00:00I knew that we would find things in that office that were not only immoral but probably illegal.
00:12What we thought of at the time as the war machine wanted to do as much damage to it as we could
00:20before we got caught.
00:21We knew that if we got caught, we were going to probably face very serious prison time.
00:29It was very empowering to know that ordinary people could actually take action.
00:43Philadelphia was full of young families just like ourselves who were very active politically.
00:48I was ready to make a transition from non-violent protest to non-violent disruption.
00:54If the FBI was suppressing dissent, it was as important to expose that as it was to end the war.
01:00So many things were so wrong, there was no decision to be made. You have to do something.
01:05More than a thousand documents were stolen from the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania.
01:10They called themselves the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI.
01:14These documents reveal illegal activity by the FBI.
01:18Surveillance of people engaged in protected First Amendment activity.
01:21The fortress was under siege.
01:24A hundred and fifty agents were looking for us.
01:27My worry was, what would happen to those three kids?
01:30This was quite a substantial risk they took.
01:34They risked everything.
01:36They saw injustice and decided that they were going to act on it.
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