Henry Wade- 'Token' Dallas D.A.

[Walt Cakebread]

The secret government arranged for the case to go to Wade knowing he would lose it through ineptness or could be "persuaded" to purposely lose it?

A bit far for me. In Netfilk's "The Confession Killer", the two Texas Rangers handling Henry Lee Lucas did some unusual things, such as supposedly giving Lucas some hints so he could "confess" to visiting law enforcement eager to close cold cases around the United States. They eventually got the count up to 600 murders. Lucas told a Japanese film crew given special access that he had done a few in Japan, traveling there by car.

The District Attorney of McLennan County in Waco, Vic Feazell, questioned the "closing" of a case in Waco, based on a Lucas "confession". As a consequence, the Texas Dept. of Public Safety (in charge of the Rangers) and Dallas TV-station WFAA launched a campaign to discredit Feazell.

If Henry Wade was involved chances are very good that J. Edgar Hoover and HL Hunt were right at his elbow....

PS    Speaking of Hunt...  I was happy to see Andy Reid and his team win the Super Bowl but the mention of the Lamar Hunt trophy makes me want to puke!....

[Jerry Freeman]

Nothing definitive there about Hoover being gay or a cross-dresser. More, I would say, to the contrary. FWIW

Hoover reportedly hunted down and threatened anyone who made insinuations about his sexuality.

Pornography for blackmail---Under Hoover, agents were directed to seize all pornographic materials uncovered in their investigations and forward them to Hoover personally.[114] He kept a large collection, possibly the world's largest,[115] of films, photographs, and written materials, with particular emphasis on nude photos of celebrities. Hoover reportedly used these for his own titillation, as well as holding them for blackmail purposes.[116][117]

In his biography Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover (1993), journalist Anthony Summers quoted "society divorcee" Susan Rosenstiel as claiming to have seen Hoover engaging in cross-dressing in the 1950s, at all-male parties.[118][119]

Summers alleged the Mafia had blackmail material on Hoover, which made Hoover reluctant to pursue organized crime aggressively. According to Summers, organized crime figures Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello obtained photos of Hoover's alleged homosexual activity with Tolson and used them to ensure that the FBI did not target their illegal activities.[120] Additionally, Summers claimed that Hoover was friends with Billy Byars, Jr., an alleged child pornographer and producer of the film The Genesis Children.[121]

Where there's smoke...FWIW
 
 

[Jerry Freeman]

[Tim Nickerson]

Hoover wasn't gay or a cross-dresser.

 Yeah, Hoover wasn't gay or a cross-dresser.

The Truth about J. Edgar Hoover

[Walt Cakebread]

Yeah, Hoover wasn't gay or a cross-dresser.

The Truth about J. Edgar Hoover

Who the hell cares If Hoover was a homo??......    Which he was....    Hoover had far more serious character flaws than simple homosexuality.  Hoover was the devil incarnate ....  Personally I believe that he was more inhuman and corrupt than Adolph Hitler.

[Bill Chapman]

Five Myths About J. Edgar Hoover

The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-j-edgar-hoover/2011/11/07/gIQASLlo5M_story.html

[Walt Cakebread]

Homosexuality is a "character flaw"? You must have been tuned into Rush Limbaugh this morning. How Trump has cheapen the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

I don't know what to call homosexuality..... It certainly is not ordained to reproduce the human race....

[Ross Lidell]

I don't know what to call homosexuality..... It certainly is not ordained to reproduce the human race....

For once, I'm in agreement with Walter Cakebread.

Then again: What he said is indisputable.