That Time SCREW Revealed J. Edgar Hoover’s Dirty Little Secret.
It was the second worst day of J. Edgar Hoover’s life.
On May 2, 1969, Screw published Issue #11 with our infamous cover story, “Is J. Edgar Hoover a Fag?” — publicly calling-out the nation’s first FBI director and hero of the Conservatives, personally, on his sexuality, and the entire Nixon administration on its hypocrisy. This simple headline ignited a ruthless, personal vendetta against Screw and publisher Al Goldstein, that continued even after Hoover’s death which, by the way, was the number one, worst day of his life — May 2, 1972 — exactly three years later, to the day, of the headline.
“Get Goldstein.”
It has long been rumored that Hoover’s last directive to the FBI before he died was a simple, two-word memorandum that read, “Get Goldstein”. Two-and-a-half years later, in December 1974, federal marshals kicked in the door of Al’s Manhattan townhome with a warrant for his arrest. Al and co-publisher Jim Buckley were arrested and immediately flown to Wichita, Kansas to stand trial for twelve felony counts of mailing obscene or crime-inciting matter. Wait — where?
