Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Wednesday, July 28, 1971) — E. Howard Hunt, one of the Nixon White House “plumbers” — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing “leaks,” proposed to Nixon Special Counsel Charles Colson that the “plumbers” burglarize the office of psychiatrist Lewis Fielding to steal his files on Daniel Ellsberg, who had leaked the Pentagon Papers, to discredit him. Continue reading Ellsberg files burglary plan hatched
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Saturday, July 24, 1971, 12:36pm ET) — U.S. President Richard M. Nixon ordered lie detector tests for government officials following a series of national security leaks in The New York Times, including the Pentagon Papers.
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Friday, July 23, 1971) — The New York Times newspaper printed another leak today, giving away the Nixon administration’s fallback position in nuclear missile negotiations with the Soviets.
(Friday, July 23, 1971) — John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono today filmed some intimate scenes for their Imagine film at their Tittenhurst Park home in Ascot, England.
(note: the video is intermixed with film from Friday, July 16, 1971, at another book signing. Lennon wore a solid dark coat on July 15, and a dark coat featuring small colored shapes on July 16)
(Thursday, July 15, 1971) — John Lennon and Yoko Ono attended a book-signing promotional appearance today at the London department store, Selfridges, for the re-publication of Yoko’s book, “Grapefruit.” It is shown over the song It’s So Hard in the documentary “Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon’s Imagine Album.”
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Sunday, July 11, 1971) — White House Counsel John Dean flew to San Clemente, California, today to tell Chief Domestic Advisor John Ehrlichman that a plan to firebomb the Brookings Institution, which was conducting a study of American involvement in Vietnam thought to be another “Pentagon Papers” covering the Nixon years, should be abandoned. Ehrlichman called the operation off.
(Saturday, July 3, 1971, 1 a.m., Paris; 7 p.m. in New York on July 2) — With 4 hours to live, singer Jim Morrison, front man for the rock group The Doors, takes heroin with his girlfriend Pamela Courson in their apartment and watch home movies.
(Friday, July 2, 1971, 6 p.m., Paris) — With 11 hours to live, singer Jim Morrison, front man for the rock group The Doors, goes out again with old friend Alan Ronay for one last drink and then meets up with girlfriend Pamela Courson to see the 1947 Robert Mitchum film “Pursued.”
(Friday, July 2, 1971, 2 p.m., Paris) — With 15 hours to live, singer Jim Morrison, front man for the rock group The Doors, suffers hiccup attacks while hanging out and having lunch with old friend Alan Ronay.
(Friday, July 2, 1971, 11 a.m., Paris) — With 18 hours to live, singer Jim Morrison, front man for the rock group The Doors, hangs out with old friend Alan Ronay.
