Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, May 24, 1973 (1/2)
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, May 24, 1973 (1/2)
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, May 24, 1973
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, May 24, 1973 (1/2)
DO NOT USE Lehrer introduces the new witnesses for the day. First Bernard BARKER, described as "unashamed" by his role in the Watergate affair, and resentful of implications that he was a simple mercenary, citing as his motivations deep convictions, i.e. hatred of the government of FIDEL CASTRO in CUBA.
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, May 24, 1973 (1/2)
BARKER, with thick glasses and a seersucker sport coat, clip of Bernard Barker testifying. "That we resent, very emotionally - the word that we were hired. Thhere was no need to buy our silence, we are not for sale. And that this must be said because this represents our feelings. By this I don't mean that we are perfect, that we are not full of all sorts of defects as persons, that we consider ourselves superior beings to anyone, we are just plain people that very deeply believed that Cuba has a right to be independent."
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, May 24, 1973 (1/2)
DO NOT USE - Jim LEHRER introduces 2nd new witness, Alfred BALDWIN, a former FBI agent that monitored the WIRETAPS from the WATERGATE BURGLARY. LEHRER says that BALDWIN was sorry about his role in the affair.
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, May 24, 1973 (1/2)
Alfred BALDWIN, younger man in tan suit, testifying on that issue. "I have attempted to tell the whole truth of this incident to the Government. I believe that as I do now there is only one Government that I have talked truthful to the U.S. attorney, as I will do to this committee. I do not regret this decision, although my life was at that time shattered. I cannot now find employment and I have been without funds. My family has been disgraced. I believe that since I was working for the former Attorney General and White House officials I would not question to do what I was asked to do. Now, I regret only that decision. Regardless of this, I shall now follow through with my commitment to tell the Government and the American people the truth."