Screening followed by panel
discussion with “The Burglary”
author Betty Medsger and Chester Mayor John Linder
author Betty Medsger and Chester Mayor John Linder
Chester,
Pa.—In 1971, Media, Pa. became the focus of an intense FBI manhunt to discover
who broke into the bureau’s office there and stole all of the files, leaving
only questions that remained unanswered for more than 40 years. Earlier this
year, former Washington Post reporter Betty Medsger answered many of the
questions in her book “The
Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI.” Now, the story is
also being told in the documentary film “1971” which debuted at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.
Widener
University will host a screening of “1971” followed by a discussion including
Medsger and Chester, Pa. Mayor John Linder at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12 in
Founders Hall Room 109. Copies of Medsger’s book will be available for purchase
at the event, and she will hold a book signing following the panel discussion.
Sponsored by Widener University, the Widener Black Student Union and the
Widener Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, the event is free and open to
the public.
A group
calling themselves the “Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI” took
responsibility for the burglary and mailed copies of the stolen files to
members of the news media, including Medsger, and to the organizations being
investigated by the FBI. Among the documents stolen from the FBI office was a
file on the bureau’s investigation of the Black Student Union at Widener, then known as PMC Colleges.
Linder, a 1976 graduate of Widener, was a member of the Black Student Union at the
time of the burglary.
Film
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