E. Howard Hunt pleads guilty in Watergate burglary 40 years ago today (1973)


Video: Jan. 11, 1973 (at 13:25)

(Thursday, January 11, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — Former CIA agent and White House aide E. Howard Hunt, one of the seven defendants in the Watergate bugging case, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy, burglary and eavesdropping in the June 1972 break-in at Democratic national headquarters, leaving six other defendants to face trial.