Bernard Barker15 September 1972
Hunt, Liddy, and the 5 Watergate burglars were indicted by a federal grand jury.
United States of America · Politics / Watergate. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Hunt, Liddy, and the 5 Watergate burglars were indicted by a federal grand jury.
Hunt and fellow operative G. Gordon Liddy, along with the five burglars arrested at the Watergate, were indicted on federal charges.
Hunt, Liddy, and the 5 Watergate burglars were indicted by a federal grand jury.
It was revealed that Attorney General & Nixon campaign chairman John Mitchellll had controlled a secret Republican fund used to pay for spying on the Democrats.
The five burglars plead guilty as their trial begins
The five burglars plead guilty as their trial begins
The five burglars plead guilty as their trial begins
The Watergate break-in trial opens; McCord and G. Gordon Liddy proceed to trial while the other defendants enter guilty pleas during the following week.
Just ten days after Richard Nixon's second inauguration, Liddy and McCord were convicted on charges conspiracy, burglary, and wiretapping.
Liddy was sentenced to a 20-year prison term and was ordered to pay $40,000 in fines. He began serving the sentence on January 30, 1973.
Sturgis, Hunt, Gonzalez, Martinez, Barker, G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord are convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping
Sturgis, Hunt, Gonzalez, Martinez, Barker, G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord are convicted of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping
This factsheet is generated from stored World History Database records matching the country, broad category, detailed category and exact Event value shown above. Duplicate display records are collapsed; database wording is otherwise preserved. Source provenance varies by record, so formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.