On This Day: Police apprehend five burglars inside DNC office at Watergate complex - June 17, 1972
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On the night of June 17, 1972, security guard Frank Wills was making his usual rounds when he noticed a piece of duct tape covering the lock of the back parking lot door to the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
As noted in the Security Officer’s Log (NAID 304970), he removed the tape, only to return thirty minutes later to find that another piece of tape had reappeared. Wills quickly contacted authorities about his strange observation.
The local police arrived at the building and searched each office suite. The police, along with Wills, found five men hiding in the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Headquarters office. These men were identified as Bernard L. Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martinez, James W. McCord Jr., and Frank Sturgis. All of these men had connections to Richard M. Nixon’s reelection campaign.
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https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2022/06/17/frank-wills/
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