Watergate Hearings: Fred Thompson vs. James McCord (1973)

May 22, 1973 - Fred Thompson questions James McCord about G. Gordon Liddy's plans for campaign espionage. Watch more from the hearings: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/09/united-states-senate-watergate-he...

Fred Dalton Thompson (born Freddie Dalton Thompson on August 19, 1942), is an American politician, actor, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, and radio host. He served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1994 through 2003.

Thompson served as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board at the United States Department of State, was a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence.

As an actor, Thompson has appeared in a large number of movies and television shows. He has frequently portrayed governmental figures. In the final months of his U.S. Senate term in 2002, Thompson joined the cast of the long-running NBC television series Law & Order, playing New York City District Attorney Arthur Branch.

In May 2007 he took a break from acting in order to run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. In 2009 he returned to acting with a guest appearance on the ABC television series Life on Mars; launched a radio show, The Fred Thompson Show, on Westwood One, co-hosted by his wife, Jeri; and is co-starring with Brian Dennehy in the movie Alleged, about the Scopes Monkey Trial.

He lives in McLean, Virginia.

James Walter McCord, Jr. (born July 26, 1924 in Waurika, Oklahoma) was the electronics expert involved in two break-ins of the Watergate complex. McCord was also a former CIA agent. He and four other accomplices, Frank Sturgis, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martinez and Bernard Barker, were arrested during the second break-in, which ignited the Watergate scandal. He attended Baylor University and was a graduate of George Washington University. He was interviewed and then hired by Jack Caulfield in January 1972 "for strict, solely defensive security work at the Republican National Committee and the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CRP)". One of the first men convicted in the Watergate criminal trial, McCord led the June 17, 1972 early-morning burglary of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C.. He was convicted on eight counts of conspiracy, burglary and wiretapping. He later wrote a letter to U.S. District Judge John Sirica stating that his plea and testimony, some of which he claimed was perjured, were compelled by pressure from White House counsel John Dean and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell. His letter set off the Watergate scandal in earnest by implicating many higher-ups in the Richard Nixon administration for covering up the conspiracy that led to the burglary.

Prior to his conviction, McCord served as a drive-through operator and also a security director for the CRP, and had worked for the FBI and CIA, where he was in charge of physical security at Langley headquarters, as well as serving as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. His security consulting firm, McCord Associates, provided security services to CRP.

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[themeaningoflife38]

@loyaldude10 Yes,and the fact that Howard Hunt admitted before his death that he and other cia agents were involved in JFK's murder.He also named LBJ,Cord Meyer,WIlliam Harvey as being involved.

It was ingnored by the media of course.

[loyaldude10]

@themeaningoflife38 ---dont forget E Howard Hunt, who was disguised as a bum on Dealey Plaza

[trannymomma]

McCord acted on behalf of the CIA to sabotage the Watergate break in order to protect the CIA's separate use of the DNC as base for a prostitution ring at the nearby Columbia Plaza apartments, where Democrat johns were surreptitiously filmed and audio recorded for extortion purposes, unbeknown to Nixon's men, except for CIA's Howard Hunt . See Jim Hougan's book "Secret Agenda" for details.

[Carollnn]

Wow! Fred Thompson is so young.

I would love to have been in the audience of the hearings.

[themeaningoflife38]

Frank Sturgis, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martinez and Bernard Barker were all members of Brigade 2506.Other members were photographed in Dealey Plaza on 11-22-63,Rip Robertson,Adrian O'Hare & Alfredo Duran.

[themeaningoflife38]

Just seconds after JFK was assassinated Bernard Barker was found by Dallas Deputy Seymour Weitzman behind the picket fence in Dealey Plaza displaying Secret Service ID.

[themeaningoflife38]

The Watergate burglars were also involved in the JFK assassination.That's why Watergate was never investigated.