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The Watergate complex sits on a superblock to the southeast, bound by Virginia Avenue, New Hampshire Avenue, F Street, and Rock Creek and the Potomac Parkway. The office-apartment-hotel complex is best known for being the site of burglaries that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Nixon.
The complex was built in 1967 and developed by the Italian firm Società Generale Immobiliare, which purchased the 10 acres on the defunct Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the early 1960s for $10 million. Italian architect Luigi Moretti designed the six buildings on the site: a hotel, two office buildings, three apartment buildings and a retail center. The name of the complex was derived from the terraced step area to the north of the Lincoln Memorial that leads down to the Potomac and used to face a floating ampitheater.
The Watergate Hotel, at 2650 Virginia Avenue NW, offered 250 guest rooms and 146 suites prior to a luxury co-op renovation. The two office buildings stand at 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW and 2600 Virginia Avenue NW. In 1972, the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters on the sixth floor of the 11-story Virginia Avenue building. On May 28, 1972, a team of burglars working for Nixon's re-election campaign put wiretaps, which were monitored from across the street at the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge hotel, and took photos in and near the DNC chairman's office. During a second burglary on June 17, 1972, to replace a malfunctioning "bug" and collect more information, five burglars were arrested and the Watergate scandal began to unfold.
Watergate National Register #05000540 (2005)
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Part of the communique (the first page and the signature from the fifth page) from the Weather Underground’s March 1, 1971 bombing of the U.S. Capitol is pictured in this photograph.
Note the rainbow symbol banner and the small National Liberation Front flag in the upper right corner. It is dated for February—prior to the blast.
The group charged Nixon with “attempting the brutal conquest of yet another nation in Indochina. Lies about the war “dwindling down” cannot hide the criminal invasion of Laos.”
The group went on to explain that they “attacked the Capitol because it is, along with the White House and the Pentagon, the worldwide symbol of the government.”
The powerful bomb exploded in a restroom of the U.S. Senate side of the Capitol March 1, 1971 causing $300,000 in damage but no injuries.
The bomb was placed behind a false wall in back of the toilet stalls. In order to access, it was necessary to lift a marble slab which from outward appearances was permanently fixed in place.
Captain L. H. Ballard of the Capitol police said, that “whoever did it was a professional. It went off almost to the minute that they said it would.”
Ballard went on to say that because of the location of the bomb and the timing of the explosion, he said there was not “one chance in a million of doing any harm to a human being.”
The FBI blamed some of the antiwar organizers of the upcoming Mayday demonstrations for the blast, specifically Stew Albert, Judy Gumbo and Leslie Bacon.
Bacon was arrested and spirited out of Washington, D.C. where she was held incommunicado for six weeks until her attorneys secured her release after her refusal to testify before a Grand Jury. The U.S. Court of Appeals later voided contempt charges against her after the government refused to turn over transcripts of illegal wiretaps.
Weather Underground member Bill Ayers later took credit for the bombing.
A.J. Weberman, the Yippie famous for dogging Bob Dylan, disputes Ayers and the Weather Underground and says Stew Albert placed the bomb and claims Jerry Rubin told him this in May 1971 in front of Albert. Weberman also claims Gumbo and Bacon had a role in the bombing.
Gumbo disclaims any role for Albert, Bacon and herself and says she was “exultant” when she heard the news, but that they played no part in the bombing.
No one was ever charged in the bombing.
The Weather Underground also planted bombs at the U.S. State Department and at the Pentagon in the Washington, D.C. area as well as dozens of other sites across the U.S. mainly in protest of U.S. actions abroad and hoping to spark a revolutionary upsurge in the U.S.
Their bombs were always preceded by telephoned warnings and the only casualties were three of their own that were killed while make explosives in 1969.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskgJjpPP
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photograph.
Workers clean up debris after a powerful bomb exploded in a restroom of the U.S. Senate in the Capitol March 1, 1971 causing $300,000 in damage but no injuries.
The Weather Underground Organization later claimed credit for blast saying it was an attack on a symbol of government that was perpetrating war in Indochina. The ongoing U.S. invasion of Laos was specifically cited.
The bomb was placed behind a false wall in back of the toilet stalls. In order to access, it was necessary to lift a marble slab which from outward appearances was permanently fixed in place.
Captain L. H. Ballard of the Capitol police said, that “whoever did it was a professional. It went off almost to the minute that they said it would.”
Ballard went on to say that because of the location of the bomb and the timing of the explosion, he said there was not “one chance in a million of doing any harm to a human being.”
The FBI blamed some of the antiwar organizers of the upcoming Mayday demonstrations for the blast, specifically Stew Albert, Judy Gumbo and Leslie Bacon.
Bacon was arrested and spirited out of Washington, D.C. where she was held incommunicado for six weeks until her attorneys secured her release after her refusal to testify before a Grand Jury. The U.S. Court of Appeals later voided contempt charges against her after the government refused to turn over transcripts of illegal wiretaps.
Weather Underground member Bill Ayers later took credit for the bombing.
A.J. Weberman, the Yippie famous for dogging Bob Dylan, disputes Ayers and the Weather Underground and says Stew Albert placed the bomb and claims Jerry Rubin told him this in May 1971 in front of Albert. Weberman also claims Gumbo and Bacon had a role in the bombing.
Gumbo disclaims any role for Albert, Bacon and herself and says she was “exultant” when she heard the news, but that they played no part in the bombing.
The Weather Underground also planted bombs at the U.S. State Department and at the Pentagon in the Washington, D.C. area as well as dozens of other sites across the U.S. mainly in protest of U.S. actions abroad and hoping to spark a revolutionary upsurge in the U.S.
Their bombs were always preceded by telephoned warnings and the only casualties were three of their own that were killed while make explosives in 1969.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskgJjpPP
The photographer is unknown. The image is an auction find.
Rev. Phillip Berrigan is escorted to court January 24, 1972 by a Daughin County warden on the first day of jury selection for the Harrisburg 7 trial—Catholic activists charged with conspiracy to blow up government building in Washington, D.C. and kidnap national security advisor Henry Kissinger.
Berrigan, a prominent “hit and stay” non-violent Catholic activist against war, was already in prison for destroying draft records in Catonsville, Md.
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The seven charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsm9Xu4r5
The photographer is unknown. The image is a United Press International photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
Ann E. Menz of Philadelphia, Pa. refused to testify before Harrisburg grand jury in an alleged bombing and kidnap plot involving Catholic antiwar activists and was charged with criminal contempt May 25, 1971.
She joined John Swinglish, Paul Couming and Joseph Gilchrist in refusing to talk despite being granted immunity.
All except Gilchrist were released pending trial on the contempt charge. Gilchrist was in federal prison for destroying draft board records in protest of the Vietnam War.
11 others were also subpoenaed and a dozen more subpoenas would be issued in the coming weeks with a number refusing to testify and being charged with either civil or criminal contempt, including a Catholic priest who refused to divulge anything said in confession.
The grand jury indicted Phillip Berrigan and five others on charges of conspiring to destroy government property and to kidnap national security advisor Henry Kissinger using the heating tunnels under Washington, D.C. to carry out the alleged plot.
The Harrisburg Defense Committee issued a statement charging the federal government with using the grand jury to “discover the kind of defense which will be provided for those indicted.”
The group charged that the subpoenas constituted, “an illegal use of the grand jury to obtain statements from witnesses for the defense after these witnesses had previously refused to talk with the FBI agents and is a total prostitution of the grand jury process.”
It would later be determined that prosecutors were calling anyone referred to in letters or conversations that had been illegally wiretapped in an effort to glean any detail even though they had no evidence that any of those subpoenaed had any connection with the case.
Two more people were later indicted by the grand jury on conspiracy charges for a total of eight.
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic and other non-violent activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The eight charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist and John “Ted” Glick, a pacifist activist.
Glick’s case was severed from the others when he insisted on acting as his own attorney.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
Glick was jailed for other “hit and stay” actions of the Flower City Conspiracy that included raiding draft boards in Philadelphia and in Delaware and the Washington, D.C. offices of General Electric. He was jailed 11 months for some of these actions.
After the trial of the main group of defendants in the Harrisburg resulted in a hung jury, prosecutors then dropped the charges against Glick..
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsm9Xu4r5
The photographer is unknown. The image is a United Press International photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
Operativ-Technische Sektor (OTS) @ Roedernstraße in Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen
The departments main task was the production of special intelligence technology. The OTS was responsible for the development, production and maintenance of every kind of espionage equipment including secret wiretapping devices, cameras, camouflage and monitoring instruments.
Full reportage: Elephant in Berlin
Hundreds of thousands of refugees in
Pakistan + bombing civilians in Afghanistan.
From: Yahoo news.
The Obama just like Bush item
Bird Eye says:
I'll freely admit to starting too many items regarding how Obama's war, finance, and civil liberties polices are just like Bush. So this item is to link to stories where Obama's polices are just like Bush. I'll start Obama AGAIN defends government secrecy to keep people from knowing whether the government is spying on them:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/06/BARP...
See also:
www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/07-1
Posted at 4:56PM, 7 April 2009 PDT ( permalink )
David C. Foster says:
You seem to want him to fail?
Posted 5 weeks ago. ( permalink )
Bird Eye says:
No David I voted for Obama and as a lefty progressive I very much wanted him as our first African American president to be the real thing and a refreshing change for the country.
Sadly though he seems to be behaving EXACTLY like Bush which makes me bitter and angry. I am not going to SUDDENLY support policies like government secrecy on behalf on Un-Constitutional wiretapping of Americans, escalation of unwinable Vietnam like quagmire wars, and massive unaccountable transfers of taxpayer money from the average American to the ultra elite rich just because it's done by a D.
I have always voted for Greens in the past and clearly this experiment of "lesser two evils" shows why, lesser evil often turns out to be just plain evil. Instead of FDR and real help for a hurting country it seems we have gotten a slicker more articulate personable Bush II :(!!!!!!!!!!!
Originally posted 5 weeks ago. ( permalink )
Bird Eye edited this topic 5 weeks ago.
Patriot 1958 says:
Bird...has any leftist progressive government ever done any long standing good for anyone?
Posted 5 weeks ago. ( permalink )
iamyourbestfriend says:
Bird Eye If you would have paid attention during class you would have heard the warnings of how Obama was a fraud.
FROM: U.S. Politics and the World (Flickr Group)
Howard Hunt - Dark Encounter
(Original Title: Maelstrom)
Signet Books 768, 1950
Cover photo of Howard Hunt uncredited
Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007) was an American intelligence officer and writer. From 1949 to 1970 Hunt served as a CIA officer. Along with G. Gordon Liddy and others, Hunt was one of the Nixon White House "plumbers" — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks" (real or perceived causes of confidential Administration information being leaked to outside parties). Hunt and Liddy engineered the first Watergate burglary and other undercover operations for the Nixon Administration. In the ensuing Watergate Scandal Hunt was convicted of burglary, conspiracy, and wiretapping, eventually serving 33 months in prison.
The Postcard
A postally unused Novel Series postcard that was printed in England.
The card was posted in Littleham, Devon using a ½d. stamp on Monday the 18th. March 1912 to:
Mrs. G. Field,
46, Grafton Road,
Worthing,
Sussex.
The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear G,
Just arrived.
Wretched morning.
It's a case of somewhere
the sun is shining, but not
here.
Fondest love from A
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
A Disaster in San Antonio
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 18th. March 1912, in San Antonio, Texas, 26 people were killed, and another 32 injured, by the explosion of a boiler on a locomotive owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Most of the deceased were repairmen working for the railroad, but some were local residents.
Art Gilmore
The day also marked the birth in Tacoma, Washington of the American radio and television announcer Art Gilmore.
Art was especially known for his television voice work, including the 1950's television police show Highway Patrol.
In addition to his radio and TV work, Art provided the narration for many collections of recorded musical works, as well as a large number of recordings for children. Gilmore was also active in reading textbooks for the blind and dyslexic for many years.
Gilmore co-authored the book 'Television and Radio Announcing'.
The Death and Legacy of Art Gilmore
Art died of natural causes at the age of 98 on the 25th. September 2010.
The Art Gilmore Career Achievement Award is awarded four times each year to individuals who have made notable contributions to the broadcasting and related industries.
Filmography of Art Gilmore
1941: The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance -- Newsreel Announcer -- Uncredited.
1942: Saboteur -- Radio Broadcaster Voice -- Uncredited.
1942: Yankee Doodle Dandy -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Voice -- Uncredited.
1943: Mission to Moscow -- Commentator -- Uncredited.
1943: Action in the North Atlantic -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Voice -- Uncredited.
1946: Rendezvous 24 -- Narrator -- Uncredited.
1946: The Man Who Dared -- Radio Announcer -- Uncredited.
1946: Deadline for Murder -- Voice -- Uncredited.
1946: Blue Skies Radio -- Broadcaster Voice -- Uncredited.
1947: Backlash Radio -- Commentator Voice -- Uncredited.
1947: Welcome Stranger -- Radio Announcer -- Voice -- Uncredited.
1947: The Unsuspected -- Announcer -- Uncredited.
1948: The Strange Mrs. Crane -- Radio Broadcaster -- Uncredited.
1949: My Dream Is Yours -- Radio Announcer -- Uncredited.
1949: King of the Rocket Men -- Newscaster -- Uncredited.
1949: The Girl from Jones Beach -- Narrator Voice -- Uncredited.
1950: Appointment with Danger -- Narrator -- Uncredited.
1950: Tea for Two -- Radio Announcer -- Uncredited.
1951: Valentino -- Narrator Voice -- Uncredited.
1951: A Place in the Sun -- Radio Broadcaster -- Uncredited.
1951: Sunny Side of the Street -- Announcer -- Uncredited.
1951: The Tanks Are Coming -- Narrator Voice -- Uncredited.
1952: The Winning Team -- Radio Sports Announcer -- Uncredited.
1952: The Story of Will Rogers -- Announcer at Political Convention -- Uncredited.
1952: Barbed Wire -- Opening Narrator -- Uncredited.
1952: Battles of Chief Pontiac -- Narrator -- Uncredited.
1954: It Should Happen to You -- Don Toddman -- Uncredited.
1954: Creature from the Black Lagoon -- Narrator Voice -- Uncredited.
1954: Susan Slept Here -- The Oscar Voice -- Uncredited.
1954: Rear Window-- Radio Announcer Voice -- Uncredited.
1954: Dragnet -- Doctor -- Uncredited.
1954: Tobor the Great -- Airport Announcer -- Voice -- Uncredited.
1955: Unchained -- Narrator Voice -- Uncredited.
1955: City of Shadows -- Radio Broadcaster Voice -- Uncredited.
1955: Francis in the Navy -- Lieutenant Hopper -- Uncredited.
1955: Wiretapper -- Narrator Voice -- Uncredited.
1955: Three Stripes in the Sun -- Public Address Announcer Voice -- Uncredited.
1955: The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell -- Radio Broadcaster Voice -- Uncredited.
1956: The Killing -- Narrator Voice -- Uncredited.
1956: A Cry in the Night -- Television Announcer Voice -- Uncredited.
1956: The Boss -- Radio Broadcaster Voice -- Uncredited.
1956: Rodan -- Narrator -- Uncredited.
1957: Fear Strikes Out -- Broadcaster Voice -- Uncredited.
1958: The Narcotics Story -- Narrator Voice.
1958: Suicide Battalion -- Captain Hendry -- Uncredited.
1960: Who Was That Lady? -- Television Announcer -- Uncredited.
1960: The Gallant Hours -- Narrator: Japanese Sequences.
1962: To Kill a Mockingbird -- Trailer Narrator Voice -- Uncredited.
1963: The Nutty Professor -- Narrator Voice -- Uncredited.
1963: Johnny Cool -- Racetrack Announcer Voice -- Uncredited.
2001: Moonbeams -- The Moon (final film role).
The Watergate complex sits on a superblock to the southeast, bound by Virginia Avenue, New Hampshire Avenue, F Street, and Rock Creek and the Potomac Parkway. The office-apartment-hotel complex is best known for being the site of burglaries that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Nixon.
The complex was built in 1967 and developed by the Italian firm Società Generale Immobiliare, which purchased the 10 acres on the defunct Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the early 1960s for $10 million. Italian architect Luigi Moretti designed the six buildings on the site: a hotel, two office buildings, three apartment buildings and a retail center. The name of the complex was derived from the terraced step area to the north of the Lincoln Memorial that leads down to the Potomac and used to face a floating ampitheater.
The Watergate Hotel, at 2650 Virginia Avenue NW, offered 250 guest rooms and 146 suites prior to a luxury co-op renovation. The two office buildings stand at 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW and 2600 Virginia Avenue NW. In 1972, the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters on the sixth floor of the 11-story Virginia Avenue building. On May 28, 1972, a team of burglars working for Nixon's re-election campaign put wiretaps, which were monitored from across the street at the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge hotel, and took photos in and near the DNC chairman's office. During a second burglary on June 17, 1972, to replace a malfunctioning "bug" and collect more information, five burglars were arrested and the Watergate scandal began to unfold.
Watergate National Register #05000540 (2005)
Demonstrators sing freedom songs led by Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) and Ted Glick (right, with glasses), a defendant in the trial of the Harrisburg 8 January 24, 1972 outside the courthouse in Harrisburg..
Glick’s case was severed because he insisted on acting as his own attorney. The eight were charged with conspiracy to blow up government building in Washington, D.C. and kidnap national security advisor Henry Kissinger
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic and other non-violent activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The other seven charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
Glick was jailed for other “hit and stay” actions of the Flower City Conspiracy that included raiding draft boards in Philadelphia and in Delaware and the Washington, D.C. offices of General Electric. He was jailed 11 months for some of these actions.
After the trial of the main group of defendants in the Harrisburg resulted in a hung jury, prosecutors then dropped the charges against Glick.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsm9Xu4r5
The photographer is unknown. The image is a United Press International photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
(History.com) May 2, 1972 - After nearly five decades as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover dies, leaving the powerful government agency without the administrator who had been largely responsible for its existence and shape.
Educated as a lawyer and a librarian, Hoover joined the Department of Justice in 1917 and within two years had become special assistant to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Deeply anti-radical in his ideology, Hoover came to the forefront of federal law enforcement during the so-called "Red Scare" of 1919 to 1920. The former librarian set up a card index system listing every radical leader, organization, and publication in the United States and by 1921 had amassed some 450,000 files. More than 10,000 suspected communists were also arrested during this period, but the vast majority of these people were briefly questioned and then released. Although the attorney general was criticized for abusing his authority during the so-called "Palmer Raids," Hoover emerged unscathed, and on May 10, 1924, he was appointed acting director of the Bureau of Investigation, a branch of the Justice Department established in 1909.
During the 1920s, with Congress' approval, Director Hoover drastically restructured and expanded the Bureau of Investigation. He built the corruption-ridden agency into an efficient crime-fighting machine, establishing a centralized fingerprint file, a crime laboratory, and a training school for agents. In the 1930s, the Bureau of Investigation launched a dramatic battle against the epidemic of organized crime brought on by Prohibition. Notorious gangsters such as George "Machine Gun" Kelly and John Dillinger met their ends looking down the barrels of Bureau-issued guns, while others, like Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, the elusive head of Murder, Incorporated, were successfully investigated and prosecuted by Hoover's "G-men." Hoover, who had a keen eye for public relations, participated in a number of these widely publicized arrests, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations, as it was known after 1935, became highly regarded by Congress and the American public.
With the outbreak of World War II, Hoover revived the anti-espionage techniques he had developed during the first Red Scare, and domestic wiretaps and other electronic surveillance expanded dramatically. After World War II, Hoover focused on the threat of radical, especially communist, subversion. The FBI compiled files on millions of Americans suspected of dissident activity, and Hoover worked closely with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and Senator Joseph McCarthy, the architect of America's second Red Scare.
In 1956, Hoover initiated Cointelpro, a secret counterintelligence program that initially targeted the U.S. Communist Party but later was expanded to infiltrate and disrupt any radical organization in America. During the 1960s, the immense resources of Cointelpro were used against dangerous groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, but also against African American civil rights organizations and liberal anti-war organizations. One figure especially targeted was civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who endured systematic harassment from the FBI.
By the time Hoover entered service under his eighth president in 1969, the media, the public, and Congress had grown suspicious that the FBI might be abusing its authority. For the first time in his bureaucratic career, Hoover endured widespread criticism, and Congress responded by passing laws requiring Senate confirmation of future FBI directors and limiting their tenure to 10 years. On May 2, 1972, with the Watergate affair about to explode onto the national stage, J. Edgar Hoover died of heart disease at the age of 77. The Watergate affair subsequently revealed that the FBI had illegally protected President Richard Nixon from investigation, and the agency was thoroughly investigated by Congress. Revelations of the FBI's abuses of power and unconstitutional surveillance motivated Congress and the media to become more vigilant in future monitoring of the FBI.
On August 1, 1947, Roe was told by doctors that he had stomach cancer but that it was operable. On August 4, 1952, he dressed in a three-piece suit and hat and creeped down South Michigan Avenue. At around 10:00 p.m., as he was unlocking his car on the street outside his apartment, a voice called, "Roe!" He turned and was cut down by several shotgun blasts. He died slumped against a tree which still stands outside his former apartment at 5239 S. Michigan Ave.
Roe was laid out in a $3,500-$5,000 casket and received the biggest funeral of any Chicago African American since Jack Johnson in 1946. Thousands lined the streets to catch a glimpse of Roe's 81-car funeral procession. At Roe's funeral, Minister Clarence H. Cobb said: "He was a friend of man, and he had a pure heart."
The Outfit seized control of his policy wheels, and many felt that Roe had pushed his luck too far. That is, until his widow revealed a secret. Lucky Ted had terminal cancer, and had been given only months to live.
Over an FBI wiretap during the early 1970s, Giancana said of Roe, "I'll say this. Nigger or no nigger, that bastard went out like a man. He had balls. It was a fu----' shame to kill him."
Workers board up windows at the U.S. Capitol after a powerful bomb exploded in a restroom of the U.S. Senate wing March 1, 1971 causing $300,000 in damage but no injuries.
A window of the Appropriations Committee remains open to pass debris from the explosion inside the Capitol building to the outside.
The Weather Underground Organization later claimed credit for blast saying it was an attack on a symbol of government that was perpetrating war in Indochina. The ongoing U.S. invasion of Laos was specifically cited.
The bomb was placed behind a false wall in back of the toilet stalls. In order to access, it was necessary to lift a marble slab which from outward appearances was permanently fixed in place.
Captain L. H. Ballard of the Capitol police said, that “whoever did it was a professional. It went off almost to the minute that they said it would.”
Ballard went on to say that because of the location of the bomb and the timing of the explosion, he said there was not “one chance in a million of doing any harm to a human being.”
The FBI blamed some of the antiwar organizers of the upcoming Mayday demonstrations for the blast, specifically Stew Albert, Judy Gumbo and Leslie Bacon.
Bacon was arrested and spirited out of Washington, D.C. where she was held incommunicado for six weeks until her attorneys secured her release after her refusal to testify before a Grand Jury. The U.S. Court of Appeals later voided contempt charges against her after the government refused to turn over transcripts of illegal wiretaps.
Weather Underground member Bill Ayers later took credit for the bombing.
A.J. Weberman, the Yippie famous for dogging Bob Dylan, disputes Ayers and the Weather Underground and says Stew Albert placed the bomb and claims Jerry Rubin told him this in May 1971 in front of Albert. Weberman also claims Gumbo and Bacon had a role in the bombing.
Gumbo disclaims any role for Albert, Bacon and herself and says she was “exultant” when she heard the news, but that they played no part in the bombing.
The Weather Underground also planted bombs at the U.S. State Department and at the Pentagon in the Washington, D.C. area as well as dozens of other sites across the U.S. mainly in protest of U.S. actions abroad and hoping to spark a revolutionary upsurge in the U.S.
Their bombs were always preceded by telephoned warnings and the only casualties were three of their own that were killed while make explosives in 1969.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskgJjpPP
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photo housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
The Watergate complex sits on a superblock to the southeast, bound by Virginia Avenue, New Hampshire Avenue, F Street, and Rock Creek and the Potomac Parkway. The office-apartment-hotel complex is best known for being the site of burglaries that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Nixon.
The complex was built in 1967 and developed by the Italian firm Società Generale Immobiliare, which purchased the 10 acres on the defunct Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the early 1960s for $10 million. Italian architect Luigi Moretti designed the six buildings on the site: a hotel, two office buildings, three apartment buildings and a retail center. The name of the complex was derived from the terraced step area to the north of the Lincoln Memorial that leads down to the Potomac and used to face a floating ampitheater.
The Watergate Hotel, at 2650 Virginia Avenue NW, offered 250 guest rooms and 146 suites prior to a luxury co-op renovation. The two office buildings stand at 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW and 2600 Virginia Avenue NW. In 1972, the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters on the sixth floor of the 11-story Virginia Avenue building. On May 28, 1972, a team of burglars working for Nixon's re-election campaign put wiretaps, which were monitored from across the street at the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge hotel, and took photos in and near the DNC chairman's office. During a second burglary on June 17, 1972, to replace a malfunctioning "bug" and collect more information, five burglars were arrested and the Watergate scandal began to unfold.
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Upwards of 20,000 people rally in Harrisburg, Pa. March 26, 1972 in support of the Harrisburg 7-- Catholic activists charged with conspiracy to blow up government building in Washington, D.C. and kidnap national security advisor Henry Kissinger.
The federal building in the background is the site of the trial.
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The seven charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
For more information and related images, see
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
Sister Elizabeth McAlister (center) pickets outside the York County prison in Pennsylvania January 26, 1971 where Sister Jogues Egan was held for refusing to answer questions before a grand jury investigating an alleged bomb/kidnap conspiracy involving McAlister and seven others.
McAlister is flanked by William Davidson (left) of Haverford, Pa. and Tom Davidson of Washington, D.C. (right).
Sister Jogues (preferred by her over Egan) was jailed after refusing to answer each question reading a statement that said she was “respectfully declining” to answer because the questioning of her was an “unconstitutional” invasion of her First Amendment rights of association with others and because the questioning was based on “illegal wiretaps.”
The judge rejected her request to be released on bail pending appeal. She was released on appeal three days later without bail.
In May 1971, the United States Court of Appeals ruled that she was not required to testify before the grand jury to questions based on information obtained through illegal wiretapping.
Sister Jogues was later named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.
The Harrisburg Defense Committee later issued a statement charging the federal government with using the grand jury to “discover the kind of defense which will be provided for those indicted.”
The group charged that the subpoenas constituted, “an illegal use of the grand jury to obtain statements from witnesses for the defense after these witnesses had previously refused to talk with the FBI agents and is a total prostitution of the grand jury process.”
It would later be determined that prosecutors were calling anyone referred to in letters or conversations that had been illegally wiretapped in an effort to glean any detail even though they had no evidence that any of those subpoenaed had any connection with the case.
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic and other non-violent activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The eight charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist and John “Ted” Glick, a pacifist activist.
Glick’s case was severed from the others when he insisted on acting as his own attorney.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
After the trial of the main group of defendants in the Harrisburg resulted in a hung jury, prosecutors then dropped the charges against Glick.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsm9Xu4r5
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Pressl photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
People For The American Way STOP GORSUCH FOR SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RALLY in front of the United States Supreme Court on First Street, NE, Washington DC on Tuesday night, 31 January 2017 by Elvert Barnes Protest Photography
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Father Phillip Berrigan smiles behind the outside gate of the Dauphin County Prison in Harrisburg, Pa. January 24, 1972 as he prepares to leave for his trial in federal court.
Berrigan, a prominent “hit and stay” non-violent Catholic activist against war, was already in prison for destroying draft records in Catonsville, Md.
He, was charged with seven others in a bombing/kidnap case called the Harrisburg 8.
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic and other non-violent activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The eight charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist and John “Ted” Glick, a pacifist activist.
Glick’s case was severed from the others when he insisted on acting as his own attorney.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
Glick was jailed for other “hit and stay” actions of the Flower City Conspiracy that included raiding draft boards in Philadelphia and in Delaware and the Washington, D.C. offices of General Electric. He was jailed 11 months for some of these actions.
After the trial of the main group of defendants in the Harrisburg resulted in a hung jury, prosecutors then dropped the charges against Glick.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsm9Xu4r5
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Pressl photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
Constructed in 1902, the Landmark Center once housed the United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Custom House for the State of Minnesota. It is a large Richardsonian Romanesque with two large towers.
For more than 30 years, St. Paul became notorious as a gangster haven. In 1900, newly appointed St. Paul police chief John O'Connor instituted what became known as the "Layover Agreement" or the "O'Connor System". In effect, the city reached out to mobsters, stating that they could reside in the city free of fear of arrest, as long as three conditions were met, 1. that they checked in with police immediately after arrival, 2. that they paid bribes to city officials, and 3. that they committed no major crimes in the city. The O'Connor System became wildly successful, and it lasted without problems for 20 years. St. Paul became the place visited by the likes of John Dillinger and Billie Frechette, the Barker Gang, "Babyface" Nelson, and Alvin Karpis. While the Midwestern communities around St. Paul suffered, St. Paul itself was mostly crime-free, policed by both the police and city leaders accepting the bribes and the mobsters eager to not end a good thing.
The O'Connor system gradually fell apart after the chief's retirement. Without his hand, the layover agreement to fray as greed and calls for reform took over, as well as the sudden 1933 ending of Prohibition, cutting off the ability of bootleggers to make money selling liquor. Many gangsters turned to ransom. By the 1930s, crime was surging in St. Paul, the Barker-Karpis Gang kidnapping Hamm's Brewery president William Hamm Jr. in 1933 and released him after a ransom of $100000 was paid. A few months later in 1934, the Barker-Karpis Gang kidnapped Edward Bremer, banker and heir to the Schmidt beer brewery, in broad daylight in downtown St. Paul finally releasing him for $200000.
These stunning kidnappings drew national attention to the corrupt police force of St. Paul and (Bremer's father being a friend of Pres Franklin Roosevelt) the mobsters residing there, leading to immense pressure in the city for public reform and federal intervention in the form of the newly empowered FBI. Pursuit using successful fingerprint analysis soon led to the death of Ma and Fred Barker and the arrest of most of the remaining gang. Things quickly cascaded: On March 20, 1934 John Dillinger and Billie Frechette would flee from a shootout in an apartment in St. Paul. One day later their associate Eddie Green was mortally wounded in a ambush by the FBI. A few months later Billie Frechette was arrested nearby and John Dillinger was killed by FBI agents in Chicago. In 1934, the last member of the Dillinger Gang, Homer Van Meter, was gunned down in the shadow of the Minnesota State Capitol by St. Paul police officers under suspicious circumstances. Meanwhile a wiretapping of the St. Paul Police Department revealed the full scope of the agreement, and by 1935 the O'Connor Agreement was gone, the corrupt officials either resigning or being convicted.
Both Frechette and Karpis were tried and convicted at the Landmark Center, Frechette for harboring a fugitive in 1934 and Karpis for conspiracy in 1936. According to legend, Frechette tried to escape through the women's bathroom, and John Dillinger once visited Frechette's lawyer outside, asking about his girl.
Downtown, St. Paul, Minnesota
Workers sift through debris after a powerful bomb exploded in a restroom of the U.S. Senate in the Capitol March 1, 1971 causing $300,000 in damage but no injuries.
The Weather Underground Organization later claimed credit for blast saying it was an attack on a symbol of government that was perpetrating war in Indochina. The ongoing U.S. invasion of Laos was specifically cited.
The bomb was placed behind a false wall in back of the toilet stalls. In order to access, it was necessary to lift a marble slab which from outward appearances was permanently fixed in place.
Captain L. H. Ballard of the Capitol police said, that “whoever did it was a professional. It went off almost to the minute that they said it would.”
Ballard went on to say that because of the location of the bomb and the timing of the explosion, he said there was not “one chance in a million of doing any harm to a human being.”
The FBI blamed some of the antiwar organizers of the upcoming Mayday demonstrations for the blast, specifically Stew Albert, Judy Gumbo and Leslie Bacon.
Bacon was arrested and spirited out of Washington, D.C. where she was held incommunicado for six weeks until her attorneys secured her release after her refusal to testify before a Grand Jury. The U.S. Court of Appeals later voided contempt charges against her after the government refused to turn over transcripts of illegal wiretaps.
Weather Underground member Bill Ayers later took credit for the bombing.
A.J. Weberman, the Yippie famous for dogging Bob Dylan, disputes Ayers and the Weather Underground and says Stew Albert placed the bomb and claims Jerry Rubin told him this in May 1971 in front of Albert. Weberman also claims Gumbo and Bacon had a role in the bombing.
Gumbo disclaims any role for Albert, Bacon and herself and says she was “exultant” when she heard the news, but that they played no part in the bombing.
The Weather Underground also planted bombs at the U.S. State Department and at the Pentagon in the Washington, D.C. area as well as dozens of other sites across the U.S. mainly in protest of U.S. actions abroad and hoping to spark a revolutionary upsurge in the U.S.
Their bombs were always preceded by telephoned warnings and the only casualties were three of their own that were killed while make explosives in 1969.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskgJjpPP
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photo housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
i am a student and i am learning too much about this world. This higher learning got the remy in me.
"Wasted Youth" i have been seeing my phychiatrist and my new model is "Get Right or Get Left"
in life.
well i keep him in a cage because i don't want to fight for something that i have control off already. it's too easy im to sleazy and i dont care about religion. Even when i was broke selling my soul was not tempting
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"They say The Game has the belly of a beast
Blunts for fingers and halo tips for teeth
Wiretaps for ears, Nike Air's for feet
Blasphemy for prayers, a system for a heart
Rap music for beats
Heroine for a son and is married to The Streets
Crack pipes for lungs
And he never sleeps
Just spies with dice in his eyes
Loves life cause he likes when it dies
With a baking soda soul,
He cough up pleasure
Clothes made out of dollar bills that he sewed together
He knows, he's clever
Jealous is house, all the liquor that's poured out goes right in his mouth
Rides around on a stray bullet
With prostitutes, pimps, dope dealers and killers tied to it to pull it
TV in his head
Strippers slide down his legs
And he's known to ride around with the feds
He's out there..." lupe fiasco
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By Roger Stone
A once top-secret intelligence memo recently declassified by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) and reviewed by Circa shows roughly ten pages listing hundreds of violations by the FBI of their privacy-protecting minimization rules while James Comey was director. The FISA report was in direct contradiction to Comey’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
During a round of questions about securing and defending the privacy of American citizens, Comey stated under oath that his agency used collected surveillance data from Americans without a warrant. Director Comey then continued that this use of data was to be only when it was “lawfully collected, carefully overseen and checked.” In order to further cement the appearance of his agency’s commitment to uphold citizen’s privacy, Comey added, “Nobody gets to see FISA information of any kind unless they’ve had the appropriate training and have the appropriate oversight.”
This FISA report shows clearly that James Comey was lying during his testimony and that he should be criminally charged.
Among the violations declassified in the FISA report are examples of the FBI sharing data illegally with third parties, including a ‘private entity’ with no legal right to access the information. Comey’s FBI also gathered protected attorney client communications that had been intercepted without using the oversight procedures he claimed were of the highest importance.
The spying, done illegally on Trump and thousands of other Americans was not only a gross abuse of power unmatched in recent memory, but a serious assault on the 4th Amendment which guarantees the rights of all Americans against unlawful search and seizure.
The American Civil Liberties Union said that newly disclosed violations are some of the most serious to ever be documented. To give a brief rundown of these violations we need look no further than rank and file members of the intelligence community. Here is what they told FOX NEWS.
1) Surveillance targeting the Trump team during the Obama administration began long ago, even before the president had become the GOP nominee in July.
2) The spying on the Trump team had nothing to do with the collection of foreign intelligence or an investigation into Russia election interference.
3) The spying was done purely “for political purposes” that “have nothing to do with national security and everything to do with hurting and embarrassing Trump and his team.”
4) The person who did the unmasking was someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world, and is not in the FBI.”
5) Congressional investigators know the name of at least one person who was unmasking names.
6) The initial surveillance on the Trump team led to “a number of names” being unmasked.
For an American citizen to be “unmasked” in an intelligence report is extremely rare. Usually the person is a suspect in a crime, is in danger or whose name has to be revealed to explain the context of a report. The members of Trump’s transition team who were unmasked, were not linked with any intelligence about Russia, were not in danger or suspects of a crime.
After nearly one year of constant accusations and investigations that are costing the taxpayers millions of dollars, there is nothing to support a Trump/ Russia collusion. The real collusion is the one that has been nearly buried under the weight of the 24-hour reporting of fake news by America’s mainstream media. The collusion is between Obama, his administration, James Comey, British Intelligence, the NSA and the FBI for the purpose of spying on Trump and his transition team for political gain.
The FISA report disclosed massive data gathering of Americans using Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Act. Section 702 allows the FBI access (without a warrant) of U.S. citizen’s communications with ‘foreign targets’ that have been collected by the NSA. Without proper justification for using the 702 law, the FBI cannot conduct surveillance or collect data on Americans. Section 702 is up for renewal this year. All of these safeguards were ignored by Comey’s FBI.
Amy Jeffress, the former top security adviser to former Attorney General Eric Holder was appointed by FISA in 2015 to give an independent review of the FBI’s record of compliance. Jeffress came to the conclusion that FBI searches of NSA data extended far beyond national security issues.
In other revelations Accuracy In Media reported that a source for The British Guardian now admitted that British spy agency GCHQ had been digitally wiretapping Trump associates as far back as 2015.
With the approval of then CIA Director John Brennan, computerized espionage was used against Trump and people he worked with for political purposes. A total of six U.S. intelligence agencies were involved in the formation of a task force to investigate the Trump associates during the campaign. The task force was made up of CIA, NSA, FBI, Justice Department’s National Security Division, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Unit. CIA boss Brennan initiated this illegal domestic operation against the Trump campaign.
The Russian collusion charge was just a smoke screen to hide a deeper, darker action; to break Trump’s back and bring victory to the Witch of Washington, Hillary Clinton.
Judicial Watch announced that it had failed in its efforts to get information about why White House adviser Susan Rice ordered the “unmasking” of Trump campaign officials in classified reports.
The House Intelligence Committee issued subpoenas to determine if the unmasking was politically motivated. One step ahead, the National Security Council had sent all those records to Obama’s presidential library, where they can’t be released for five years. Those records contained evidence of intelligence abuses and cover ups by Rice, Brennan, former Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Power and others in the Obama White House.
There have been comparisons made of Trump and Watergate but when one considers that Nixon’s presidency started to unravel by the discovery of the bugging of his political rivals, we can see that Obama went far beyond a simple phone tapping.
The silver tongued Obama deliberately exploited our domestic and foreign intelligence gathering agencies to spy on his political opponents. He did this on a massive scale. Obama was to have paved the way for a democratic win in 2016.
Yet it wasn’t just about Trump. In an analysis published by Tablet magazine, Lee Smith wrote “At some point, the (Obama) administration weaponized the NSA’s legitimate monitoring of communications of foreign officials to stay one step ahead of domestic political opponents,” says a pro-Israel political operative who was deeply involved in the day-to-day fight over the Iran Deal. “The NSA’s collections of foreigners became a means of gathering real-time intelligence on Americans engaged in perfectly legitimate political activism — activism, due to the nature of the issue, that naturally involved conversations with foreigners..” Trump wasn’t the first target.
The Obama spying scandal includes the Iran deal. In December 2015, the Wall Street Journal revealed that the Obama administration used the NSA to cast a wide net of surveillance around Israeli officials and diplomats, as well as American lawmakers who were friendly towards Israel as well as Jewish-American groups.
According to an investigative piece by National Review, “ the administration’s targeting of journalists, including (a) attorney general Eric Holder’s approval of the seizure of personal and business phone records of Associated Press reporters en masse (i.e., not a particularized search targeting a specific journalist suspected of wrongdoing); and (b) Holder’s approval of a warrant targeting the e-mails of Fox News reporter James Rosen in a leak investigation — based on an application in which the government represented to a federal court that the journalist could be guilty of a felony violation of the Espionage Act in connection with a leak of classified information (in addition to purportedly being a “flight risk”).” More from the National Review article…
“The CIA’s accessing of Senate Intelligence Committee computers and staff e-mails — which CIA director John Brennan initially denied, then apologized for after it was confirmed by an inspector-general report. The investigation of Trump associate Carter Page, including a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant based on the claim that Page was a Russian agent, which would have authorized monitoring of Page’s communications — including any with Trump, then the Republican nominee for president. The criminal leaking to the media of former Trump national-security adviser Michael Flynn’s communications with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. The “unmasking” of identities of Americans (connected to Trump) at the behest of Obama national-security adviser Susan Rice, a White House staffer and Obama confidant. The promulgation in the last days of Obama’s presidency of new rules enabling the spreading of raw intelligence, including “unmasked” American identities, across the 17-agency U.S. “intelligence community” — which significantly increased the likelihood of leaks. At the same time, according to former Obama Defense Department official Evelyn Farkas, current and former Obama officials were encouraging the transmission of information regarding Trump and his associates to Capitol Hill, further magnifying the potential for leaking.”
What we have is the collusion of an outgoing president with various intelligence agencies and their directors to spy not only on thousands of Americans illegally, but to spy on the Trump campaign, leak information, create a false narrative, and hopefully destroy Mr. Trump’s campaign. Who needs the Russians to thwart our democracy? We had Obama!
The conspirators need to be formerly charged with crimes of treason. Obama, Brennan, Comey, Rice, and a host of others need to be publicly denounced, indicted, made to testify before a new and real congressional investigation and exposed for the criminals they are.
The FISA report is just the tip of the iceberg. Let’s not forget to indict Loretta Lynch, Huma Abedin, John Podesta…the list is so long.
fromhttps://stonecoldtruth.com/the-real-collusion/ rogerstone1.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-real-collusion.html
The Watergate complex sits on a superblock to the southeast, bound by Virginia Avenue, New Hampshire Avenue, F Street, and Rock Creek and the Potomac Parkway. The office-apartment-hotel complex is best known for being the site of burglaries that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Nixon.
The complex was built in 1967 and developed by the Italian firm Società Generale Immobiliare, which purchased the 10 acres on the defunct Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the early 1960s for $10 million. Italian architect Luigi Moretti designed the six buildings on the site: a hotel, two office buildings, three apartment buildings and a retail center. The name of the complex was derived from the terraced step area to the north of the Lincoln Memorial that leads down to the Potomac and used to face a floating ampitheater.
The Watergate Hotel, at 2650 Virginia Avenue NW, offered 250 guest rooms and 146 suites prior to a luxury co-op renovation. The two office buildings stand at 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW and 2600 Virginia Avenue NW. In 1972, the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters on the sixth floor of the 11-story Virginia Avenue building. On May 28, 1972, a team of burglars working for Nixon's re-election campaign put wiretaps, which were monitored from across the street at the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge hotel, and took photos in and near the DNC chairman's office. During a second burglary on June 17, 1972, to replace a malfunctioning "bug" and collect more information, five burglars were arrested and the Watergate scandal began to unfold.
Watergate National Register #05000540 (2005)
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John “Ted” Glick, a defendant in the trial of the Harrisburg 8 had his case severed from the other defendants by the judge when he insisted on acting as his own attorney. He is shown outside the courthouse in Harrisburg in a May 25, 1971 photo.
The eight were charged with conspiracy to blow up government building in Washington, D.C. and kidnap national security advisor Henry Kissinger
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic and other non-violent activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The other seven charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
Glick was jailed for other “hit and stay” actions of the Flower City Conspiracy that included raiding draft boards in Philadelphia and in Delaware and the Washington, D.C. offices of General Electric. He was jailed 11 months for some of these actions.
After the trial of the main group of defendants in the Harrisburg case resulted in a hung jury, prosecutors then dropped the charges against Glick.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsm9Xu4r5
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Pressl photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
The Watergate complex sits on a superblock to the southeast, bound by Virginia Avenue, New Hampshire Avenue, F Street, and Rock Creek and the Potomac Parkway. The office-apartment-hotel complex is best known for being the site of burglaries that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Nixon.
The complex was built in 1967 and developed by the Italian firm Società Generale Immobiliare, which purchased the 10 acres on the defunct Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the early 1960s for $10 million. Italian architect Luigi Moretti designed the six buildings on the site: a hotel, two office buildings, three apartment buildings and a retail center. The name of the complex was derived from the terraced step area to the north of the Lincoln Memorial that leads down to the Potomac and used to face a floating ampitheater.
The Watergate Hotel, at 2650 Virginia Avenue NW, offered 250 guest rooms and 146 suites prior to a luxury co-op renovation. The two office buildings stand at 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW and 2600 Virginia Avenue NW. In 1972, the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters on the sixth floor of the 11-story Virginia Avenue building. On May 28, 1972, a team of burglars working for Nixon's re-election campaign put wiretaps, which were monitored from across the street at the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge hotel, and took photos in and near the DNC chairman's office. During a second burglary on June 17, 1972, to replace a malfunctioning "bug" and collect more information, five burglars were arrested and the Watergate scandal began to unfold.
Watergate National Register #05000540 (2005)
Seven of the Harrisburg 8 bomb/kidnap conspiracy defendants leave federal court in Harrisburg October 28, 1971 after pre-trial motions were filed.
From left to right: Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Dr. Eqbal Ahmad, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, John “Ted” Glick, Mary Scoblick, John Scoblick and Sister Elizabeth McAlister. Phillip Berrigan, jailed for destroying draft records in Catonsville, Md., is not shown.
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic and other non-violent activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The eight charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist and John “Ted” Glick, a pacifist activist.
Glick’s case was severed from the others when he insisted on acting as his own attorney.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
After the trial of the main group of defendants in the Harrisburg resulted in a hung jury, prosecutors then dropped the charges against Glick.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsm9Xu4r5
The photographer is unknown. The image is a United Press International photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
Defense attorneys for the Harrisburg 7—Catholic activists charged with conspiring to blow up Washington, D.C. government buildings and plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger—confer outside the federal courthouse4 in Harrisburg, Pa. May 24, 1971.
From left to right: Paul O’Dwyer, New York; Leonard Boudin, Boston; Addison Bowman, Baltimore; and Ramsey Clark, Washington, D.C.
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic and other non-violent activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The other seven charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
Glick was jailed for other “hit and stay” actions of the Flower City Conspiracy that included raiding draft boards in Philadelphia and in Delaware and the Washington, D.C. offices of General Electric. He was jailed 11 months for some of these actions.
After the trial of the main group of defendants in the Harrisburg resulted in a hung jury, prosecutors then dropped the charges against Glick.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsm9Xu4r5
The photographer is unknown. The image is a United Press International photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
The Watergate complex sits on a superblock to the southeast, bound by Virginia Avenue, New Hampshire Avenue, F Street, and Rock Creek and the Potomac Parkway. The office-apartment-hotel complex is best known for being the site of burglaries that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Nixon.
The complex was built in 1967 and developed by the Italian firm Società Generale Immobiliare, which purchased the 10 acres on the defunct Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the early 1960s for $10 million. Italian architect Luigi Moretti designed the six buildings on the site: a hotel, two office buildings, three apartment buildings and a retail center. The name of the complex was derived from the terraced step area to the north of the Lincoln Memorial that leads down to the Potomac and used to face a floating ampitheater.
The Watergate Hotel, at 2650 Virginia Avenue NW, offered 250 guest rooms and 146 suites prior to a luxury co-op renovation. The two office buildings stand at 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW and 2600 Virginia Avenue NW. In 1972, the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters on the sixth floor of the 11-story Virginia Avenue building. On May 28, 1972, a team of burglars working for Nixon's re-election campaign put wiretaps, which were monitored from across the street at the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge hotel, and took photos in and near the DNC chairman's office. During a second burglary on June 17, 1972, to replace a malfunctioning "bug" and collect more information, five burglars were arrested and the Watergate scandal began to unfold.
Watergate National Register #05000540 (2005)
The Senate Barber Shop is shown after a powerful bomb exploded in a restroom of the U.S. Senate in the Capitol March 1, 1971 causing $300,000 in damage but no injuries.
The Weather Underground Organization later claimed credit for blast saying it was an attack on a symbol of government that was perpetrating war in Indochina. The ongoing U.S. invasion of Laos was specifically cited.
The bomb was placed behind a false wall in back of the toilet stalls. In order to access, it was necessary to lift a marble slab which from outward appearances was permanently fixed in place.
Captain L. H. Ballard of the Capitol police said, that “whoever did it was a professional. It went off almost to the minute that they said it would.”
Ballard went on to say that because of the location of the bomb and the timing of the explosion, he said there was not “one chance in a million of doing any harm to a human being.”
The FBI blamed some of the antiwar organizers of the upcoming Mayday demonstrations for the blast, specifically Stew Albert, Judy Gumbo and Leslie Bacon.
Bacon was arrested and spirited out of Washington, D.C. where she was held incommunicado for six weeks until her attorneys secured her release after her refusal to testify before a Grand Jury. The U.S. Court of Appeals later voided contempt charges against her after the government refused to turn over transcripts of illegal wiretaps.
Weather Underground member Bill Ayers later took credit for the bombing.
A.J. Weberman, the Yippie famous for dogging Bob Dylan, disputes Ayers and the Weather Underground and says Stew Albert placed the bomb and claims Jerry Rubin told him this in May 1971 in front of Albert. Weberman also claims Gumbo and Bacon had a role in the bombing.
Gumbo disclaims any role for Albert, Bacon and herself and says she was “exultant” when she heard the news, but that they played no part in the bombing.
The Weather Underground also planted bombs at the U.S. State Department and at the Pentagon in the Washington, D.C. area as well as dozens of other sites across the U.S. mainly in protest of U.S. actions abroad and hoping to spark a revolutionary upsurge in the U.S.
Their bombs were always preceded by telephoned warnings and the only casualties were three of their own that were killed while make explosives in 1969.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskgJjpPP
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photo housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
This is especially true today, July 9, 2008, a day that will live in infamy, on which the U.S. Senate approved illegal wiretapping by the executive branch of the federal government by granting retroactive immunity, without compensation to the victims, the American people, to the telecommunication companies that willingly and willfully complied with illegal wiretap orders.
Yes, this phone is tapped, and every other phone in the United States. American liberty has been violated, not by terrorists, but by her elected representatives. The only remaining question now is, will her people act?
This is my Lives of Others shot. I'm monitoring my own phone calls. I'm trying to gather evidence that I am somehow subversive and should be locked away. Which I am. And I am.
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Lampist: Desk lamp on the floor pointing up center, clip lamp on a chair camera right. Both fitted with R50 reflectors.
The proportion of copper cables for the transmission of telephone and Internet is generally still very high. But to older buildings in the old town there are still these ancient telephone overhead lines. These are relatively unprotected against lightning and wiretapping. Switzerland, May 4, 2020. (1/2)
Residential building on Kudrinskaya square (Building on Uprising square) - a high-rise building in Moscow, one of the «Stalin's skyscrapers» («Seven Sisters»)
Built in 1948-1954 years. designed by architects MV Posokhin, AA Mndoyants and designer MN Vohomskogo.
The building consists of a central (24 floors, the height of the tower and spire - 156 meters) and side buildings (18 residential floors) constituting a single structural array, based on the total ground floor.
On the first and ground floors of the building were originally shops and a cinema "Flame" (currently not working), in the basement - underground garages.
Skyscraper popularly called the «House of aviators», because the apartment was given to the workers the aviation industry (in particular, employees of the Tupolev design Bureau) and the test pilot, but, of course, among the tenants there were many party activists.
Said that, when opened near the US Embassy, the top two floors were settled. There KGB installed equipment for wiretapping, and from there to "watch" for Americans.
Sculptures on the facade of the building symbolize creativity, defense, and labor of the Soviet citizens.