Watergate in pictures

Fifty years after the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at Washington’s Watergate complex, we are still piecing together the story of a crime, and a coverup, that brought down a presidency.

“Watergate Breaks Wide Open,” by artist Jack David. (Courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine/Estate of Jack Davis)

Joan Felt and her father W. Mark Felt appear in front of their home Tuesday, May 31, 2005, in Santa Rosa, Calif. Mark Felt, 91, was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s. Felt claims he was “Deep Throat,” the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon’s Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

In this Oct. 15, 1974, file photo, G. Gordon Liddy wears a beard and a mustache upon his release in Washington. Liddy posted a $5,000 bond after serving 21 months in jail. Liddy, a mastermind of the Watergate burglary and a radio talk show host after emerging from prison, died at age 90. His son, Thomas Liddy, confirmed the death Tuesday, March 30, 2021, but did not reveal the cause. (AP Photo/File)

H.R. Haldeman, Richard Nixon’s former chief of staff, talks to the media in Washington in this 1973 file photo. He was convicted of perjury, conspiracy and obstruction of justice in the Watergate scandal and served 18 months in prison. (AP Photo, File)

John D. Ehrlichman in a 1968 photo. He was Nixon’s White House counsel and assistant to the president for domestic affairs, and was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury, and spent a year and a half in prison. (AP Photo)

Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell reads newspaper front page headline, “Indict 6 Nixon Plumbers,” inside his car as he leaves U.S. District Court in New York City, March 7, 1973. Mitchell, the personification of Nixon’s “law and order” administration, was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury (he also lied to the Senate Watergate Committee) and served 19 months in prison. (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine)

Martha Mitchell (1918 – 1976), the wife of Attorney General John N Mitchell, in a 1971 photo. Her comments to the press, defending her husband as a “fall guy” in the scandal, led to her kidnapping. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Fred LaRue testifies before the Senate Watergate hearing in Washington DC, July 1973 after pleading guilty to a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

In this 1973 file photo, Rose Mary Woods, President Richard Nixon’s secretary at her White House desk, demonstrates the “Rose Mary Stretch” which the White House claimed could have resulted in the accidental erasure of part of the Watergate tapes. (AP Photo/File)

President Nixon, left, walks to the White House with aide H.R. Haldeman in this December, 1969, photo from files. Recently released tapes capture Nixon ordering the theft of the Brookings Institution s files on Vietnam a year before the Watergate break-in, the San Francisco Examiner reported Thursday, Nov. 21, 1996. During a June 30, 1971, Oval Office conversation, Nixon asked Haldeman to take the liberal think tank s files relating to the Vietnam War, the Examiner said. (AP Photo)

This is the the view of the Watergate complex, right, from room 723 of the former Howard Johnson Hotel in Washington Tuesday, June 17, 1997, on the 25th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, which led to the downfall of President Nixon. The room was used as a look-out during the break-in of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt, left, embraces Cuban exile Manuel Artime, a leader of the 1963 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, after a news conference in Miami, in this March 3, 1977 file photo. Hunt, who helped organize the Watergate break-in that led to the greatest scandal in American political history and the downfall of Richard Nixon\’s presidency, died Tuesday, Jan 23, 2007. He was 88. (AP Photo)

In this May 18, 1973, file photo, the hearing of the Senate select committee on the Watergate case on Capitol Hill in Washington. In 1973, millions of Americans tuned in to what Variety called “the hottest daytime soap opera” — the Senate Watergate hearings that eventually led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. (AP Photo)

In this April 29, 1974, file photo, President Richard M. Nixon points to the transcripts of the White House tapes after he announced during a nationally televised speech that he would turn over the transcripts to House impeachment investigators, in Washington. Nixon resigned to avoid being impeached in connection with the Watergate scandal. (AP Photo/File)

In this Aug. 3, 1973, file photo, the Senate Watergate Committee hearings continueon Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are: Sen. Lowell P. Weicker, Jr; Sen. Edward J. Gurney, Fred Thompson, Sen. Howard H. Baker, Jr; Rufus Edmisten, Sen. Sam Ervin; Sam Dash, Sen. Joseph M. Montoya, Sen. Daniel K. Inouye was absent. Testifying is Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters. (AP Photo/File)

In this Aug. 7, 1974 file photo, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., center, speaks to reporters after meeting with President Richard Nixon at the White House to discuss Nixon’s decision on resigning. Flanked by Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, left and House GOP Leader John Rhodes of Arizona, right, Goldwater said Nixon has made “no decision” on whether to resign. The three top Republican leaders in Congress paid a solemn visit to Nixon, bearing the message that he faced near-certain impeachment due to eroding support in his own party on Capitol Hill. Nixon, who’d been entangled in the Watergate scandal for two years, announced his resignation the next day. (AP Photo)

In this Aug. 9, 1974 file photo, President Richard Nixon waves goodbye from the steps of his helicopter outside the White House, after he gave a farewell address to members of the White House staff. Nixon was taken to nearby Andrews Air Force Base where he boarded Air Force One for a flight to California. On Aug. 7, 1974, three top Republican leaders in Congress paid a solemn visit to Nixon at the White House, bearing the message that he faced near-certain impeachment due to eroding support in his own party on Capitol Hill. Nixon, who’d been entangled in the Watergate scandal for two years, announced his resignation the next day. (AP Photo/Chick Harrity)

Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox is surrounded by newsmen outside D.C. District Court in Washington on Friday, Oct. 19, 1973, after ousted White House counsel John W. Dean III pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct the Watergate investigation. Cox said further charges would be brought with the exception of perjury if Dean’s testimony proves false. (AP Photo)