Watergate Hearings - James McCord & Jack Caulfield
Watergate Hearings - James McCord & Jack Caulfield
(03:22:01) Opens with testimony of JAMES McCORD reading from a statement he prepared for the committee in which he relays the facts about telephone call he recieved from JACK CAULFIELD at phone booth on Route 355 (03:23:30) Skip in footage - McCord still reading from a prepared statement about further phone conversations with Caulfield and his associates, and finally a meeting with him in Virginia on the George Washington Parkway (03:26:12) McCord gets a loud, unintended laugh from the press when he says Caulfield arrived claiming he had come from a Law Enforcement meeting in San Clemente CA - McCord says he was straight forward from the beginning of the meeting in telling Caulfield he was not going to seek executive clemency or give a guilty plea, which Caulfield had indeed come to offer, Caulfield said he was requested "from the very highest levels of the White House" to ask McCord to to accept clemency, McCord says he was informed that the results of this meeting were to be delivered to President Nixon, McCord adds that this was all during his trial (03:29:03) Two consecutive skips in footage - Chief Majority Counsel SAM DASH has McCord demonstrate on a phone how he bugs phones and asks him to identify a portable microphone taken as evidence upon McCord's arrest - McCord cracks a joke that he wants to make sure he won't be charged further for bugging this phone in court (03:31:16) McCord identifies the evidence as a radio transmitter which could be put in a phone, he goes ahead and does so with the phone Dash introduced exposing the phone's innards, he then explains that a receiver is all that is needed to pick up the transmission, and attention is turned to the receiver Dash has also entered as evidence and McCord identifies it as the one that was used to pick up the phone bugs' transmissions (03:34:00) McCord gives the specifics of the receiver - McCord and Dash discuss for the committee the method of picking up the transmission and specifics about its sensitivity and interaction with the phone (03:37:44) Skip in footage - JACK CAULFIELD giving background, he was a New York Police officer who ascended the ranks to the Bureau of Special Services where his duties consisted of monitoring the activities of terrorist organizations and protective services for VIPs, groups he investigated: Communist Party, Cuban nationalists, Leftist revolutonary groups, etc - Caulfield goes on to list the awards he won during his police service, all for actions against international terrorists, during this list he painfully cracks a joke that no one finds funny, he then begins to list his protective service assignments but is cut off by the tape's end