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.