James W. McCord Jr., a security expert who led a band of burglars into the shambles of the Watergate scandal and was the first to expose the White House crimes and cover-ups that precipitated the ...

The greatest tragedy and the greatest scandal in 20th-century American politics have intersected in the latest batch of files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy released Tuesday night.

May 11-- May 11-- In the mid-1970s, James McCord was a household name. The former CIA and FBI agent was arrested at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., while burglarizing the Democratic Party's ...

We are marking a milestone, 50 years of NPR, with a look back at stories from the archive. On June 17, 1972, a band of five burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the ...

GREG KELLY (HOST): All right. Who's that guy? Looks like an ordinary guy, right? Well, not an ordinary guy. He was career CIA, and his name is James McCord. And he was one of the Watergate burglars.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The major problem with the Watergate trial is that the prosecution has not gotten to the bottom of the sordid affair, because it has refused to go after those at the top. Last ...

On this day, June 17, in 1972, five burglars were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington. Frank Willis, a security guard at ...

Here's a look at Watergate, the 1970s political scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Timeline: June 17, 1972 - Five men are arrested after breaking into Democratic National ...

Martha Mitchell was a flamboyant Washington socialite whose husband was embroiled in the Watergate scandal. Her shocking ...