Two Failed Attempts: Memorial Day Weekend 1972
The Watergate conspirators who were apprehended on and after June 17 volunteered testimony about an earlier May 28 burglary they said they had been involved in at the Watergate, and also volunteered information about two previous unsuccessful attempts during Memorial Day weekend 1972. There was no evidence or external knowledge of any such earlier burglary that could have been used to prosecute them on the additional counts of illegal entry and wiretapping for any such earlier burglary without their volunteered testimony.
There is no physical evidence of a first burglary on May 28, or of any of the prior unsuccessful attempts the participants described.
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