{"id":24637,"date":"2022-05-11T12:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T17:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24637"},"modified":"2022-05-11T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T17:03:06","slug":"obit-watch-may-11-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24637","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: May 11, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"

Alfred Baldwin<\/a>, unindicted co-conspirator.<\/p>\n

Mr. Baldwin was the lookout for the Watergate burglars.<\/p>\n

During the first break-in, in late May, the burglars installed two listening devices, Mr. Baldwin said in his interview. He was stationed across the street at the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge, from which he eavesdropped on the phone taps. He had logged about 200 calls by the time Mr. McCord realized that the bugging devices weren\u2019t working properly and decided to stage a second incursion on June 17 to adjust them.<\/a>
\nIt was not clear at what point Mr. Baldwin saw that the police had arrived on the scene. A 2012 account in Washingtonian magazine said that at the time he was \u201cglued to the TV watching a horror movie, \u2018Attack of the Puppet People,\u2019 on Channel 20 \u2014 oblivious to the situation developing across the street.\u201d<\/a>
\nBut that account was wrong, Mr. Baldwin said. He said he had turned on the television to cover up the sound of his walkie-talkie, which he was using to communicate with the burglars.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

In short order, uniformed police swarmed the scene, and the jig was up. E. Howard Hunt, one of the conspirators who had slipped out of the Watergate, rushed over to Mr. Baldwin\u2019s motel room, told him to pack up the surveillance equipment, take it to Mr. McCord\u2019s house and then disappear.<\/a>
\n\u201cDoes that mean I\u2019m out of a job?\u201d Mr. Baldwin said he asked Mr. Hunt. But by then Mr. Hunt was out the door.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr. Baldwin rolled on the burglars and avoided charges. According to the NYT<\/strong>, he actually passed away in 2020, but his death only became known recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alfred Baldwin, unindicted co-conspirator. Mr. Baldwin was the lookout for the Watergate burglars. During the first break-in, in late May, the burglars installed two listening devices, Mr. Baldwin said in his interview. He was stationed across the street at the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge, from which he eavesdropped on the phone taps. He had logged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,57,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-nixon","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24638,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24637\/revisions\/24638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}