Frank Wills at the Watergate
He pulled a strip of tape off a door. Two years later a president was gone.
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How the story begins
Two dollars and fifty cents a week. That was the raise Frank Wills got for what he found on a night shift in this building. He was twenty-four, a security guard at the Watergate Office Building. In the small hours of June 17, 1972, he was on his rounds when he noticed duct tape over the lock of a door from the back parking lot. He took it off. About half an hour later he came back, and there was another piece on it.
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Visiting
2600 Virginia Avenue NW. Working offices: exterior only, from the public sidewalk.
Sources
- National Archives, Rediscovering Black History: Wills on Duty
- Mother Jones: Watergate Hero Gets No Respect
- Wikipedia: Frank Wills (security guard)
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