Gallery of images of FBI officials, agents, staff
over the past 100 years.
[Music: "From Humble Beginnings" Orchestral, warm, mid-tempo]
IMAGE 1: Text stating: On July 26, 1908, Charles Bonaparte established
what would become the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Since then,
the men and women of the FBI have worked to protect the people
and defend the nation. Here’s a look at some of them in action
over the past century.
IMAGE 2: Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, who created what
would become the FBI
IMAGE 3: Employees of the Identification Division in 1929
IMAGE 4: Special Agent firing a rifle at range
IMAGE 5: Female fingerprint specialist looking at prints through
magnifying glass
IMAGE 6: New agents training on the rooftop of the Department
of Justice building in Washington, D.C.
IMAGE 7: Laboratory staff examining materials
IMAGE 8: Female employee leafing through files
IMAGE 9: Male laboratory employee looking through microscope
IMAGE 10: Agents on stakeout during a kidnapping case
IMAGE 11: Candid picture of Cincinnati agents in 1949
IMAGE 12: Lab technician examines evidence
IMAGE 13: Female employee operating radio receiver
IMAGE 14: Identification Division employees work at Washington,
D.C. Armory during World War II
IMAGE 15: Employees send and receive teletypes
IMAGE 16: Lab scientist examines evidence
IMAGE 17: National Crime Information Center office in early 1970s
IMAGE 18: Female agent on car radio, mid 1970s
IMAGE 19: Identification employee examines fingerprint records
IMAGE 20: FBI agent Joe Pistone under cover as mobster Donnie
Brasco
IMAGE 21: Lab cryptanalyst works at desk on coded message
IMAGE 22: Two agents escort handcuffed suspect in New York. Credit:
Robert Maass/CORBIS
IMAGE 23: Two Hostage Rescue Team agents training with rifles
drawn
IMAGE 24: Agent rakes debris looking for clues following car bombing
at U.S. Embassy in Kenya. Credit: REUTERS
IMAGE 25: Instructor and FBI agent practicing firearms
IMAGE 26: Agents approach damaged Pentagon following Sept. 11
attacks.
IMAGE 27: Agents wearing respirators comfort each other at Pentagon
following Sept. 11 attacks. Credit: REUTERS
IMAGE 28: Anthrax-tainted note examined in sealed chamber
IMAGE 29: Agents inspect vehicle damaged by sniper
IMAGE 30: Analysts at computer terminals
IMAGE 31: Agent at arrest of suspected gang members
IMAGE 32: Hostage negotiators discuss strategy
IMAGE 33: Agents arresting a suspect
IMAGE 34: Agents walking in alley
IMAGE 35: Agent in protective gear vaults barrier
IMAGE 36: Evidence Response Team agents survey damage at collapsed
bridge site in Minnesota in 2007
IMAGE 37: Female intelligence analyst at bank of computer terminals
IMAGE 38: Bomb technician wearing protective gear
IMAGE 49: Student at FBI Academy
IMAGE 40: Agents in training at Quantico
IMAGE 41: Agents teach in classroom in Sacramento.
IMAGE 42: Agent in protective gear undergoes decontamination during
training exercise
IMAGE 43: FBI SWAT Team members in New Orleans after hurricane.
Credit: Associated Press
IMAGE 44: Operation Innocent Images analyst at computer terminal
IMAGE 45: Evidence Response Team members at site of a bridge collapse
in Minnesota
IMAGE 46: SWAT Team member atop a city highrise
IMAGE 47: Helicopter carrying agents approaches city skyline
IMAGE 49: Evidence Response Team members carrying equipment at
site of double homicide in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2006. Credit:
Tracy Wilcox, The Gainesville Sun
IMAGE 50: Text stating: "Together all of us can and must
do the work the American people expect of us ... in a way the
Constitution demands of us." William H. Webster, Director
(1978-1987).
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