"[Whoever did this] must be exterminated, and they must be exterminated by us."
— J. Edgar Hoover

January 1, 1970

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Political leadersPeople from Washington, D.C.Government officialsLaw enforcement people from the United StatesDirectors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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On the perpetrators of the Kansas City Massacre of 1933, as quoted in Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough (2004: Penguin), p. 51.