Event

Watergate break-in

Burglary at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex on 17 June 1972; five men were arrested.

5 links, 5 backed by primary records

Connections 5

James W. McCord Jr. arrested Primary record 1
G. Gordon Liddy planned and supervised it Primary record 2
E. Howard Hunt planned and supervised it Primary record 2
Committee for the Reelection of the President the money traced back to it Primary record 1 3

Timeline 1 date

Proof 3 sources

United States v. Liddy, 509 F.2d 428 (D.C. Cir. 1974) (en banc), decided 8 November 1974, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit (text from Public.Resource.Org), 8 Nov 1974. Primary record
When McCord, Barker, Martinez, Gonzalez, and Sturgis were apprehended in the DNC offices in the Watergate complex on June 17, at 2:00 a.m., they had in their possession walkie talkies, burglary tools, documents that had been taken from DNC files
The hundred dollar bills found on those men and in their hotel rooms were traced to Barker's Miami bank account.
Federal Trials and Great Debates in United States History: The Pentagon Papers in the Federal Courts (2nd ed.), Federal Judicial Center, 2019. Primary record
Two members of the Plumbers—E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, who had orchestrated the Ellsberg break-in—planned and supervised the June 1972 burglary of the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.
The Senate Watergate Report: the final report of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (Ervin Committee), Dell edition, vol. 1, Dell, reprinting the Committee's report as released to the press, 1974. Scholarship & press
four Mexican checks totaling $89,000 and a check for $25,000 from Kenneth Dahlberg, which were originally contributed to the President's campaign, had been deposited in Bernard Barker's bank account in Miami.

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