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Discussion Topic: Deep Throat My Azz! The Real Watergate Hero Was Frank Wills, a Black Security Guard! |
1 thinker |
06-04-2005 @ 3:18 PM |
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I am becoming sickened by all the praise being heaped on W. Mark Felt, being credited as “the Hero of Watergate.” Deep Throat my Azz! The real hero was Frank Wills, a Black security guard, without whose input there would have been no Watergate scandal!
Wills succumbed to a brain tumor in Augusta, GA four years ago at the age of 52.
W. Mark Felt, a former F.B.I man., dubbed Deep Throat, deserves all the credit in the world for being the confidential news source who leaked information to the media, Story however, history needs to remember Wills, the Watergate building guard who discovered the office break-in that eventually toppled President Richard Nixon from the White House.Click Here for Wills
Wills was the darling of the media after his discovery became known. Despite all the media attention that he received, and the fact that his efforts helped spark Nixon’s resignation, Wills was largely ignored and did not receive a raise for his contribution to history.
While others went on to achieve fame and fortune, Wills experienced mostly destitution. He did make a little money on the talk show circuit, but by 1993 he was so poor that he was washing his clothes in a bucket until James Kilby founded TEAR (Treat Every American Right) to raise money for Wills.
This message was edited by thinker on 6-4-05 @ 3:25 PM
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| 2dawilliams |
06-04-2005 @ 4:11 PM |
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thinker
You are so correct!!! Without Frank Wills there would have been no Watergate. Frank Wills was never ever able to get a decent job after Watergate. From time to time you would read about him in newspapers being arrested for shoplifting or vagrancy. All the Black leaders abandoned him. He was left homeless. He is all but forgotten in history. This speaks volumes about American politics and the society in general.
Me
This message was edited by dawilliams on 6-6-05 @ 9:33 AM
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| 3thinker |
06-05-2005 @ 2:51 PM |
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dawilliams
With one phone call to the cops Wills took down the President of the United States, Dean, Halderman, Ehrlichman, and G. Gordon Liddy.
They did allow Wills to play himself in a movie, but I wonder if the big stars of that movie, Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, even said hello to Wills, who was only making $80 a week when he discovered the break-in.
This message was edited by thinker on 6-5-05 @ 6:50 PM
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| 4thinker |
06-05-2005 @ 2:51 PM |
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Pardon the double post.
This message was edited by thinker on 6-5-05 @ 6:49 PM
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| 5dawilliams |
06-06-2005 @ 9:34 AM |
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thinker
It is my opinion that the government had a vendetta against this man. They made sure he never got a decent job. They made sure he never had stability in his life after Watergate. One man just one little lousy nigga ruined Richard Nixon.
Me
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| 6Dready |
06-06-2005 @ 11:45 AM |
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thinker,dawilliams
I've never heard of this "cat"?? I will definitely look into his life now, thanks!!
Oh yeah, died from a brain tumor, eh?? Sounds like the CIA to me! 
Sankofa! Return to your roots!
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| 7thinker |
06-06-2005 @ 3:08 PM |
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Dready
You're welcome. And you can bet that the white media will make sure that you don't hear about him. This is why I posted the topic, and one of the reasons that I love the BWP!
This message was edited by thinker on 6-6-05 @ 3:09 PM
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| 8BWPStaff |
06-06-2005 @ 9:16 PM |
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 Here is a picture of another TRUE American hero from the Watergate era.
TheCreator is the BlackWebPortal's conversation creator.
This message was edited by TheCreator on 6-6-05 @ 9:19 PM
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| 9dawilliams |
06-07-2005 @ 7:02 AM |
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Dready
The mere fact that you have never heard of this man is mute testimony to the fact that there has been a concerted effort to obliterate him from the American psyche.
If I were him I would have made it my business to be camped out in front of the White House everyday DEMANDING justice from Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, or whoever was the sitting President.
He made the front cover of Jet Magazine when I was still in Middle School. I used to be a Jet Magazine junky. That is why I know about him. All the Black leaders promised to help him. None of them came through. They got the word from someone to abandon this guy. He was working for Motown briefly but they let him go. From then it was homelesness and petty scrapes with the law. From time to time you would read about him getting busted for shoplifting. The man could not even afford to buy food for himself.
The most notable incident was the time he was standing in a food line for the homeless and he told someone who he was and what he had done. The man ofcoarse did not believe him. An altercation broke out and there was a physical fight. He was arrested. He then made the news. That is how badly this man was treated for the remainder of his life.
Me
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| 10grassroot |
06-07-2005 @ 7:42 AM |
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Frank Wills: The Real Hero of Watergate
After making his rounds, Wills went across the street to the Howard Johnson hotel, where he had a serving of orange juice. When he returned to his 6th-floor rounds at 1:55 A.M., he paused.
“There, the same door had been retaped the same way,” he told the newspaper. “Something sort of alerted me about that. Just a feeling, you know.”
Wills telephoned D.C. police. And when they arrived, officers shut down the elevator, blocked access doors and climbed six flights of stairs until they came to the door that had been re-taped.
“We discovered a door had been forced open with a crowbar or something,” Wills said. “That door led directly into the Democratic office, the DNC office.” He noticed a silhouette of a man.
“The (police) asked the person in the shadow, ‘Who is that? Come out.’ I was searching for a light switch. When we turned the lights on, one person, then two persons, then three persons came out and on down the line,” Wills told the Augusta Chronicle.
In all, five men were apprehended: James W. McCord Jr., Frank Sturgis, Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez and Eugenio Martinez. They had broken into the offices of the Democratic National Committee three weeks earlier to plant electronic eavesdropping equipment and had returned to repair it.
Nixon’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, tried to dismiss the break-in as a “third-rate burglary.” But it quickly became clear that it was much more than that. One of the burglars, James McCord, identified himself as a CIA agent. Another burglar, Bernard Barker, carried on him the phone number of E. Howard Hunt, the chief of security at the Committee to Re-Elect the President.
While the Watergate stars went on to earn millions, Wills had difficulty getting and holding jobs. He moved back to North Augusta, S.C. in 1990 after his mother suffered a stroke. He did odd jobs and complained: “I was treated like a criminal myself.” In 1983, a Georgia court convicted him of stealing a $12 pair of sneakers.
Wills, who died penniless five years ago in Augusta, Ga. at the age of 52, remains a forgotten hero.
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| 11grassroot |
06-07-2005 @ 7:42 AM |
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quote:
I used to be a Jet Magazine junky
Hummmm....I was too!
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| 12thinker |
06-07-2005 @ 1:38 PM |
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dawilliams
While we are heaping laurels on our forgotten hero, we must not neglect to mention the one black man of substance who stepped up to the plate and used his rank and position to help Frank Wills. That man was James M. Kilby who won Dr. King’s “Walking King’s Talk Award” after finding the organization Treat Every American Right that helped Frank Wills. Read about him at this site
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| 13thinker |
06-07-2005 @ 1:38 PM |
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Pardon double post.
This message was edited by thinker on 6-7-05 @ 1:46 PM
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| 14sl8 |
06-08-2005 @ 10:45 AM |
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deep throat my azz....sounds like a gay porno flic.
anyway..whats really going on...why this new distraction all of a sudden....i wonder whats cookin in hells kitchen
in truth, SL8
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| 15thinker |
06-08-2005 @ 2:33 PM |
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The news media has been having a field day talking about how great Deep Throat was, but not one newspaper, news organization or TV station has mentioned Frank Wills.
It's like everybody's eating peanut butter, but nobody's mentioning Dr. George Washington Carver.
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| 16dawilliams |
06-11-2005 @ 1:05 AM |
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thinker
It is the old story. Black history lost stolen or overlooked. What can I say.
Me
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| 17Armistead |
06-14-2005 @ 7:41 PM |
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Thinker,
I could not agree with you more. It was Wills that blew the lid off of illegal activity by simply doing his job as a security guard. When it was all said and done this man ended up jobless, leading a rather tragic life, and died a broken man. I may be wrong on these last two observations, but it appears that the things I read about him were not very happy moments in his life.
I guess the "Deep Throat," cloak and daggeer hing was more dramatic than some work-a-day fellow just doing his job.
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| 18thinker |
06-15-2005 @ 4:21 AM |
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Armistead
Welcome back. No, you are correct on all points. Wills died as a destitute man, forgotten, with a criminal record for the shoplifting he resorted to in order to survive.
We can look back in history of course and see thousands of Frank Wills in the black community--people that used their skills and backbone in some way to uplift their community and their country, but failed to get the recognition that they deserved.
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