US_Ch7_webquest-1-telephone-call

=**A Telephone Call**=

You've just received a tip...and it's credible...it's from J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover worked in the Bureau of Investigation in the Justice Department under Attorney General Mitchell Palmer. This bureau would be one of the predecessors of the FBI, which Hoover later became a part of. It turns out, Hoover was listening in on a phone call of one of your three suspects. Hoover was not able to completely identify the voice and is not positive of who it is, but time is wasting and others are close to the solution, you may need to go on this circumstantial evidence and eliminate one of your suspects. The telephone had been invented decades ago by Alexander Graham Bell, but until Thomas Edison made major breakthroughs with electricity along with George Westinghouse the telephone, along with other electrical appliances weren't in most houses. The telephone was expanding in the 1920s as the number of phones per 1,000 city dwellings went from 61 out of 1,000 in 1920 to 92 out of 1,000 by 1928. Hoover was part of the Palmer Raids to stop the spread of communism in the immediate aftermath of WWI and was even involved in trying to stop bootleggers. He was listening in on a phone call as he was trying to crack a case and he found that the case he was following was very similar to F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous 1920s novel //The Great Gatsby//. This may seem meaningless to you, but Hoover gives you one more piece of information. The guy he was listening to was talking to one of your suspects. You'll need some information on the plot of this novel to use as your next clue. Click here for the plot