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Congressman Thomas Hale Boggs was killed while on a campaign flight from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska. Also killed in the…
Around 2 a.m., Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward meets his FBI source, W. Mark Felt (popularly called “Deep Throat”—see May…
The US Supreme Court, in what becomes informally known as the “Keith case,” upholds, 8-0, an appellate court ruling that…
Prosecutor Earl Silbert. [Source: Washington Post] The five men caught burglarizing the Democratic Nations headquarters in the Watergate hotel (see…
According to later testimony to Watergate investigators, the deputy director of the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), Jeb Magruder,…
Alfred Baldwin After the “Plumbers” successfully install surveillance devices in the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee (see May…
Frank Sturgis, one of the Watergate burglars. A covert unit of President Nixon’s “Plumbers” installs surveillance equipment in the headquarters…
According to Watergate burglar Eugenio Martinez (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972), White House aide E. Howard Hunt, whom he calls…
Mrs. Andrew Topping, the wife of an Upper West Side man arrested for plotting to kill Nixon, died of gunshot…
J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, died on May 1, 1972, a month before Watergate. There is considerable evidence…
President Nixon tells his legal adviser Charles Colson of the lessons he has learned from Watergate. The whole conspiracy was…
James W. McCord, Jr. Former FBI and CIA agent James W. McCord joins the staff of the Committee to Re-elect…
Nixon aide John Ehrlichman gives a progress report on the activities of the “Plumbers” to the president. “Plumbers” head Egil…
E. Howard Hunt. [Source: American Patriot Friends Network] Nixon White House aides Charles Colson and John Ehrlichman appoint former CIA…
As another assignment for the newly formed “Plumbers” (see Late June-July 1971), President Nixon orders chief of staff H. R.…
President Nixon authorizes the creation of a “special investigations unit,” later nicknamed the “Plumbers,” to root out and seal media…
The New York Times publishes its third installment of the “Pentagon Papers” (see June 13, 1971 and June 14, 1971).…
Frederick LaRue. [Source: Spartacus Educational] Two White House aides, Frederick LaRue and G. Gordon Liddy, attend a meeting of the…