J. Edgar: The Most Powerful Man in the World Page #5

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This alien has refused to answer questions

pertaining to the charges in the warrant...

notwithstanding the fact that

every opportunity was afforded her.

I recommend deportation.

And just like that, we had our precedent.

Edgar, should I arrange our travel

to Paterson on Valentine's Day?

Yes, of course, Miss Gandy.

I took the train to Paterson,

New Jersey, on February 14th.

If I could catch these

radicals red-handed...

then the Labor Department would have

to put them all on boats back home.

So agents of the Bureau,

alongside local police...

began raiding gathering places

of known communist radicals...

all across this country.

These people are armed and violent.

They're prepared to kill to avoid capture.

Take one. Go on.

- Are we allowed to use these, sir?

- These are gifts.

There is no law that prevents us

from using our own weapons.

Gentlemen, grab your guns.

Gentlemen, quickly.

Let's move.

Police! This is a raid!

He's going for the window, stop him!

That's enough!

The leaflets matched exactly.

We'd solved the bombings.

And, in the end, we arrested nearly

and deported over 500 of them.

Lt was accomplished against great odds

and at great personal peril.

They found the counterfeiting press,

five pistols, two automatics.

And in Trenton, they found gunpowder,

copper, brass wire, and batteries.

- A bomb factory.

- Yes.

One hundred and twenty arrests in Detroit,

But everyone in the Bureau involved

lost their job, correct?

Even Palmer himself?

Some did, and there's the lesson.

You see, the bombs stopped,

and peace came.

The American people had forgotten

there ever was a threat.

So when political adversaries

attacked Palmer...

for trying to protect this nation

from communism...

our countrymen allowed it to happen.

Because like today, they've forgotten

the bombs, the blood, the fear.

But why Palmer and not you,

if you orchestrated the raids?

I was 24 years old, Agent Smith.

I was just following orders.

I understand, sir.

And if we hadn't, you may very well

have been born into a communist state...

rather than the country you love today.

- Am I right?

- Of course, sir.

Hmm.

Edgar?

Ignore him.

Edgar?

I am in a meeting, Mr. Tolson.

I'll be out in a moment.

Don't forget about your appointment

with the Attorney General, Edgar.

Files are not yet completed, Mr. Tolson.

Please go away.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir. I apologize.

I'll finish this chapter tonight.

Very well, Agent Smith.

In the Academy, do they tell the story

of how I got here?

Yes, sir. Uh, you were called into

the new Attorney General's office...

- Harlan Fiske Stone.

- Yes, sir, Attorney General Stone.

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