Black militant, Republic of New Africa, New Orleans, Louisiana. A police cadet, Alfred Harrell, is killed and two other police officers are wounded in sniper attack. Bullets are later matched to the rifle used by Mark Essex in a motel Shooting
Black militant, Black Liberation Army. New York City, New York. A bar owner is held for a $20,000 ransom.
Richard Lavoie, chief of security for International Telegraph and Telephone, died of a heart attack on December 27, 1972. At…
Black militant, Black Liberation Army. Detroit. Michigan. Police officer Robert Bradford is shot and killed by the BLA
Puerto Rican nationalist. New York City. New York. Three department stores are bombed.
Acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray burns key documents in the Watergate case. He has had the documents, originally kept…
Cuban, Secret Cuban Government. Miami, Florida. A travel agency is bombed.
Cuban, Frente de Liberacion Nacional de Cuba, New York City, New York. A business trading with Cuba is bombed.
Dorothy Hunt. [Source: Spartacus Educational] Dorothy Hunt, the wife of accused Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt (see 2:30 a.m.June 17,…
White House secretary Kathleen Chenow (see June 28-July 3, 1972) confirms the existence of the “Plumbers,” the extralegal operation tasked…
Cuban. Frente de Liberacion Nacional de Cuba. New York City, New York. A travel agency is bombed,
Black militant. Pontiac, Michigan. Five while students are shot and wounded by blacks.
Culture War Rages
White House aide Charles Colson and Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt discuss Hunt’s demand for “hush money” (see June 20-21,…
Black militant. Kennett Square. Pennsylvania. Two police officers, William Davis and Richard Posey, are killed by a sniper.
Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Robert Meyers interview Donald Segretti, a Nixon campaign operative (see June 27, 1971, and…
Clint Eastwood and Love Story actress Kay Lenz begin dating after meeting on the set of Breezy.
Chuck Colson idea: a White House agent provocateur could infiltrate the welfare rights picketers in front of one of the…
A commuter train collision in Chicago kills 45, injures hundreds.
Revolutionary leftist. Arlington, Virginia. Four leftists rob a bank. killing the bank manager. Henry Candee. and a policeman, Israel Gonzalez. A few days later. they hijack a jet plane and escape to Cuba.
Clark MacGregor, the head of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), admits to the existence of a CREEP cash…
Black militant. Houston. Texas. Jerry Spruill. a police officer, is shot in the back and killed as he leaves a restaurant.
Congressman Thomas Hale Boggs was killed while on a campaign flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska. Also killed in the…
En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial brawl involving more than 100 sailors breaks out aboard the United…
In October 1972, Dorothy Hunt attempted to speak to Charles Colson. He refused to talk to her but later admitted…
FBI agents are now convinced that the Watergate break-in (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) is one example of actions conducted…
The Post reported yet more fishiness from early in the summer: a call to McGovern financiers from someone impersonating a…
ailes jettisons segretti
Around 2 a.m., Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward meets his FBI source, W. Mark Felt (popularly called “Deep Throat”—see May…
Operation counter-operations cointelpro, and legit attacks
Black militant, Black Liberation Army. Los Angeles, California. A police Car is bombed.
Revolutionary leftist. Chino, California. A member of Venceramos, a leftist revolutionary group. escapes while he is being transported from prison. During the escape, a prison guard, Jesus Sanchez is killed.
Edward Lansdale helped lead the development of Bay of Pigs invasion force, bringing the number of soldiers from 300 to…
Black militant, Black Liberation Army. Los Angeles, California. A police car is bombed.
Carl Bernstein, Katherine Graham, and Bob Woodward discuss the newspaper’s Watergate coverage. [Source: Southern Methodist University] The Washington Post reports…
advance team dirty trick
Hugh Sloan. [Source: Washington Post] The former treasurer for the Campaign to Re-elect the President (CREEP), Hugh Sloan, tells Washington…
Ann Margret falls 22 feet when the scaffolding on which she makes her entrance at Tahoe’s Sahara Hotel gave way.…
Disappointed that the Watergate burglary indictments do not extend further than the five burglars and their two handlers (see 2:30…
Accused Watergate burglar Bernard Barker after being arraigned in June 1972. [Source: Wally McNamee / Corbis] The first indictments against…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein interviews a reluctant source, a bookkeeper for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP). In…
Jewish. Hollywood. California. The apartment of a Palestinian Arab is bombed.
The FBI finds another electronic surveillance device—a “bug”—on the telephone of Spencer Oliver, an official with the Democratic National Committee.…
The Soviet Union beats the United States winning top honors in the Munich Olympics medal count. Soviet allied-East Germany comes…
The Cook County sheriff had just arrested eight men alleged to be responsible for a string of murders in the…
During the 1972 presidential campaign, Lucianne Cummings Goldberg joined the press corps covering Democratic candidate George McGovern claiming to be a…
Black militant. de Mau Mau. Chicago, Illinois. Three whites, Stephen Hawtree, his wife. and his son. are murdered by de Mau Mau.
Black militant. de Mau Mau. Highland Park, Illinois. William Richler. a white man. is murdered by de Mau Mau.
Actual rats scuttled through a Muskie press conference; ribbons tied to their tails read, “Muskie is a rat fink.” Michael…
In Iceland, the 15 year old Chicago born chess prodigy openly took on the Soviets in an attempt to reverse…