Director: Johanna Hamilton
Run Time: 80 min.
Call Number: HV8144.F43 N56 2014
". . . on the evening of March 8, 1971, while much of America was distracted by the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight, burglars broke into the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s office in Media, Pa., and stole files that revealed the bureau’s unlawful surveillance of antiwar activists. Photocopies were mailed anonymously to three major newspapers, including The New York Times, but only The Washington Post published anything from the files. . . . Ms. Hamilton’s straightforward documentary skillfully interweaves reminiscences by members of the group with re-enactments of the burglary. The F.B.I.’s frantic reaction sounds almost like a Keystone Kops comedy in which 150 agents, many poorly disguised as hippies, saturated the Philadelphia suburbs and went knocking on doors."
—Stephen Holden, New York Times
