Teddy Roosevelt & the Founding of the FBI
b'The True Origin of the FBI
Guest:\\xa0Willard Oliver, Professor of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University, and author of \\u201cThe Birth of the FBI: Teddy Roosevelt, the Secret Service, and the Fight Over America\'s Premier Law Enforcement Agency\\u201d
Federal law enforcement was weak at the beginning of America. Counterfeiting, assassinations, land fraud deals, and a conflict between Teddy Roosevelt and a Congress led to the eventual creation of the FBI.
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The Pinkertons\\xa0
Guest: Paul O\\u2019Hara, Associate Professor of History, Xavier University, and author, "Inventing the Pinkertons: Or Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs, Being a story of the nation\\u2019s most famous (and infamous) detective agency"
A cooper named Allan Pinketon fell into detective work quite by accident, but he soon found himself in high demand. His foiling of a plot to assassinate President-Elect Abraham Lincoln vaulted him to national renown, and he worked across state lines with government agencies on every level.'