On March, 8 1971 eight ordinary citizens broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, a town just outside Philadelphia, took hundreds of secret files, and shared them with the public. In doing so, they uncovered the FBI’s vast and illegal regime of spying and intimidations of Americans exercising their First Amendment rights. On the night of the “Fight of the Century” boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, the activists, calling themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, picked the lock on the door of the small FBI field office. They took every file in the office, loaded them into suitcases, and walked out the front door. Mailed anonymously, the documents started to show up in newsrooms. The heist yield a trove of damning evidence that shattered the wall of secrecy that had previously enveloped the FBI. The documents proved that the FBI was deliberately working to intimidate civil rights activists and Americans nonviolently protesting against the Vietnam War. The most significant revelations was an illegal program overseen by lifelong FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover knows as COINTELPRO – the Counter Intelligence Program.