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…
’ChapStick’ surveillance devices similar to those destroyed by Gray. [Source: National Archives] FBI Director L. Patrick Gray meets with White…
Vernon Walters. [Source: Medal of Freedom (.com)] White House counsel John Dean meets with Vernon Walters, the deputy director of…
Alfred Baldwin, a former FBI agent now working for the Campaign to Re-elect the President and the man who spent…
During the FBI interview of Charles Colson in White House counsel John Dean’s office (see June 22, 1972), Colson tells…
Nixon and Haldeman, three days after the June 23 meeting. [Source: Washington Post]With the FBI tracing the Watergate burglars’ $100…
President Nixon tells a gathering of reporters regarding the Watergate burglary (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), “The White House has…
Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein asks a former Nixon administration official about some of the White House officials who may…
President Nixon and chief of staff H. R. Haldeman discuss a suggestion by Nixon campaign chief John Mitchell regarding the…
President Nixon tells his chief of staff H. R. Haldeman that the Watergate burglars (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972) “are…
According to White House aide H. R. Haldeman’s 1978 book The Ends to Power (see February 1978), President Nixon phones…
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Lawrence O’Brien files a $1 million civil suit against the Committee to Re-elect the…
According to White House aide H. R. Haldeman’s 1978 book The Ends to Power (see February 1978), President Nixon phones…
Black militant. de Mau Mau. Chicago. Illinois. Kathleen Fiene, a white woman, is murdered by de Mau Mau,
Monday, June 19, 1972, the same day Helms and his principal deputies and aides met to discuss Watergate for the…