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Betty Medsger

Biography

Betty Medsger

Betty Medsger was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Medsger is a former chair of the Department of Journalism at San Francisco State University and is the founder of its Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism. She is the author of WINDS OF CHANGE, FRAMED and WOMEN AT WORK. She lives in New York and Connecticut.

Betty Medsger

Books by Betty Medsger

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI
by Betty Medsger - History, Nonfiction

THE BURGLARY is the never-before-told full story of the 1971 history-changing break-in of the FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists --- quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans --- that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected: that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.