Watergate Storyboard- Jess Fernau
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- Five burglars who worked for CREEP broke into the Watergate apartment and office complex in Washington, D.C. They broke in to install electronic bugging equipment into telephones with a purpose to transmit Democratic campaign strategy back to CREEP. President Nixon denied that the burglary was part of a spying operation by the president’s men.
- Two reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, investigated and followed their leads, including anonymous sources and slowly linked Nixon and his advisors to a cover-up of the White House’s involvement in the burglary. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt, and the five burglars were indicted and it was found that this was more than a burglary (discredit and sabotage).
- It was revealed that former Attorney General John Mitchell ordered the break-in and that the White House was covering up its involvement as the president had authorized payments of hush money to the burglars to keep them quiet.
- The grand jury investigated this break-in and convicted Liddy, Hunt, and the five burglars and sentenced them to 20, 35, and 40 years in prison.
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