The 60's - From Tennessee Highway Patrol
to FBI Academy
to Promotion to the TBI
Various Newspaper Clippings from Local East Tennessee Papers
Webmistress Note: I recall Daddy attending FBI Academy the year after Kennedy was killed, in the spring. Johnson was President. Daddy came down and drove Mamma and I back to Washington D.C. (through Virginia, I know why they call it Blue Ridge Mountains - beautiful). We attended graduation. I got to meet J. Edgar Hoover (he was tall to me at the age of 7, and he wore flat shoes, not pumps).
Upon graduation, Daddy was promoted to the TBI as Field Agent in East Tennessee (Greeneville). He was promoted to Assistant Director of the TBI in 1972, and we moved to Nashville. He retired during the famous Blanton Administration. Daddy then went to TVA, running security at two of the plants and teaching drug identification, criminal investigation and such for the TBI, THP, and TVA. Daddy retired a few years ago. He and my mother still live in Mt. Juliet.
Sgt. James Waldrop Completes FBI Academy Course
Sgt. James D. Waldrop, head of the Maryville unit of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, completed the intensive 12-week National Academy Course of the FBI at graduation exercises Tuesday Morning in Washington, D. C.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover noted that Sgt. Waldrop is the fourth Blount Countian to complete the course since it began in 1935. Maryville Police Chief John R. Bluford is the other local graduate still active in public law enforcement, Don Young, of ALCOA's protection force, and former Assistant Maryville Police Chief James (Red) Beeler, now an HTU agent at Greenback, also completed the course.
A total of 4,500 persons has completed the course. There were 92 graduates in the 73rd session concluded Tuesday with 42 states, the District of Columbia, White House Police, United States Army and United States Marine Corps, being represented.
Speakers at the graduation included Sen. Carl Hayden, president pro tempore of the Senate, Editor David Lawrence of U.S. News and World Report, and Inspector Robert D. Quick of New York State Police. Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, pastor of National Presbyterian Church and a director of Maryville College, delivered the invocation and benediction. Assistant Attorney General Louis F. Oberdorfer presented the diplomas.
The course includes training in all the latest techniques and developments in law enforcement as well as lectures from well-known authorities in the fields of education, law, medicine, journalism and police administration.
2 Graduating at FBI Academy
Lt. Lewis G. Webb of the Knoxville Police Department and Sgt. James D. Waldrop, a state Trooper at Maryville, was among the 92 law enforcement officers graduating from the 73rd class of the FBI National Academy today in Washington.
The class increased to more than 4,500 the number of graduates since the school was founded in 1935.
Everett J. Ingram, special agent-in-charge of the Knoxville FBI office, said the 12-week course included training in all the latest techniques and developments in law enforcement.
John Bluford, James Waldrop to Attend Meet
Chief John R. Bluford of Maryville Police Department and Lt. James D. Waldrop, detachment commander of the Tennessee Highway Patrol in Maryville, will attend a regional retraining conference to be held in Atlanta, Ga., June 27 through June 30 for FBI National Police Academy graduates.
Both Bluford and Waldrop are graduates of the academy.
A similar sectional conference was held in Newport Beach, Calif., earlier this month, and others are planned this year at Kansas City, Mo., and New York later this year. Thereafter they will be held in each of the four sections of the country every four years.
The FBI National Academy often referred to as the "West Point of Law Enforcement," will complete its 30th year July 29. Since it was founded in 1935 over 4,740 men have been graduated from the academy. More than 28% of those still active in law enforcement are heads of their respective departments.
Lt. Waldrop To Join TBI
Lt. James Waldrop, head of Blount area Tennessee Highway Patrol Unit, will be an agent for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) in Greeneville.
Lt. Waldrop, who has been with the highway patrol for 18 years, will take his new position Jan. 1.
James D. Waldrop, New TBI Agent, Assigned Here
Greeneville Sun
Deputy Commissioner W. E. Hopton of the Tennessee Department of Safety announced today that a new TBI agent would be assigned to Greeneville to work this area after the first of the year.
Highway Patrol Lieutenant James D. Waldrop of Maryville has been assigned to the TBI and will move to Greeneville soon after the first of the year.
Lt. Waldrop is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Academy and is presently serving as assistant training officer of the Highway Patrol Recruit Training School at Sewart Air Base.
Former TBI Agent John Bauer was assigned to the Memphis office of the TBI last summer. Waldrop will fill the vacancy created in East Tennessee by Bauer's transfer.
Waldrop will assist law enforcement agencies in a number of counties in this area including Greene, Cocke, Hamblen, and Jefferson Counties.
Waldrop is highly recommended as a well trained agent, who has had many years of service on the Highway Patrol and in Police work.
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