Radical Priests v. the FBI

05/02/24 • 54 min

In 1970, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover stunned Congress when he announced that anti-war activists planned to kidnap Henry Kissinger and bomb Washington, D.C. But when the Justice Department pursued these activists, a group that came to be known as the Harrisburg Seven, on conspiracy charges, shocking revelations about the FBI's main witness made many wonder if the plot had ever been real to begin with...

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History on Trial - Radical Priests v. the FBI

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You're listening to History on Trial, a production of iHeart Podcasts. Listener discretion advised. Like most of us, Elizabeth McAllister never expected to hear her love letters discussed on the radio.

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She certainly didn't imagine that the person doing the discussing would be the director of the FBI, Jay Edgar Hoover.

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But here she was, on a