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Betty Medsger

  • Journalist Betty Medsger wrote about the FBI's surveillance of U.S. citizens and abuses of power based in information contained in files stolen from the Media FBI office in 1971. The story is being revisited in Season 2 of the podcast 'Snafu,'
    Media

    Media FBI Office Break-in From 1971 Topic of ‘Snafu’ Podcast

    August 22, 2024

    The theft of files from an FBI office in Media Borough on March 8, 1971 that revealed FBI surveillance of U.S. citizens is being revisited…

  • Betty Medsger
    Government & Politics

    New Podcast Revisits 1971 History-Changing Heist of Media FBI Office

    August 19, 2024

    In the second season of his podcast Snafu, Ed Helms revisits the news Betty Medsger broke more than half a century ago at the Washington…

  • The site of the former FBI office in Media, scene of a 1971 break-in by activists.
    Media

    Fans Tolerate Rain to See Historical Marker Go Up at Former Media FBI Office

    September 9, 2021

    A crowd of curious spectators stood in the pouring rain last Wednesday night to witness a new historical marker in Media Borough, at the former…

  • The site of the former FBI office in Media, scene of a 1971 break-in by activists.
    Government & Politics

    Burglars Revisit Media FBI Office With Speeches and a Book Signing

    July 31, 2021

    It’s a reunion like no other.  On Sept. 1, activists who broke into the FBI office in Media 50 years ago will return to the…

  • Government & Politics

    Investigative Reporter Donates Research on Burglary of FBI Office in Media to Swarthmore College

    April 19, 2019

    Investigative reporter Betty Medsger, the first journalist to report on files stolen from an FBI office in Media nearly a half-century ago, has donated her…

  • Culture

    Folk Hero Who Exposed FBI Through 1971 Burglary in Media Dies at 84

    November 27, 2017

    John Raines – Temple University professor, ordained Methodist minister, and one of eight citizens who broke into the FBI’s office in Media in 1971 to…

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