1 00:00:25,483 --> 00:00:26,817 Let me tell you something. 2 00:00:26,985 --> 00:00:30,446 The SCLC has direct Communist ties. 3 00:00:30,613 --> 00:00:33,282 Even great men can be corrupted, can't they? 4 00:00:33,450 --> 00:00:36,994 Communism is not a political party. Lt is a disease. 5 00:00:37,162 --> 00:00:39,788 Lt corrupts the soul, turning even the gentlest of men... 6 00:00:39,956 --> 00:00:43,167 into vicious, evil tyrants. 7 00:00:43,334 --> 00:00:46,754 What we are seeing is a pervasive contempt for law and order. 8 00:00:46,921 --> 00:00:48,005 Crime rates are soaring. 9 00:00:48,173 --> 00:00:50,883 There's widespread, open defiance of our authority... 10 00:00:51,051 --> 00:00:53,552 and, mark my words, if this goes unchecked... 11 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:58,307 it will once again plunge our nation into the depths of anarchy. 12 00:00:58,475 --> 00:01:01,310 Lt all starts out peacefully, doesn't it, Mr. Irwin? 13 00:01:01,478 --> 00:01:03,020 You have to live with the fact... 14 00:01:03,188 --> 00:01:06,106 that you could've helped prevent the bombings and the violence. 15 00:01:06,274 --> 00:01:08,817 I'm more interested in what this says about your FBI. 16 00:01:08,985 --> 00:01:11,361 I have worked too long and hard to just sit back... 17 00:01:11,529 --> 00:01:15,324 and watch the bad guys capture the spotlight again, haven't I? 18 00:01:15,492 --> 00:01:17,201 The funny thing about notoriety... 19 00:01:17,368 --> 00:01:21,830 especially the kind that needs adoration, fame for fame's sake... 20 00:01:21,998 --> 00:01:24,249 if unchecked, it inevitably leads to villainy. 21 00:01:24,417 --> 00:01:27,669 I suggest you look at what this squabble is really about... 22 00:01:27,837 --> 00:01:31,673 before you destroy the reputation of the thing we both know you love most. 23 00:01:46,356 --> 00:01:48,982 Sir, the writer's here from Crime Records... 24 00:01:49,150 --> 00:01:50,192 the PR Department. 25 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,362 Set him up with a typewriter in my outer office. 26 00:01:53,530 --> 00:01:56,990 Miss Gandy, it's time this generation learn my side of the story. 27 00:01:57,158 --> 00:01:59,201 Right away. - Thank you. 28 00:02:00,745 --> 00:02:03,080 In 1919, Agent Smith... 29 00:02:03,248 --> 00:02:05,707 my first boss here at the Department of Justice... 30 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:08,919 was Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. 31 00:02:09,087 --> 00:02:10,254 He was a Quaker. 32 00:02:10,421 --> 00:02:15,384 He didn't believe in war, but he understood the necessity of strength and resolve. 33 00:02:15,552 --> 00:02:17,386 Believe what you will from historians... 34 00:02:17,554 --> 00:02:21,473 most write from a present perspective, forgetting context. 35 00:02:21,641 --> 00:02:24,726 Mitchell Palmer was a hero. 36 00:02:57,093 --> 00:02:58,927 - Are you all right? - Unh. 37 00:02:59,095 --> 00:03:01,180 - Are you all right? - Yes. I think. Yes. 38 00:03:19,115 --> 00:03:22,284 Lt's all right. Come here. 39 00:03:22,452 --> 00:03:25,954 - lt's all right, it's all right. - No, it's okay. 40 00:03:26,122 --> 00:03:28,916 Are you okay? lt's okay. 41 00:03:32,837 --> 00:03:34,755 Are you okay? 42 00:03:59,781 --> 00:04:02,991 You see, Palmer fought the radicals, just as I have. 43 00:04:03,159 --> 00:04:07,621 And just as I have, he was targeted. He wasn't alone. 44 00:04:07,789 --> 00:04:12,668 Across the country that night, eight bombs exploded, all at 11 p.m. 45 00:04:12,835 --> 00:04:14,336 Two United States senators... 46 00:04:14,504 --> 00:04:17,005 four cabinet members, a Supreme Court justice... 47 00:04:17,173 --> 00:04:19,299 John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan... 48 00:04:20,009 --> 00:04:23,345 all of them targeted by Bolshevik Communists. 49 00:04:23,513 --> 00:04:25,681 Yeah, it shook the whole thing. 50 00:04:29,686 --> 00:04:32,562 It was clear to me the radicals bomb went off too soon... 51 00:04:32,730 --> 00:04:35,524 leaving only his blood in the street. 52 00:04:35,692 --> 00:04:40,320 But the inspectors used buckets to clean up the mess instead of collecting it. 53 00:04:40,488 --> 00:04:43,865 They discarded his gun instead of preserving its prints. 54 00:04:44,033 --> 00:04:46,201 But you see, this wasn't clumsy police work. 55 00:04:46,369 --> 00:04:49,496 In those times, it was normal procedure. 56 00:04:49,664 --> 00:04:52,958 This may be the end of days for this country, Dwight. 57 00:04:57,380 --> 00:05:01,550 lt was 1919, before anyone respected criminal science... 58 00:05:01,718 --> 00:05:04,720 before federal powers, before the FBI. 59 00:05:05,555 --> 00:05:10,475 It was that night my eyes were opened. That very night. 60 00:05:11,227 --> 00:05:12,769 Ls he a neighbor, sir? 61 00:05:13,271 --> 00:05:15,188 No. He works in my office. 62 00:05:17,358 --> 00:05:21,903 "There will have to be murder. We will kill because it is necessary. 63 00:05:22,071 --> 00:05:25,866 We will destroy to rid the world of your tyrannical institutions." 64 00:05:34,250 --> 00:05:36,710 You were at Attorney General Palmer's home that night? 65 00:05:36,878 --> 00:05:39,463 Well, let's leave that to the reader's imagination. 66 00:05:39,672 --> 00:05:43,550 You see, it's important we give our protagonist a bit of mystery. 67 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,720 I could allude to a young man who matches your description. 68 00:05:46,888 --> 00:05:48,347 The best of both worlds. 69 00:05:48,514 --> 00:05:50,724 Where did you get your law degree? 70 00:05:50,892 --> 00:05:53,060 George Washington. I grew up here. 71 00:05:53,227 --> 00:05:55,520 I had a mom to take care of, so I stayed close. 72 00:05:55,688 --> 00:05:57,939 I received an English degree there also. 73 00:05:58,775 --> 00:06:02,944 Then I don't need to tell you that what determines a man's legacy... 74 00:06:03,112 --> 00:06:05,405 is often what isn't seen. 75 00:06:05,698 --> 00:06:07,991 What's critical at this moment is... 76 00:06:08,201 --> 00:06:12,454 that we re-clarify the difference between villain and hero. 77 00:06:13,956 --> 00:06:16,625 How do you think that compares with today? 78 00:06:17,627 --> 00:06:20,420 I'm not sure, sir. I'd like to hear more. 79 00:06:20,588 --> 00:06:22,589 I could come back tomorrow. 80 00:06:23,299 --> 00:06:26,593 Fine. But the pages stay here. 81 00:06:26,761 --> 00:06:28,095 Of course, sir. 82 00:06:29,972 --> 00:06:31,139 Agent Smith. 83 00:06:31,307 --> 00:06:32,391 Thank you, sir. 84 00:06:40,650 --> 00:06:42,776 Never a good idea to talk too loud. 85 00:06:49,325 --> 00:06:50,617 Good morning, John. 86 00:06:50,785 --> 00:06:53,870 Mr. Palmer has asked that you attend the emergency meeting today. 87 00:06:54,038 --> 00:06:55,580 Miss Gladwell, please remember... 88 00:06:56,916 --> 00:06:58,417 it's Mr. Hoover. 89 00:06:58,584 --> 00:07:00,502 Two o'clock. 90 00:07:00,670 --> 00:07:04,339 Don't be too early this time. Lt's as rude as being tardy. 91 00:07:05,174 --> 00:07:08,760 And who is this lovely addition to the secretarial pool? 92 00:07:11,806 --> 00:07:13,849 Helen, introduce yourself. 93 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:15,142 Oh. 94 00:07:15,309 --> 00:07:18,145 Pleased to meet you, Mr. Hoover. I'm Helen Gandy. 95 00:07:18,312 --> 00:07:21,356 Pleased to meet you. Welcome to the Department of Justice. 96 00:07:22,859 --> 00:07:25,444 You can notify Mr. Palmer that I will attend. 97 00:07:26,195 --> 00:07:27,654 Of course. 98 00:07:30,366 --> 00:07:33,410 He's always a charmer. I wouldn't take anything very seriously. 99 00:07:42,712 --> 00:07:44,504 Jeremy, I need your help. 100 00:07:44,672 --> 00:07:46,339 I need, uh... Uh, help. 101 00:07:46,507 --> 00:07:47,966 I need your help. 102 00:08:06,194 --> 00:08:07,360 Good evening, Mother. 103 00:08:11,073 --> 00:08:12,240 Edgar. 104 00:08:14,076 --> 00:08:16,912 Madame Marcia held court this morning. 105 00:08:17,538 --> 00:08:20,248 I should buy a dress. 106 00:08:21,250 --> 00:08:23,752 She says your father will die soon. 107 00:08:24,670 --> 00:08:29,591 And when he does, you will rise to be the most powerful man in the country. 108 00:08:33,471 --> 00:08:35,764 Your brother's a good man, Edgar... 109 00:08:35,932 --> 00:08:39,434 but you will restore our family to greatness. 110 00:08:42,730 --> 00:08:43,772 Edgar? 111 00:08:43,940 --> 00:08:46,441 Edgar? Am I boring you? 112 00:08:46,609 --> 00:08:49,277 I'm listening, Mother. You fired the maid. 113 00:08:50,112 --> 00:08:52,322 I told her when she was through, she could quit. 114 00:08:52,490 --> 00:08:56,952 I'm not paying for her impudence. The whole Negro race is in open revolt. 115 00:08:57,119 --> 00:08:59,287 - I could open an investigation. - Gotten too comfortable. 116 00:08:59,455 --> 00:09:02,415 Did you hear what I said? I said I could open an investigation. 117 00:09:02,583 --> 00:09:03,708 Say what you mean. 118 00:09:04,293 --> 00:09:08,255 Mr. Palmer called me into a meeting today. The war against the Bolsheviks has begun. 119 00:09:08,422 --> 00:09:11,633 He's insisted that I lead a new anti-radical division. 120 00:09:11,801 --> 00:09:13,301 Did you leap like a dog? 121 00:09:14,011 --> 00:09:17,138 I told him this is the greatest threat our nation has ever faced... 122 00:09:17,306 --> 00:09:21,142 and I cannot take the job unless I feel certain I can be effective. 123 00:09:21,310 --> 00:09:23,770 Well done. But you'll take it. 124 00:09:23,938 --> 00:09:25,814 Three thousand a year, Mother. 125 00:09:25,982 --> 00:09:28,984 I've got to get new clothes. You can't look like that anymore. 126 00:09:31,237 --> 00:09:34,781 I have 40 names of suspected radicals already in only four hours. 127 00:09:34,949 --> 00:09:36,825 I should have 10,000 by end of the month. 128 00:09:36,993 --> 00:09:41,788 And I have my own staff, trusted agents. 129 00:09:41,956 --> 00:09:44,499 Edgar, are you smoking? 130 00:09:45,293 --> 00:09:48,670 - Doesn't come naturally, Mother. - Listen to the doctor. 131 00:09:48,838 --> 00:09:52,299 With this new burden, your nerves could get the better of you. 132 00:09:56,012 --> 00:09:57,971 You don't want to end up like your father. 133 00:09:58,139 --> 00:10:00,682 Go and try one now. You can put your father in his room. 134 00:10:00,850 --> 00:10:02,350 I have to get ready for dinner. 135 00:10:04,687 --> 00:10:06,438 Are you abandoning me tonight? 136 00:10:07,648 --> 00:10:10,025 Lt's with a typist. She's very organized. 137 00:10:11,402 --> 00:10:12,444 Ls it a date? 138 00:10:12,612 --> 00:10:14,654 I think so. I think so. 139 00:10:14,822 --> 00:10:19,200 I'm gonna show her my old card catalog system at the Library of Congress. 140 00:10:19,452 --> 00:10:21,244 Romance her. 141 00:10:22,038 --> 00:10:23,622 Wear a blue tie. 142 00:10:24,582 --> 00:10:26,958 You look so handsome in your blue tie. 143 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:38,720 Look at the ceiling. 144 00:10:38,888 --> 00:10:40,388 Lt's incredible. 145 00:10:44,727 --> 00:10:47,520 I've never been here before. 146 00:10:54,987 --> 00:10:56,363 I helped organize it. 147 00:10:56,530 --> 00:10:59,074 See, every item is assigned its own index card... 148 00:10:59,241 --> 00:11:00,992 with its own unique code... 149 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:05,121 indicating the title, author, location, and topic. 150 00:11:05,289 --> 00:11:09,668 What used to take days to locate now only takes a matter of minutes. 151 00:11:09,835 --> 00:11:13,171 Go on. Give me an author or a topic. Anything. 152 00:11:14,173 --> 00:11:15,215 Indiscretion. 153 00:11:15,383 --> 00:11:16,591 What era? 154 00:11:16,842 --> 00:11:17,884 Present day. 155 00:11:18,052 --> 00:11:20,512 Good. Time me. 156 00:11:47,164 --> 00:11:48,623 Hmm. 157 00:11:51,961 --> 00:11:53,503 Heh. 158 00:11:55,506 --> 00:11:57,966 Almost there, heh. 159 00:12:02,179 --> 00:12:04,806 How do you know I didn't mean political indiscretion? 160 00:12:05,683 --> 00:12:08,268 Well, if you'd like, I can start all over again. 161 00:12:08,436 --> 00:12:09,602 This will do. 162 00:12:09,770 --> 00:12:11,479 How long did I take? 163 00:12:11,647 --> 00:12:13,815 One minute, 10 seconds. 164 00:12:13,983 --> 00:12:17,610 Now imagine if every citizen in this country were uniquely identifiable... 165 00:12:17,778 --> 00:12:21,990 by their own card and number, say, the pattern on their fingers. 166 00:12:22,992 --> 00:12:27,036 Imagine how quickly we could find them if they committed a crime. 167 00:12:27,496 --> 00:12:29,330 Lt's all very impressive, John. 168 00:12:30,666 --> 00:12:34,919 Well, would you like to stay here or would you like to go somewhere else? 169 00:12:35,796 --> 00:12:37,213 Lt's up to you. 170 00:12:41,886 --> 00:12:42,927 Mr. Hoover. 171 00:12:45,514 --> 00:12:48,016 I'm not sure where you think this is headed. 172 00:12:48,601 --> 00:12:50,185 Right, of course. 173 00:12:52,688 --> 00:12:53,980 Miss Gandy. 174 00:12:56,734 --> 00:12:59,027 I know we've only known each other a brief time... 175 00:12:59,195 --> 00:13:01,529 but you would make the finest of companions. 176 00:13:01,697 --> 00:13:05,158 Your strength, your character, your education. 177 00:13:05,326 --> 00:13:07,285 Are you poking fun at me? 178 00:13:07,953 --> 00:13:10,789 No. No, no, no. No, no, of course not. 179 00:13:11,749 --> 00:13:14,209 Then please, Mr. Hoover, stand up. 180 00:13:18,130 --> 00:13:21,716 I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't share this... 181 00:13:21,884 --> 00:13:24,886 with any of the other women in the typing pool. 182 00:13:25,054 --> 00:13:26,554 No, of course not. 183 00:13:26,722 --> 00:13:29,224 All right. May I ask what... What... 184 00:13:30,142 --> 00:13:33,728 What particular flaw you seem to find in my character? 185 00:13:34,438 --> 00:13:36,397 No. We just met. 186 00:13:36,565 --> 00:13:37,732 Right, of course. 187 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:40,902 But I believe that I am a fast and accurate judge of character. 188 00:13:41,070 --> 00:13:43,404 We've gone out three times, but I don't need more. 189 00:13:43,572 --> 00:13:47,033 Most people do, but I don't. I see people right off for what they are. 190 00:13:47,201 --> 00:13:50,578 And please, call me Edgar. Lt's what my mother uses. 191 00:13:50,746 --> 00:13:52,664 - Edgar? - Yes? 192 00:13:52,832 --> 00:13:55,083 Can you keep a secret? 193 00:13:55,876 --> 00:13:58,753 Yes. Of course. You have my word. 194 00:14:00,422 --> 00:14:04,926 I'm not interested in getting married. My work comes first. 195 00:14:06,136 --> 00:14:07,637 Hmm. 196 00:14:08,889 --> 00:14:14,435 Then perhaps you would consider a position as my personal secretary. 197 00:14:20,401 --> 00:14:21,442 Yes. 198 00:14:22,444 --> 00:14:23,778 Shall we? 199 00:14:24,697 --> 00:14:26,155 The book. 200 00:14:26,323 --> 00:14:27,949 Right. 201 00:14:29,618 --> 00:14:30,910 After you. 202 00:14:31,287 --> 00:14:35,623 I helped organize that library just as I did this Bureau. 203 00:14:35,791 --> 00:14:38,126 And many said we didn't need either. 204 00:14:38,294 --> 00:14:41,588 You see, innovators aren't often celebrated. 205 00:14:42,131 --> 00:14:43,798 Not at first. 206 00:14:52,808 --> 00:14:56,728 Miss Gandy. 207 00:14:58,939 --> 00:15:01,649 The nitwit Kennedy child rang his baby buzzer again. 208 00:15:01,817 --> 00:15:03,401 Perhaps he'd like a fresh diaper. 209 00:15:03,569 --> 00:15:05,945 Should I find out what the Attorney General needs? 210 00:15:06,113 --> 00:15:09,824 No, I want the completed transcripts of the Los Angeles recordings. 211 00:15:09,992 --> 00:15:12,827 When I receive those, then we'll answer his buzzer. 212 00:15:12,995 --> 00:15:14,746 Very good. 213 00:15:15,205 --> 00:15:17,665 Edgar, Agent Smith is back. 214 00:15:17,833 --> 00:15:20,919 He, uh, has some questions about the Palmer Raids. 215 00:15:21,086 --> 00:15:23,338 Should I tell him to go? 216 00:15:24,506 --> 00:15:26,674 Helen, do you like him? 217 00:15:26,842 --> 00:15:29,177 I don't have an opinion of him yet. 218 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,304 Hmm. 219 00:15:31,472 --> 00:15:33,932 Well, I like him. I trust him. 220 00:15:34,934 --> 00:15:37,852 - I'll set him up in your outer office. - No. No, no, no. 221 00:15:38,020 --> 00:15:40,313 Bring him a desk in here. 222 00:15:42,775 --> 00:15:45,652 But in 1920, how could I protect us from anyone? 223 00:15:45,819 --> 00:15:48,738 Before I moved to this office, we were powerless. 224 00:15:48,906 --> 00:15:51,658 We had few federal laws, no right to carry firearms... 225 00:15:51,825 --> 00:15:53,993 and Congress liked it that way. 226 00:15:54,161 --> 00:15:58,414 Criminals ran free, but there was no law against keeping track of them... 227 00:15:58,582 --> 00:16:00,750 so I made a decision on my own. 228 00:16:00,918 --> 00:16:03,461 I compiled note cards and over five thousand names... 229 00:16:03,629 --> 00:16:05,880 and called the one department in Washington... 230 00:16:06,048 --> 00:16:08,716 that still held a small piece of untested power. 231 00:16:08,884 --> 00:16:12,553 Was that the Department of Labor? The power to deport, sir? 232 00:16:12,721 --> 00:16:15,264 But only to deport those who checked two boxes. 233 00:16:15,432 --> 00:16:20,269 They had to be foreign citizens and they had to be working to harm our country. 234 00:16:20,437 --> 00:16:22,188 And they cooperated with you? 235 00:16:22,356 --> 00:16:23,982 Of course not. 236 00:16:24,149 --> 00:16:28,319 No one freely shares power in Washington, D.C., Agent Smith. 237 00:16:28,487 --> 00:16:31,239 There is no law under which you can issue a warrant... 238 00:16:31,407 --> 00:16:33,241 for the arrest of an alien... 239 00:16:33,409 --> 00:16:36,077 when I have certified that he is subject to deportation? 240 00:16:36,245 --> 00:16:38,997 Without any evidence, Mr. Attorney General, no. 241 00:16:39,164 --> 00:16:41,749 - There exists a due process of law. - Due process of law? 242 00:16:43,168 --> 00:16:45,712 - What about the threat? - There might be a threat... 243 00:16:45,879 --> 00:16:47,005 Might be? 244 00:16:47,172 --> 00:16:49,882 Fine. There is a threat to our country. 245 00:16:50,050 --> 00:16:53,469 But with no proof of a crime, there's no cause for deportation. 246 00:16:53,637 --> 00:16:55,596 We'll see about that. 247 00:16:55,764 --> 00:16:57,598 You'll be hearing from me. 248 00:16:59,435 --> 00:17:01,936 But one of their heads was a Mr. Caminetti. 249 00:17:02,104 --> 00:17:06,858 He was weary of our Justice Department, but he hated one person even more. 250 00:17:07,026 --> 00:17:10,194 I am a revolutionist by nature... 251 00:17:10,362 --> 00:17:11,446 and as such... 252 00:17:11,613 --> 00:17:15,783 I claim the right to rebel and resist invasion... 253 00:17:15,951 --> 00:17:19,454 by all means, force included. 254 00:17:19,621 --> 00:17:22,915 Emma Goldman. She was the hero of the radical movement. 255 00:17:23,083 --> 00:17:27,587 If I could hand Caminetti Emma Goldman, he would deport her without a thought. 256 00:17:27,755 --> 00:17:30,089 But she was a citizen. 257 00:17:33,635 --> 00:17:34,969 Would you like to stop, sir? 258 00:17:39,058 --> 00:17:40,558 No. 259 00:17:40,726 --> 00:17:44,228 I know it's hard for you to imagine today, but there was a time... 260 00:17:44,396 --> 00:17:49,358 when the average American feared for their safety and survival, Agent Smith. 261 00:17:49,902 --> 00:17:54,864 In Chicago, a coal strike started by communist labor shut off all the power. 262 00:17:55,032 --> 00:17:56,324 Riots followed. 263 00:17:56,492 --> 00:17:59,160 And on Armistice Day in Centralia, Washington... 264 00:17:59,328 --> 00:18:02,830 veterans fresh back from the war were murdered by radicals. 265 00:18:04,208 --> 00:18:07,752 The red revolution had arrived on our soil. 266 00:18:14,426 --> 00:18:16,511 No, no. We can't take them down one by one. 267 00:18:16,678 --> 00:18:20,556 They'll go underground and we'll have a bomb inside every senator's mailbox. 268 00:18:20,724 --> 00:18:23,851 We need to have a simultaneous raid, hitting all of them at once. 269 00:18:24,019 --> 00:18:26,145 - Who are "they"? - You're here to find out. 270 00:18:26,313 --> 00:18:30,066 Now listen, I want a card on every radical person in this country. 271 00:18:30,234 --> 00:18:31,984 Against the wall, gentlemen. 272 00:18:32,152 --> 00:18:35,321 I wanna know who, where they're from, what group, what they say. 273 00:18:35,489 --> 00:18:37,073 Who have already committed crimes? 274 00:18:37,241 --> 00:18:41,786 I care more whether they intend to. Against the wall, gentlemen, thank you. 275 00:18:41,954 --> 00:18:44,705 - How many are on our team? - Only you four for now. 276 00:18:44,873 --> 00:18:46,666 I'll have locks installed. 277 00:18:46,834 --> 00:18:49,544 No, Miss Gandy. That would bring too much attention. 278 00:18:49,711 --> 00:18:51,712 Nothing is to be alphabetically ordered. 279 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,799 I want the cards to be broken down into subjects and categories. 280 00:18:54,967 --> 00:18:57,385 Now, this system should be easy enough if explained. 281 00:18:57,553 --> 00:19:00,513 If not, finding information should prove impossible. 282 00:19:02,307 --> 00:19:05,393 And trust no one, not even our fellow agents. 283 00:19:05,561 --> 00:19:08,062 Half our colleagues are on both sides of the payroll. 284 00:19:08,564 --> 00:19:11,524 But the crimes we're investigating aren't crimes, they're ideas. 285 00:19:11,692 --> 00:19:12,984 Well, if your idea... 286 00:19:13,152 --> 00:19:15,319 Against the wall, gentlemen. Thank you. 287 00:19:15,487 --> 00:19:19,574 If your idea is to come into our country and plot the overthrow of our government... 288 00:19:19,741 --> 00:19:21,534 then, yes, indeed, that is a crime. 289 00:19:21,702 --> 00:19:24,162 Mrs. Goldman married a U.S. citizen. 290 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:28,583 The man she married hasn't visited her once in prison, yet this man... 291 00:19:28,750 --> 00:19:31,752 the man she's lived with since her wedding, he visits nightly. 292 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,964 What happens when we raid this list of yours and find nothing? 293 00:19:35,132 --> 00:19:38,467 No guns, no bombs, just innocent people deported. 294 00:19:38,635 --> 00:19:41,762 From every corner of this nation, the American people... 295 00:19:41,930 --> 00:19:45,016 have urged the Attorney General to do something about this... 296 00:19:45,184 --> 00:19:47,351 and return the United States back to peace. 297 00:19:47,519 --> 00:19:50,438 Now, I'm happy to send your objections to Mr. Palmer himself... 298 00:19:50,606 --> 00:19:53,691 but, in the meantime, expose Miss Goldman's sham marriage... 299 00:19:53,859 --> 00:19:57,111 and you will change that suit of yours. 300 00:19:57,279 --> 00:19:59,363 - Pardon me, John? - Your suit, sir, your suit. 301 00:19:59,531 --> 00:20:00,573 This isn't a saloon. 302 00:20:00,741 --> 00:20:03,117 Have respect for yourself, but, more importantly... 303 00:20:03,285 --> 00:20:04,952 have respect for this department. 304 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:06,746 Miss Gandy? 305 00:20:13,712 --> 00:20:15,463 Miss Goldman, are you an anarchist? 306 00:20:15,631 --> 00:20:17,048 I decline to answer. 307 00:20:17,216 --> 00:20:19,300 Do you deny that you are an anarchist? 308 00:20:19,468 --> 00:20:21,469 I decline to answer. 309 00:20:21,637 --> 00:20:25,223 Do you believe in the overthrow of the government of the United States? 310 00:20:25,390 --> 00:20:26,891 I refuse to answer. 311 00:20:27,059 --> 00:20:29,560 Do you advocate the assassination of public officials? 312 00:20:29,728 --> 00:20:32,480 I refuse to answer. 313 00:20:34,775 --> 00:20:39,820 This alien has refused to answer questions pertaining to the charges in the warrant... 314 00:20:39,988 --> 00:20:43,241 notwithstanding the fact that every opportunity was afforded her. 315 00:20:43,408 --> 00:20:45,117 I recommend deportation. 316 00:20:47,621 --> 00:20:50,998 And just like that, we had our precedent. 317 00:20:53,001 --> 00:20:57,505 Edgar, should I arrange our travel to Paterson on Valentine's Day? 318 00:20:58,173 --> 00:21:00,675 Yes, of course, Miss Gandy. 319 00:21:05,180 --> 00:21:09,475 I took the train to Paterson, New Jersey, on February 14th. 320 00:21:09,643 --> 00:21:11,894 If I could catch these radicals red-handed... 321 00:21:12,062 --> 00:21:15,731 then the Labor Department would have to put them all on boats back home. 322 00:21:15,899 --> 00:21:18,442 So agents of the Bureau, alongside local police... 323 00:21:18,610 --> 00:21:22,405 began raiding gathering places of known communist radicals... 324 00:21:22,864 --> 00:21:25,199 all across this country. 325 00:21:26,868 --> 00:21:28,661 These people are armed and violent. 326 00:21:28,829 --> 00:21:31,539 They're prepared to kill to avoid capture. 327 00:21:32,624 --> 00:21:34,166 Take one. Go on. 328 00:21:34,710 --> 00:21:37,128 - Are we allowed to use these, sir? - These are gifts. 329 00:21:37,296 --> 00:21:40,047 There is no law that prevents us from using our own weapons. 330 00:21:40,215 --> 00:21:42,883 Gentlemen, grab your guns. 331 00:21:45,721 --> 00:21:47,388 Gentlemen, quickly. 332 00:21:51,393 --> 00:21:52,727 Let's move. 333 00:22:04,906 --> 00:22:06,532 Police! This is a raid! 334 00:22:16,460 --> 00:22:19,253 He's going for the window, stop him! 335 00:22:51,328 --> 00:22:52,703 That's enough! 336 00:23:12,849 --> 00:23:15,851 The leaflets matched exactly. 337 00:23:16,186 --> 00:23:18,771 We'd solved the bombings. 338 00:23:19,022 --> 00:23:23,401 And, in the end, we arrested nearly 4000 communist radicals... 339 00:23:23,568 --> 00:23:25,820 and deported over 500 of them. 340 00:23:27,155 --> 00:23:31,617 Lt was accomplished against great odds and at great personal peril. 341 00:23:34,287 --> 00:23:39,375 They found the counterfeiting press, five pistols, two automatics. 342 00:23:39,543 --> 00:23:43,921 And in Trenton, they found gunpowder, copper, brass wire, and batteries. 343 00:23:44,089 --> 00:23:46,340 - A bomb factory. - Yes. 344 00:23:46,508 --> 00:23:52,847 One hundred and twenty arrests in Detroit, 41 in Philadelphia, and 17 here so far. 345 00:23:53,014 --> 00:23:56,142 But everyone in the Bureau involved lost their job, correct? 346 00:23:56,309 --> 00:23:57,685 Even Palmer himself? 347 00:23:57,853 --> 00:23:59,979 Some did, and there's the lesson. 348 00:24:00,147 --> 00:24:02,648 You see, the bombs stopped, and peace came. 349 00:24:02,816 --> 00:24:05,860 The American people had forgotten there ever was a threat. 350 00:24:06,027 --> 00:24:08,863 So when political adversaries attacked Palmer... 351 00:24:09,030 --> 00:24:11,699 for trying to protect this nation from communism... 352 00:24:11,867 --> 00:24:13,701 our countrymen allowed it to happen. 353 00:24:14,661 --> 00:24:19,582 Because like today, they've forgotten the bombs, the blood, the fear. 354 00:24:19,749 --> 00:24:22,460 But why Palmer and not you, if you orchestrated the raids? 355 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:28,340 I was 24 years old, Agent Smith. I was just following orders. 356 00:24:28,508 --> 00:24:29,925 I understand, sir. 357 00:24:30,093 --> 00:24:34,346 And if we hadn't, you may very well have been born into a communist state... 358 00:24:34,514 --> 00:24:37,224 rather than the country you love today. 359 00:24:37,392 --> 00:24:39,310 - Am I right? - Of course, sir. 360 00:24:39,478 --> 00:24:40,519 Hmm. 361 00:24:40,687 --> 00:24:41,729 Edgar? 362 00:24:43,148 --> 00:24:44,190 Ignore him. 363 00:24:44,858 --> 00:24:45,900 Edgar? 364 00:24:46,610 --> 00:24:49,904 I am in a meeting, Mr. Tolson. I'll be out in a moment. 365 00:24:50,071 --> 00:24:53,407 Don't forget about your appointment with the Attorney General, Edgar. 366 00:24:53,575 --> 00:24:58,037 Files are not yet completed, Mr. Tolson. Please go away. 367 00:24:58,914 --> 00:25:00,664 Thank you. 368 00:25:02,918 --> 00:25:07,087 Thank you, sir. I apologize. I'll finish this chapter tonight. 369 00:25:09,049 --> 00:25:10,925 Very well, Agent Smith. 370 00:25:20,101 --> 00:25:23,604 In the Academy, do they tell the story of how I got here? 371 00:25:23,772 --> 00:25:26,982 Yes, sir. Uh, you were called into the new Attorney General's office... 372 00:25:27,150 --> 00:25:30,277 - Harlan Fiske Stone. - Yes, sir, Attorney General Stone. 373 00:25:30,445 --> 00:25:33,239 He called you into his office and told you to sit down, sir. 374 00:25:33,406 --> 00:25:35,824 Sir, there are over a dozen vacancies in Chicago. 375 00:25:35,992 --> 00:25:39,036 And with the robbery rates rising, it would profit the Bureau... 376 00:25:39,204 --> 00:25:41,455 to start filling vacancies and make recoveries. 377 00:25:41,623 --> 00:25:46,001 I have files on potential suspects, and with a congressional hearing... 378 00:25:46,169 --> 00:25:50,631 Lower the treble, son. You didn't call this meeting, I did. Sit down. 379 00:25:51,633 --> 00:25:52,758 Yes, sir. 380 00:25:53,635 --> 00:25:57,846 Everyone you've worked with here is gone. And there's a reason for that. 381 00:25:58,014 --> 00:26:03,143 This Bureau is of exceedingly bad odor. Would you agree? 382 00:26:04,020 --> 00:26:05,312 Yes, sir. 383 00:26:06,106 --> 00:26:08,399 And, no offense, you seem to have no social life. 384 00:26:08,567 --> 00:26:13,821 No wife, no girlfriend. As far as I can tell, no pals at all. 385 00:26:16,533 --> 00:26:18,075 That is accurate, sir. 386 00:26:18,243 --> 00:26:22,413 And you're shamelessly distracted by this hodgepodge fingerprinting affair. 387 00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:27,501 Sir, it wouldn't be hodgepodge if we could centralize the prints here, I assure you. 388 00:26:27,669 --> 00:26:29,837 Lt's a speculative science at best. 389 00:26:31,423 --> 00:26:32,673 Yes, sir. 390 00:26:33,258 --> 00:26:35,009 And why do they call you Speed? 391 00:26:36,386 --> 00:26:37,428 Who calls me that? 392 00:26:37,596 --> 00:26:40,472 They all do, behind your back, evidently. 393 00:26:43,184 --> 00:26:47,187 I gained a reputation for delivering groceries when I was 10 years old. 394 00:26:47,355 --> 00:26:51,108 I was the fastest in the neighborhood. Lt was just a nickname. 395 00:26:51,276 --> 00:26:53,110 You sure it's not for the way you talk? 396 00:26:55,155 --> 00:26:56,864 Perhaps, sir. 397 00:26:57,824 --> 00:27:04,204 Young man, I want you to be acting director of the Bureau of Investigation. 398 00:27:07,083 --> 00:27:11,670 I will take the job, Mr. Stone, but only on certain conditions. 399 00:27:13,590 --> 00:27:15,007 What are they? 400 00:27:16,259 --> 00:27:21,013 The Bureau must be divorced from politics and not be a catchall for political hacks. 401 00:27:21,890 --> 00:27:25,059 Recruits must be college-educated. 402 00:27:25,352 --> 00:27:28,062 Appointments must be based on merit. 403 00:27:28,229 --> 00:27:32,066 Promotions will be made on proven ability. 404 00:27:32,484 --> 00:27:36,403 And, well, the Bureau will be responsible only to you, sir... 405 00:27:36,571 --> 00:27:38,072 the Attorney General. 406 00:27:41,034 --> 00:27:44,912 I wouldn't give you the job under any other conditions. 407 00:27:46,706 --> 00:27:48,874 That's all. Good day. 408 00:27:51,544 --> 00:27:52,711 Well, thank you, sir. 409 00:27:52,879 --> 00:27:56,924 I am determined to summarily dismiss from this Bureau... 410 00:27:57,092 --> 00:28:00,844 any employee whom I find indulging in the use of intoxicants. 411 00:28:01,012 --> 00:28:04,765 Lt is my belief that when a man becomes a part of this Bureau... 412 00:28:04,933 --> 00:28:10,104 he must so conduct himself, both officially and unofficially... 413 00:28:10,271 --> 00:28:13,774 as to eliminate even the slightest possibility of criticism... 414 00:28:13,942 --> 00:28:15,943 as to his conduct. 415 00:28:18,154 --> 00:28:20,948 - And what is your name, sir? - Agent Williams, sir. 416 00:28:21,116 --> 00:28:23,575 - Pleasure to meet you, Agent Williams. - You too, sir. 417 00:28:25,954 --> 00:28:27,079 And your name? 418 00:28:27,247 --> 00:28:28,789 Agent Caffrey, sir. 419 00:28:28,957 --> 00:28:31,291 - Your assignment? - I'm headed to Kansas City... 420 00:28:31,459 --> 00:28:34,253 to aid in the search for bank robber Frank Nash, sir. 421 00:28:34,421 --> 00:28:36,505 Mm, that is dangerous work, and when you return... 422 00:28:36,673 --> 00:28:39,049 you will be rewarded for your service. 423 00:28:43,972 --> 00:28:47,933 You still fancy facial hair, Agent Stokes? 424 00:28:48,184 --> 00:28:50,686 - The ladies appreciate it. - Hmm. 425 00:28:50,854 --> 00:28:54,189 And I suppose the ladies' opinions are more important than the Bureau's? 426 00:28:54,357 --> 00:28:55,399 No. 427 00:28:55,567 --> 00:28:57,067 Sir. 428 00:28:57,819 --> 00:29:00,279 Perhaps you are better suited for the police force... 429 00:29:00,447 --> 00:29:02,740 than the Bureau of Investigations. 430 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:06,493 I've been with the Department and the Bureau for seven years. 431 00:29:06,661 --> 00:29:07,745 Almost as long as you. 432 00:29:08,621 --> 00:29:09,663 No. 433 00:29:10,206 --> 00:29:14,501 You were with the old Bureau seven years, and that Bureau is now gone, sir. 434 00:29:15,462 --> 00:29:16,837 And so are you. 435 00:29:17,005 --> 00:29:21,133 I quickly dismissed all agents 436 00:29:21,301 --> 00:29:23,927 Education, physical fitness... 437 00:29:24,095 --> 00:29:26,013 but, above all, loyalty. 438 00:29:30,643 --> 00:29:34,188 I've had two made. Same cut, different pattern. 439 00:29:36,191 --> 00:29:39,026 And two suits for you. They'll be delivered on Friday. 440 00:29:39,194 --> 00:29:40,527 Thank you, Mother. 441 00:29:45,116 --> 00:29:46,533 Lt's platinum... 442 00:29:47,660 --> 00:29:51,121 six diamonds and a star sapphire. 443 00:29:54,375 --> 00:29:56,043 - Heh. - Lt's absolutely beautiful, Mother. 444 00:29:56,211 --> 00:29:57,461 Thank you. 445 00:30:00,215 --> 00:30:03,467 I've told the whole neighborhood about you. They all know. 446 00:30:04,886 --> 00:30:07,554 No, I shouldn't, I've been gaining weight, Mother. 447 00:30:07,722 --> 00:30:11,809 Lt's solid weight. There's nothing wrong with solid weight on a man. 448 00:30:13,394 --> 00:30:15,813 - All right. - I'm so incredibly proud of you, Edgar. 449 00:30:22,278 --> 00:30:24,404 I'm starting an album for you. 450 00:30:25,406 --> 00:30:28,575 I'm gonna put everything in it. This is just the beginning. 451 00:30:28,743 --> 00:30:35,123 "Johnny Hoover appointed acting director of the Bureau of Investigations." 452 00:30:35,291 --> 00:30:36,750 Can you read that? 453 00:30:41,422 --> 00:30:43,006 You proud of your uncle? 454 00:30:59,274 --> 00:31:00,315 Gentlemen. 455 00:31:04,237 --> 00:31:06,280 I want to introduce you. Come with me. 456 00:31:09,075 --> 00:31:10,742 Edgar, good to see you. 457 00:31:10,910 --> 00:31:12,286 Good to see you, Lawrence. 458 00:31:12,453 --> 00:31:14,955 I'd like to introduce you to Mr. Clyde Tolson. 459 00:31:15,123 --> 00:31:17,916 Graduated from George Washington University tonight with a law degree. 460 00:31:18,084 --> 00:31:19,126 Hmm. 461 00:31:19,294 --> 00:31:20,627 Congratulations, Mr. Tolson. 462 00:31:20,795 --> 00:31:24,798 Thank you, Mr. Hoover. I believe you are one of our most distinguished alumni. 463 00:31:24,966 --> 00:31:28,635 I did, yes. I, uh, do have a degree from the school, yes. 464 00:31:31,097 --> 00:31:34,558 I was admiring your suit, Mr. Tolson. You should take a lesson, Lawrence. 465 00:31:34,726 --> 00:31:37,477 Thank you, sir. lt's a custom cut, from Garfinkel's department store. 466 00:31:37,645 --> 00:31:39,104 Ah. 467 00:31:41,608 --> 00:31:43,650 Do you have a card, Mr. Tolson? 468 00:31:43,818 --> 00:31:46,236 I do, yes, of course. 469 00:31:47,447 --> 00:31:48,488 Here you go. 470 00:31:48,823 --> 00:31:50,532 Good to see you, Lawrence. 471 00:31:51,618 --> 00:31:52,659 Thank you, sir. 472 00:31:57,206 --> 00:32:00,709 "Well-educated, highly recommended, willing to guarantee five years service. 473 00:32:00,877 --> 00:32:03,545 Has a family in New York and a new baby." 474 00:32:03,713 --> 00:32:04,755 No interview. 475 00:32:05,381 --> 00:32:07,507 The family in New York or the baby? 476 00:32:07,675 --> 00:32:11,470 Miss Gandy, five years is not enough. We need men willing to dedicate their lives. 477 00:32:11,638 --> 00:32:13,138 How many is that so far? 478 00:32:13,306 --> 00:32:18,560 - That's 320 denied and 21 interviews. - Hmm. 479 00:32:18,728 --> 00:32:22,856 Did we receive an application from a Mr. Tolson? 480 00:32:23,024 --> 00:32:25,192 Yes. 481 00:32:27,528 --> 00:32:31,156 Yes, his report states he has confidence, poise... 482 00:32:31,324 --> 00:32:33,742 his diction is excellent. 483 00:32:33,910 --> 00:32:38,413 But although physically fitted for it, might be displeased with rugged work. 484 00:32:38,581 --> 00:32:42,876 His only interest is to gain experience that would benefit a private law practice. 485 00:32:43,044 --> 00:32:46,630 And he has no interest in being here for any period of time... 486 00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:49,675 which would render employment speculative. 487 00:32:50,468 --> 00:32:51,885 Hmm. 488 00:32:52,053 --> 00:32:54,763 He did receive a letter of recommendation... 489 00:32:54,931 --> 00:32:58,392 from the executive assistant of the Secretary of War. 490 00:32:59,060 --> 00:33:01,019 That's fantastic, Miss Gandy. 491 00:33:01,187 --> 00:33:08,193 Yes. lt mentions here that Mr. Tolson showed no particular interest in women. 492 00:33:10,738 --> 00:33:16,076 Then again, some of our best agents excel because they have no family encumbrance. 493 00:33:17,245 --> 00:33:20,414 Yes, you're right. Set up an interview. 494 00:33:23,543 --> 00:33:25,544 You know what the problem is, Miss Gandy? 495 00:33:25,753 --> 00:33:28,714 These men, they don't... They don't look up to me. 496 00:33:28,881 --> 00:33:30,048 Of course they do. 497 00:33:30,216 --> 00:33:35,137 I don't mean figuratively. I mean they don't look up to me. 498 00:33:35,304 --> 00:33:39,266 Well, if you could conduct the entire interview from behind your desk... 499 00:33:39,434 --> 00:33:44,646 instead of walking about the office, I could correct that. 500 00:33:44,814 --> 00:33:46,481 Indeed. 501 00:33:48,735 --> 00:33:52,779 Miss Gandy, suppose I had information on someone in a position of power... 502 00:33:54,115 --> 00:33:56,324 harmful information. 503 00:33:57,118 --> 00:33:59,703 Lt goes against my nature to destroy such information... 504 00:33:59,871 --> 00:34:02,873 but I don't trust it in the general files either. 505 00:34:04,959 --> 00:34:06,626 Could I trust it with you? 506 00:34:06,794 --> 00:34:10,881 If we were to create a confidential file? 507 00:34:11,799 --> 00:34:13,508 Of course, Edgar. 508 00:34:15,678 --> 00:34:16,762 Thank you, Miss Gandy. 509 00:34:20,892 --> 00:34:23,101 Information is power. 510 00:34:23,269 --> 00:34:26,229 Lt protected us from the communists in 1919... 511 00:34:26,397 --> 00:34:30,734 and since has been vigilantly collected, organized, and maintained by our FBI. 512 00:34:32,737 --> 00:34:35,489 Attorney General Kennedy's Office. 513 00:34:39,744 --> 00:34:44,122 Did you always have this fireplace or did you have it put in? 514 00:34:44,540 --> 00:34:45,582 Lt was put in. 515 00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:48,335 What were you doing with wiretaps in that house? 516 00:34:49,545 --> 00:34:53,507 You asked that I pursue this organized crime element, Mr. Kennedy... 517 00:34:53,674 --> 00:34:56,176 and I did so, sir, with diligence. 518 00:34:56,844 --> 00:34:59,137 - Do you use the fireplace? - Rarely. 519 00:34:59,305 --> 00:35:00,847 Who else has heard the recording? 520 00:35:01,849 --> 00:35:05,352 I have filed the matter personal and confidential. 521 00:35:05,686 --> 00:35:07,646 I'm the only person with access to it. 522 00:35:09,232 --> 00:35:11,900 Mr. Hoover, I asked you to pursue a real threat. 523 00:35:12,068 --> 00:35:15,695 Instead, you've publicly denied the existence of organized crime... 524 00:35:15,863 --> 00:35:18,198 and now this gross display of intimidation. 525 00:35:18,366 --> 00:35:22,035 Mr. Attorney General, I was only following orders. 526 00:35:22,203 --> 00:35:24,454 We bugged the basement of a home in Los Angeles... 527 00:35:24,622 --> 00:35:27,541 that was a known gathering place for lawbreakers. 528 00:35:27,708 --> 00:35:32,129 How was I to know that an East German communist would be down there... 529 00:35:32,296 --> 00:35:36,049 having sex with your brother, the President of the United States? 530 00:35:37,051 --> 00:35:40,637 Do not shoot the messenger, sir. I am here to protect you both. 531 00:35:40,805 --> 00:35:42,472 Remember that. 532 00:35:45,434 --> 00:35:47,018 What do you want from me? 533 00:35:50,064 --> 00:35:52,732 If this information were to go public... 534 00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:57,737 it would create widespread distrust in your brother's leadership capabilities. 535 00:35:58,197 --> 00:36:01,741 And above all else, I hold the well-being of our country paramount. 536 00:36:01,909 --> 00:36:04,536 So how may I help you, Mr. Hoover? 537 00:36:04,704 --> 00:36:09,583 Well, if I am to pursue the elements that you consider a threat... 538 00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:13,420 I humbly request that you allow me the same power and access... 539 00:36:13,588 --> 00:36:16,423 to follow the groups that I see as an immediate threat. 540 00:36:16,591 --> 00:36:18,925 Lt's not 1920 anymore. 541 00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:22,929 You know who Stanley Levinson is, sir? 542 00:36:24,390 --> 00:36:25,724 A lawyer. 543 00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:30,103 A white, communist lawyer organizing at the highest levels... 544 00:36:30,271 --> 00:36:32,022 including the SCLC. 545 00:36:32,190 --> 00:36:33,940 Now, their group is growing. 546 00:36:34,108 --> 00:36:36,318 They are entirely self-serving... 547 00:36:36,527 --> 00:36:40,113 and their leadership is openly critical of this department here. 548 00:36:40,281 --> 00:36:42,032 Did you read the memos that I sent? 549 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,451 No, no, I can't say that I have. 550 00:36:46,454 --> 00:36:48,455 Lt says right here, Mr. Kennedy. 551 00:36:48,623 --> 00:36:50,290 They claim we are... 552 00:36:50,458 --> 00:36:53,919 "unable to get convictions in even the worst, most heinous crimes..." 553 00:36:54,086 --> 00:36:57,214 and that we have "faltered under the pressure, complexities... 554 00:36:57,381 --> 00:36:59,674 and responsibilities of our office," in print. 555 00:36:59,842 --> 00:37:03,553 - Right here in "The Washington Post." - You can't bear a little criticism? 556 00:37:03,721 --> 00:37:05,972 Well, it depends on what their aim is. 557 00:37:06,140 --> 00:37:08,308 They are gaining considerable power. 558 00:37:08,476 --> 00:37:11,353 Their priorities are singularly focused on their own issues. 559 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,730 They are trying to incite revolt. 560 00:37:14,649 --> 00:37:17,484 Frankly, they sound more critical of your office than mine. 561 00:37:18,194 --> 00:37:21,112 There's a new face to communism, Edgar, and this isn't it. 562 00:37:23,157 --> 00:37:25,825 Communism is a foreign threat now, not domestic. 563 00:37:28,162 --> 00:37:31,831 Mr. Kennedy, before you were even born... 564 00:37:32,833 --> 00:37:36,294 I heard that very same argument from a Mr. Mitchell Palmer. 565 00:37:37,338 --> 00:37:39,839 Do you know what it took to change his mind? 566 00:37:40,174 --> 00:37:41,174 A bomb. 567 00:37:41,842 --> 00:37:45,428 If he would have sat in his rocking chair five more minutes in 1919... 568 00:37:45,596 --> 00:37:49,599 we'd have been lucky enough to find an intact index finger. 569 00:37:49,767 --> 00:37:53,144 Now, I do not want that to happen to you or your brother, sir. 570 00:37:54,021 --> 00:37:57,190 There's no reason we both can't get what we want. 571 00:37:57,358 --> 00:38:01,695 We can wage a war on two fronts, sir. You understand? 572 00:38:03,906 --> 00:38:06,533 You can go now, Mr. Hoover. 573 00:38:09,704 --> 00:38:10,996 Yes, sir. 574 00:38:12,123 --> 00:38:14,541 Please leave the transcripts here with me. 575 00:38:16,752 --> 00:38:18,003 Yes, sir. 576 00:38:23,801 --> 00:38:26,803 Oh, and feel free and share them with your brother. 577 00:38:28,889 --> 00:38:33,310 Oh, and let him know that I have a copy of my own in safekeeping. 578 00:38:50,870 --> 00:38:52,954 - Unh. - Your 4:00 is here, sir. 579 00:38:53,122 --> 00:38:55,540 Thank you, Miss Gandy. Send him right in, thank you. 580 00:38:59,879 --> 00:39:03,214 Please, have a seat, Mr. Tolson. 581 00:39:03,382 --> 00:39:07,093 - Mr. Hoover, thank you for this opportunity. - Yes. Please. 582 00:39:07,261 --> 00:39:09,596 - Have a seat. - Thank you, sir. 583 00:39:09,764 --> 00:39:13,224 There were several problems with your application, Mr. Tolson... 584 00:39:13,392 --> 00:39:16,311 not the least of which is the fact that you did not show... 585 00:39:16,479 --> 00:39:18,730 the proper requirement to the Bureau... 586 00:39:20,441 --> 00:39:24,069 nor the proper dedication to protecting the American people... 587 00:39:24,236 --> 00:39:25,278 and the American way. 588 00:39:25,446 --> 00:39:27,864 May I remind you that this is not a platform... 589 00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:31,451 to a fatter paycheck in private practice, Mr. Tolson? 590 00:39:35,456 --> 00:39:38,291 Ls there something the matter, Mr. Tolson? 591 00:39:38,459 --> 00:39:40,460 No, sir. 592 00:39:40,628 --> 00:39:43,630 Ls exercise a requirement for all agents, sir? 593 00:39:45,883 --> 00:39:49,803 Yes. All our agents need to be in top physical condition. 594 00:39:49,970 --> 00:39:54,307 We must outsmart and outmatch the public enemy at every turn. 595 00:39:54,475 --> 00:39:56,017 Yes, of course. 596 00:39:56,185 --> 00:39:59,479 So, uh, what routine do you do, sir? 597 00:39:59,647 --> 00:40:03,108 Push-ups, sit-ups, and squatting. 598 00:40:04,485 --> 00:40:05,777 I see. 599 00:40:05,945 --> 00:40:07,654 Would you like me to fix the curtain? 600 00:40:08,406 --> 00:40:09,989 Or perhaps I could open a window. 601 00:40:10,157 --> 00:40:12,617 I always prefer a little bit of air after exercise. 602 00:40:12,785 --> 00:40:14,702 Don't you? 603 00:40:15,496 --> 00:40:16,996 If it would please you. 604 00:40:18,124 --> 00:40:21,126 And, sir, where I may fall short in terms of resume... 605 00:40:22,128 --> 00:40:25,797 I apparently far exceed the rest in terms of honesty. 606 00:40:26,924 --> 00:40:28,591 I didn't lie to get this appointment, sir. 607 00:40:28,759 --> 00:40:31,219 Like the rest, yes, I would like to start a practice... 608 00:40:31,387 --> 00:40:37,016 but I could be persuaded otherwise if the right opportunities were to arise. 609 00:40:38,519 --> 00:40:40,019 Hmm. 610 00:40:41,564 --> 00:40:44,107 Fair enough, Mr. Tolson. 611 00:40:46,193 --> 00:40:47,485 Fair enough. 612 00:41:00,291 --> 00:41:02,292 These sleeves seem to be the correct length. 613 00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:04,002 I found you two tie options. 614 00:41:04,170 --> 00:41:06,379 This one is a bit more fashion-forward... 615 00:41:06,547 --> 00:41:09,090 but it would complement this suit and cut and fabric. 616 00:41:09,258 --> 00:41:10,800 Lt's too loud, don't you think? 617 00:41:10,968 --> 00:41:13,678 Too loud? Okay, which is why I found this one, the backup. 618 00:41:13,846 --> 00:41:18,558 - lt's a bit more directorial, a little bit more... - Lt's a little bit more reserved, I agree. 619 00:41:18,726 --> 00:41:22,729 Let's keep this as a second option, please. Thank you, Clyde. 620 00:41:24,732 --> 00:41:26,733 Are you Mr. John Hoover? 621 00:41:26,901 --> 00:41:28,193 I am. ls there a problem? 622 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:32,489 Lt seems there's a Mr. John Hoover whose credit has gone bad with us. 623 00:41:32,656 --> 00:41:34,199 That would appear to be you. 624 00:41:34,366 --> 00:41:36,993 That is not me, sir, on my word. 625 00:41:37,161 --> 00:41:41,956 My mother calls me Edgar, my niece calls me J.E., and I sign John E., not John. 626 00:41:42,124 --> 00:41:45,877 Well, sir, if you're a friend of Mr. Tolson's... 627 00:41:46,045 --> 00:41:49,589 just choose one name and reapply. 628 00:41:49,757 --> 00:41:51,591 All right. 629 00:41:52,218 --> 00:41:53,551 Thank you very much. 630 00:42:03,896 --> 00:42:04,938 Morning, Miss Gandy. 631 00:42:05,648 --> 00:42:07,649 What? You don't like it? 632 00:42:09,068 --> 00:42:12,904 Mr. Hoover, there's been a massacre in Kansas City. 633 00:42:15,032 --> 00:42:16,074 One of our own? 634 00:42:18,744 --> 00:42:20,620 Special Agent Caffrey? 635 00:42:21,330 --> 00:42:22,372 Let him have it! 636 00:42:23,290 --> 00:42:26,793 By 1930, the communist threat had been beaten back... 637 00:42:27,378 --> 00:42:30,630 but the Depression had hit and there was a new threat. 638 00:42:30,798 --> 00:42:33,508 The bank robber, the car thief, and the kidnapper. 639 00:42:33,676 --> 00:42:38,972 But, unfortunately, as with communism, America didn't react with scorn. 640 00:42:39,139 --> 00:42:42,225 They gave the American gangster admiration. 641 00:42:42,393 --> 00:42:44,894 And the defiance by desperate, armed criminals... 642 00:42:45,062 --> 00:42:49,190 of the forces of society and civilization can no longer be ignored. 643 00:42:49,358 --> 00:42:53,236 Bugs Moran and Al Capone top the list of public enemies. 644 00:42:53,404 --> 00:42:56,531 Look around you. They could be anywhere. 645 00:42:56,699 --> 00:43:01,286 May I remind you that the Bureau of Investigation seeks to be your protector. 646 00:43:01,453 --> 00:43:04,664 It belongs to you. It is as close to you as your nearest telephone. 647 00:43:06,041 --> 00:43:07,500 And with your help... 648 00:43:08,294 --> 00:43:11,462 Warner Bros. presents 649 00:43:11,630 --> 00:43:13,339 "The Public Enemy." 650 00:43:14,049 --> 00:43:17,677 James Cagney plays public enemy number one. 651 00:43:19,013 --> 00:43:20,513 - Why, you. - Aah! 652 00:43:22,224 --> 00:43:24,267 There you go with that wishing stuff again. 653 00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:26,227 Maybe you found someone you like better. 654 00:43:29,189 --> 00:43:31,524 Coming soon to your neighborhood theater. 655 00:43:32,818 --> 00:43:33,860 Fantastic. 656 00:43:34,737 --> 00:43:39,365 That summer, a single crime opened the door to set things right. 657 00:43:40,075 --> 00:43:42,827 Do you know what that was, Mr. Jones? 658 00:43:42,995 --> 00:43:44,329 Sorry, sir, what was that? 659 00:43:44,496 --> 00:43:47,665 Who is the most famous man of the 20th Century thus far? 660 00:43:48,834 --> 00:43:50,209 Joe McCarthy, sir? 661 00:43:51,587 --> 00:43:54,589 Mr. McCarthy was an opportunist... 662 00:43:55,090 --> 00:43:57,175 not a patriot, Mr. Jones. 663 00:44:00,888 --> 00:44:04,724 Who is the most famous man of the 20th Century thus far? 664 00:44:05,476 --> 00:44:07,226 The most famous? 665 00:44:07,770 --> 00:44:09,896 Ls that you, sir? 666 00:44:17,404 --> 00:44:20,740 Well, I suppose his notoriety depends on the field that he is in. 667 00:44:20,908 --> 00:44:24,077 His field was in the clouds. 668 00:44:25,245 --> 00:44:27,205 Well, then Charles Lindbergh, sir. 669 00:44:40,511 --> 00:44:41,552 Yes? 670 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:44,681 Charles Lindbergh's baby has been kidnapped from his home. 671 00:44:44,848 --> 00:44:48,434 Send officers from Trenton. I'll be on the first train. 672 00:44:53,565 --> 00:44:54,774 What is it? 673 00:44:57,778 --> 00:45:00,738 Charles Lindbergh... Lindbergh's baby's been kidnapped. 674 00:45:02,616 --> 00:45:03,700 You've got to find him. 675 00:45:06,078 --> 00:45:07,954 He has to be brought home alive. 676 00:45:09,206 --> 00:45:10,248 Yes, Mother. 677 00:45:13,585 --> 00:45:15,294 Yes, Mother, I know. 678 00:45:18,215 --> 00:45:22,927 When we arrived at Mr. Lindbergh's home that morning in 1932... 679 00:45:23,095 --> 00:45:26,431 we began an investigation that would forever change our Bureau. 680 00:45:26,598 --> 00:45:29,892 This morning we've heard from the Pennsylvania Railroad, Will Rogers... 681 00:45:30,060 --> 00:45:32,979 President Hoover, Governor Roosevelt, Customs... 682 00:45:33,147 --> 00:45:34,897 the U.S. Mail, and the Boy Scouts. 683 00:45:35,065 --> 00:45:36,649 All of you. Get off of that dirt. 684 00:45:36,817 --> 00:45:39,485 You're trampling evidence. Immediately! Get off! 685 00:45:39,653 --> 00:45:42,613 There's nothing there. We checked. No defined footprints. 686 00:45:42,781 --> 00:45:44,991 Lt appears he was wearing fabric on his shoes. 687 00:45:45,159 --> 00:45:47,827 You don't think the size could've held some value? 688 00:45:47,995 --> 00:45:51,330 How did he get up there? Are there marks on the window and wall as well? 689 00:45:51,498 --> 00:45:53,458 A ladder. We found it 100 yards away. 690 00:45:53,625 --> 00:45:55,084 We moved it inside. 691 00:45:55,252 --> 00:45:56,419 You moved it? 692 00:45:56,587 --> 00:45:58,171 Yes, for safekeeping. 693 00:45:58,338 --> 00:46:02,341 Congratulations, Mr. Schwarzkopf. You have contaminated the crime scene. 694 00:46:02,509 --> 00:46:04,594 Now, get your boots off this property. 695 00:46:04,762 --> 00:46:07,054 And what right do you have to be here, Mister, uh...? 696 00:46:07,222 --> 00:46:09,849 J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation. 697 00:46:10,017 --> 00:46:13,019 We've been sent by President Hoover to ensure the investigation... 698 00:46:13,187 --> 00:46:16,272 The president has authorized access to all documents and evidence. 699 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:20,276 Mr. Hoover, you're free to observe, but New Jersey's not the president's domain. 700 00:46:20,444 --> 00:46:24,030 And where is Mr. Lindbergh? I'd like to hear his opinion on the matter. 701 00:46:24,198 --> 00:46:26,282 - Mr. Lindbergh's around back. - After you, sir. 702 00:46:26,450 --> 00:46:28,117 He's been up all night. 703 00:46:28,285 --> 00:46:31,329 Mr. Lindbergh himself came down to meet me. 704 00:46:31,497 --> 00:46:36,542 He shook my hand and expressed his gratitude and faith in our young Bureau. 705 00:46:37,294 --> 00:46:39,295 He fell five feet. 706 00:46:39,463 --> 00:46:40,713 Who did? 707 00:46:42,841 --> 00:46:45,218 The kidnapper, with the child in his arms. 708 00:46:46,470 --> 00:46:48,179 That's speculation, Mr. Hoover. 709 00:46:48,347 --> 00:46:53,017 Mr. Lindbergh, sir, if the ladder had split while the person was on their way up... 710 00:46:53,185 --> 00:46:55,978 it would have collapsed. You see, it was a miscalculation. 711 00:46:56,146 --> 00:47:00,691 Lt was meant to bear the weight of a man, but not the weight of a man and child. 712 00:47:00,859 --> 00:47:01,901 We have other theories. 713 00:47:02,903 --> 00:47:04,028 Where's the ransom note? 714 00:47:04,988 --> 00:47:06,197 Of course. 715 00:47:07,825 --> 00:47:10,368 And you are touching that with your bare hands as well? 716 00:47:10,536 --> 00:47:11,577 We checked. 717 00:47:11,745 --> 00:47:15,122 There are none of those finger imprints that you fancy so valuable. 718 00:47:15,290 --> 00:47:17,083 Please hand it over, Mr. Schwarzkopf. 719 00:47:17,251 --> 00:47:19,919 That's Colonel Schwarzkopf. 720 00:47:22,381 --> 00:47:25,216 "Have 50,000 dollars ready," spelled R-E-D-Y. 721 00:47:25,384 --> 00:47:29,011 "We will inform you where," spelled W-E-R-E, "to deliver the money"... 722 00:47:29,179 --> 00:47:30,513 spelled M-O-N-Y. 723 00:47:30,681 --> 00:47:34,851 "We warn you for making anything public or for notify the police. 724 00:47:35,018 --> 00:47:39,772 Indication for all letters are signature," S-I-N-G, "singnature." 725 00:47:40,691 --> 00:47:42,275 Three holes. 726 00:47:43,861 --> 00:47:45,945 I want this letter and the ladder. 727 00:47:46,113 --> 00:47:48,281 No jurisdiction. I've showed what you asked for. 728 00:47:48,448 --> 00:47:50,867 - lt's time for you to go. - Mr. Lindbergh, please... 729 00:47:51,034 --> 00:47:54,412 Mr. Hoover, thank you. As you can see, we have everything under control. 730 00:47:54,580 --> 00:47:56,372 Thank you, gentlemen. 731 00:47:56,540 --> 00:47:58,624 Thank you for your time, Mr. Lindbergh. 732 00:48:00,043 --> 00:48:01,085 Clyde. 733 00:48:09,845 --> 00:48:12,930 Clyde, I'm afraid for his boy. 734 00:48:13,348 --> 00:48:15,641 He trusts the local police more than us. 735 00:48:15,851 --> 00:48:17,310 He thinks we're all fools. 736 00:48:17,477 --> 00:48:21,397 He'll go around them too. He's going to bargain with the kidnappers. 737 00:48:23,567 --> 00:48:26,611 President Hoover called me the morning the child was taken... 738 00:48:26,778 --> 00:48:29,947 and asked me to do whatever was in my power to solve this crime. 739 00:48:30,115 --> 00:48:33,075 But do you know what all the power of the Bureau means... 740 00:48:33,243 --> 00:48:38,205 without federal laws, without arms, without the ability to make arrests? 741 00:48:38,373 --> 00:48:40,207 Lt means nothing. 742 00:48:40,375 --> 00:48:43,961 Mr. Chairman, I urge passage of the Lindbergh Law... 743 00:48:44,129 --> 00:48:46,505 making kidnapping a federal offense. 744 00:48:46,673 --> 00:48:50,676 To immediately deliver all the fingerprints in this country to my office... 745 00:48:50,844 --> 00:48:53,012 so that we may create a central file. 746 00:48:53,180 --> 00:48:56,349 To help arm our agents so that they have a fighting chance... 747 00:48:56,516 --> 00:49:00,353 against the submachine guns of some of the most dangerous characters... 748 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,480 in the history of American criminality. 749 00:49:02,648 --> 00:49:06,067 And I urge you to do this in the name of Little Lindy. 750 00:49:06,234 --> 00:49:09,528 Because if he can be taken, then what child is safe? 751 00:49:09,696 --> 00:49:15,451 And if we cannot aid in his safe return, then what use are we? 752 00:49:38,016 --> 00:49:40,142 Every fingerprint from the local authorities... 753 00:49:40,310 --> 00:49:44,522 across the country began flowing in. Finally, we had a centralized system. 754 00:49:44,690 --> 00:49:46,232 What is it, Edgar? 755 00:49:47,651 --> 00:49:50,027 The last of the fingerprints came in from Chicago. 756 00:49:52,072 --> 00:49:57,118 You know our new president has scheduled a meeting with me, Miss Gandy? 757 00:49:58,578 --> 00:50:02,748 Do you know that there are talks of reorganizing the Bureau? 758 00:50:03,375 --> 00:50:05,668 Yes, I've heard similar whispers. 759 00:50:05,836 --> 00:50:07,003 Hmm. 760 00:50:07,170 --> 00:50:08,754 Have you? 761 00:50:10,966 --> 00:50:15,094 Miss Gandy, do you remember that file we created on his wife? 762 00:50:15,262 --> 00:50:16,846 Mrs. Roosevelt? 763 00:50:17,014 --> 00:50:18,597 Yes. 764 00:50:18,765 --> 00:50:20,933 Will you make a copy for me, please? 765 00:50:21,768 --> 00:50:23,602 Yes, of course. 766 00:50:25,272 --> 00:50:27,106 Thank you, Miss Gandy. 767 00:51:00,766 --> 00:51:03,934 Lindbergh hired criminals to find his son. 768 00:51:04,227 --> 00:51:06,520 Off the desk now, Agent Garrison, follow me. 769 00:51:06,688 --> 00:51:07,730 Yes, sir. 770 00:51:07,898 --> 00:51:10,983 He even got an offer from Al Capone to help pay the ransom money... 771 00:51:11,151 --> 00:51:15,071 but, in the end, he employed an eccentric by the name of John Condon... 772 00:51:15,238 --> 00:51:19,492 who placed a newspaper ad to act as a go-between with the kidnappers. 773 00:51:19,659 --> 00:51:22,078 Now, was Condon a criminal too? 774 00:51:22,245 --> 00:51:25,623 He most certainly wasn't an agent of the law, Mr. Garrison. 775 00:51:25,791 --> 00:51:27,333 Why are you doing this? 776 00:51:28,460 --> 00:51:30,920 So a mother may have her baby again. 777 00:51:31,546 --> 00:51:34,673 And you may know that the American people are grateful... 778 00:51:34,841 --> 00:51:37,968 for the honor bestowed upon them by your pluck and daring. 779 00:51:38,136 --> 00:51:42,515 And how do we know the kidnapper is the same that wrote the letters that you have? 780 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,770 The symbol, uh, matches the original letter's symbol, doesn't it? 781 00:51:51,691 --> 00:51:53,484 What is it, Mr. Lindbergh? 782 00:51:56,696 --> 00:51:59,698 In a moment of thoughtlessness... 783 00:51:59,866 --> 00:52:02,034 I showed the symbol to some other men... 784 00:52:02,202 --> 00:52:05,037 and I'm not sure that they were trustworthy. 785 00:52:06,373 --> 00:52:08,165 I'm not sure anyone is trustworthy. 786 00:52:10,001 --> 00:52:11,877 I will be having your letters analyzed... 787 00:52:12,045 --> 00:52:15,381 to make sure that they are from the same author. 788 00:52:16,216 --> 00:52:19,552 And while Mr. Lindbergh placed his faith in hoodlums... 789 00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:23,222 we began cultivating the one thing criminals couldn't fight... 790 00:52:23,390 --> 00:52:25,057 with all the guns in the world. 791 00:52:25,225 --> 00:52:29,353 Gentlemen, please leave this room. Clear all these tables. Time to go, now. 792 00:52:29,521 --> 00:52:30,688 Where can we smoke, sir? 793 00:52:30,856 --> 00:52:32,439 Not my concern. Out of my sight. 794 00:52:32,607 --> 00:52:35,734 - Mr. Osborne, tell us what you need. - Uh, bright lights, a microscope... 795 00:52:35,902 --> 00:52:38,404 measuring instruments, magnifying glasses. A, uh, projector. 796 00:52:38,572 --> 00:52:41,532 You have the full resources of the Bureau. Don't be shy. 797 00:52:41,700 --> 00:52:43,826 Paper samples from every regional manufacturer. 798 00:52:43,994 --> 00:52:47,621 Mr. Osborne, this is Mr. Tolson. Supply Mr. Osborne whatever he needs... 799 00:52:47,789 --> 00:52:51,333 to conclude without a doubt that these letters came from the same author. 800 00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:53,043 Hmm? 801 00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,047 Gentlemen, please. Thank you. 802 00:52:59,676 --> 00:53:02,887 - Should we tell the attorney general? - So he can say no a third time? 803 00:53:03,054 --> 00:53:06,807 - Just post a sign, like this one. - What would you like it to say, "keep out"? 804 00:53:06,975 --> 00:53:09,560 "The Bureau of Investigations Technical Laboratory." 805 00:53:09,728 --> 00:53:13,731 Have it carved and nailed to the wall. If he wants it gone, he'll have to tear it out. 806 00:53:13,899 --> 00:53:16,901 Lt's time we at least have one thing the bad guys don't. 807 00:53:17,068 --> 00:53:18,110 Decorating skills? 808 00:53:18,278 --> 00:53:19,820 Science, Clyde. Science. 809 00:53:19,988 --> 00:53:24,116 Uh, the ink is different, but the handwriting is a match. 810 00:53:24,284 --> 00:53:29,079 Whoever Mr. Condon is corresponding with is the person who wrote the original note. 811 00:53:29,247 --> 00:53:31,207 Or Condon wrote all the notes himself. 812 00:53:31,374 --> 00:53:34,001 Lindbergh is planning on using Condon to deliver the ransom. 813 00:53:34,169 --> 00:53:36,629 - May have already happened. - Call the Internal Revenue Service. 814 00:53:36,796 --> 00:53:40,633 Get them to Lindbergh's home. I insist that all those bills be marked. 815 00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:41,884 Yes, sir. 816 00:53:42,052 --> 00:53:44,887 Ls that all, Mr. Hoover? I have a 2:30 p.m. class to teach. 817 00:53:45,055 --> 00:53:47,139 No, you don't. Consider your pay doubled. 818 00:53:47,307 --> 00:53:52,144 You work for your country now, Mr. Osborne. Congratulations. 819 00:53:54,731 --> 00:53:56,148 Doctor! 820 00:54:06,576 --> 00:54:08,160 Have you gotted the money? 821 00:54:08,995 --> 00:54:11,580 I can't bring the money till I see the baby. 822 00:54:17,420 --> 00:54:19,964 I promise you there's no police. 823 00:54:20,757 --> 00:54:22,424 Lt's too dangerous. 824 00:54:28,598 --> 00:54:32,184 Stop! Stop this now! 825 00:54:34,271 --> 00:54:35,980 No one's gonna harm you. 826 00:54:36,147 --> 00:54:37,898 If they catch me, they will. 827 00:54:38,066 --> 00:54:40,442 No, they only want the child. 828 00:54:40,610 --> 00:54:43,988 They'll give me 30 years if I'm caught. They could burn me. 829 00:54:44,155 --> 00:54:45,614 No. No. 830 00:54:45,782 --> 00:54:46,865 I didn't do it. 831 00:54:47,033 --> 00:54:48,659 I'm only the messenger. 832 00:54:49,244 --> 00:54:50,995 Eh! 833 00:54:51,162 --> 00:54:52,997 What if the baby is dead? 834 00:54:54,249 --> 00:54:55,874 Would I burn if the baby is dead? 835 00:54:57,544 --> 00:55:00,045 Why would we be meeting if the baby was dead? 836 00:55:00,213 --> 00:55:03,507 Place another ad in the paper when you have the money. 837 00:55:09,889 --> 00:55:14,226 So if a ransom had to be paid, we needed those bills traced. 838 00:55:14,394 --> 00:55:18,564 We brought in the IRS, and, for his own good, we had to force his hand. 839 00:55:18,732 --> 00:55:21,567 I thought gold notes were going out of circulation, Mr. Irey. 840 00:55:21,735 --> 00:55:23,068 That's our hope. 841 00:55:23,236 --> 00:55:25,112 It'll make these bills more identifiable. 842 00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,865 I have no need for the money. I just want my son. 843 00:55:29,409 --> 00:55:32,369 This isn't just about your son, Mr. Lindbergh. 844 00:55:32,537 --> 00:55:36,415 If these kidnappers go free, then no child in this country will be safe. 845 00:55:36,583 --> 00:55:41,378 That's why I've assembled a 26-man team, headed by Special Agent Sisk here. 846 00:55:41,546 --> 00:55:45,758 And if they find out you're involved, I may never see my son again. 847 00:55:46,551 --> 00:55:49,470 Mr. Lindbergh, sir, we will not pursue a single lead... 848 00:55:49,637 --> 00:55:51,930 until your child is safe in his mother's arms. 849 00:55:52,098 --> 00:55:54,850 You have my word, sir. 850 00:56:02,942 --> 00:56:05,944 The kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was a tragedy... 851 00:56:06,112 --> 00:56:08,697 not only to Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, but to the nation. 852 00:56:08,865 --> 00:56:11,950 His abduction from his Hopewell home was a challenge to America. 853 00:56:12,118 --> 00:56:14,870 This ladder, the only clue to the kidnapping, was homemade. 854 00:56:15,038 --> 00:56:17,956 Let the developments in the Lindbergh case start a new drive... 855 00:56:18,124 --> 00:56:21,001 to wipe out the stain, not only of that wanton kidnapping... 856 00:56:21,169 --> 00:56:24,088 but of all kidnapping and crimes. 857 00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:28,217 Hey, doctor! 858 00:56:29,219 --> 00:56:32,262 Give your word not to open for six hours. 859 00:56:34,474 --> 00:56:35,599 Thank you. 860 00:56:43,775 --> 00:56:45,943 I talked him out of 20,000 dollars. 861 00:56:46,111 --> 00:56:49,488 I'd prefer him happy than save the money. I don't want to upset him. 862 00:56:50,573 --> 00:56:51,824 Where is the baby? 863 00:56:51,991 --> 00:56:54,576 I promised not to open this for six hours. 864 00:56:54,744 --> 00:56:57,329 You gave your word, I did not. 865 00:56:58,832 --> 00:57:03,293 "The boy is on boat Nelly. Lt is a small boat, 28 feet long. 866 00:57:03,461 --> 00:57:06,505 Two persons are on the boat. They are innocent. 867 00:57:06,673 --> 00:57:11,677 You'll find the boat between Horseneck's Beach and Gay Head near Elizabeth Island." 868 00:57:11,845 --> 00:57:13,846 That's Nantucket, right? 869 00:57:17,851 --> 00:57:19,059 What was in the boat? 870 00:57:19,227 --> 00:57:20,602 There was no boat. 871 00:57:20,770 --> 00:57:23,439 Lindbergh didn't trust us. He wanted to do things his way. 872 00:57:23,606 --> 00:57:27,192 And who can blame him? No one respected us at that time. 873 00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,069 Mr. Hoover, we've been calling. 874 00:57:29,237 --> 00:57:30,863 Edgar. 875 00:57:33,450 --> 00:57:35,659 Time to go, Agent Garrison. Right now. 876 00:57:36,536 --> 00:57:39,705 The Attorney General has authorized your wiretaps. 877 00:57:39,873 --> 00:57:41,707 Very good, Miss Gandy. 878 00:57:42,542 --> 00:57:46,712 Edgar, are you sure about this? Once you do this, Edgar, it's done. 879 00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:50,674 When I prove myself correct, we will have saved this country another revolution. 880 00:57:50,842 --> 00:57:52,509 History will remember that, Clyde. 881 00:57:52,677 --> 00:57:53,886 But if you are wrong... 882 00:57:54,053 --> 00:57:57,389 history will remember it as an illegal move over a petty grudge. 883 00:57:57,557 --> 00:58:00,517 Do you consider our reputation petty, Mr. Tolson? 884 00:58:00,685 --> 00:58:03,312 - No, I... - Then order the wires. 885 00:58:04,814 --> 00:58:08,150 - Can we discuss this over dinner? - After you've ordered the wires. 886 00:58:10,445 --> 00:58:11,987 Yes, sir. 887 00:58:24,584 --> 00:58:26,335 The director's on his way. 888 00:58:49,817 --> 00:58:51,985 - Ahem. - After you. 889 00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:15,092 Wait, please. 890 00:59:21,808 --> 00:59:24,768 Harvey's Restaurant, sir? - No, to the White House. 891 00:59:35,446 --> 00:59:37,531 We were in the midst of a Great Depression... 892 00:59:37,699 --> 00:59:40,492 and breaths away from history's worst war. 893 00:59:40,660 --> 00:59:44,496 We needed more power to protect, but, as with every new president... 894 00:59:44,664 --> 00:59:49,167 this Bureau's future and my very job was being drawn into question. 895 00:59:49,335 --> 00:59:52,337 - The president is ready to see you now. - Alrighty. 896 01:00:01,180 --> 01:00:03,473 Come in. Have a seat, Mr. Hoover. 897 01:00:06,519 --> 01:00:09,646 Lt's the same dance each time. They make me wait. 898 01:00:09,814 --> 01:00:14,860 They imagine I'm sweating, that they're gonna show me who's boss, I play along. 899 01:00:15,028 --> 01:00:16,653 Thank you. 900 01:00:16,821 --> 01:00:18,697 And then did you show him the transcript? 901 01:00:18,865 --> 01:00:21,825 No. He didn't want to read it. That was unique. 902 01:00:21,993 --> 01:00:24,202 He wanted me to tell him about it. 903 01:00:24,370 --> 01:00:26,079 What, how you came across it? 904 01:00:26,247 --> 01:00:30,375 No, I explained to him up front we never expected to find Mrs. Roosevelt... 905 01:00:30,543 --> 01:00:32,961 in the bedroom of a known communist agitator... 906 01:00:33,129 --> 01:00:36,548 much less having what sounded like an intimate moment. 907 01:00:36,716 --> 01:00:39,718 That I needed his advice on how to proceed. 908 01:00:39,886 --> 01:00:42,346 I wanted to let him know he had an ally. 909 01:00:42,513 --> 01:00:44,514 Before he had a chance to ask you to resign. 910 01:00:44,682 --> 01:00:45,932 Exactly. 911 01:00:46,100 --> 01:00:48,894 When I was finished, he simply pushed the file aside... 912 01:00:49,062 --> 01:00:53,315 as if he was unconcerned with it. 913 01:00:53,483 --> 01:00:57,361 Clyde, the President of the United States is afraid. 914 01:00:58,488 --> 01:01:00,072 What, he's afraid of you? 915 01:01:00,239 --> 01:01:04,117 Of a potential invasion from abroad. 916 01:01:04,994 --> 01:01:07,579 We'll have two glasses of your finest champagne. 917 01:01:07,747 --> 01:01:09,206 Of course, Mr. Hoover. 918 01:01:10,083 --> 01:01:12,584 Ahem. - You're drinking now? 919 01:01:12,752 --> 01:01:14,753 We're celebrating, Clyde, we're celebrating. 920 01:01:15,546 --> 01:01:18,131 You know I feel I could trust you with anything, right? 921 01:01:18,299 --> 01:01:19,925 Well, I'd like to think so. 922 01:01:22,303 --> 01:01:24,971 The president signed a secret order... 923 01:01:25,139 --> 01:01:27,432 granting me increased power of surveillance... 924 01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:32,354 secret surveillance of communists and radicals, without warrant. 925 01:01:33,064 --> 01:01:34,106 Ls that legal? 926 01:01:34,273 --> 01:01:36,692 Sometimes you need to bend the rules a little... 927 01:01:36,859 --> 01:01:39,277 in order to keep your country safe, right? 928 01:01:39,445 --> 01:01:43,907 And to make sure I hadn't heard it wrong, I clarified this with Secretary of State Hull. 929 01:01:44,075 --> 01:01:48,412 And he said, and I quote, "You go ahead and investigate those cocksuckers." 930 01:01:49,664 --> 01:01:52,708 - Vulgar. - Hmm, agreed. 931 01:01:55,128 --> 01:01:56,712 Clyde... 932 01:01:57,463 --> 01:01:59,464 I've been meaning to ask you something. 933 01:02:00,174 --> 01:02:01,466 Feel free. 934 01:02:02,301 --> 01:02:05,804 I need someone who understands what's at stake here... 935 01:02:05,972 --> 01:02:07,264 you understand? 936 01:02:07,432 --> 01:02:09,975 Someone who I can trust... 937 01:02:11,144 --> 01:02:12,978 an associate director of the Bureau. 938 01:02:13,146 --> 01:02:16,606 I know you've only been in your current position for, what, 12 months now. 939 01:02:16,774 --> 01:02:18,650 Oh, almost 18 now, sir. 940 01:02:18,818 --> 01:02:21,236 You're missing my point, Clyde. 941 01:02:21,404 --> 01:02:23,488 I want you to be my number-two man. 942 01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:29,077 I'm not much for the spotlight, Edgar. 943 01:02:32,498 --> 01:02:34,374 I need you, Clyde. 944 01:02:34,792 --> 01:02:36,501 Do you understand? I need you. 945 01:02:39,672 --> 01:02:41,631 On one condition. 946 01:02:42,258 --> 01:02:45,260 Good day or bad, whether we agree or disagree... 947 01:02:45,428 --> 01:02:49,347 we never miss a lunch or a dinner together. 948 01:02:50,183 --> 01:02:52,684 Well, I would have it no other way. 949 01:03:02,195 --> 01:03:04,488 Hey, pull over. 950 01:03:04,655 --> 01:03:07,949 - Only a half a mile to Mount Rose. - Can't wait. 951 01:03:38,064 --> 01:03:39,064 Orville! 952 01:03:52,954 --> 01:03:57,415 In the end, the child's body was found just within sight... 953 01:03:57,583 --> 01:03:59,668 of Mr. Lindbergh's home. 954 01:04:01,087 --> 01:04:02,921 The body was blackened... 955 01:04:03,089 --> 01:04:06,049 the left leg missing from the knee down. 956 01:04:06,676 --> 01:04:09,594 There was a visible fracture on the skull. 957 01:04:10,096 --> 01:04:13,265 He'd suffered a violent blow to the head. I told them months ago. 958 01:04:13,432 --> 01:04:17,727 He must've fallen on the way down, with the baby in his arms. 959 01:04:18,771 --> 01:04:21,231 We are the sinners, Edgar. 960 01:04:24,193 --> 01:04:29,114 We tolerated lawlessness in the land until it grew to diabolical proportions. 961 01:04:30,783 --> 01:04:33,952 The baby's blood is on all our hands, Edgar. 962 01:04:35,454 --> 01:04:37,497 On your hands, Edgar. 963 01:04:43,796 --> 01:04:45,213 Yes, Mother. 964 01:04:58,519 --> 01:05:00,353 Six weeks after the kidnapping... 965 01:05:00,521 --> 01:05:02,355 Congress passed the Lindbergh Law... 966 01:05:02,523 --> 01:05:05,275 making kidnapping a federal offense. 967 01:05:05,443 --> 01:05:09,321 The right to make arrests followed and the right to bear arms. 968 01:05:09,488 --> 01:05:13,950 So I continued collecting the finest scientific minds in the country. 969 01:05:16,787 --> 01:05:20,123 He claims to be the world expert on wood analysis. 970 01:05:20,541 --> 01:05:24,419 Lt's easy to be the expert if you're the only person in the world with any interest. 971 01:05:24,587 --> 01:05:26,922 He does claim he can tell as much from a cut of wood... 972 01:05:27,089 --> 01:05:29,257 - ...as a doctor can from an autopsy. - Ah. 973 01:05:29,425 --> 01:05:31,843 He has, um, social difficulties. 974 01:05:32,011 --> 01:05:34,179 He is mentally ill, isn't he? 975 01:05:34,347 --> 01:05:37,682 He's only as mad as you are. Sir. 976 01:05:38,517 --> 01:05:41,269 This was supposed to be temporary, Mr. Hoover. 977 01:05:41,437 --> 01:05:43,605 If you want your Sherlock Holmes playing time... 978 01:05:43,773 --> 01:05:46,358 Where do you suggest we go, sir, where? 979 01:05:46,525 --> 01:05:48,443 I suggest you take your case to Congress. 980 01:05:48,611 --> 01:05:49,903 Fine, sir. Have it your way. 981 01:05:50,071 --> 01:05:54,991 I'll tell people we could not solve the case because we could not afford laboratories... 982 01:05:55,159 --> 01:05:58,078 and the Attorney General wouldn't allow us to use his lounge. 983 01:05:58,245 --> 01:06:01,706 Fine. Now get your science fair project out of here. 984 01:06:01,874 --> 01:06:03,625 Yes, sir. Right away, sir. 985 01:06:06,212 --> 01:06:07,295 Gentlemen, keep working. 986 01:06:07,463 --> 01:06:10,507 Mr. Tolson, let's get the president on the phone. 987 01:06:12,885 --> 01:06:17,722 The depravations of vicious outlaws, roving from state to state like packs of wolves... 988 01:06:17,932 --> 01:06:20,600 amounts to an actual armed invasion of America. 989 01:06:20,768 --> 01:06:24,521 We must outsmart and outwit the criminal, foreign and domestic. 990 01:06:24,689 --> 01:06:28,650 They have chemists building bombs. We need chemists tracing their efforts. 991 01:06:28,818 --> 01:06:31,569 We must have the most advanced force in the world... 992 01:06:31,737 --> 01:06:34,155 if we are to have the safest nation on earth. 993 01:06:34,323 --> 01:06:37,909 And, please, gentlemen, let us not for a moment lose sight of our goals: 994 01:06:38,077 --> 01:06:39,536 To protect the honest citizen... 995 01:06:39,704 --> 01:06:43,581 to teach the criminal that regardless of his subterfuges... 996 01:06:43,749 --> 01:06:46,334 his twisting, his squirming and slimy wriggling... 997 01:06:46,502 --> 01:06:49,796 he cannot escape the one inexorable rule of law enforcement... 998 01:06:49,964 --> 01:06:51,923 that you can't get away with it. 999 01:06:52,091 --> 01:06:53,758 Thank you. 1000 01:06:53,926 --> 01:06:54,926 Thank you, Mr. Hoover. 1001 01:06:55,094 --> 01:07:01,016 But your agency is already one of the most well-funded in Washington, is it not? 1002 01:07:01,183 --> 01:07:02,684 Yes, that is true, sir... 1003 01:07:02,852 --> 01:07:06,771 but our car and bank robbery recoveries totaled 6.5 million last year... 1004 01:07:06,939 --> 01:07:09,399 and our budget is only, well, two million. 1005 01:07:09,567 --> 01:07:13,111 Unlike other departments in Washington, we actually run a profit. 1006 01:07:15,281 --> 01:07:17,782 We cannot quantify the value of our successes... 1007 01:07:17,950 --> 01:07:22,037 with the hoodlums Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly... 1008 01:07:22,204 --> 01:07:24,330 and other hoodlums of that nature. 1009 01:07:24,498 --> 01:07:30,128 Mr. Hoover, is it true that you spend the Bureau's money on advertising? 1010 01:07:31,922 --> 01:07:36,301 We are not permitted to engage in advertising of any kind, sir. No. 1011 01:07:36,469 --> 01:07:40,972 But you take part, for instance, in the making of radio shows and comic books. 1012 01:07:41,140 --> 01:07:43,641 I've listened to several of these G-Men programs. 1013 01:07:43,809 --> 01:07:48,063 Your picture seems to be shown in conjunction with them quite frequently. 1014 01:07:49,315 --> 01:07:53,193 We declined emphatically to lend any form of endorsement... 1015 01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:58,073 had nothing to do with their production, furnished no advice, technical or otherwise. 1016 01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:01,451 Well, the very advertisement says that broadcasts were... 1017 01:08:01,619 --> 01:08:05,830 "true reflections, as contained in the official records... 1018 01:08:05,998 --> 01:08:09,751 based on actual cases from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation... 1019 01:08:09,919 --> 01:08:11,961 Saturday night at 8:00." 1020 01:08:13,130 --> 01:08:15,673 Mr. Hoover, what are your exact qualifications... 1021 01:08:15,841 --> 01:08:18,343 for your position of leadership in this Bureau? 1022 01:08:18,511 --> 01:08:19,761 My qualifications, sir? 1023 01:08:19,929 --> 01:08:23,807 Nineteen years with the Department of Justice. Nineteen. 1024 01:08:23,974 --> 01:08:25,517 Twelve as director. 1025 01:08:25,684 --> 01:08:29,312 In all that time, you ever make an arrest yourself? 1026 01:08:31,023 --> 01:08:35,443 I have made investigations. I administer several cases at once. 1027 01:08:36,612 --> 01:08:38,029 Well, that's not what I asked. 1028 01:08:38,197 --> 01:08:42,867 The comic books show you with a machine gun, making arrests. ls that just fiction? 1029 01:08:49,834 --> 01:08:52,377 I am responsible for thousands of arrests, sir. 1030 01:08:53,587 --> 01:08:56,881 So you admit it is pure fiction. 1031 01:08:57,466 --> 01:09:02,220 In fact, it wasn't you who hunted down and captured John Dillinger at all. 1032 01:09:02,513 --> 01:09:05,140 Lt was Agent Purvis. ls that correct? 1033 01:09:06,392 --> 01:09:10,520 I was in charge of all of those investigations... 1034 01:09:10,855 --> 01:09:14,899 but, no, sir, I have not personally made an arrest. 1035 01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:23,241 Any other questions, gentlemen? 1036 01:09:24,243 --> 01:09:26,369 Let's bring it to a vote. 1037 01:09:29,874 --> 01:09:31,332 Put those away. 1038 01:09:36,422 --> 01:09:37,839 Well, that didn't go well. 1039 01:09:38,007 --> 01:09:40,758 We spend our lives working and we get a political attack? 1040 01:09:40,926 --> 01:09:44,429 What does he expect, crimes to go unsolved? Why is he fighting me? 1041 01:09:44,597 --> 01:09:46,681 I want you to start a file on Senator McKellar. 1042 01:09:46,849 --> 01:09:48,641 I want four agents on him at all times. 1043 01:09:48,809 --> 01:09:51,769 I want to know what's in his trash, photograph him at dinner. 1044 01:09:51,937 --> 01:09:55,607 Don't get in the car. You can walk back. 1045 01:09:55,774 --> 01:09:58,276 We have lunch. We don't miss lunch, no matter what. 1046 01:09:58,444 --> 01:10:00,278 You pulled away from me in there. 1047 01:10:00,446 --> 01:10:03,781 You perjured yourself, Edgar, and the lie was an easily provable one. 1048 01:10:03,949 --> 01:10:05,950 There's no telling how much worse it could've been. 1049 01:10:06,118 --> 01:10:09,996 Find Agent Purvis. He is to be demoted immediately or, better yet, fired. 1050 01:10:10,164 --> 01:10:12,832 Firing the man who killed John Dillinger would be a PR disaster. 1051 01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:15,251 Then he is to spend the rest of his career behind a desk. 1052 01:10:15,419 --> 01:10:19,339 And if he'd like to keep that job, he'd best stay out of the papers. Go. 1053 01:10:29,225 --> 01:10:32,060 I don't know who I can trust anymore. 1054 01:10:33,896 --> 01:10:34,979 Only you. 1055 01:10:37,483 --> 01:10:38,942 Only you, Mother. 1056 01:10:39,652 --> 01:10:43,154 You're all I have to keep me safe, you understand that? 1057 01:10:44,198 --> 01:10:46,407 Please, Mother, let me take you to a doctor. 1058 01:10:46,575 --> 01:10:49,619 A simple examination isn't unholy, is it? 1059 01:10:51,497 --> 01:10:52,538 Mother. 1060 01:10:54,833 --> 01:10:55,959 Mother, please. 1061 01:10:58,837 --> 01:11:01,172 Faith, Edgar. 1062 01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:03,258 Faith. 1063 01:11:04,843 --> 01:11:07,637 Don't wilt like a little flower. 1064 01:11:08,347 --> 01:11:09,722 Be strong. 1065 01:11:10,766 --> 01:11:12,267 Yes, Mother. 1066 01:11:14,645 --> 01:11:16,245 I will. 1067 01:11:24,113 --> 01:11:28,157 If what Congress valued more than wits and brains was muscle... 1068 01:11:28,325 --> 01:11:31,411 if what they hungered for was an armed American hero... 1069 01:11:31,578 --> 01:11:35,373 then I was willing to risk my very life and give them both. 1070 01:11:35,541 --> 01:11:36,708 Move. 1071 01:11:36,875 --> 01:11:38,167 Go. 1072 01:11:38,335 --> 01:11:39,627 Hold it, government agents! 1073 01:11:54,518 --> 01:11:56,686 The arrest is mine to make! 1074 01:11:57,396 --> 01:11:58,396 Move. 1075 01:11:58,564 --> 01:12:01,024 Mr. Karpis, you are under arrest. 1076 01:12:02,234 --> 01:12:06,029 Mr. Hoover himself. I'm gonna be famous. 1077 01:12:06,905 --> 01:12:08,698 Put the handcuffs on him. 1078 01:12:13,662 --> 01:12:15,705 Don't move, Mr. Mahan. 1079 01:12:16,749 --> 01:12:18,166 Blow it down. 1080 01:12:21,879 --> 01:12:22,920 Move. 1081 01:12:34,725 --> 01:12:37,101 Mr. Brunette, you are under arrest. 1082 01:12:37,269 --> 01:12:41,564 Alvin Karpis said he couldn't be taken alive, but we took him without firing a shot. 1083 01:12:41,732 --> 01:12:45,568 And let me tell you, he shook all over. His voice, his hands, and his knees. 1084 01:12:45,736 --> 01:12:48,780 You arrested Harry Campbell in Toledo and Brunette in Manhattan? 1085 01:12:48,947 --> 01:12:50,448 And William Mahan in California. 1086 01:12:50,657 --> 01:12:53,159 But let me clarify without a shadow of a doubt... 1087 01:12:53,327 --> 01:12:55,912 this was a "we" job, not an "I" job. 1088 01:13:02,711 --> 01:13:05,463 Edgar, look at this. We made the Post Toasties box. 1089 01:13:06,465 --> 01:13:09,801 "Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent that caught Dillinger." 1090 01:13:10,511 --> 01:13:12,303 Write the cereal-maker. Let them know... 1091 01:13:13,222 --> 01:13:15,640 Oh. "Junior G-Man." Hmm. 1092 01:13:15,808 --> 01:13:20,978 Tell them they ought to print any further boxes to read "former agent of the FBI." 1093 01:13:21,647 --> 01:13:23,564 Sit down, Clyde. I'm gonna read something. 1094 01:13:27,986 --> 01:13:29,779 "Only eight more days. 1095 01:13:29,947 --> 01:13:32,990 Funny how even the dearest face will fade away in time. 1096 01:13:33,158 --> 01:13:34,867 Most clearly, I remember your eyes... 1097 01:13:35,035 --> 01:13:39,247 with a sort of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot... 1098 01:13:39,415 --> 01:13:43,000 just northeast of the corner of your mouth against my lips." 1099 01:13:43,168 --> 01:13:44,585 What is it? 1100 01:13:44,753 --> 01:13:46,379 Lt's a letter from Lorena Hickok... 1101 01:13:46,547 --> 01:13:50,633 the White House reporter with the bad breath, to Mrs. Roosevelt. 1102 01:13:51,301 --> 01:13:54,178 No. What are you gonna do with it? 1103 01:13:54,346 --> 01:13:56,931 Nothing. I accused her of having an affair with a man... 1104 01:13:57,099 --> 01:14:00,017 and Old Horse Face is having an affair with Mrs. Bat Breath! 1105 01:14:01,353 --> 01:14:03,771 - A woman! Can you believe it? - Mm. 1106 01:14:08,193 --> 01:14:11,362 Oh, excuse me, Mr. Hoover. They'd like to see you in the laboratory. 1107 01:14:11,530 --> 01:14:14,782 Yes, Miss Gandy. You tell them I'll be there in one minute. Thank you. 1108 01:14:15,033 --> 01:14:16,200 We'll get to this later. 1109 01:14:16,827 --> 01:14:21,497 Speaking of horses, Clyde, I'm going to Del Mar this weekend. 1110 01:14:22,332 --> 01:14:24,333 I was thinking of taking a quick vacation... 1111 01:14:24,501 --> 01:14:27,670 and, well, I thought you'd like to join me. 1112 01:14:27,838 --> 01:14:30,047 Well, I've never been to the horse races, Edgar. 1113 01:14:30,215 --> 01:14:31,299 Well, it's wonderful. 1114 01:14:31,467 --> 01:14:36,721 And between me and you, when I lose, the track, they actually cover the losses. 1115 01:14:36,889 --> 01:14:40,558 - So, what happens if you win? - They still pay. 1116 01:14:40,726 --> 01:14:41,809 Then where's the thrill? 1117 01:14:41,977 --> 01:14:45,855 In the sun that falls on the stands, the hotel rooms, the service... 1118 01:14:46,023 --> 01:14:49,400 the restaurants, but, most of all, Clyde, it's the company. 1119 01:14:51,069 --> 01:14:53,154 - Come with me. - I'd love to. 1120 01:14:53,322 --> 01:14:56,491 Fantastic. I'll have Miss Gandy make all the arrangements. 1121 01:14:56,658 --> 01:14:59,911 Well, I can't go now. But maybe in a couple months after I've saved up. 1122 01:15:00,078 --> 01:15:03,414 - lt's completely covered, Clyde. - Edgar, I can't let you do that. 1123 01:15:03,582 --> 01:15:07,835 Listen, you've done so much for me, for this Bureau. Consider it a thank you. 1124 01:15:08,003 --> 01:15:10,171 I don't know that I'd feel comfortable. 1125 01:15:11,340 --> 01:15:14,217 I'll get a suite with adjoining rooms... 1126 01:15:14,384 --> 01:15:17,887 rather than having us stay separate. That'll be savings enough. 1127 01:15:18,347 --> 01:15:19,388 Deal. 1128 01:15:20,182 --> 01:15:21,933 What do you have for me, Mr. Koehler? 1129 01:15:22,100 --> 01:15:25,436 Well, as you can see, ahem, there are several kinds of wood here. 1130 01:15:25,604 --> 01:15:29,941 Pine, birch, fir, and, if you look closely, you will see... 1131 01:15:30,108 --> 01:15:31,275 - Thank you. - Mr. Tolson. 1132 01:15:31,443 --> 01:15:35,112 That each has its own internal markings, rings and knots... 1133 01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:39,116 and its own external markings from the machinery used to mill the raw timber... 1134 01:15:39,284 --> 01:15:42,703 and these that mark the tools used to build the ladder. 1135 01:15:42,871 --> 01:15:46,958 The question is, how does this help us identify the kidnappers, Mr. Koehler? 1136 01:15:47,125 --> 01:15:48,751 I need more money, sir. 1137 01:15:48,919 --> 01:15:51,420 - More money, sir, for what? - Postage. 1138 01:15:51,588 --> 01:15:54,090 I need to write every mill on the East Coast... 1139 01:15:54,258 --> 01:15:57,635 and see if their blades match these marks. 1140 01:15:57,803 --> 01:15:59,178 Hmm. 1141 01:15:59,638 --> 01:16:02,807 I want a report from each mill and a map tracking all leads. 1142 01:16:02,975 --> 01:16:06,310 By the time I get back from New York, I want something to report. 1143 01:16:06,478 --> 01:16:07,645 Good day. 1144 01:16:16,655 --> 01:16:18,823 Just like the communist radicals before them... 1145 01:16:18,991 --> 01:16:20,491 the gangster fell from favor. 1146 01:16:20,659 --> 01:16:24,829 Now, finally, children dreamed of joining the FBI. 1147 01:16:33,088 --> 01:16:35,590 On your feet. On your feet. 1148 01:16:39,928 --> 01:16:40,970 Yeah? 1149 01:16:41,763 --> 01:16:43,931 He's taking his shower. Any message? 1150 01:16:44,099 --> 01:16:46,517 There ain't any shower there, copper. 1151 01:16:59,698 --> 01:17:00,865 Miss Temple! 1152 01:17:01,033 --> 01:17:04,744 Mr. Hoover, I was wondering if you would join my police force. 1153 01:17:04,911 --> 01:17:06,287 Why, yes, Miss Temple. 1154 01:17:06,455 --> 01:17:10,666 If you agree to be an honorary G-Woman, and give me one little kiss. 1155 01:17:11,501 --> 01:17:14,045 I don't know if your wife would approve, Mr. Hoover. 1156 01:17:15,631 --> 01:17:17,798 But, you see, I still live with my mother. 1157 01:17:18,884 --> 01:17:21,469 Oh. Okay. 1158 01:17:21,637 --> 01:17:23,888 - Look this way! - That's real spiffy. 1159 01:17:24,056 --> 01:17:26,015 Nice smile. Thank you very much. 1160 01:17:29,311 --> 01:17:31,228 Excuse me, sir. Can we get a statement? 1161 01:17:31,396 --> 01:17:32,980 How'd you like the picture? 1162 01:17:35,025 --> 01:17:36,233 This way, Mr. Hoover! 1163 01:17:36,401 --> 01:17:37,777 After you, Mother. 1164 01:17:50,415 --> 01:17:52,249 Should we go to the club? 1165 01:17:52,918 --> 01:17:55,670 After we drop Mother off at the hotel. 1166 01:18:15,649 --> 01:18:18,150 I have you at a table with Anita Colby. 1167 01:18:19,069 --> 01:18:22,363 Lela Rogers and her daughter Ginger have asked if they can join. 1168 01:18:22,531 --> 01:18:24,073 As long as it's near the front. 1169 01:18:24,241 --> 01:18:27,284 Miss Rogers, pleasure to meet you. This must be your mother. 1170 01:18:27,452 --> 01:18:28,452 Hello. 1171 01:18:28,620 --> 01:18:31,580 J. Edgar Hoover. This is Clyde Tolson. Anita, good to see you. 1172 01:18:40,215 --> 01:18:42,133 The bullet entered the back of the head... 1173 01:18:42,300 --> 01:18:44,760 and exited through the front near his cheek. 1174 01:18:44,928 --> 01:18:48,305 The thing that most people don't realize is that there is little blood. 1175 01:18:48,473 --> 01:18:52,143 The heat from the bullet actually seals the wound as it enters... 1176 01:18:52,310 --> 01:18:57,106 so the crime scene is far more peaceful than is depicted in your moving pictures. 1177 01:18:57,274 --> 01:19:00,651 And little Lindy. Did you see the child with your own eyes? 1178 01:19:01,486 --> 01:19:03,529 Those are details I wouldn't disclose... 1179 01:19:03,697 --> 01:19:06,365 with a refined group of women such as yourselves. 1180 01:19:06,533 --> 01:19:12,413 I couldn't bear to make you shed a tear. But I assure you this, we are on the case. 1181 01:19:12,581 --> 01:19:15,666 I saw the Lindberghs in Paris. I hardly recognized them. 1182 01:19:15,834 --> 01:19:16,834 Hmm. 1183 01:19:17,002 --> 01:19:20,171 Only justice can bring reason back to their lives. 1184 01:19:20,672 --> 01:19:25,134 But I might share one confidential clue with you, if you swear to secrecy. 1185 01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:27,845 Of course. 1186 01:19:28,013 --> 01:19:30,473 The gold notes from the ransom money have surfaced. 1187 01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:32,349 And can you guess where? 1188 01:19:32,517 --> 01:19:34,018 Tell us. Please, Mr. Hoover. 1189 01:19:34,186 --> 01:19:36,395 In the Bronx, on three occasions. 1190 01:19:36,563 --> 01:19:38,439 And each one of the shop owners claim... 1191 01:19:38,607 --> 01:19:42,860 they received them from a man with a pointed chin and a German accent. 1192 01:19:45,363 --> 01:19:48,199 Take my word for it, Mr. Hoover. 1193 01:19:48,366 --> 01:19:51,202 All the admiration in the world can't fill the spot love goes. 1194 01:19:51,369 --> 01:19:52,411 Hmm. 1195 01:19:52,579 --> 01:19:54,205 Or keep your bed warm. 1196 01:19:56,708 --> 01:19:58,584 I serve my country, Miss Colby. 1197 01:19:58,752 --> 01:20:01,796 The nation's admiration is more than enough for me. Heh. 1198 01:20:02,464 --> 01:20:05,216 But it likely makes for a cold bed. 1199 01:20:06,718 --> 01:20:10,179 Mr. Hoover, would it be out of the question to bother you for a dance? 1200 01:20:10,347 --> 01:20:12,223 Oh, uh, how do you mean? 1201 01:20:13,475 --> 01:20:15,309 Well, simply a dance. 1202 01:20:15,602 --> 01:20:17,311 You do dance, don't you? 1203 01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:20,981 Well, that is a skill that, um, I haven't yet mastered. 1204 01:20:21,191 --> 01:20:24,318 And the night is getting long, isn't it, Mr. Tolson? Mr. Tolson? 1205 01:20:24,486 --> 01:20:27,196 No time like the present. Lt's my favorite song, come on. 1206 01:20:27,364 --> 01:20:29,865 Lt's time we leave. Uh, we have a great deal of work. 1207 01:20:30,033 --> 01:20:32,243 We... We... We have a great deal of work tomorrow... 1208 01:20:32,410 --> 01:20:36,163 and I'm afraid we don't have time to dance. We're very busy, aren't we? 1209 01:20:36,331 --> 01:20:37,623 Yes. 1210 01:20:37,791 --> 01:20:40,084 And my sincere apologies. I... 1211 01:20:40,252 --> 01:20:42,211 Right now, Mr. Tolson. Thank you very much. 1212 01:20:42,379 --> 01:20:43,838 - Good evening. - Ha, ha. 1213 01:20:44,005 --> 01:20:45,256 Good night. 1214 01:20:49,302 --> 01:20:50,511 I don't... 1215 01:20:51,263 --> 01:20:52,304 I... 1216 01:20:52,472 --> 01:20:55,266 I don't... I don't like to... I don't like to dance, Mother. 1217 01:20:55,433 --> 01:20:58,394 - I don't like to da... - Edgar, go look in the mirror. 1218 01:20:58,562 --> 01:21:01,689 Talk the way the doctor taught you to. Be my little Speedy. 1219 01:21:12,784 --> 01:21:14,952 I can spit my words out with... With... 1220 01:21:16,371 --> 01:21:19,790 I can spit my words out with precision, diction, and clarity. 1221 01:21:19,958 --> 01:21:24,461 I can sp... Spit my words out with precision, diction, and clarity. 1222 01:21:26,423 --> 01:21:32,386 I'm a proficient, remarkable lad, capable of remarkable feats. 1223 01:21:32,554 --> 01:21:35,472 I'm a profic... Mother. Mother, I don't like to dance. 1224 01:21:36,641 --> 01:21:39,393 Mostly I don't like to dance with women. 1225 01:21:39,561 --> 01:21:41,520 I think it's time you knew this. 1226 01:21:41,688 --> 01:21:44,315 And I find it humiliating and I refuse to be humiliated. 1227 01:21:44,482 --> 01:21:46,650 Edgar, stop. 1228 01:21:47,986 --> 01:21:49,486 Do you remember Barton Pincus? 1229 01:21:51,197 --> 01:21:52,781 Yes, Mother. 1230 01:21:52,949 --> 01:21:54,992 His father was a watchmaker. 1231 01:21:55,660 --> 01:21:58,871 He was 10 years younger than me and you used to call him... 1232 01:22:00,790 --> 01:22:03,834 Birdy or Daffy or something to that effect. 1233 01:22:04,002 --> 01:22:06,503 And do you remember what happened to Daffy? 1234 01:22:06,671 --> 01:22:10,841 After the school custodian discovered him in a hoop skirt and flower bonnet? 1235 01:22:13,011 --> 01:22:15,512 He was made to stand outside in front of the school... 1236 01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:18,849 wearing the bonnet and skirt as punishment. 1237 01:22:19,559 --> 01:22:22,019 Did you ever wonder why we called him Daffy? 1238 01:22:23,229 --> 01:22:26,857 For his odd behavior, I believe. 1239 01:22:28,068 --> 01:22:30,736 Lt's short for "daffodil," Edgar. 1240 01:22:32,530 --> 01:22:34,990 Do you remember what happened to Daffodil Pincus? 1241 01:22:36,618 --> 01:22:38,035 Yes, Mother. He... 1242 01:22:39,204 --> 01:22:41,080 He shot himself six weeks after. 1243 01:22:41,247 --> 01:22:42,289 That's right. 1244 01:22:43,208 --> 01:22:47,211 And I thank God every day that my own sons don't suffer from his condition. 1245 01:22:48,213 --> 01:22:49,463 Edgar. 1246 01:22:51,424 --> 01:22:54,551 I'd rather have a dead son than a daffodil for a son. 1247 01:22:59,391 --> 01:23:02,726 And now, I'm gonna teach you to dance. 1248 01:23:06,773 --> 01:23:08,148 Yes, Mother. 1249 01:23:42,976 --> 01:23:45,436 - Bring this right over here, please. - Sure, sir. 1250 01:23:46,271 --> 01:23:49,773 All right. Now, when did you get this shipment? 1251 01:23:50,483 --> 01:23:54,778 Lt's a long while back. I'm thinking, uh, November 1931. 1252 01:23:55,822 --> 01:23:57,823 Three months before the kidnapping. 1253 01:23:59,325 --> 01:24:00,701 All right. Thank you. 1254 01:24:00,910 --> 01:24:04,371 The lumberyard is a cash business, there aren't any receipts or names. 1255 01:24:04,539 --> 01:24:07,416 Lt tells us where he was shopping before we were looking. 1256 01:24:07,584 --> 01:24:10,461 Show me the addresses of where the ransom bills have shown up. 1257 01:24:10,628 --> 01:24:13,047 Lt's 456 West Third. 1258 01:24:13,631 --> 01:24:16,008 And 476 West Third. 1259 01:24:17,302 --> 01:24:18,802 And down the street right here. 1260 01:24:22,307 --> 01:24:24,641 We knew who we were looking for. 1261 01:24:24,809 --> 01:24:27,978 Someone who'd done business in this neighborhood for years. 1262 01:24:28,146 --> 01:24:29,438 Someone who was still there. 1263 01:24:29,606 --> 01:24:31,732 He was average height, blue eyes. 1264 01:24:31,900 --> 01:24:33,817 High cheekbones and a pointy chin. 1265 01:24:33,985 --> 01:24:38,155 Yes, sir, a pointed chin and an accent, like a... 1266 01:24:38,323 --> 01:24:39,990 German accent, maybe? 1267 01:24:40,158 --> 01:24:42,826 A German with big cheekbones. 1268 01:24:43,661 --> 01:24:46,288 Am I, uh, going to get him in some kind of trouble? 1269 01:24:46,456 --> 01:24:50,834 Not if he didn't do anything wrong. We're the FBI, son. We're the good guys. 1270 01:24:52,504 --> 01:24:54,838 Lt was deposited by Walter Lyle. 1271 01:24:55,006 --> 01:24:59,176 He manages the gas station up on Lexington and 127th. 1272 01:24:59,344 --> 01:25:00,969 Walter Lyle? 1273 01:25:01,429 --> 01:25:03,138 You remember the man that paid with this? 1274 01:25:03,306 --> 01:25:05,766 Yes, I remember him. He bought 89 cents worth of gas. 1275 01:25:05,934 --> 01:25:08,685 And he paid with this bill? 1276 01:25:08,853 --> 01:25:11,772 Yes, sir. But I don't know him. I haven't seen him since. 1277 01:25:12,273 --> 01:25:15,025 You would remember him if he came in again? 1278 01:25:15,193 --> 01:25:18,529 Yeah, he was German, I think, I mean, with an accent and pointed chin. 1279 01:25:18,696 --> 01:25:21,365 - High cheekbones, right? - Yeah. I looked at the bill funny. 1280 01:25:21,533 --> 01:25:24,034 He assured me he had a hundred more like it at home. 1281 01:25:24,202 --> 01:25:25,661 You had a conversation with him? 1282 01:25:26,496 --> 01:25:27,663 No, that was it. 1283 01:25:28,581 --> 01:25:29,623 Thank you, Mr. Lyle. 1284 01:25:29,791 --> 01:25:32,501 I wrote down the license plate number. 1285 01:25:33,378 --> 01:25:35,587 That's the writing along the edge of the bill. 1286 01:25:38,133 --> 01:25:39,216 Let's go. 1287 01:25:45,890 --> 01:25:48,100 Miss Gandy, get Mr. Tolson. 1288 01:25:57,068 --> 01:25:58,235 Agent Sisk. 1289 01:25:58,403 --> 01:26:02,114 The New York Motor Vehicles Bureau describes it as a blue 1930 Dodge sedan. 1290 01:26:02,282 --> 01:26:04,241 The owner is a carpenter born in Germany... 1291 01:26:04,409 --> 01:26:08,745 lives at 1279 East 222nd Street in the Bronx. 1292 01:26:08,913 --> 01:26:10,581 His name is Bruno Richard Hauptmann. 1293 01:26:22,135 --> 01:26:23,218 Let's move. 1294 01:26:23,386 --> 01:26:25,596 On September 19th, 1934... 1295 01:26:25,763 --> 01:26:28,599 before we could arrest the most wanted man in America... 1296 01:26:28,766 --> 01:26:33,020 he'd been pulled over by a local cop for a broken tail light. 1297 01:26:33,188 --> 01:26:34,438 Can't believe this. 1298 01:26:36,858 --> 01:26:38,025 Pull over. 1299 01:26:46,618 --> 01:26:47,868 FBI, put your hands up! 1300 01:26:48,036 --> 01:26:49,912 - Put them up! - Ls there a problem? 1301 01:26:50,079 --> 01:26:52,456 Get out of the car! 1302 01:27:02,508 --> 01:27:03,550 Bruno Hauptmann... 1303 01:27:03,718 --> 01:27:07,638 you are under arrest for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. 1304 01:27:07,805 --> 01:27:09,932 Cuff him, boys. 1305 01:27:15,313 --> 01:27:17,314 We finally had him. 1306 01:27:17,482 --> 01:27:20,651 Now we had to convict, but unlike trials of the past... 1307 01:27:20,818 --> 01:27:26,114 we now had forensics, expert witnesses, and facts. 1308 01:27:30,328 --> 01:27:31,578 We need a title, Agent Garrison. 1309 01:27:32,956 --> 01:27:34,331 Right away, Mr. Hoover. 1310 01:27:36,376 --> 01:27:38,168 We are working, Miss Gandy. 1311 01:27:38,336 --> 01:27:39,878 The tape came in. 1312 01:27:40,505 --> 01:27:42,756 Bring it to my private office. 1313 01:27:43,841 --> 01:27:45,842 That'll be all for now, Agent Garrison. 1314 01:28:03,278 --> 01:28:05,988 I just have to say... 1315 01:28:06,155 --> 01:28:09,574 you looked so beautiful sitting across that bar. 1316 01:28:09,742 --> 01:28:11,535 I saw you watching me. 1317 01:28:11,703 --> 01:28:13,578 I have to admit I was watching you... 1318 01:28:13,746 --> 01:28:15,122 for a long time. 1319 01:28:19,627 --> 01:28:20,961 Slow down a little bit. 1320 01:28:21,129 --> 01:28:22,170 All right. 1321 01:28:24,424 --> 01:28:26,049 Let me take this off. 1322 01:28:26,676 --> 01:28:28,051 Turn around. 1323 01:28:30,722 --> 01:28:31,972 You got it? 1324 01:28:54,203 --> 01:28:56,580 Miss Gandy, I told you I am not to be disturbed. 1325 01:28:56,748 --> 01:28:58,373 I'm sorry. Mr. Hoover? 1326 01:28:58,541 --> 01:29:02,169 Yes, it's urgent. I have Agent Shanklin on the line from Dallas. 1327 01:29:02,337 --> 01:29:03,920 My apologies, Mr. Hoover. 1328 01:29:04,088 --> 01:29:05,630 I told Miss Gandy to put me through. 1329 01:29:05,798 --> 01:29:08,091 What is it, Agent Shanklin? 1330 01:29:08,551 --> 01:29:11,636 Sir, the president has been shot. 1331 01:29:13,639 --> 01:29:15,015 Who else knows about this? 1332 01:29:15,183 --> 01:29:18,643 No one, sir. I thought you should know before the press reports it. 1333 01:29:19,771 --> 01:29:22,064 - Thank you, Agent Shanklin. - Yes, sir. 1334 01:29:29,530 --> 01:29:31,948 Oh, that feels so good. 1335 01:29:58,059 --> 01:30:00,644 Get me Robert Kennedy immediately. 1336 01:30:07,193 --> 01:30:08,485 Mr. Hoover? 1337 01:30:09,112 --> 01:30:12,739 Mr. Kennedy, the president has been shot. 1338 01:30:14,200 --> 01:30:15,242 What? 1339 01:30:15,785 --> 01:30:17,828 Mr. Hoover? What? 1340 01:30:20,498 --> 01:30:21,832 Mr. Hoover? 1341 01:30:32,844 --> 01:30:34,886 Lt's Frosty Mountain in front... 1342 01:30:35,054 --> 01:30:36,138 by a length and a half. 1343 01:30:36,305 --> 01:30:38,682 That's Jazz third by six. 1344 01:30:38,850 --> 01:30:43,395 Slapjack's fourth, final head. Popstar Morell three quarters. 1345 01:30:43,563 --> 01:30:48,358 Turning for home, Frosty Mountain under the left by a fraction and a length and a half. 1346 01:30:48,526 --> 01:30:51,570 Number five. He's gaining on them. 1347 01:30:53,030 --> 01:30:54,656 It's Frosty Mountain, now. 1348 01:30:56,159 --> 01:30:58,368 I'm not sure if I bet on that one. 1349 01:30:58,536 --> 01:31:01,705 Ah. We lost again, Clyde. 1350 01:31:01,914 --> 01:31:04,332 Dextro back by a half-length on the rail. 1351 01:31:04,500 --> 01:31:07,586 Dextro now making his move. Findlay gives him the whip. 1352 01:31:07,753 --> 01:31:09,504 Oh, there he goes, there he goes! 1353 01:31:09,672 --> 01:31:11,548 Come on, Dextro, come on, Dextro! 1354 01:31:56,511 --> 01:31:58,845 - Did you see his shoes? - Ha, ha. 1355 01:31:59,138 --> 01:32:00,222 Desi Arnaz? 1356 01:32:00,389 --> 01:32:03,892 You mean the crocodile ones with the horrible buckles across the top? 1357 01:32:04,060 --> 01:32:05,602 No, I didn't notice them one bit. 1358 01:32:05,770 --> 01:32:08,438 You'd think with their money they'd have a bit of fashion sense... 1359 01:32:08,606 --> 01:32:10,857 Ha, ha. - ...or at least pay someone to have it. 1360 01:32:11,025 --> 01:32:12,609 Oh, and his faux-ginger wife. 1361 01:32:12,777 --> 01:32:17,364 When she walked in, I thought a hunter was gonna pull a rifle on that hat of hers. 1362 01:32:18,741 --> 01:32:20,575 lt was like this, you see, like... 1363 01:32:20,743 --> 01:32:22,786 Ha-ha-ha. That's right, with the feathers. 1364 01:32:26,541 --> 01:32:29,543 You know, I care so very much for you, Clyde. I do. 1365 01:32:31,837 --> 01:32:34,214 And I love you, Edgar. 1366 01:32:42,390 --> 01:32:43,723 ls everything okay? 1367 01:32:43,891 --> 01:32:45,141 Yes, yes, I'm fine. 1368 01:32:45,810 --> 01:32:47,060 I'm fine. 1369 01:32:50,481 --> 01:32:53,817 I've been meaning to ask you something, Clyde. 1370 01:32:53,985 --> 01:32:54,985 Anything. 1371 01:32:57,321 --> 01:33:01,074 What do you think of Dorothy Lamour, the actress? 1372 01:33:01,659 --> 01:33:03,285 With Rudy Vallee at the Stork Club? 1373 01:33:03,452 --> 01:33:05,328 Yes. That's the one. 1374 01:33:05,496 --> 01:33:08,623 She's a little camp for me, but, heh... 1375 01:33:11,711 --> 01:33:14,963 Well, I've been thinking of taking her up on a proposal is all. 1376 01:33:16,173 --> 01:33:17,173 For dinner? 1377 01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:19,634 No, no, not dinner. 1378 01:33:20,678 --> 01:33:22,554 We've been to dinner several times now. 1379 01:33:24,015 --> 01:33:25,056 When? 1380 01:33:26,934 --> 01:33:29,603 Oh, in New York, when I've gone up on the weekends. 1381 01:33:32,523 --> 01:33:33,607 I see. 1382 01:33:36,068 --> 01:33:40,655 I suppose what I'm... What I'm trying to say here, Clyde, is, well... 1383 01:33:43,409 --> 01:33:45,910 I think it may be time for a Mrs. Hoover. 1384 01:33:53,669 --> 01:33:56,338 What, you don't like her? ls that it? 1385 01:33:57,715 --> 01:33:59,841 Don't you make a fool of me, Edgar. 1386 01:34:00,009 --> 01:34:03,011 I'm not, Clyde, I'm not making a fool of you. 1387 01:34:05,306 --> 01:34:08,016 Have you...? Have you become physical? 1388 01:34:10,811 --> 01:34:12,020 Yes, we have. 1389 01:34:13,064 --> 01:34:14,314 What is it, Clyde? 1390 01:34:14,482 --> 01:34:19,069 Do you want me to be half a person? Remain incomplete, is that what you want? 1391 01:34:20,529 --> 01:34:22,739 ls that what I am to you, incompletion? 1392 01:34:23,282 --> 01:34:25,075 Clyde, pick that glass up immediately! 1393 01:34:25,242 --> 01:34:27,827 No, I will not! I have no reason to! 1394 01:34:27,995 --> 01:34:30,747 I refuse! So, go on, fire me. 1395 01:34:30,915 --> 01:34:32,207 Do it. Now! 1396 01:34:32,375 --> 01:34:34,918 Get a hold of yourself. You're acting like a fool! 1397 01:34:35,086 --> 01:34:36,920 - Agh! - Stop this! 1398 01:34:37,088 --> 01:34:39,589 Clyde! You have no shoes on, for God's sakes! 1399 01:34:39,757 --> 01:34:42,425 No. No, I will not! I won't even listen to you! 1400 01:34:42,593 --> 01:34:45,428 You will never tell me what to do! You just lost that right! 1401 01:34:45,596 --> 01:34:47,347 - Stop it! - I see right through you! 1402 01:34:47,515 --> 01:34:50,767 You're a scared, heartless, horrible little man! 1403 01:34:50,935 --> 01:34:52,435 - Unh! Don't you dare! - Unh! 1404 01:35:30,516 --> 01:35:32,434 Don't you ever do that again. 1405 01:35:34,145 --> 01:35:35,186 I won't. 1406 01:35:37,648 --> 01:35:39,315 Cly... 1407 01:35:40,985 --> 01:35:42,694 Clyde, where are you going? 1408 01:35:43,112 --> 01:35:46,573 Clyde, please. Clyde, don't leave me! 1409 01:35:46,741 --> 01:35:47,907 Clyde, please. 1410 01:35:48,075 --> 01:35:49,826 Clyde, I'm sorry! 1411 01:35:49,994 --> 01:35:51,828 Clyde, please don't leave me! 1412 01:35:51,996 --> 01:35:53,163 Clyde, I'm begging you! 1413 01:35:53,330 --> 01:35:57,834 I'm begging you, Clyde! Clyde, please. 1414 01:35:58,002 --> 01:36:00,211 After all... 1415 01:36:03,758 --> 01:36:09,637 After all, we have another day of races. 1416 01:36:17,104 --> 01:36:20,607 If you ever mention a lady friend again... 1417 01:36:20,775 --> 01:36:23,777 it will be the last time that you share my company. 1418 01:36:35,956 --> 01:36:37,624 Love you, Clyde. 1419 01:36:39,668 --> 01:36:40,835 Love you. 1420 01:36:45,216 --> 01:36:47,717 Mr. Meter looks promising. 1421 01:37:02,566 --> 01:37:04,901 - Unh. Ugh. - What is it, Clyde? 1422 01:37:05,069 --> 01:37:06,611 Clyde? 1423 01:37:06,779 --> 01:37:08,154 Someone get a doctor. 1424 01:37:08,322 --> 01:37:09,489 Clyde. 1425 01:37:09,657 --> 01:37:13,576 Someone get a doctor now! Someone get a doctor! 1426 01:37:13,744 --> 01:37:16,079 Clyde, look at me. Look at me. 1427 01:37:16,831 --> 01:37:19,415 Someone get a doctor now! 1428 01:37:19,583 --> 01:37:21,084 Help! 1429 01:37:21,252 --> 01:37:23,086 He'll recover most of his function... 1430 01:37:23,254 --> 01:37:26,256 but a stroke like this, it will limit the hours he can work... 1431 01:37:26,423 --> 01:37:28,007 the information he can process. 1432 01:37:28,175 --> 01:37:29,884 Are you okay, Mr. Hoover? 1433 01:37:30,594 --> 01:37:34,097 Yes, I'm fine. I just... I was playing with my dog in the yard on Saturday. 1434 01:37:34,265 --> 01:37:36,266 Perhaps it's dehydration. 1435 01:37:37,101 --> 01:37:40,228 That could do it, but it may be wise to reduce your hours as well. 1436 01:37:40,396 --> 01:37:42,564 At your age, it's important to take leave. 1437 01:37:43,482 --> 01:37:46,484 Miss Gandy, please, give us some privacy. 1438 01:37:51,782 --> 01:37:55,159 Let me tell you, if you ever denigrate me in front of my staff again... 1439 01:37:55,369 --> 01:37:58,288 I'll have you railroaded out of your profession. Understand? 1440 01:37:59,456 --> 01:38:00,623 I apologize, sir. 1441 01:38:01,458 --> 01:38:02,876 Tell me something. 1442 01:38:03,294 --> 01:38:05,128 What do you have for energy? 1443 01:38:05,296 --> 01:38:08,631 We have diet medications which tend to give a boost. 1444 01:38:08,799 --> 01:38:12,302 So I could lose a few pounds and have more energy as well? 1445 01:38:12,469 --> 01:38:15,305 Wouldn't worry about your weight, sir. Lt's solid weight. 1446 01:38:15,514 --> 01:38:16,931 Hmm. 1447 01:38:17,474 --> 01:38:18,975 Schedule a daily visit. 1448 01:38:20,519 --> 01:38:21,686 Yes, sir. 1449 01:38:30,487 --> 01:38:34,157 They're giving King the Nobel Prize. Can you believe it? 1450 01:38:34,325 --> 01:38:37,327 The degenerates and radicals are being lifted up internationally. 1451 01:38:37,494 --> 01:38:40,663 Lt's like it's 1920 all over again. 1452 01:38:40,998 --> 01:38:42,165 Don't. 1453 01:38:43,000 --> 01:38:45,627 When he finds out that we have this audiotape... 1454 01:38:45,794 --> 01:38:48,004 that we know the truth about his character... 1455 01:38:48,172 --> 01:38:51,507 he's going to decline the award, Clyde, believe me. 1456 01:38:51,967 --> 01:38:54,052 President Johnson... 1457 01:38:54,219 --> 01:38:55,261 Wait. 1458 01:38:55,846 --> 01:38:57,013 - Clyde. - Wait. 1459 01:38:57,181 --> 01:39:01,100 You're gonna have to learn to enunciate. I can't seem to understand you. 1460 01:39:01,268 --> 01:39:05,229 We have no legal tools. 1461 01:39:05,439 --> 01:39:08,024 You see, our laws have not kept pace... 1462 01:39:08,192 --> 01:39:10,860 with the improved tactics of today's criminals. 1463 01:39:11,028 --> 01:39:12,820 I'm gonna do this for you. 1464 01:39:13,072 --> 01:39:15,365 What's your idea? 1465 01:39:15,532 --> 01:39:18,201 Well, we have friends in the press, right? 1466 01:39:18,369 --> 01:39:21,245 We plant stories with them to ensure... 1467 01:39:21,455 --> 01:39:25,333 that the activities of suspected radicals see the light of day. 1468 01:39:26,001 --> 01:39:27,877 They'll trace it. 1469 01:39:28,504 --> 01:39:30,213 Well, only if it's true. 1470 01:39:31,006 --> 01:39:33,007 See, it's called counterintelligence, Clyde. 1471 01:39:33,175 --> 01:39:36,511 The more untrue the story, the more dramatic the impact. 1472 01:39:36,679 --> 01:39:39,681 Now, I'm going to send the hotel recording... 1473 01:39:39,848 --> 01:39:44,227 along with a personal letter the day before he gets the Nobel Prize. 1474 01:39:44,395 --> 01:39:48,398 And if he accepts the award, we'll send the tape straight to the press. 1475 01:39:50,025 --> 01:39:54,904 Are you sure that you want to be involved with that kind of surveillance? 1476 01:39:55,072 --> 01:39:57,615 Well, that's why the letter won't be from me. 1477 01:39:57,783 --> 01:40:00,243 It'll be a fictitious letter from one of his own. 1478 01:40:01,745 --> 01:40:07,333 Then there can be no room for error. I'm not sure that we could ensu... 1479 01:40:07,501 --> 01:40:11,087 I cannot understand what you're saying, Clyde. Please. 1480 01:40:11,255 --> 01:40:14,382 Come on now. Learn to speak up. 1481 01:40:18,220 --> 01:40:22,598 Now, listen, I'm gonna need you in the office tomorrow. No time to relent. 1482 01:40:25,227 --> 01:40:26,769 I can't. 1483 01:40:27,730 --> 01:40:29,063 Yes, you can. 1484 01:40:29,815 --> 01:40:31,107 Now eat. 1485 01:40:32,609 --> 01:40:36,654 You'd think after all this time she'd be able to cook my egg correctly. 1486 01:40:38,115 --> 01:40:40,283 What exactly are in these shots? 1487 01:40:40,451 --> 01:40:41,701 Oh, it's just vitamins... 1488 01:40:41,869 --> 01:40:43,619 a little extra pick-me-up. 1489 01:40:56,341 --> 01:40:57,759 "Look into your heart. 1490 01:40:57,926 --> 01:41:02,764 You know you are a complete fraud and a great liability to all of us Negroes." 1491 01:41:02,931 --> 01:41:06,309 I said "us," Miss Gandy, "us," not "the." 1492 01:41:06,810 --> 01:41:08,269 You're a Negro now, sir? 1493 01:41:08,437 --> 01:41:11,314 Write every word as I say it, is that understood? 1494 01:41:11,482 --> 01:41:14,984 Now, "White people in this country have enough frauds of their own... 1495 01:41:15,152 --> 01:41:17,153 but they do not have one at this time... 1496 01:41:17,321 --> 01:41:19,238 that is anywhere near your equal. 1497 01:41:19,406 --> 01:41:22,325 - I repeat..." - Sir, what is this exercise? 1498 01:41:22,493 --> 01:41:26,662 Miss Gandy, I am not going to entertain questions during my dictation, now write. 1499 01:41:27,790 --> 01:41:32,752 "I repeat, you are a colossal fraud and an evil, vicious one, at that! 1500 01:41:32,920 --> 01:41:36,756 You do not believe in God. You do not believe in any personal moral principles!" 1501 01:41:36,924 --> 01:41:39,217 Sir, may I ask who this will be addressed to... 1502 01:41:39,384 --> 01:41:41,928 The question is not to whom, Miss Gandy, not to whom... 1503 01:41:42,096 --> 01:41:45,348 but from whom and it is not from this office, is that understood? 1504 01:41:45,516 --> 01:41:47,767 "You have turned out to be not a leader... 1505 01:41:47,935 --> 01:41:51,437 but a dissolute, abnormal, moral imbecile. 1506 01:41:51,605 --> 01:41:54,357 There's only one thing left to do and you know what that is. 1507 01:41:54,525 --> 01:41:57,026 There's but one way out, and you better take it... 1508 01:41:57,194 --> 01:42:02,281 before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to this nation." 1509 01:42:02,449 --> 01:42:04,033 Did you get everything? 1510 01:42:04,910 --> 01:42:07,203 - Edgar. - Type it up. 1511 01:42:08,247 --> 01:42:09,789 Type it up. 1512 01:42:15,212 --> 01:42:18,381 I understand that you work for our PR department, is that correct? 1513 01:42:19,049 --> 01:42:20,716 For two years now, sir. 1514 01:42:20,926 --> 01:42:24,095 Then you are familiar with my earlier work... 1515 01:42:24,263 --> 01:42:27,723 against Edward Clarke and his Ku Klux Klan, are you not? 1516 01:42:27,891 --> 01:42:29,058 Yes, sir. 1517 01:42:29,226 --> 01:42:32,228 He was arrested for a violation of the white slave traffic act... 1518 01:42:32,396 --> 01:42:35,773 for crossing state lines to have an affair with a white woman. 1519 01:42:35,941 --> 01:42:36,983 Ls that correct, sir? 1520 01:42:37,151 --> 01:42:41,237 That is correct. lt was the strongest law at my disposal at the time. 1521 01:42:41,405 --> 01:42:45,408 I'll have you know that I'm very proud of that work. 1522 01:42:45,576 --> 01:42:48,953 Miss Gandy told me that you stopped with Bruno Hauptmann's arrest. 1523 01:42:49,121 --> 01:42:52,415 - Would you like to start there? - Yes, yes, I think we shall. 1524 01:42:56,420 --> 01:42:58,212 Mr. Hauptmann was brought to trial... 1525 01:42:58,380 --> 01:43:00,715 on January 2nd, 1935. 1526 01:43:01,925 --> 01:43:06,262 H.L. Mencken called this the biggest story since the resurrection. 1527 01:43:06,430 --> 01:43:10,057 From the looks of things, this may be bigger. 1528 01:43:10,225 --> 01:43:12,643 Well, you see, no two saws make the same markings. 1529 01:43:12,811 --> 01:43:16,439 This saw from Bruno Hauptmann's tool chest makes markings identical... 1530 01:43:16,607 --> 01:43:19,400 to those found on the ladder used in the crime. 1531 01:43:19,568 --> 01:43:21,986 In the ransom note and Mr. Hauptmann's writings... 1532 01:43:22,154 --> 01:43:27,867 he wrote the word "anyding" for "anything", uh, "gut" for "good"... 1533 01:43:28,035 --> 01:43:32,538 "boad" for "boat," and notice the inverted capital N's. 1534 01:43:32,706 --> 01:43:35,708 And the Y's that look like J's. 1535 01:43:35,876 --> 01:43:37,960 Mr. Lindbergh, you said you heard a voice... 1536 01:43:38,128 --> 01:43:39,462 in the cemetery that night. 1537 01:43:39,630 --> 01:43:41,881 Yes, very clearly. 1538 01:43:42,049 --> 01:43:44,634 A voice, to the best of my belief... 1539 01:43:44,801 --> 01:43:48,471 calling Dr. Condon in a foreign accent. 1540 01:43:48,639 --> 01:43:49,639 "Hey, doctor." 1541 01:43:49,806 --> 01:43:50,848 Since that time... 1542 01:43:51,016 --> 01:43:52,808 have you heard the same voice? 1543 01:43:52,976 --> 01:43:54,477 Yes, l have. 1544 01:43:54,645 --> 01:43:57,647 Whose voice was it that you heard in the cemetery that night... 1545 01:43:57,814 --> 01:43:59,649 saying, "Hey, doctor"? 1546 01:43:59,816 --> 01:44:01,651 That was Hauptmann's voice. 1547 01:44:04,154 --> 01:44:05,947 But did he act alone? 1548 01:44:07,282 --> 01:44:11,202 He never confessed, but what sociopath ever does? 1549 01:44:11,370 --> 01:44:13,120 The evidence was clear. 1550 01:44:13,288 --> 01:44:18,542 He was indicted for murder in the first degree while perpetrating a burglary. 1551 01:44:18,710 --> 01:44:22,004 In New Jersey, that is punishable by death. 1552 01:44:22,172 --> 01:44:23,381 Mr. Hauptmann... 1553 01:44:23,548 --> 01:44:26,008 you've had an opportunity in this courtroom today... 1554 01:44:26,176 --> 01:44:28,219 to tell the whole truth. 1555 01:44:28,387 --> 01:44:29,804 Have you told the truth? 1556 01:44:29,972 --> 01:44:32,181 I told the truth already. 1557 01:44:32,349 --> 01:44:33,432 And the statements... 1558 01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:36,018 to District Attorney Foley. Did you tell him the truth? 1559 01:44:36,979 --> 01:44:38,271 To a certain extent. 1560 01:44:38,438 --> 01:44:42,858 To a certain extent you didn't tell him the truth. ls that right? 1561 01:44:45,195 --> 01:44:49,949 This board that was found in your closet, S-204... 1562 01:44:50,117 --> 01:44:52,868 has these numbers written on it. 1563 01:44:53,036 --> 01:44:54,870 Lt's a little blurred now, isn't it? 1564 01:44:55,038 --> 01:44:56,330 Looks like it. 1565 01:44:56,498 --> 01:44:59,292 Between are some words. Lt looks like Decatur and Sedgwick. 1566 01:44:59,459 --> 01:45:00,501 You see that? 1567 01:45:02,296 --> 01:45:05,047 You know what that means, don't you? That address on there? 1568 01:45:06,049 --> 01:45:07,216 Not exactly. 1569 01:45:08,593 --> 01:45:11,554 lt is the address and telephone number of Dr. Condon... 1570 01:45:11,722 --> 01:45:13,222 the man who paid the ransom... 1571 01:45:13,390 --> 01:45:17,310 written in your writing, found on a board in your closet. 1572 01:45:17,477 --> 01:45:20,688 Mr. Hoover, the doctor's here to see you. 1573 01:45:20,856 --> 01:45:22,982 Following Dr. King's historic speech... 1574 01:45:23,150 --> 01:45:26,986 many said that day brought about a new awakening in the conscience of the nation. 1575 01:45:27,154 --> 01:45:29,572 Others called it a national disgrace. 1576 01:45:29,740 --> 01:45:34,410 In the long history of man's cruelty to man, this was a day of hope. 1577 01:45:34,578 --> 01:45:35,995 L have a dream... 1578 01:45:36,997 --> 01:45:39,457 that one day... 1579 01:45:39,624 --> 01:45:43,336 this nation will rise up... 1580 01:45:43,503 --> 01:45:46,172 and live out the true meaning of its creeds. 1581 01:45:47,090 --> 01:45:51,635 A man's legacy is determined by where the story ends, Agent Owens. 1582 01:45:51,803 --> 01:45:54,722 Let's think about that tonight and make a decision tomorrow. 1583 01:45:55,474 --> 01:45:56,891 Ls this about a man's legacy? 1584 01:45:58,435 --> 01:46:00,269 Or an institution's reputation? 1585 01:46:01,438 --> 01:46:03,272 The two are connected, Agent Owens. 1586 01:46:03,440 --> 01:46:05,941 One invented the other and vice versa. 1587 01:46:06,109 --> 01:46:07,943 Good day to you. 1588 01:46:09,404 --> 01:46:10,946 Yes, sir. 1589 01:46:11,114 --> 01:46:14,492 We the jury find the defendant, Bruno Richard Hauptmann... 1590 01:46:14,659 --> 01:46:16,535 guilty of murder in the first degree. 1591 01:46:27,798 --> 01:46:30,716 Your Honor, l ask for immediate sentencing. 1592 01:46:33,804 --> 01:46:37,431 According to the law of this state... 1593 01:46:37,599 --> 01:46:40,893 l rule that Mr. Bruno Hauptmann suffer death... 1594 01:46:41,061 --> 01:46:46,649 at the time and place and in the manner provided by law. 1595 01:46:54,825 --> 01:46:56,826 lt's death for Hauptmann! 1596 01:47:02,165 --> 01:47:03,499 The trial of the century... 1597 01:47:03,667 --> 01:47:08,462 the criminal shamed, the FBI cemented as the public hero. 1598 01:47:08,630 --> 01:47:11,257 That's our, that's our ending, agent. 1599 01:47:13,510 --> 01:47:15,177 But did he do it alone? 1600 01:47:15,554 --> 01:47:18,472 Ls he the one who actually took the child? How can you be sure? 1601 01:47:19,724 --> 01:47:23,644 Well, the mountain of evidence we discovered, uncovered... 1602 01:47:23,812 --> 01:47:26,689 confirmed, and clarified, you cannot dispute it. 1603 01:47:26,857 --> 01:47:29,316 - Clarence Darrow did. - Of course. Heh. 1604 01:47:30,193 --> 01:47:32,194 Of course, Agent Owens. That's what he does. 1605 01:47:32,362 --> 01:47:34,905 Mrs. Roosevelt issued a statement questioning his guilt. 1606 01:47:35,073 --> 01:47:40,202 Well, she has enough to hide on her own when it comes to un-American activities. 1607 01:47:42,747 --> 01:47:46,375 Well, if you're comfortable with it as an ending, I'll do my best with it. 1608 01:47:47,127 --> 01:47:50,129 Yes. Yes, l am. 1609 01:47:50,839 --> 01:47:52,339 Sir. 1610 01:47:56,928 --> 01:47:58,053 Watch this with me. 1611 01:47:58,221 --> 01:48:01,056 He received my letter and the audio tape last night. 1612 01:48:01,224 --> 01:48:03,225 President Johnson affixes his signature... 1613 01:48:03,393 --> 01:48:04,477 using more than 100 pens. 1614 01:48:04,644 --> 01:48:07,605 One of the coveted souvenirs goes to the Nobel prize-winner... 1615 01:48:07,772 --> 01:48:10,024 Martin Luther King, a dedicated leader... 1616 01:48:10,192 --> 01:48:12,026 Go on, say it, Clyde. 1617 01:48:13,361 --> 01:48:17,865 Lt just seems so risky, Edgar, over a couple negative articles. 1618 01:48:18,533 --> 01:48:21,076 He's deliberately surrounded himself with communists... 1619 01:48:21,244 --> 01:48:25,039 and, with the power he's gathering, he's now our greatest domestic threat. 1620 01:48:25,207 --> 01:48:30,586 On behalf of the Nobel Committee... 1621 01:48:30,754 --> 01:48:34,590 - ...we hand over to you the insignia... - He's going to decline the award, Clyde. 1622 01:48:34,758 --> 01:48:37,259 He knows what we have can ruin him. 1623 01:48:37,427 --> 01:48:42,264 Of the Nobel Peace Prize, the diploma and the gold medal. 1624 01:48:47,312 --> 01:48:49,063 There's no question about it. 1625 01:48:49,898 --> 01:48:51,273 He's done. 1626 01:48:55,070 --> 01:48:58,781 L accept the Nobel Prize for Peace... 1627 01:49:01,284 --> 01:49:06,622 at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States... 1628 01:49:08,625 --> 01:49:09,625 are enga... 1629 01:49:27,978 --> 01:49:31,689 Sorry to interrupt, sir. Your next appointment is here. 1630 01:49:32,148 --> 01:49:34,483 The doctor first, Miss Gandy. 1631 01:49:34,651 --> 01:49:36,110 Yes, of course. 1632 01:49:38,321 --> 01:49:42,575 Send him in in a few minutes. Thank you. 1633 01:51:41,945 --> 01:51:44,113 Stay strong, Edgar. 1634 01:52:15,311 --> 01:52:17,646 You stay strong, Edgar. 1635 01:52:18,606 --> 01:52:20,983 Stay strong. Unh! 1636 01:52:45,425 --> 01:52:47,301 The parade as it makes its way... 1637 01:52:47,469 --> 01:52:49,428 to the Capitol Building for the inauguration. 1638 01:52:52,515 --> 01:52:56,769 You can see the Roosevelt High Marching Band leading the way. 1639 01:52:59,272 --> 01:53:03,692 The motorcade is making progress down Pennsylvania Avenue... 1640 01:53:05,069 --> 01:53:08,030 carrying our 37th president. 1641 01:53:14,204 --> 01:53:16,872 Richard Milhous Nixon waves to the crowd. 1642 01:53:17,040 --> 01:53:20,042 Yep, there's the president and his wife Pat... 1643 01:53:20,585 --> 01:53:22,211 happily waving. 1644 01:53:58,081 --> 01:54:00,415 When morals decline... 1645 01:54:01,209 --> 01:54:03,585 and good men do nothing... 1646 01:54:04,546 --> 01:54:06,588 evil flourishes. 1647 01:54:09,926 --> 01:54:14,596 Every citizen has a duty to learn of this that threatens his home... 1648 01:54:16,099 --> 01:54:17,266 his children. 1649 01:54:21,604 --> 01:54:25,941 A society uninterested and unwilling to learn from the past... 1650 01:54:26,734 --> 01:54:27,860 is doomed. 1651 01:54:31,990 --> 01:54:33,949 We must never forget our history. 1652 01:54:39,747 --> 01:54:42,624 We must never lower our guard. 1653 01:54:49,173 --> 01:54:55,262 Even today, there are organizations that have America as their prime target. 1654 01:54:55,430 --> 01:54:59,683 They would destroy the safety and the happiness of every individual... 1655 01:54:59,893 --> 01:55:03,312 and thrust us into a condition of lawlessness... 1656 01:55:03,479 --> 01:55:07,024 immorality that passes the imagination. 1657 01:55:08,985 --> 01:55:11,653 The president will see you now, Mr. Hoover. 1658 01:55:11,988 --> 01:55:13,155 Alrighty. 1659 01:55:24,626 --> 01:55:26,168 Edgar, come in. 1660 01:55:37,472 --> 01:55:40,349 Oh, l am so sorry, Mr. Hoover. 1661 01:55:40,516 --> 01:55:42,601 You weren't answering your telephone. 1662 01:55:43,770 --> 01:55:46,438 You had a photo session with a retiring agent. 1663 01:55:46,606 --> 01:55:48,023 He's leaving now. 1664 01:55:49,025 --> 01:55:50,359 Where's Clyde? 1665 01:55:52,862 --> 01:55:56,031 Lt's a bad day for him, sir. 1666 01:56:00,036 --> 01:56:03,872 Will you...? Will you schedule a dinner for us, please... 1667 01:56:04,040 --> 01:56:06,208 in our old corner booth? 1668 01:56:07,377 --> 01:56:09,878 I'm afraid he's too tired today, sir. 1669 01:56:10,046 --> 01:56:12,214 Perhaps you'd like to dine at his house? 1670 01:56:12,382 --> 01:56:14,299 L think he'd like that. 1671 01:56:16,135 --> 01:56:17,219 Yes. 1672 01:56:18,221 --> 01:56:20,347 Yes, thank you, Miss Gandy. 1673 01:56:26,771 --> 01:56:27,813 Helen? 1674 01:56:32,068 --> 01:56:33,151 Yes? 1675 01:56:36,072 --> 01:56:38,573 Do l kill everything that l love? 1676 01:56:42,078 --> 01:56:44,579 He's not gone yet, Edgar. 1677 01:56:48,584 --> 01:56:50,627 And everything that we've built? 1678 01:56:51,587 --> 01:56:52,587 No. 1679 01:56:53,172 --> 01:56:56,758 The Bureau is stronger than just you and me now. 1680 01:56:58,219 --> 01:57:01,263 Your child is sure and keeps this country safe. 1681 01:57:08,479 --> 01:57:09,938 Helen, if any... 1682 01:57:10,356 --> 01:57:14,860 If anything ever happens to me, l need you to do something for me, do you understand? 1683 01:57:16,487 --> 01:57:17,821 Of course. 1684 01:57:19,615 --> 01:57:22,200 Nixon, he's gonna come for it all. 1685 01:57:24,203 --> 01:57:26,872 He'll crucify me and my Bureau. 1686 01:57:28,499 --> 01:57:34,129 I'm afraid of what will happen if I'm not here to protect it, Miss Gandy. 1687 01:57:34,630 --> 01:57:36,631 Your private files, sir? 1688 01:57:39,093 --> 01:57:42,137 Then no one will ever find them. 1689 01:57:45,308 --> 01:57:46,641 Thank you, Helen. 1690 01:57:57,653 --> 01:58:00,155 No matter what kind of pressure they put on? 1691 01:58:01,365 --> 01:58:03,200 No matter how much? 1692 01:58:03,367 --> 01:58:04,993 Yes, Edgar. 1693 01:58:05,995 --> 01:58:08,121 No matter how much pressure. 1694 01:58:10,500 --> 01:58:12,000 L promise you. 1695 01:58:14,170 --> 01:58:15,962 Thank you, Helen. 1696 01:58:27,767 --> 01:58:31,103 Well, did Nixon ask for your resignation? 1697 01:58:31,270 --> 01:58:35,899 No, he wanted to know what we had in the files on him. 1698 01:58:36,359 --> 01:58:37,984 What did you say? 1699 01:58:38,528 --> 01:58:41,071 L said, "What files, sir?" 1700 01:58:41,531 --> 01:58:43,156 But he knows. 1701 01:58:43,866 --> 01:58:48,787 He wants us to expand our wiretaps to include news reporters now, Clyde. 1702 01:58:49,956 --> 01:58:53,291 We can't do that, especially not now. 1703 01:58:53,459 --> 01:58:55,168 That's the problem, Clyde. 1704 01:58:55,336 --> 01:59:00,215 If l don't agree to do his black bag jobs, he'll create his own private force. 1705 01:59:00,675 --> 01:59:03,135 Oh, that's illegal. 1706 01:59:03,553 --> 01:59:09,224 Yes, well, he didn't say it outright, but l saw it in his eyes. 1707 01:59:09,392 --> 01:59:11,393 He won't be controlled, Clyde. 1708 01:59:11,561 --> 01:59:15,480 He's a menace who'll do anything to hold on to power. 1709 01:59:16,732 --> 01:59:18,733 Right. l see. 1710 01:59:19,569 --> 01:59:23,905 Yes. See, l never played his game, that's the problem. 1711 01:59:24,073 --> 01:59:26,533 And if to some what l did seemed like rule-bending... 1712 01:59:26,701 --> 01:59:30,120 then perhaps they need to figure out what it is they did... 1713 01:59:30,288 --> 01:59:33,748 that made them feel blackmailed or intimidated. 1714 01:59:34,250 --> 01:59:36,251 L wasn't thinking that. 1715 01:59:37,503 --> 01:59:41,464 Then what? What were you thinking? 1716 01:59:42,592 --> 01:59:46,386 L was thinking it might be time for us to retire. 1717 01:59:47,430 --> 01:59:48,889 Shut up, Clyde. 1718 01:59:50,725 --> 01:59:53,602 You built a great thing, Edgar. 1719 01:59:54,353 --> 01:59:57,647 And if you stop now, you'll be celebrated. 1720 01:59:58,524 --> 02:00:00,609 That's what you've always wanted, isn't it? 1721 02:00:00,776 --> 02:00:03,445 Our country's lasting adoration? 1722 02:00:03,613 --> 02:00:06,114 Well, there's a chance you could have it. 1723 02:00:06,949 --> 02:00:10,368 Yes. Yes, and why wouldn't l? Hmm? 1724 02:00:10,536 --> 02:00:12,162 Why wouldn't l, Clyde? 1725 02:00:12,330 --> 02:00:15,874 L saved this country from a Bolshevik invasion... 1726 02:00:16,042 --> 02:00:19,961 rid this country of radicals, captured Machine Gun Kelly... 1727 02:00:20,129 --> 02:00:23,548 killed Dillinger, captured Karpis, convicted Bruno Hauptmann. 1728 02:00:23,758 --> 02:00:27,344 And now, with my last breath when l try to help save this country again... 1729 02:00:27,511 --> 02:00:30,013 I'm rewarded with a forced retirement? 1730 02:00:30,181 --> 02:00:32,974 L will not go down, and the fact that you suggest that... 1731 02:00:33,142 --> 02:00:35,518 makes me question your very loyalty. 1732 02:00:36,562 --> 02:00:38,563 My loyalty, Edgar? 1733 02:00:38,773 --> 02:00:41,191 Yes, your loyalty, Clyde. 1734 02:00:42,276 --> 02:00:45,070 L read your manuscript, Edgar. 1735 02:00:46,155 --> 02:00:48,490 You didn't arrest Karpis. 1736 02:00:48,658 --> 02:00:52,827 And you know as well as l do there was no white horse in the street... 1737 02:00:53,829 --> 02:00:56,039 no gun in the back seat. 1738 02:00:56,999 --> 02:01:01,503 And you didn't kill Dillinger. Agent Purvis did. 1739 02:01:02,004 --> 02:01:05,882 But you kept all the glory for yourself. 1740 02:01:06,217 --> 02:01:10,845 And Machine Gun Kelly never said, "Don't shoot, G-Men." 1741 02:01:11,514 --> 02:01:16,977 You made that up to sell comic books, Edgar. 1742 02:01:17,520 --> 02:01:22,315 And when we went to the scene of the greatest crime of the century... 1743 02:01:22,900 --> 02:01:26,945 Mr. Lindbergh didn't come out and shake your hand... 1744 02:01:27,113 --> 02:01:31,574 and express his faith in the FBI. 1745 02:01:31,742 --> 02:01:38,039 He called you a fussy little man, and he refused to even meet you. 1746 02:01:40,376 --> 02:01:43,003 And you didn't arrest Hauptmann. 1747 02:01:44,171 --> 02:01:46,464 Agent Sisk did. 1748 02:01:46,632 --> 02:01:51,136 You weren't even at the scene, Edgar. Only the photo op. 1749 02:01:51,304 --> 02:01:55,348 Edgar, most of what you wrote is exaggeration... 1750 02:01:55,516 --> 02:02:00,895 some of it blatant lies, and l don't even know if you realize it anymore. 1751 02:02:02,773 --> 02:02:04,899 Edgar... 1752 02:02:05,067 --> 02:02:09,070 you can lie to everyone else, the whole world... 1753 02:02:09,238 --> 02:02:12,907 for your own sake, for the sake of the Bureau... 1754 02:02:13,617 --> 02:02:15,744 but you cannot lie to me. 1755 02:02:19,248 --> 02:02:22,667 L should've never given you your job, Clyde. 1756 02:02:24,420 --> 02:02:25,754 You know that? 1757 02:02:27,923 --> 02:02:30,216 You weren't even qualified. 1758 02:02:33,304 --> 02:02:36,264 You remember the day you came in for your interview? 1759 02:02:37,475 --> 02:02:39,184 L do. 1760 02:02:41,270 --> 02:02:45,648 You walked into my office and you fixed my window... 1761 02:02:45,816 --> 02:02:48,526 you picked up my handkerchief. 1762 02:02:48,944 --> 02:02:50,612 You handed it to me. 1763 02:02:52,990 --> 02:02:55,658 You remember why l was sweating, Clyde? 1764 02:02:57,203 --> 02:02:59,788 Lt's because you were exercising. 1765 02:03:01,957 --> 02:03:03,291 No, l was... 1766 02:03:04,502 --> 02:03:06,461 l was sweating because l... 1767 02:03:07,296 --> 02:03:09,464 l knew at that very moment... 1768 02:03:11,300 --> 02:03:13,635 l knew at that very moment that l... 1769 02:03:15,137 --> 02:03:16,638 l needed you. 1770 02:03:18,307 --> 02:03:21,976 And I've never needed anyone else in my entire life. 1771 02:03:24,063 --> 02:03:25,647 Not like that. 1772 02:03:27,525 --> 02:03:29,943 So l began to perspire. 1773 02:03:30,861 --> 02:03:32,070 L know. 1774 02:03:34,990 --> 02:03:37,492 Edgar, are you all right? 1775 02:03:38,494 --> 02:03:39,828 Yes, yes, it's... 1776 02:03:40,955 --> 02:03:45,166 lt's just indigestion, Clyde. 1777 02:03:48,754 --> 02:03:52,924 Let's go to dinner tomorrow night, shall we? Our old corner booth. 1778 02:03:54,593 --> 02:03:56,177 Perhaps if l feel better. 1779 02:03:56,345 --> 02:03:58,096 Yes. 1780 02:03:58,264 --> 02:03:59,514 And you must... 1781 02:03:59,682 --> 02:04:04,477 You must... We have a great many things to discuss. 1782 02:04:04,645 --> 02:04:08,523 And now l can't trust anyone else at the Bureau right now. 1783 02:04:10,025 --> 02:04:11,985 Can only depend on you. 1784 02:04:31,505 --> 02:04:33,506 Thank you, Edgar. 1785 02:04:48,439 --> 02:04:49,898 Good night, Clyde. 1786 02:04:51,525 --> 02:04:53,276 Good night, Edgar. 1787 02:05:19,053 --> 02:05:20,595 Welcome home, Mr. Hoover. 1788 02:05:20,763 --> 02:05:21,804 Oh, thank you, Annie. 1789 02:05:21,972 --> 02:05:24,641 Bozo, Bozo, G-Boy, come here. 1790 02:05:24,808 --> 02:05:27,852 The very essence of our democracy... 1791 02:05:28,187 --> 02:05:32,607 is rooted in a belief in the worth of the individual. 1792 02:05:33,275 --> 02:05:38,154 That life has meaning that transcends any man-made system... 1793 02:05:38,781 --> 02:05:42,450 that love is the greatest force on earth... 1794 02:05:44,119 --> 02:05:46,788 far more enduring than hatred... 1795 02:05:47,831 --> 02:05:51,793 or the unnatural divisions of mankind. 1796 02:06:02,471 --> 02:06:03,638 Yes? 1797 02:06:04,348 --> 02:06:07,809 This is Annie from Mr. Hoover's residence. 1798 02:06:07,977 --> 02:06:10,395 Mr. Hoover has passed. 1799 02:06:39,341 --> 02:06:40,550 - Yeah? - Sir. 1800 02:06:44,179 --> 02:06:46,514 Jesus Christ. 1801 02:06:47,182 --> 02:06:49,434 That old cocksucker. 1802 02:06:49,602 --> 02:06:52,270 I'll get a speech prepared. We should go on television. 1803 02:06:52,438 --> 02:06:53,938 Not yet. 1804 02:06:54,106 --> 02:06:58,401 First seal off his office, change his locks, do whatever you have to do. 1805 02:06:58,569 --> 02:07:01,195 L want those fucking files. 1806 02:07:02,031 --> 02:07:03,197 Yes, sir. 1807 02:07:12,041 --> 02:07:13,708 Oh, good. 1808 02:07:14,543 --> 02:07:16,377 Come in. 1809 02:07:21,925 --> 02:07:24,218 He's upstairs. 1810 02:09:28,510 --> 02:09:32,847 Ladies and gentlemen, it is with a profound sense of personal loss... 1811 02:09:33,015 --> 02:09:36,017 that l learned of the death of J. Edgar Hoover. 1812 02:09:36,685 --> 02:09:40,855 This truly remarkable man has served his country for 48 years... 1813 02:09:41,023 --> 02:09:43,691 under eight presidents, as director of the FBI... 1814 02:09:43,859 --> 02:09:49,697 with unparalleled devotion and ability and dedication. 1815 02:09:49,865 --> 02:09:54,535 For 25 years, from the time l came to Washington as a freshman congressman... 1816 02:09:55,078 --> 02:09:59,373 he has been one of my closest personal friends and advisors. 1817 02:09:59,541 --> 02:10:03,461 And every American, in my opinion, owes J. Edgar Hoover a great debt... 1818 02:10:03,629 --> 02:10:08,049 for building the FBI into the finest law enforcement organization... 1819 02:10:08,217 --> 02:10:10,134 in the entire world. 1820 02:10:11,970 --> 02:10:16,891 I've ordered that all the flags of the government buildings be flown at half mast... 1821 02:10:17,059 --> 02:10:19,727 but l will say that, in doing so, that Edgar Hoover... 1822 02:10:19,895 --> 02:10:24,607 because of his indomitable courage against sometimes very vicious attack... 1823 02:10:24,775 --> 02:10:31,072 has made certain that the flag of the FBI will always fly high. 1824 02:10:31,240 --> 02:10:38,246 The FBI is the eternal monument honoring this great American. 1825 02:10:40,249 --> 02:10:42,083 Funny how even the dearest face... 1826 02:10:42,251 --> 02:10:44,752 will fade away in time... 1827 02:10:45,295 --> 02:10:50,258 but most clearly l remember your eyes with a sort of teasing smile in them... 1828 02:10:50,676 --> 02:10:53,427 and the feeling of that soft spot... 1829 02:10:53,595 --> 02:10:56,764 just northeast of the corner of your mouth.