Richard Nixon leaves Washington, D.C. on his trip to Austria, the Soviet Union, Iran, and Poland. He will not return…
Puerto Rican nationalist. Dorado, Puerto Rico. A beauty pageant at a hotel is bombed.
The Nixon administration spends $8,400 on fake telegrams and advetisements to create a false impression of public support for the…
E. Howard Hunt makes two calls to Bernard Barker in Miami.
Lt. George W. Bush (Jr.), a chase plane pilot, contacts a superior officer in the reserves to discuss “options of…
Revolutionary leftist Weather Underground. Arlington. Virginia. The Pentagon is bombed causing $800,000 in damage.
A cross-department action group called “Squad 19” sets its sights on the GOP Convention in Miami. Vietnam Veterans Against The…
CIA’s Bernard Barker makes two calls from Miami to G. Gordon Liddy, and two calls to CIA’s E. Howard Hunt.
There had already, on May 16, been a mysterious break-in at the offices of a Washington law firm close to…
Arthur Bremer, one of four sons, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 21 August 1950. His father, William Bremer, was…
Quasi-terrorist, Laurel Maryland. George Wallace, a Presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, is shot by Arthur Bremer while giving a speech at a shopping mall. In his diary. Bremer also describes stalking Richard M. Nixon. He was apparently motivated by a desire to become famous rather than by political ideology.
Revolutionary leftist. Jamaica, New York. The Army Reserve center is bombed.
They Break into the Chilean Embassy
Alfred Baldwin returns to Washington, D.C. James McCord tells Baldwin he won’t be going with Martha Mitchell so he can…
Donald Nixon offered Meier a solution to his IRS problems if he’d help retrieve what he had (supposedly) given to…
CIA’s James McCord is in Rockville, Maryland. He pays $3,500 cash for a “device capable of receiving intercepted wire and…
Culture War Rages
Alfred Baldwin leaves Washington, D.C., ostensibly going to his home in Connecticut to “get more clothes.” He takes the .38…
Jewish, Jewish Defense League. Washington. D,C. JDL members break into the Austrian Consulate and beat the Austrian ambassador to the UN.
Revolutionary leftist. San Jose, California. The Navy Reserve Armory is set on fire, causing $200,000 in damage.
Alfred Baldwin returns to Washington, D.C. from his trip with Martha Mitchell. He is told by James McCord to keep…
CIA’s James McCord rents room 419 of the Howard Johnson’s motel across the street from the Watergate. The room is…
Burglar Frank Sturgis is one of the men who attacked Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg outside a memorial service for…
E. Howard Hunt flew to Miami and picked up Bernard Barker. Briefing him on the plane back to D.C. about…
L. Patrick Gray. [Source: Associated Press] L. Patrick Gray, an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department, is named the…
Black militant, de Mau Mau. Highland Park, Illinois. Michael Gerschenson, a white man, is murdered by de Mau Mau.
Nixon’s problem was that some money was intentionally moved in circuitous ways because at least $100,000 had been taken from…
Bernard Barker withdraws $33,000 cash from his bank in Miami. [NOTE: This is the second of three transactions by Barker…
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is found dead in his home in the early morning hours. Later in the morning,…
May, someone at the IRS leaked the story to the press that Meier was under investigation by the IRS. Nixon…
CIA’s James McCord contacts an ex-FBI agent, Alfred Baldwin, who is living in Connecticut. McCord purportedly doesn’t know Baldwin, but…
New York City mayor John Lindsay announces that he is supporting John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their fight to…
Bernard Barker was telling people in Miami that “something is going to happen at the time of the conventions.” He…
Barker and a secret team of seven men went to Miami to hire provocateurs for a New York demonstration in…
The situation was beginning to get out of hand for Hughes, the CIA and the White House. The three groups…
CIA’s Bernard Barker cashes a cashier’s check for $25,000 at his bank in Miami. [NOTE: This $25,000, from the Dahlberg…
A second group, led by Liddy, simultaneously cased McGovern campaign headquarters across town, the first of several abortive break-in attempts…
According to Watergate burglar Eugenio Martinez (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), White House aide E. Howard Hunt, whom he calls…
McCord rents an office suite adjacent to that of Muskie’s on K Street, Northwest, from which they plan to launch…
J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, died on May 1, 1972, a month before Watergate. Felipe De Diego was…
Hunt is Busy
E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy fly to Miami and deliver checks drawn on a Mexico City bank to…
Black militant, Black Muslims. New York: City, New York:. A shoot-out at a Muslim temple leaves eight wounded. Policeman Phillip Cardillo is killed.
Dan Rather’s Georgetown home was broken into. He was rebuked by Nixon for his lack of “objectivity” and was placed…
Mrs. Andrew Topping, the wife of an Upper West Side man arrested for plotting to kill Nixon, died of gunshot…
Black militant, Black Panthers. San Francisco. California, Jimmy Carr, a suspected police informer, is murdered.
Bill Liedtke was racing against time. His deadline was a little more than a day away. He’d prepared everything—suitcase stuffed…
John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold a press conference in New York. The Lennons discuss their appeal against the US…
CIA’s E. Howard Hunt flies to Chicago and delivers an undisclosed amount of cash in a sealed envelope to W.…
Edward Lansdale helped lead the development of Bay of Pigs invasion force, bringing the number of soldiers from 300 to…