSON: Ha-ha-ha. That's right, with the feathers. 350 00:22:07,041 --> 00:22:10,043 You know, I care so very much for you, Clyde. I do. 351 00:22:12,337 --> 00:22:14,714 And I love you, Edgar. 352 00:22:17,968 --> 00:22:19,469 [CLEARS THROAT] 353 00:22:22,890 --> 00:22:24,223 ls everything okay? 354 00:22:24,391 --> 00:22:25,641 Yes, yes, I'm fine. 355 00:22:26,310 --> 00:22:27,560 I'm fine. 356 00:22:30,981 --> 00:22:34,317 I've been meaning to ask you something, Clyde. 357 00:22:34,485 --> 00:22:35,485 Anything. 358 00:22:37,821 --> 00:22:41,574 What do you think of Dorothy Lamour, the actress? 359 00:22:42,159 --> 00:22:43,785 With Rudy Vallee at the Stork Club? 360 00:22:43,952 --> 00:22:45,828 Yes. That's the one. 361 00:22:45,996 --> 00:22:49,123 She's a little camp for me, but, heh... 362 00:22:52,211 --> 00:22:55,463 Well, I've been thinking of taking her up on a proposal is all. 363 00:22:56,673 --> 00:22:57,673 For dinner? 364 00:22:58,300 --> 00:23:00,134 No, no, not dinner. 365 00:23:01,178 --> 00:23:03,054 We've been to dinner several times now. 366 00:23:04,515 --> 00:23:05,556 When? 367 00:23:07,434 --> 00:23:10,103 Oh, in New York, when I've gone up on the weekends. 368 00:23:13,023 --> 00:23:14,107 I see. 369 00:23:16,568 --> 00:23:21,155 I suppose what I'm... What I'm trying to say here, Clyde, is, well... 370 00:23:23,909 --> 00:23:26,410 ...l think it may be time for a Mrs. Hoover. 371 00:23:34,169 --> 00:23:36,838 What, you don't like her? Ls that it? 372 00:23:38,215 --> 00:23:40,341 Don't you make a fool of me, Edgar. 373 00:23:40,509 --> 00:23:43,511 I'm not, Clyde, I'm not making a fool of you. 374 00:23:45,806 --> 00:23:48,516 Have you...? Have you become physical? 375 00:23:51,311 --> 00:23:52,520 Yes, we have. 376 00:23:53,564 --> 00:23:54,814 What is it, Clyde? 377 00:23:54,982 --> 00:23:59,569 Do you want me to be half a person? Remain incomplete, is that what you want? 378 00:23:59,736 --> 00:24:00,862 [GRUNTING] 379 00:24:01,029 --> 00:24:03,239 ls that what I am to you, incompletion? 380 00:24:03,782 --> 00:24:05,575 Clyde, pick that glass up immediately! 381 00:24:05,742 --> 00:24:08,327 No, I will not! I have no reason to! 382 00:24:08,495 --> 00:24:11,247 I refuse! So, go on, fire me. 383 00:24:11,415 --> 00:24:12,707 Do it. Now! 384 00:24:12,875 --> 00:24:15,418 Get a hold of yourself. You're acting like a fool! 385 00:24:15,586 --> 00:24:17,420 - Agh! - Stop this! 386 00:24:17,588 --> 00:24:20,089 Clyde! You have no shoes on, for God's sakes! 387 00:24:20,257 --> 00:24:22,925 No. No, I will not! I won't even listen to you! 388 00:24:23,093 --> 00:24:25,928 You will never tell me what to do! You just lost that right! 389 00:24:26,096 --> 00:24:27,847 - Stop it! - I see right through you! 390 00:24:28,015 --> 00:24:31,267 You're a scared, heartless, horrible little man! 391 00:24:31,435 --> 00:24:32,935 - Unh! Don't you dare! - Unh! 392 00:24:33,103 --> 00:24:35,354 [BOTH GRUNTING] 393 00:25:01,757 --> 00:25:03,799 [BOTH PANTING] 394 00:25:11,016 --> 00:25:12,934 Don't you ever do that again. 395 00:25:14,645 --> 00:25:15,686 I won't. 396 00:25:18,148 --> 00:25:19,815 Cly... 397 00:25:21,485 --> 00:25:23,194 Clyde, where are you going? 398 00:25:23,612 --> 00:25:27,073 Clyde, please. Clyde, don't leave me! 399 00:25:27,241 --> 00:25:28,407 Clyde, please. 400 00:25:28,575 --> 00:25:30,326 Clyde, I'm sorry! 401 00:25:30,494 --> 00:25:32,328 Clyde, please don't leave me! 402 00:25:32,496 --> 00:25:33,663 Clyde, I'm begging you! 403 00:25:33,830 --> 00:25:38,334 I'm begging you, Clyde! Clyde, please. 404 00:25:38,502 --> 00:25:40,711 After all... 405 00:25:44,258 --> 00:25:50,137 After all, we have another day of races. 406 00:25:57,604 --> 00:26:01,107 If you ever mention a lady friend again... 407 00:26:01,275 --> 00:26:04,277 ...it will be the last time that you share my company. 408 00:26:08,365 --> 00:26:09,865 [DOOR OPENS] 409 00:26:10,659 --> 00:26:12,034 [DOOR CLOSES] 410 00:26:16,456 --> 00:26:18,124 Love you, Clyde. 411 00:26:20,168 --> 00:26:21,335 Love you. 412 00:26:25,716 --> 00:26:28,217 Mr. Meter looks promising. 413 00:26:29,219 --> 00:26:31,762 [ANNOUNCER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER PA] 414 00:26:41,148 --> 00:26:42,606 [SIGHS] 415 00:26:43,066 --> 00:26:45,401 - Unh. Ugh. - What is it, Clyde? 416 00:26:45,569 --> 00:26:47,111 Clyde? 417 00:26:47,279 --> 00:26:48,654 Someone get a doctor. 418 00:26:48,822 --> 00:26:49,989 Clyde. 419 00:26:50,157 --> 00:26:54,076 Someone get a doctor now! Someone get a doctor! 420 00:26:54,244 --> 00:26:56,579 Clyde, look at me. Look at me. 421 00:26:57,331 --> 00:26:59,915 Someone get a doctor now! 422 00:27:00,083 --> 00:27:01,584 Help! 423 00:27:01,752 --> 00:27:03,586 He'll recover most of his function... 424 00:27:03,754 --> 00:27:06,756 ...but a stroke like this, it will limit the hours he can work... 425 00:27:06,923 --> 00:27:08,507 ...the information he can process. 426 00:27:08,675 --> 00:27:10,384 Are you okay, Mr. Hoover? 427 00:27:11,094 --> 00:27:14,597 Yes, I'm fine. I just... I was playing with my dog in the yard on Saturday. 428 00:27:14,765 --> 00:27:16,766 Perhaps it's dehydration. 429 00:27:17,601 --> 00:27:20,728 That could do it, but it may be wise to reduce your hours as well. 430 00:27:20,896 --> 00:27:23,064 At your age, it's important to take leave. 431 00:27:23,982 --> 00:27:26,984 Miss Gandy, please, give us some privacy. 432 00:27:32,282 --> 00:27:35,659 Let me tell you, if you ever denigrate me in front of my staff again... 433 00:27:35,869 --> 00:27:38,788 ...I'll have you railroaded out of your profession. Understand? 434 00:27:39,956 --> 00:27:41,123 I apologize, sir. 435 00:27:41,958 --> 00:27:43,376 Tell me something. 436 00:27:43,794 --> 00:27:45,628 What do you have for energy? 437 00:27:45,796 --> 00:27:49,131 We have diet medications which tend to give a boost. 438 00:27:49,299 --> 00:27:52,802 So I could lose a few pounds and have more energy as well? 439 00:27:52,969 --> 00:27:55,805 Wouldn't worry about your weight, sir. It's solid weight. 440 00:27:56,014 --> 00:27:57,431 Hmm. 441 00:27:57,974 --> 00:27:59,475 Schedule a daily visit. 442 00:28:01,019 --> 00:28:02,186 Yes, sir. 443 00:28:10,987 --> 00:28:14,657 They're giving King the Nobel Prize. Can you believe it? 444 00:28:14,825 --> 00:28:17,827 The degenerates and radicals are being lifted up internationally. 445 00:28:17,994 --> 00:28:21,163 It's like it's 1920 all over again. 446 00:28:21,498 --> 00:28:22,665 Don't. 447 00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:26,127 When he finds out that we have this audiotape... 448 00:28:26,294 --> 00:28:28,504 ...that we know the truth about his character... 449 00:28:28,672 --> 00:28:32,007 ...he's going to decline the award, Clyde, believe me. 450 00:28:32,467 --> 00:28:34,552 President Johnson... 451 00:28:34,719 --> 00:28:35,761 Wait. 452 00:28:36,346 --> 00:28:37,513 - Clyde. - Wait. 453 00:28:37,681 --> 00:28:41,600 You're gonna have to learn to enunciate. I can't seem to understand you. 454 00:28:41,768 --> 00:28:45,729 Now, the problem is this: We have no legal tools. 455 00:28:45,939 --> 00:28:48,524 You see, our laws have not kept pace... 456 00:28:48,692 --> 00:28:51,360 ...with the improved tactics of today's criminals. 457 00:28:51,528 --> 00:28:53,320 I'm gonna do this for you. 458 00:28:53,572 --> 00:28:55,865 What's your idea? 459 00:28:56,032 --> 00:28:58,701 Well, we have friends in the press, right? 460 00:28:58,869 --> 00:29:01,745 We plant stories with them to ensure... 461 00:29:01,955 --> 00:29:05,833 ...that the activities of suspected radicals see the light of day. 462 00:29:06,501 --> 00:29:08,377 They'll trace it. 463 00:29:09,004 --> 00:29:10,713 Well, only if it's true. 464 00:29:11,506 --> 00:29:13,507 See, it's called counterintelligence, Clyde. 465 00:29:13,675 --> 00:29:17,011 The more untrue the story, the more dramatic the impact. 466 00:29:17,179 --> 00:29:20,181 Now, I'm going to send the hotel recording... 467 00:29:20,348 --> 00:29:24,727 ...along with a personal letter the day before he gets the Nobel Prize. 468 00:29:24,895 --> 00:29:28,898 And if he accepts the award, we'll send the tape straight to the press. 469 00:29:30,525 --> 00:29:35,404 Are you sure that you want to be involved with that kind of surveillance? 470 00:29:35,572 --> 00:29:38,115 Well, that's why the letter won't be from me. 471 00:29:38,283 --> 00:29:40,743 It'll be a fictitious letter from one of his own. 472 00:29:42,245 --> 00:29:47,833 Then there can be no room for error. I'm not sure that we could ensu... 473 00:29:48,001 --> 00:29:51,587 I cannot understand what you're saying, Clyde. Please. 474 00:29:51,755 --> 00:29:54,882 Come on now. Learn to speak up. 475 00:29:55,050 --> 00:29:56,217 [CHUCKLES] 476 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:03,098 Now, listen, I'm gonna need you in the office tomorrow. No time to relent. 477 00:30:05,727 --> 00:30:07,269 I can't. 478 00:30:08,230 --> 00:30:09,563 Yes, you can. 479 00:30:10,315 --> 00:30:11,607 Now eat. 480 00:30:13,109 --> 00:30:17,154 You'd think after all this time she'd be able to cook my egg correctly. 481 00:30:18,615 --> 00:30:20,783 HOOVER: What exactly are in these shots? 482 00:30:20,951 --> 00:30:22,201 DOCTOR: Oh, it's just vitamins... 483 00:30:22,369 --> 00:30:24,119 ...a little extra pick-me-up. 484 00:30:36,841 --> 00:30:38,259 HOOVER: "Look into your heart. 485 00:30:38,426 --> 00:30:43,264 You know you are a complete fraud and a great liability to all of us Negroes." 486 00:30:43,431 --> 00:30:46,809 I said "us," Miss Gandy, "us," not "the." 487 00:30:47,310 --> 00:30:48,769 You're a Negro now, sir? 488 00:30:48,937 --> 00:30:51,814 Write every word as I say it, is that understood? 489 00:30:51,982 --> 00:30:55,484 Now, "White people in this country have enough frauds of their own... 490 00:30:55,652 --> 00:30:57,653 ...but they do not have one at this time... 491 00:30:57,821 --> 00:30:59,738 ...that is anywhere near your equal. 492 00:30:59,906 --> 00:31:02,825 - I repeat..." - Sir, what is this exercise? 493 00:31:02,993 --> 00:31:07,162 Miss Gandy, I am not going to entertain questions during my dictation, now write. 494 00:31:08,290 --> 00:31:13,252 "I repeat, you are a colossal fraud and an evil, vicious one, at that! 495 00:31:13,420 --> 00:31:17,256 You do not believe in God. You do not believe in any personal moral principles!" 496 00:31:17,424 --> 00:31:19,717 Sir, may I ask who this will be addressed to... 497 00:31:19,884 --> 00:31:22,428 The question is not to whom, Miss Gandy, not to whom... 498 00:31:22,596 --> 00:31:25,848 ...but from whom and it is not from this office, is that understood? 499 00:31:26,016 --> 00:31:28,267 "You have turned out to be not a leader... 500 00:31:28,435 --> 00:31:31,937 ...but a dissolute, abnormal, moral imbecile. 501 00:31:32,105 --> 00:31:34,857 There's only one thing left to do and you know what that is. 502 00:31:35,025 --> 00:31:37,526 There's but one way out, and you better take it... 503 00:31:37,694 --> 00:31:42,781 ...before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to this nation." 504 00:31:42,949 --> 00:31:44,533 Did you get everything? 505 00:31:45,410 --> 00:31:47,703 - Edgar. - Type it up. 506 00:31:48,747 --> 00:31:50,289 Type it up. 507 00:31:52,042 --> 00:31:53,584 [DOOR OPENS] 508 00:31:54,502 --> 00:31:55,544 [DOOR CLOSES] 509 00:31:55,712 --> 00:31:58,881 I understand that you work for our PR department, is that correct? 510 00:31:59,549 --> 00:32:01,216 For two years now, sir. 511 00:32:01,426 --> 00:32:04,595 Then you are familiar with my earlier work... 512 00:32:04,763 --> 00:32:08,223 ...against Edward Clarke and his Ku Klux Klan, are you not? 513 00:32:08,391 --> 00:32:09,558 Yes, sir. 514 00:32:09,726 --> 00:32:12,728 He was arrested for a violation of the white slave traffic act... 515 00:32:12,896 --> 00:32:16,273 ...for crossing state lines to have an affair with a white woman. 516 00:32:16,441 --> 00:32:17,483 Ls that correct, sir? 517 00:32:17,651 --> 00:32:21,737 That is correct. It was the strongest law at my disposal at the time. 518 00:32:21,905 --> 00:32:25,908 I'll have you know that I'm very proud of that work. 519 00:32:26,076 --> 00:32:29,453 Miss Gandy told me that you stopped with Bruno Hauptmann's arrest. 520 00:32:29,621 --> 00:32:32,915 - Would you like to start there? - Yes, yes, I think we shall. 521 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:38,712 HOOVER: Mr. Hauptmann was brought to trial... 522 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,215 ...on January 2nd, 1935. 523 00:32:42,425 --> 00:32:46,762 REPORTER: H.L. Mencken called this the biggest story since the resurrection. 524 00:32:46,930 --> 00:32:50,557 From the looks of things, this may be bigger. 525 00:32:50,725 --> 00:32:53,143 Well, you see, no two saws make the same markings. 526 00:32:53,311 --> 00:32:56,939 This saw from Bruno Hauptmann's tool chest makes markings identical... 527 00:32:57,107 --> 00:32:59,900 ...to those found on the ladder used in the crime. 528 00:33:00,068 --> 00:33:02,486 OSBORNE: In the ransom note and Mr. Hauptmann's writings... 529 00:33:02,654 --> 00:33:08,367 ...he wrote the word "anyding" for "anything", uh, "gut" for "good"... 530 00:33:08,535 --> 00:33:13,038 ..."boad" for "boat," and notice the inverted capital N's. 531 00:33:13,206 --> 00:33:16,208 And the Y's that look like J's. 532 00:33:16,376 --> 00:33:18,460 LAWYER: Mr. Lindbergh, you said you heard a voice... 533 00:33:18,628 --> 00:33:19,962 ...in the cemetery that night. 534 00:33:20,130 --> 00:33:22,381 Yes, very clearly. 535 00:33:22,549 --> 00:33:25,134 A voice, to the best of my belief... 536 00:33:25,301 --> 00:33:28,971 ...calling Dr. Condon in a foreign accent. 537 00:33:29,139 --> 00:33:30,139 "Hey, doctor." 538 00:33:30,306 --> 00:33:31,348 LAWYER: Since that time... 539 00:33:31,516 --> 00:33:33,308 ...have you heard the same voice? 540 00:33:33,476 --> 00:33:34,977 Yes, I have. 541 00:33:35,145 --> 00:33:38,147 Whose voice was it that you heard in the cemetery that night... 542 00:33:38,314 --> 00:33:40,149 ...saying, "Hey, doctor"? 543 00:33:40,316 --> 00:33:42,151 That was Hauptmann's voice. 544 00:33:44,654 --> 00:33:46,447 But did he act alone? 545 00:33:47,782 --> 00:33:51,702 He never confessed, but what sociopath ever does? 546 00:33:51,870 --> 00:33:53,620 The evidence was clear. 547 00:33:53,788 --> 00:33:59,042 He was indicted for murder in the first degree while perpetrating a burglary. 548 00:33:59,210 --> 00:34:02,504 In New Jersey, that is punishable by death. 549 00:34:02,672 --> 00:34:03,881 LAWYER: Mr. Hauptmann... 550 00:34:04,048 --> 00:34:06,508 ...you've had an opportunity in this courtroom today... 551 00:34:06,676 --> 00:34:08,719 ...to tell the whole truth. 552 00:34:08,887 --> 00:34:10,304 Have you told the truth? 553 00:34:10,472 --> 00:34:12,681 I told the truth already. 554 00:34:12,849 --> 00:34:13,932 LAWYER: And the statements... 555 00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:16,518 ...to District Attorney Foley. Did you tell him the truth? 556 00:34:17,479 --> 00:34:18,771 To a certain extent. 557 00:34:18,938 --> 00:34:23,358 To a certain extent you didn't tell him the truth. Ls that right? 558 00:34:25,695 --> 00:34:30,449 This board that was found in your closet, S-204... 559 00:34:30,617 --> 00:34:33,368 ...has these numbers written on it. 560 00:34:33,536 --> 00:34:35,370 It's a little blurred now, isn't it? 561 00:34:35,538 --> 00:34:36,830 Looks like it. 562 00:34:36,998 --> 00:34:39,792 Between are some words. It looks like Decatur and Sedgwick. 563 00:34:39,959 --> 00:34:41,001 You see that? 564 00:34:42,796 --> 00:34:45,547 You know what that means, don't you? That address on there? 565 00:34:46,549 --> 00:34:47,716 Not exactly. 566 00:34:47,884 --> 00:34:48,926 [SCOFFS] 567 00:34:49,093 --> 00:34:52,054 It is the address and telephone number of Dr. Condon... 568 00:34:52,222 --> 00:34:53,722 ...the man who paid the ransom... 569 00:34:53,890 --> 00:34:57,810 ...written in your writing, found on a board in your closet. 570 00:34:57,977 --> 00:35:01,188 HELEN [OVER PHONE]: Mr. Hoover, the doctor's here to see you. 571 00:35:01,356 --> 00:35:03,482 MAN [ON RADIO]: Following Dr. King's historic speech... 572 00:35:03,650 --> 00:35:07,486 ...many said that day brought about a new awakening in the conscience of the nation. 573 00:35:07,654 --> 00:35:10,072 Others called it a national disgrace. 574 00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:14,910 In the long history of man's cruelty to man, this was a day of hope. 575 00:35:15,078 --> 00:35:16,495 KING [ON TV]: I have a dream... 576 00:35:17,497 --> 00:35:19,957 ...that one day... 577 00:35:20,124 --> 00:35:23,836 ...this nation will rise up... 578 00:35:24,003 --> 00:35:26,672 ...and live out the true meaning of its creeds. 579 00:35:27,590 --> 00:35:32,135 A man's legacy is determined by where the story ends, Agent Owens. 580 00:35:32,303 --> 00:35:35,222 Let's think about that tonight and make a decision tomorrow. 581 00:35:35,974 --> 00:35:37,391 Ls this about a man's legacy? 582 00:35:38,935 --> 00:35:40,769 Or an institution's reputation? 583 00:35:41,938 --> 00:35:43,772 The two are connected, Agent Owens. 584 00:35:43,940 --> 00:35:46,441 One invented the other and vice versa. 585 00:35:46,609 --> 00:35:48,443 Good day to you. 586 00:35:49,904 --> 00:35:51,446 Yes, sir. 587 00:35:51,614 --> 00:35:54,992 We the jury find the defendant, Bruno Richard Hauptmann... 588 00:35:55,159 --> 00:35:57,035 ...guilty of murder in the first degree. 589 00:35:57,203 --> 00:35:58,620 [ALL APPLAUDING] 590 00:35:59,998 --> 00:36:02,374 [GAVEL BANGING] 591 00:36:08,298 --> 00:36:11,216 Your Honor, I ask for immediate sentencing. 592 00:36:14,304 --> 00:36:17,931 According to the law of this state... 593 00:36:18,099 --> 00:36:21,393 ...l rule that Mr. Bruno Hauptmann suffer death... 594 00:36:21,561 --> 00:36:27,149 ...at the time and place and in the manner provided by law. 595 00:36:29,903 --> 00:36:31,987 [ALL MURMURING] 596 00:36:35,325 --> 00:36:37,326 It's death for Hauptmann! 597 00:36:37,493 --> 00:36:39,745 [ALL CHEERING] 598 00:36:42,665 --> 00:36:43,999 HOOVER: The trial of the century... 599 00:36:44,167 --> 00:36:48,962 ...the criminal shamed, the FBl cemented as the public hero. 600 00:36:49,130 --> 00:36:51,757 That's our, that's our ending, agent. 601 00:36:54,010 --> 00:36:55,677 But did he do it alone? 602 00:36:56,054 --> 00:36:58,972 Is he the one who actually took the child? How can you be sure? 603 00:37:00,224 --> 00:37:04,144 Well, the mountain of evidence we discovered, uncovered... 604 00:37:04,312 --> 00:37:07,189 ...confirmed, and clarified, you cannot dispute it. 605 00:37:07,357 --> 00:37:09,816 - Clarence Darrow did. - Of course. Heh. 606 00:37:10,693 --> 00:37:12,694 Of course, Agent Owens. That's what he does. 607 00:37:12,862 --> 00:37:15,405 Mrs. Roosevelt issued a statement questioning his guilt. 608 00:37:15,573 --> 00:37:20,702 Well, she has enough to hide on her own when it comes to un-American activities. 609 00:37:23,247 --> 00:37:26,875 Well, if you're comfortable with it as an ending, I'll do my best with it. 610 00:37:27,627 --> 00:37:30,629 Yes. Yes, I am. 611 00:37:31,339 --> 00:37:32,839 Sir. 612 00:37:35,802 --> 00:37:37,260 [REPORTER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TV] 613 00:37:37,428 --> 00:37:38,553 HOOVER: Watch this with me. 614 00:37:38,721 --> 00:37:41,556 He received my letter and the audio tape last night. 615 00:37:41,724 --> 00:37:43,725 REPORTER: President Johnson affixes his signature... 616 00:37:43,893 --> 00:37:44,977 ...using more than 100 pens. 617 00:37:45,144 --> 00:37:48,105 One of the coveted souvenirs goes to the Nobel prize-winner... 618 00:37:48,272 --> 00:37:50,524 ...Martin Luther King, a dedicated leader... 619 00:37:50,692 --> 00:37:52,526 Go on, say it, Clyde. 620 00:37:53,861 --> 00:37:58,365 It just seems so risky, Edgar, over a couple negative articles. 621 00:37:59,033 --> 00:38:01,576 He's deliberately surrounded himself with communists... 622 00:38:01,744 --> 00:38:05,539 ...and, with the power he's gathering, he's now our greatest domestic threat. 623 00:38:05,707 --> 00:38:11,086 On behalf of the Nobel Committee... 624 00:38:11,254 --> 00:38:15,090 ...we hand over to you the insignia... - He's going to decline the award, Clyde. 625 00:38:15,258 --> 00:38:17,759 He knows what we have can ruin him. 626 00:38:17,927 --> 00:38:22,764 - -Of the Nobel Peace Prize, the diploma and the gold medal. 627 00:38:27,812 --> 00:38:29,563 HOOVER: There's no question about it. 628 00:38:30,398 --> 00:38:31,773 He's done. 629 00:38:35,570 --> 00:38:39,281 I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace... 630 00:38:41,784 --> 00:38:47,122 ...at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States... 631 00:38:49,125 --> 00:38:50,125 ...are enga... 632 00:39:05,183 --> 00:39:06,183 [INTERCOM BUZZES] 633 00:39:08,478 --> 00:39:12,189 HELEN: Sorry to interrupt, sir. Your next appointment is here. 634 00:39:12,648 --> 00:39:14,983 The doctor first, Miss Gandy. 635 00:39:15,151 --> 00:39:16,610 Yes, of course. 636 00:39:18,821 --> 00:39:23,075 Send him in in a few minutes. Thank you. 637 00:39:28,206 --> 00:39:30,373 [BREATHING HEAVILY] 638 00:41:22,445 --> 00:41:24,613 Stay strong, Edgar. 639 00:41:55,811 --> 00:41:58,146 You stay strong, Edgar. 640 00:41:59,106 --> 00:42:01,483 Stay strong. Unh! 641 00:42:03,402 --> 00:42:05,779 [WHIMPERING] 642 00:42:18,626 --> 00:42:20,794 [SOBBING] 643 00:42:25,925 --> 00:42:27,801 MAN [ON TV]: - -The parade as it makes its way... 644 00:42:27,969 --> 00:42:29,928 ...to the Capitol Building for the inauguration. 645 00:42:30,096 --> 00:42:31,513 [MARCHING BAND PLAYING MUSIC ON TV] 646 00:42:33,015 --> 00:42:37,269 You can see the Roosevelt High Marching Band leading the way. 647 00:42:39,772 --> 00:42:44,192 The motorcade is making progress down Pennsylvania Avenue... 648 00:42:45,569 --> 00:42:48,530 ...carrying our 37th president. 649 00:42:54,704 --> 00:42:57,372 Richard Milhous Nixon waves to the crowd. 650 00:42:57,540 --> 00:43:00,542 Yep, there's the president and his wife Pat... 651 00:43:01,085 --> 00:43:02,711 ...happily waving. 652 00:43:03,212 --> 00:43:04,879 [CROWD CHEERING] 653 00:43:38,581 --> 00:43:40,915 HOOVER: When morals decline... 654 00:43:41,709 --> 00:43:44,085 ...and good men do nothing... 655 00:43:45,046 --> 00:43:47,088 ...evil flourishes. 656 00:43:50,426 --> 00:43:55,096 Every citizen has a duty to learn of this that threatens his home... 657 00:43:56,599 --> 00:43:57,766 ...his children. 658 00:44:02,104 --> 00:44:06,441 A society uninterested and unwilling to learn from the past... 659 00:44:07,234 --> 00:44:08,360 ...is doomed. 660 00:44:10,780 --> 00:44:12,322 [GUNSHOT] 661 00:44:12,490 --> 00:44:14,449 HOOVER: We must never forget our history. 662 00:44:20,247 --> 00:44:23,124 We must never lower our guard. 663 00:44:29,673 --> 00:44:35,762 Even today, there are organizations that have America as their prime target. 664 00:44:35,930 --> 00:44:40,183 They would destroy the safety and the happiness of every individual... 665 00:44:40,393 --> 00:44:43,812 ...and thrust us into a condition of lawlessness... 666 00:44:43,979 --> 00:44:47,524 ...immorality that passes the imagination. 667 00:44:49,485 --> 00:44:52,153 The president will see you now, Mr. Hoover. 668 00:44:52,488 --> 00:44:53,655 Alrighty. 669 00:44:56,700 --> 00:44:58,034 [GRUNTS] 670 00:45:05,126 --> 00:45:06,668 NIXON: Edgar, come in. 671 00:45:10,673 --> 00:45:12,382 [KNOCKING ON DOOR] 672 00:45:12,550 --> 00:45:13,758 [HOOVER WHIMPERING] 673 00:45:17,972 --> 00:45:20,849 Oh, I am so sorry, Mr. Hoover. 674 00:45:21,016 --> 00:45:23,101 You weren't answering your telephone. 675 00:45:24,270 --> 00:45:26,938 You had a photo session with a retiring agent. 676 00:45:27,106 --> 00:45:28,523 He's leaving now. 677 00:45:29,525 --> 00:45:30,859 Where's Clyde? 678 00:45:33,362 --> 00:45:36,531 It's a bad day for him, sir. 679 00:45:40,536 --> 00:45:44,372 Will you...? Will you schedule a dinner for us, please... 680 00:45:44,540 --> 00:45:46,708 ...in our old corner booth? 681 00:45:47,877 --> 00:45:50,378 I'm afraid he's too tired today, sir. 682 00:45:50,546 --> 00:45:52,714 Perhaps you'd like to dine at his house? 683 00:45:52,882 --> 00:45:54,799 I think he'd like that. 684 00:45:56,635 --> 00:45:57,719 Yes. 685 00:45:58,721 --> 00:46:00,847 Yes, thank you, Miss Gandy. 686 00:46:07,271 --> 00:46:08,313 Helen? 687 00:46:12,568 --> 00:46:13,651 Yes? 688 00:46:16,572 --> 00:46:19,073 Do I kill everything that I love? 689 00:46:22,578 --> 00:46:25,079 He's not gone yet, Edgar. 690 00:46:29,084 --> 00:46:31,127 And everything that we've built? 691 00:46:32,087 --> 00:46:33,087 No. 692 00:46:33,672 --> 00:46:37,258 The Bureau is stronger than just you and me now. 693 00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:41,763 Your child is sure and keeps this country safe. 694 00:46:48,979 --> 00:46:50,438 Helen, if any... 695 00:46:50,856 --> 00:46:55,360 if anything ever happens to me, I need you to do something for me, do you understand? 696 00:46:56,987 --> 00:46:58,321 Of course. 697 00:47:00,115 --> 00:47:02,700 Nixon, he's gonna come for it all. 698 00:47:04,703 --> 00:47:07,372 He'll crucify me and my Bureau. 699 00:47:08,999 --> 00:47:14,629 I'm afraid of what will happen if I'm not here to protect it, Miss Gandy. 700 00:47:15,130 --> 00:47:17,131 Your private files, sir? 701 00:47:19,593 --> 00:47:22,637 Then no one will ever find them. 702 00:47:25,808 --> 00:47:27,141 Thank you, Helen. 703 00:47:38,153 --> 00:47:40,655 No matter what kind of pressure they put on? 704 00:47:41,865 --> 00:47:43,700 No matter how much? 705 00:47:43,867 --> 00:47:45,493 Yes, Edgar. 706 00:47:46,495 --> 00:47:48,621 No matter how much pressure. 707 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:52,500 I promise you. 708 00:47:54,670 --> 00:47:56,462 Thank you, Helen. 709 00:48:08,267 --> 00:48:11,603 Well, did Nixon ask for your resignation? 710 00:48:11,770 --> 00:48:16,399 No, he wanted to know what we had in the files on him. 711 00:48:16,859 --> 00:48:18,484 What did you say? 712 00:48:19,028 --> 00:48:21,571 I said, "What files, sir?" 713 00:48:22,031 --> 00:48:23,656 But he knows. 714 00:48:24,366 --> 00:48:29,287 He wants us to expand our wiretaps to include news reporters now, Clyde. 715 00:48:30,456 --> 00:48:33,791 We can't do that, especially not now. 716 00:48:33,959 --> 00:48:35,668 That's the problem, Clyde. 717 00:48:35,836 --> 00:48:40,715 If I don't agree to do his black bag jobs, he'll create his own private force. 718 00:48:41,175 --> 00:48:43,635 Oh, that's illegal. 719 00:48:44,053 --> 00:48:49,724 Yes, well, he didn't say it outright, but I saw it in his eyes. 720 00:48:49,892 --> 00:48:51,893 He won't be controlled, Clyde. 721 00:48:52,061 --> 00:48:55,980 He's a menace who'll do anything to hold on to power. 722 00:48:57,232 --> 00:48:59,233 Right. I see. 723 00:49:00,069 --> 00:49:04,405 Yes. See, I never played his game, that's the problem. 724 00:49:04,573 --> 00:49:07,033 And if to some what I did seemed like rule-bending... 725 00:49:07,201 --> 00:49:10,620 ...then perhaps they need to figure out what it is they did... 726 00:49:10,788 --> 00:49:14,248 ...that made them feel blackmailed or intimidated. 727 00:49:14,750 --> 00:49:16,751 I wasn't thinking that. 728 00:49:18,003 --> 00:49:21,964 Then what? What were you thinking? 729 00:49:23,092 --> 00:49:26,886 I was thinking it might be time for us to retire. 730 00:49:27,930 --> 00:49:29,389 Shut up, Clyde. 731 00:49:31,225 --> 00:49:34,102 You built a great thing, Edgar. 732 00:49:34,853 --> 00:49:38,147 And if you stop now, you'll be celebrated. 733 00:49:39,024 --> 00:49:41,109 That's what you've always wanted, isn't it? 734 00:49:41,276 --> 00:49:43,945 Our country's lasting adoration? 735 00:49:44,113 --> 00:49:46,614 Well, there's a chance you could have it. 736 00:49:47,449 --> 00:49:50,868 Yes. Yes, and why wouldn't I? Hmm? 737 00:49:51,036 --> 00:49:52,662 Why wouldn't I, Clyde? 738 00:49:52,830 --> 00:49:56,374 I saved this country from a Bolshevik invasion... 739 00:49:56,542 --> 00:50:00,461 ...rid this country of radicals, captured Machine Gun Kelly... 740 00:50:00,629 --> 00:50:04,048 ...killed Dillinger, captured Karpis, convicted Bruno Hauptmann. 741 00:50:04,258 --> 00:50:07,844 And now, with my last breath when I try to help save this country again... 742 00:50:08,011 --> 00:50:10,513 ...I'm rewarded with a forced retirement? 743 00:50:10,681 --> 00:50:13,474 I will not go down, and the fact that you suggest that... 744 00:50:13,642 --> 00:50:16,018 ...makes me question your very loyalty. 745 00:50:17,062 --> 00:50:19,063 My loyalty, Edgar? 746 00:50:19,273 --> 00:50:21,691 Yes, your loyalty, Clyde. 747 00:50:22,776 --> 00:50:25,570 I read your manuscript, Edgar. 748 00:50:26,655 --> 00:50:28,990 You didn't arrest Karpis. 749 00:50:29,158 --> 00:50:33,327 And you know as well as I do there was no white horse in the street... 750 00:50:34,329 --> 00:50:36,539 ...no gun in the back seat. 751 00:50:37,499 --> 00:50:42,003 And you didn't kill Dillinger. Agent Purvis did. 752 00:50:42,504 --> 00:50:46,382 But you kept all the glory for yourself. 753 00:50:46,717 --> 00:50:51,345 And Machine Gun Kelly never said, "Don't shoot, G-Men." 754 00:50:52,014 --> 00:50:57,477 You made that up to sell comic books, Edgar. 755 00:50:58,020 --> 00:51:02,815 And when we went to the scene of the greatest crime of the century... 756 00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:07,445 ...Mr. Lindbergh didn't come out and shake your hand... 757 00:51:07,613 --> 00:51:12,074 ...and express his faith in the FBl. 758 00:51:12,242 --> 00:51:18,539 He called you a fussy little man, and he refused to even meet you. 759 00:51:20,876 --> 00:51:23,503 And you didn't arrest Hauptmann. 760 00:51:24,671 --> 00:51:26,964 Agent Sisk did. 761 00:51:27,132 --> 00:51:31,636 You weren't even at the scene, Edgar. Only the photo op. 762 00:51:31,804 --> 00:51:35,848 Edgar, most of what you wrote is exaggeration... 763 00:51:36,016 --> 00:51:41,395 ...some of it blatant lies, and I don't even know if you realize it anymore. 764 00:51:43,273 --> 00:51:45,399 Edgar... 765 00:51:45,567 --> 00:51:49,570 ...you can lie to everyone else, the whole world... 766 00:51:49,738 --> 00:51:53,407 ...for your own sake, for the sake of the Bureau... 767 00:51:54,117 --> 00:51:56,244 ...but you cannot lie to me. 768 00:51:59,748 --> 00:52:03,167 I should've never given you your job, Clyde. 769 00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:06,254 You know that? 770 00:52:08,423 --> 00:52:10,716 You weren't even qualified. 771 00:52:13,804 --> 00:52:16,764 You remember the day you came in for your interview? 772 00:52:17,975 --> 00:52:19,684 I do. 773 00:52:21,770 --> 00:52:26,148 You walked into my office and you fixed my window... 774 00:52:26,316 --> 00:52:29,026 ...you picked up my handkerchief. 775 00:52:29,444 --> 00:52:31,112 You handed it to me. 776 00:52:33,490 --> 00:52:36,158 You remember why I was sweating, Clyde? 777 00:52:37,703 --> 00:52:40,288 It's because you were exercising. 778 00:52:42,457 --> 00:52:43,791 No, I was... 779 00:52:45,002 --> 00:52:46,961 I was sweating because I... 780 00:52:47,796 --> 00:52:49,964 I knew at that very moment... 781 00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,135 I knew at that very moment that I... 782 00:52:55,637 --> 00:52:57,138 I needed you. 783 00:52:58,807 --> 00:53:02,476 And I've never needed anyone else in my entire life. 784 00:53:04,563 --> 00:53:06,147 Not like that. 785 00:53:08,025 --> 00:53:10,443 So I began to perspire. 786 00:53:11,361 --> 00:53:12,570 I know. 787 00:53:13,363 --> 00:53:15,072 [HOOVER GASPS] 788 00:53:15,490 --> 00:53:17,992 Edgar, are you all right? 789 00:53:18,994 --> 00:53:20,328 Yes, yes, it's... 790 00:53:21,455 --> 00:53:25,666 It's just indigestion, Clyde. 791 00:53:29,254 --> 00:53:33,424 Let's go to dinner tomorrow night, shall we? Our old corner booth. 792 00:53:35,093 --> 00:53:36,677 Perhaps if I feel better. 793 00:53:36,845 --> 00:53:38,596 Yes. 794 00:53:38,764 --> 00:53:40,014 And you must... 795 00:53:40,182 --> 00:53:44,977 You must... We have a great many things to discuss. 796 00:53:45,145 --> 00:53:49,023 And now I can't trust anyone else at the Bureau right now. 797 00:53:50,525 --> 00:53:52,485 Can only depend on you. 798 00:54:12,005 --> 00:54:14,006 Thank you, Edgar. 799 00:54:28,939 --> 00:54:30,398 Good night, Clyde. 800 00:54:32,025 --> 00:54:33,776 Good night, Edgar. 801 00:54:59,553 --> 00:55:01,095 ANNIE: Welcome home, Mr. Hoover. 802 00:55:01,263 --> 00:55:02,304 Oh, thank you, Annie. 803 00:55:02,472 --> 00:55:05,141 Bozo, Bozo, G-Boy, come here. 804 00:55:05,308 --> 00:55:08,352 HOOVER: The very essence of our democracy... 805 00:55:08,687 --> 00:55:13,107 ...is rooted in a belief in the worth of the individual. 806 00:55:13,775 --> 00:55:18,654 That life has meaning that transcends any man-made system... 807 00:55:19,281 --> 00:55:22,950 ...that love is the greatest force on earth... 808 00:55:24,619 --> 00:55:27,288 ...far more enduring than hatred... 809 00:55:28,331 --> 00:55:32,293 ...or the unnatural divisions of mankind. 810 00:55:33,962 --> 00:55:36,130 [PHONE RINGING] 811 00:55:42,971 --> 00:55:44,138 Yes? 812 00:55:44,848 --> 00:55:48,309 ANNIE [OVER PHONE]: This is Annie from Mr. Hoover's residence. 813 00:55:48,477 --> 00:55:50,895 Mr. Hoover has passed. 814 00:56:19,841 --> 00:56:21,050 - Yeah? MAN: Sir. 815 00:56:21,218 --> 00:56:23,135 [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE] 816 00:56:24,679 --> 00:56:27,014 Jesus Christ. 817 00:56:27,682 --> 00:56:29,934 That old cocksucker. 818 00:56:30,102 --> 00:56:32,770 I'll get a speech prepared. We should go on television. 819 00:56:32,938 --> 00:56:34,438 Not yet. 820 00:56:34,606 --> 00:56:38,901 First seal off his office, change his locks, do whatever you have to do. 821 00:56:39,069 --> 00:56:41,695 I want those fucking files. 822 00:56:42,531 --> 00:56:43,697 Yes, sir. 823 00:56:52,541 --> 00:56:54,208 ANNIE: Oh, good. 824 00:56:55,043 --> 00:56:56,877 Come in. 825 00:57:02,425 --> 00:57:04,718 He's upstairs. 826 00:58:30,889 --> 00:58:34,558 [WHIMPERING] 827 00:59:09,010 --> 00:59:13,347 Ladies and gentlemen, it is with a profound sense of personal loss... 828 00:59:13,515 --> 00:59:16,517 ...that I learned of the death of J. Edgar Hoover. 829 00:59:17,185 --> 00:59:21,355 This truly remarkable man has served his country for 48 years... 830 00:59:21,523 --> 00:59:24,191 ...under eight presidents, as director of the FBl... 831 00:59:24,359 --> 00:59:30,197 ...with unparalleled devotion and ability and dedication. 832 00:59:30,365 --> 00:59:35,035 For 25 years, from the time I came to Washington as a freshman congressman... 833 00:59:35,578 --> 00:59:39,873 ...he has been one of my closest personal friends and advisors. 834 00:59:40,041 --> 00:59:43,961 And every American, in my opinion, owes J. Edgar Hoover a great debt... 835 00:59:44,129 --> 00:59:48,549 ...for building the FBl into the finest law enforcement organization... 836 00:59:48,717 --> 00:59:50,634 ...in the entire world. 837 00:59:52,470 --> 00:59:57,391 I've ordered that all the flags of the government buildings be flown at half mast... 838 00:59:57,559 --> 01:00:00,227 ...but I will say that, in doing so, that Edgar Hoover... 839 01:00:00,395 --> 01:00:05,107 ...because of his indomitable courage against sometimes very vicious attack... 840 01:00:05,275 --> 01:00:11,572 ...has made certain that the flag of the FBl will always fly high. 841 01:00:11,740 --> 01:00:18,746 The FBl is the eternal monument honoring this great American. 842 01:00:20,749 --> 01:00:22,583 HOOVER: Funny how even the dearest face... 843 01:00:22,751 --> 01:00:25,252 ...will fade away in time... 844 01:00:25,795 --> 01:00:30,758 ...but most clearly I remember your eyes with a sort of teasing smile in them... 845 01:00:31,176 --> 01:00:33,927 ...and the feeling of that soft spot... 846 01:00:34,095 --> 01:00:37,264 ...just northeast of the corner of your mouth.