Word: houseboy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...According to an agent quoted by Hoover's biographer Richard Gid Powers, during the early '60s "in about 90% of the situations in which bureau personnel referred to Negroes, the word 'nigger' was used." Until 1962 there were only five black FBI agents: Hoover's chauffeurs, houseboy and messenger. During the period dealt with in Burning, Hoover's bureau was indeed engaged in a lawless campaign against an enemy. But its target was Martin Luther King Jr. It began with wiretaps and buggings, approved by then Attorney General Robert Kennedy, aimed at digging up proof that King was under...
When I arrived home, I noticed that my houseboy Marquand had failed to carry out his orders...
...uniforms blue and the humor black. Blackpool has also lost a son, and the key witness is another graying officer, Harry Bright, who now lies in an apparently irreversible coma. Also hampering the investigation are a midget who hopes for intimate contact with large ladies, and a Palm Springs houseboy who scouts gay bars for murder suspects in his best butch outfit. Without a program, the bad guys are hard to separate from the good guys, and Blackpool has a lot of trouble finding and confronting the truth. The ultimate message is bitter, but for the first time in seven...