#Watergate
June 17, 1972
- Frank Wills, a security guard at the Watergate complex (hotel, apartments, offices) notices a piece of tape on over a door latch in the parking garage.
- He removes the tape, but when he returns an hour later, the tape has been replaced.
- Wills calls the police who catch five burglars in the office of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters.
The FBI Investigates
- The FBI discovers financial connections between the burglars and the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP).
- Some of the burglars were former CIA officers and one was a security aide for the Republican Party.
- All of this made it seem like people in the Republican Party who were trying to get Nixon reelected were trying to sabotage the Democratic Party's candidate, George McGovern.
The Washington Post Investigates
- Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein of the The Washington Post pursue the case and publish stories about its development.
- They were aided by an anonymous source providing information to them on deep background.
- Woodward and his source (aka Deep Throat) had a coded system for setting up secret meetings in a parking garage in Rosslyn, VA outside of Washington D.C.
Shh...
This is the parking garage where they met...
#Watergate Instructions
1. Choose a partner.
2. With your partner, read the Washington Post article assigned to you.
3. Find the two other sets of partners who were also assigned your article.
4. Work as a team to write a brief summary of your article.
5. Compose 5 tweets that summarize your article.
(Be sure to include #Watergate in each tweet!)