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HOOVER, J. EDGAR

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HOOVER, J. EDGAR
(1895 - 1972) Controversial Director of the F.B.I. who built the organization into the world's finest investigative agency. Nice I.S.P. 10 1/2"" x 13 3/4"" b/w by Autrey, Hollywood, showing Hoover with hands crossed, inscribed and signed in the lower white margin: ""To Irving R. Kaufman, in appreciation of a valued friendship, J. Edgar Hoover 4.3.59"". IRVING KAUFMAN (1910-1992) was a noted judge of U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1949 and judge of U. S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit from 1961 -1987. He is best remembered as the presiding judge in the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg espionage case, sentencing the couple to death for selling atomic secrets to the Russians. Judge Kaufman also sided with John Lennon after a lengthy battle in the U.S. court system over whether Lennon could remain in the U. S. after the famous ""Beatle"" pleaded guilty to drug charges in England. In 1987 President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A great piece from a man who thought Kaufman too harsh for sentencing the Rosenberg's to death. Very minor soiling, else very good.