President Nixon responds to the report by the General Accounting Office (GAO) alleging possible illegal campaign finances in his re-election…
Black militant. Columbus. Ohio. Police officer Joseph Edwards is killed in an ambush.
Mark Spitz, a swimmer from the United States, set a world record when he won seven gold medals (while on…
Segretti often talked to his college friends of going to Miami—the home of most of the Watergate burglars—to meet…
The Government Accounting Office was supposed to be releasing an audit of Nixon’s donations. On the day of Nixon’s nomination,…
Atwater and Ailes “optics” focus on politics as smokescreen
On Wednesday, as delegates arrived, militants pulled the engine wires to disable the buses of the Mississippi and South Carolina…
John Wojtowicz, 27, and Sal Naturile, 18, hold several Chase Manhattan Bank employees hostage for 17 hours in Gravesend, Brooklyn,…
staged riot inciting
Segretti take a bow.
Young Rove impresses the brass
White racist. Nea1 Long. Dayton, Ohio. Two blacks are wounded by a shotgun blast from a car.
Clark MacGregor, the new head of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), meets with a select group of White…
After a tirade about how humiliated and angry he was when he was investigated and audited by the IRS, President…
White House counsel John Dean reports that the Watergate grand jury will hand down seven indictments—the five Watergate burglars and…
Herbert L. “Bart” Porter, the director of scheduling for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) (see May 1971), learns…
Black militant, Black Liberation Army. Newark. New Jersey, A policeman is shot and wounded. The gunman is captured hours later and is identified as a suspect in the murders of two policemen, Foster and Laurie, killed on January 27. 1971.
Meta moment of psychotic America
Black militant, de Mau Mau. Barrington Hills. Illinois. Four whiles are found murdered: Paul Corbett, his wife Marion, her sister Dorothy Derry, and her daughter, Barbara Boand. This is the first murder attributed to de Mau Mau by law enforcement.
The KKK rioted in Central Park and 3 people died in the riot/protest.
Nixon Messes with Jane Fonda
Segretti plants pretty campaign moles. Patricia Griffin is paid $50 per month to infiltrate Senator Muskie and another senate HQ.…
It wasn’t surprising. The IRS was uncovering what The Wall Street Journal called the largest skimming operation the IRS had…
Herbert L. “Bart” Porter, the director of scheduling for the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) (see May 1971), gives…
Thomas Eagleton. [Source: Wally McNamee / Corbis] Democratic vice presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdraws from the campaign. A week before,…
White racist, Neal Long. Dayton. Ohio. Five blacks are wounded by a shotgun blast from a car, This is the first attack by Neal Long.
Sinatra’s Politics Moves Rightward
Black militant, St. Louis. Illinois. A police station is the target of an Attempted bombing
Fonda arrived in Paris and called a press conference. She brought film of the bombed dikes. “I believe in my…
Johnny Cash Gets in Nixon’s Head
The New York Times publishes an article alleging that Watergate burglar Bernard Barker (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) made at…
Bobby Ramirez, the drummer for Edgar Winter’s band White Trash, is beaten to death in a Chicago bar fight, reportedly…
Adding insult to injury, Time reported its own survey: 76.7 percent said Eagleton’s medical record wouldn’t affect their vote. Time…
Comedian George Carlin is arrested by Milwaukee, Wisconsin police for public obscenity, for reciting his “Seven Words You Can Never…
Black militant. Washington, D.C. A Molotov cocktail is thrown into a police car.
Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood marry.
Nixon arrested VVAW
Mullen President Robert Bennett reported detailed knowledge of the Watergate incident to his CIA case officer [Martin Lukasky]. The case…
Watergate surveillance man Alfred Baldwin (see May 29, 1972) confesses to his role in the electronic eavesdropping on Democrats in…
Clever Nixon trick
The reverend was wearing a dashiki, the flowing African-style robe favored by black nationalists, as the TV cameras recorded, and…
Plumbers Framing Operation
Another friend of both Eugenio Martinez and Pablo Fernandez is Felipe De Diego, self-confessed member of the team which burglarized…
Edmund Muskie said, “The Attica tragedy is more stark proof that something is terribly wrong with America. We have reached…
Jose Joaquin Sangenis Perdimo, a Cuban exile who worked with the CIA at the Bay of Pigs, died mysteriously in…
Maheu gave the first detailed account of the famous $100,000 gift to Nixon—in a sworn deposition. While there had been…
Squad 19’s plan to disrupt the Miami DNC Convention entailed planting a number of agent provocateurs both inside and outside…
On 1st July, 1972, Barry Seal was arrested in New Orleans and accused of moving C4 explosives linked from anti-Castro…
Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray refuses to allow FBI investigators to interview Kathleen Chenow, a former secretary to David…
A staff member of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), G. Gordon Liddy, is fired after he refuses to…