Video: Jan. 8, 1973 (at 13:11)
(Monday, January 8, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica began selecting jurors today in Washington for the long-awaited trial of seven men charged in the June 1972 Watergate burglary, for which several past and present White House aides were named as prospective government witnesses.
Video: Oct. 27, 1972
(Friday, October 27, 1972, 7:00 p.m. EDT, during the Watergate scandal) — At the insistence of anchorman Walter Cronkite, The CBS Evening News featured a fifteen-minute segment tonight on the Watergate affair, the first part of a full-scale report. Continue reading CBS News elevates Watergate story with special report 40 years ago this hour (1972)
Video: Oct. 10, 1972 (at 12:31)
(Tuesday, October 10, 1972, during the Watergate scandal) — FBI agents have established that the Watergate bugging incident stemmed from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of President Nixon’s re-election and directed by officials of the White House and the Committee for the Re-election of the President, the Washington Post reported today. Continue reading FBI finds Nixon aides sabotaged Democrats, Washington Post reports 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: Oct. 9, 1972 (at 11:35)
(Monday, October 9, 1972, at around 2 a.m. EDT, during the Watergate scandal) — Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward met his FBI source (later known to be Associate FBI Director W. Mark Felt, referred to as “Deep Throat” at this time) in the underground parking garage in Roslyn, Virginia. Felt tells Woodward that employees of the committee to re-elect President Nixon were not only the behind the Watergate break-in but are also deeply involved in all kinds of political sabotage against Nixon’s enemies.
Video: July 10, 1972 (at 10:47)
(Monday, July 10, 1972, during the Watergate scandal) — Watergate surveillance man Alfred Baldwin today confessed to the FBI his role in the electronic eavesdropping on Democrats in the Watergate office complex. Continue reading Watergate look-out Alfred Baldwin confesses to FBI 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: Mrs. Mitchell telephones Thomas (at 7:00)
(Sunday, June 25, 1972) — Eight days after the Watergate break-in, Martha Mitchell, wife of John Mitchell, who was head of Nixon’s re-election campaign, called UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas again (see June 22) and asserts that she is a political prisoner in her own home. Continue reading Mitchell’s wife claims she’s a ‘political prisoner’ 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: June 22, 1972 (at 8:11)
(Thursday, June 22, 1972) — Five days after the Watergate break-in, Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray told White House Counsel John Dean in a private meeting late this evening that he believes Watergate is “a CIA thing,” having traced the burglars’ money to Mexico.
Video: Mrs. Mitchell telephones Thomas (at 5:38)
(Thursday, June 22, 1972) — Five days after the Watergate break-in, Martha Mitchell, wife of John Mitchell, who was head of Nixon’s re-election campaign, telephoned UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas from a villa in Newport Beach, California, to say she had told her husband she would “leave him unless he gets out of the campaign.”
I’m sick and tired of politics. Politics is a dirty business,” Mitchell said. Before the phone was apparently yanked out of the wall, she yells, “You get away. Just get away.”
Video: June 22, 1972 (at 5:02)
(Thursday, June 22, 1972) — Five days after the Watergate break-in, the burglars were brought to court to be released on bail. Meantime, U.S. President Richard Nixon’s men set about organizing their hush money, under the direction of Nixon’s private lawyer Herb Kalmbach.
Video: June 21, 1972 (at 0:38)
(Wednesday, June 21, 1972) — G. Gordon Liddy told White House aides Frederick LaRue and Robert Mardian that he and his fellow Watergate burglars will need money for bail, legal expenses, and family support.
