Frank Wills: The Real Hero of Watergate

Security guard Frank Wills, the man who brought down president Nixon

On June 17, 1972, security guard Frank Wills was making his midnight rounds at the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C., when he noticed tape over the lock of a basement door. Thinking another worker had left it there accidentally, he removed it. Willis later found tape again in the same place. He called the police, and the rest is history. Two years later, President Nixon resigned in disgrace over his involvement in the coverup of the Watergate break-in.

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Frank Wills, an unsung hero of the Watergate break-in scandal suffered the consequences of his actions in 1972