J. Edgar Hoover - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:09:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png J. Edgar Hoover - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 84 Years Ago Today, the FBI’s Crime Lab Opened in DC https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/11/24/the-fbi-opened-its-crime-lab-here-in-dc-back-in-1932/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-fbi-opened-its-crime-lab-here-in-dc-back-in-1932 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 14:00:31 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=208882 From fingerprinting and ballistics to handwriting analysis and moulage, the FBI’s Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory is known for assisting the bureau’s agents in solving high-profile cases. Established by original FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the Criminology Laboratory, as it was known then, was first housed in a single room of the Old Southern Railway Building at 13th St. and Pennsylvania Ave., […]

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