FBI Archives: Investigating and I...

FBI Archives: Investigating and Intimidating Journalists from the 1940s to the 1970s

Archival by Juanita Tolliver

Episode notes

Explore the FBI’s efforts to surveil and impede members of the press through harassment and intimidation tactics from their fixation on Black newspapers and journalists in the 1940s, to President Richard Nixon’s “Enemies List” in the 1970s.

Plus, learn about that time the FBI got robbed.

For more information, and full transcripts, visit ArchivalPod.com

Audio Credits: Music by Scott Buckley; PBS Documentary, The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords Documentary (1999); American Forum at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center; Television Academy Foundation (2010); Democracy Now (2014)