Film ‘1971’ Depicts Improbable Break-In at FBI Office By ‘Eight Ordinary Citizens’
The film “1971,” which documents a group’s break-in of an FBI office in a Philadelphia suburb on March 8, 1971, has received both critical and audience praise at the Tribeca Film Festival in April. They stole every document to expose the FBI, under the autocratic leadership of J. Edgar Hoover, for widespread surveillance of…