On the morning of Saturday June 17 1972 Frank Wills worked the midnight to 7 am. The Ballad of a Watergate Security Guard WNYC New York Public Radio Podcasts Live Streaming Radio News.
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Barker Eugenio Martínez and Frank Sturgis received.
Watergate security guard. Shift as a security guard at the Watergate Office Building in Washington DC. The Post and the forgotten security guard who discovered the Watergate break-in. Wills was the Watergate security guard who discovered the break-in.
In 1974 Richard Nixon stepped down as president due to the infamous Watergate scandal. Good Night AmericaFair Use According to interviews Wills never even got a raise for. Wills who was only 24-years old at the time called the police after realizing that the locks at the complex were being tampered with.
Its as though he wasnt even there and that is. Frank Wills was an African American private security guard who was patrolling the parking garage at the Watergate office complex in Washington. This is a picture of his log book.
If it had not been for the alert actions of Frank Wills a security guard the scandal may never have erupted. It was here that the Watergate Burglars broke into the Democratic Partys National Committee offices on June 17 1972. Mainstream media has not bothered to mention Wills even as a footnote in the Watergate history.
Frank Wills sits on the staircase of an abandoned house near his aunts home June 13 1997 in North Augusta SC. It was 30 minutes after midnight on June 17 1972 when Frank Wills a security guard patrolling the parking garage at the Watergate office complex in. The forgotten Black security guard who discovered the Watergate break in.
It was the alertness of Wills that led to the apprehension and arrest of the Watergate burglars. He noticed during the watch of the complex a. On Saturday June 17 he came on duty at.
Shortly after signing in on June 17 1972 the 24-year-old Wills noticed something amiss. Years later one of the burglars Eugenio Martinez wrote. As there are many books stories and movies chronicling the event its important to note about a Black man who actually kicked off the entire investigation.
Frank Wills was an African American private security guard who was on-duty during the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee DNC headquarters inside the Watergate complex in Washington DC. Published on Dec 22 2017. Wills was the Black security guard who discovered the break-in at the Democratic National headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in June 1972.
On the night of June 17 1972 a security guard in the Watergate office complex in Washington DC called the police when he found a door repeatedly taped open. The Post and the forgotten security guard who discovered the Watergate break-in. He discovered tape over a lock on a basement door and.
Former security guard Frank Wills who was hailed for his role in thwarting the Watergate break-in. Frank Wills Watergate Security Log Frank Wills was a young security guard on duty at the Watergate complex on the evening of June 17 1972. Yet by the summer of 1972 he had secured a steady job as a security guard at the Watergate office complex though only at the statutory minimum wage.
His discovery led to the resignation o. In 1977 he and three other men known as the foot soldiers of WatergateBernard L. Wills a 24-year-old security guard at the Watergate office building in Washington was working the midnight shift on June 17 1972.
Was the African American security guard that discovered the 1972 Watergate break-ins. Return to Watergate home page Frank Wills called DC police shortly before 2 am.
