Video: June 21, 1972 (at 7:53)
(Wednesday, June 21, 1972) — U.S. President Richard Nixon, by now deeply involved in the Watergate cover-up, today proposed to White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman to use the CIA background of E. Howard Hunt (one of two engineers of the Watergate burglary) to confuse the FBI, among other things.
Video: June 21, 1972 (continued)
Video: Beaverbrook speaks June 21, 1942 (at 7:01)
(Sunday, June 21, 1942) — A militant call for the immediate opening of a second front, coupled with the claim that the army is now adequately equipped to carry out a continental invasion, was voiced in Birmingham, England, today by Britain’s Lord Beaverbrook.
Video: 'Episode 1.1'
(Saturday, June 20, 1992, 9:30 p.m. EDT) — The crew attempt to launch the first broadcast of The Lester Guy Show; however, bizarre events throw the whole show off balance on tonight’s debut episode of the sitcom TV series On the Air.
In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode number 57 on its ‘100 Greatest Episodes of All Time’ list.
Video: June 20, 1972 (at 4:23)
(Tuesday, June 20, 1972) — U.S. President Richard Nixon said he called John Mitchell tonight to cheer him up because Mitchell was chagrined because he had not properly controlled those under him — in the re-election campaign, which he headed — and the Watergate burglary was embarrassing the administration.
Video: 'The Story of The Great Seal of The United States' (June 20, 1782 at 5:13)
(Thursday, June 20, 1782) — Continental Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States today, featuring the emblem of the bald eagle.
Video: 'Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness (Feb 9, 1956)'
(Thursday, June 19, 1952, 10:30 p.m. EDT) — The celebrity-panel game show I’ve Got A Secret made its debut tonight on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host.
Video: 'Who Killed Vincent Chin'
(Saturday, June 19, 1982) — Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American auto engineer, was fatally beaten tonight after a confrontation at the Fancy Pants strip club in Highland Park, Michigan, by two auto workers who later received probation for manslaughter in state court, and won acquittals in federal court.
Video: 'Hurricane Agnes 1972 Flooding'
(Monday, June 19, 1972, shortly before 6 p.m. EDT) — Hurricane Agnes, blamed for at least 122 deaths, made landfall today over the Florida Panhandle.
Video: Washington Post connects Watergate break-in with White House (at 6:23)
(Monday, June 19, 1972) — Based on a tip from Deep Throat, the pseudonym given to a secret informant (later identified as Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt), Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward discovered today that one of the Watergate burglars had E. Howard Hunt in his address book and possessed checks signed by him, and that Hunt was connected to White House aide Charles Colson.
Video: June 19, 1972 (at 1:53)
(Monday, June 19, 1972) — White House Counsel John Dean was chosen today to head up the Watergate burglary cover-up, meeting on a park bench near the White House with G. Gordon Liddy, who offered himself to be shot. Continue reading Dean takes charge of Watergate cover-up 40 years ago today (1972)
