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)
Video: June 18, 1972 (at 1:08)
(Sunday, June 18, 1972) — U.S. President Richard Nixon says he learned of yesterday’s burglary at the Watergate complex today when he read a small article on the front page of The Miami Herald newspaper while he was vacation with his friend Bebe Rebozo in Key Biscayne, Florida.
Video: Video: June 18, 1972 (at 0:20)
(Saturday, June 17, 1972) — Sail Away by Randy Newman debuted at #186 on today’s Billboard’s 200 albums chart (it will eventually peak at #163). The title song (and first on the album to play) is ranked #264 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
(Saturday, June 17, 1972) — The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie debuted at #196 on today’s Billboard’s 200 albums chart (it will eventually peak at #75). The track Ziggy Stardust is ranked #277 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Video: '60 Minutes' report (Jan. 16, 1972)
(Friday, June 16, 1972) — Clifford Irving, pleading for leniency and on the verge of tears, was sentenced today to 2.5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine on federal conspiracy and grand larceny charges for selling McGraw-Hill Inc. a faked autobiography of industrialist Howard Hughes for $750,000. Continue reading Clifford Irving gets prison, fine in Hughes autobiography hoax 40 years ago today (1972)
(Thursday, June 8, 1972) — Film director and producer Alfred Hitchock appeared on tonight’s ‘The Dick Cavett Show’ on ABC-TV, making the memorable quote: “Puns are the highest form of literature.” (Click here to watch complete interview, part 1 | part 2? | part 3? | part 4?
Audio: 'Gimme Shelter' (June 3, 1972)
(Saturday, June 3, 1972) — The Rolling Stones tonight began their first North American Tour since 1969 in Vancouver, British Columbia, where 31 policemen were treated for injuries when more than 2,000 fans attempted to crash the Pacific Coliseum.
Video: May 29, 1972 (at 3:18)
(Monday, May 29, 1972, during the Cold War) — President Richard Nixon landed at Kiev’s Boryspil International Airport one hour late today after an engine failed to start on the plane which his Russian hosts had provided him for the trip from Moscow. It was Nixon’s last stop on the first visit by a sitting U.S. president to the Soviet Union.
Video: Hoover's funeral, May 4, 1972 (at 1:05/43:41)
(Thursday, May 4, 1972) — FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was buried in Washington today, extolled by U.S. President Richard Nixon as a giant who stood head and shoulders above his countrymen.
