XPost: alt.history.what-if, talk.politics.misc, alt.politics
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From: byker@do~rag.net

"Edward Stasiak" wrote in message news:0bea7e3e-c0be-4b5b-b6ce-b9d3610eda34@googlegroups.com...

WolfBear

In which cases could an ordinary person have had a huge influence on
history?

Frank Wills doesn’t notice the duct tape on the door latches.

“Frank Wills (February 4, 1948 – September 27, 2000) was an American security guard best known for his role in foiling the June 17, 1972
break-in at the Democratic National Committee inside the Watergate complex
in Washington, D.C.

Then 24, Wills called the police after discovering that locks at the
complex had been tampered with. Five men were arrested inside the
Democratic headquarters, which they had planned to bug. The arrests
triggered the Watergate scandal and eventually the resignation of
President Richard M. Nixon in 1974.”

It's interesting that after his discharge, Lt. William Calley received
hundreds of job offers (a LOT of folks considered him a hero that the Army
had used as a scapegoat), yet Frank Wills, the black security guard who discovered the Watergate break-in in 1972, had a hell of time finding work after quitting the Watergate Hotel. Would-be employers feared he was being watched by Big Brother or something and didn't want government agents coming around asking questions about him. Wills said one Washington university
told him it feared losing federal funds if it hired him. The last time I saw his face on TV, in the late 1990's, he was living in a trailer at the end of
a dirt road in South Carolina, so broke that when his mother died he
couldn't afford to bury her, so he donated her body to science...

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