Law Enforcement Museum Announces Acquisition of J. Edgar Hoover Estate

Dedicated in 1991 The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial honors all of America's federal, state and local law enforcers. Inscribed on the Memorial's blue-gray marble walls are the names of more than 17,500 officers who have been killed in the line of duty, dating back to 1792.

WASHINGTON, DC.- When the National Law
Enforcement
Museum opens in Washington, DC, in 2013, it will house one of the most
extensive
collections of objects related to the life and work of long-time FBI
Director J.
Edgar Hoover, Museum officials announced. Through a donation from the J.
Edgar
Hoover Foundation, the Museum has acquired more than 2,000 items from
Director
Hoover’s estate, including his office desk, chair and telephone,
presentation
items, awards, photographs, correspondence, books, recordings of Mr.
Hoover’s
speeches and numerous other items that relate to his personal and
professional
life, specifically his tenure as director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972.

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