Watergate Hearings - Jack Caulfield & Bernard Barker
Watergate Hearings - Jack Caulfield & Bernard Barker
(03:41:48) Opens to testimony of JACK S. CAULFIELD, Former White House Aide, who tells the story of how he joined the Nixon administration, it is a detailed history that involves his relationship with them in different employment capacities (03:42:56) Funny audience shot (03:45:22) Skip in footage - Caulfield now is talking about his contact with JAMES McCORD after McCord's arrest for the Watergate break-in, first via the phone, then via a letter from James which says that the White House is determined to make the CIA take the fall for Watergate and this is bad for everyone involved (03:46:23) Shot falls on McCord in the audience who seems uncomfortable (03:47:32) Image flips out, blinks and sounds cuts off (03:47:48) Caulfield gives a long explanation of how the White House offer was conveyed to McCord that if he plead guilty he would recieve clemency, financial support for his family, and rehabilitation in the form of a job once out of the joint (03:50:15) Caulfield gives a detailed explanation of how his meeting with McCord on the George Washington Parkway in Virginia was set up over the phone (03:52:30) Caulfield describes the actual meeting which took place in his car, he gives some good dramatic quotations of McCord who describes himself as independent minded, and that if one person goes to jail he feels all must follow, including people he knows who are involved but haven't been exposed, Caulfield quotes McCord as saying: "I can take care of my family. I don't need any jobs, I want my freedom" (During this testimony the camera closes in on McCord who seems to be in more pain with every word said) (03:54:30) Skip in footage - More Caulfield who then is quickly cut off (03:54:41) Another funny crowd shot (03:54:55) Assistant Chief Counsel JAMES HAMILTON confirms BERNARD BARKER's participation in the Watergate and Dr. ELLSBERG's Psychiatry office break-ins and that these operations were led by E. HOWARD HUNT, Hamilton also confirms that Barker participated with Hunt in the Bay of Pigs invasion (03:56:35) Barker explains why he didn't receive pay for these operations, he tells the committee they were presented to him as issues of national security (03:57:54) Hamilton asks if Barker participated in these operations with the hope of gaining support for his mission to liberate Cuba - Barker answers it was the main motivation of him, Mr. STURGIS, Mr. MARTINEZ, and Mr. GONZALES (03:58:20) Hamilton confirms that it was Barker's job to find documents to photograph and that it was Mr. Martinez's job to photograph them, he then asks what sort of documents they were looking for - Barker responds that they were looking for documents of campaign contributions from Cuba to KENNEDY and MCGOVERN (03:59:45) Hamilton asks Barker about the lawyers that showed up at the cells of Watergate crew after their arrest - Barker tells the committee nobody to his knowledge that was part of the crew called them and he did not know them (04:00:31) Hamilton asks Barker about monies received from Mrs. Hunt - Barker gives dollar totals and dates as to when he received the money and is cut off