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Tracing The Path: The Connected 20th Century

Dan R. Morris - 20th Century Historian

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Classified: How the Library Built the FBI and How did J. Edgar Hoover Get Involved?

It all started in the 1500s with Sir Francis Bacon, and then in the 1700s with Carl Linnaeus. And along the way we run into Thomas Jefferson, President McKinley, Melvil Dewey, Elihu Root, Napoleon Bonaparte, Al Capone, Teddy Roosevelt, the Library of Congress, Ainsworth Rand Spofford and J. Edgar Hoover. All of them to birth the FBI. 

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