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  Frank Wills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Wills (February 4, 1948 – September 27, 2000) was the security guard who uncovered the break in that led to the Watergate scandal.
One of the five burglars — Frank Sturgis, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martinez, Bernard L. Barker and James W. McCord — noticed that the duct tape had been removed, and replaced another piece of duct tape on the door (the duct tape was placed there to prevent the door from locking behind).
Wills died of complications from a brain tumor on September 27, 2000 at the age of 52 in a hospital in Augusta, Georgia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Wills   (267 words)

  
 aust-paf - pafg10.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Irene Jessie Wills was born on 9 Jun 1910.
Frank Graham Wills was born on 4 Feb 1919 in Bonnie Doone, Nabageena.
Frank had two sisters - Edna Mae born October 1917 and died February 1920 (she was buried at Footscray cemetery, Baptist section A3 509), the youngest of the family, Marjorie Enid was born February 13, 1920 less than a week before the death of her sister, Edna.
users.tpg.com.au /sharenet/fam/aust-paf/pafg10.htm   (2297 words)

  
 New Burlington, Ohio: When A Town Dies
Louie Wills is rural ritual, part of the quiet process of elemental disintegration which begins with the separation and movement of family and ends years later in death itself.
Frank did not like being a school teacher, it confined a man. The summers in the fields of Port Williams, the sun baking out of him the sums and equations of a winter in the classroom, gave him new prospects.
Wills did not notice which things remained unchanged and which things did not, either in New Burlington or in the country she could only partially belong to.
www.aliciapatterson.org /APF001973/Baskin/Baskin05/Baskin05.html   (1868 words)

  
 The Washington Informer: Regional
Much overlooked, however, is the contribution of an obscure African-American security guard named Frank Wills, whose alert action led to the discovery of a burglary at the Watergate Hotel and the subsequent exposure of a political scandal that lasted for more than two years.
At 1:47 am, Wills alerted the police and the break-in of the offices leased by the Democratic National Committee was defined as a “third rate burglary.” The capture of the Watergate burglars set off a train of events that resulted in the resignation of President Nixon in August 1974.
Wills, who played himself in a brief cameo role in the movie “All The President’s Men,” quit his job as a security officer, reportedly, because he did not receive a raise for his for his role in discovering the burglary.
www.washingtoninformer.com /ARFrankWills2005June6.html   (681 words)

  
 Eavesdropping Detection History - Frank WIlls
Wills made his rounds again – at approximately 1:55 am – and saw the tape had been replaced.
In 1983 Wills was sentenced to a year in prison for shoplifting – a pair of sneakers.
Frank Wills died broke on September 27, 2000 at age 52 in a hospital in Augusta, Georgia.
www.spybusters.com /History_1972_Frank_WIlls.html   (522 words)

  
 Frank Wills - Ron's Log
Wills removed the tape, but when he returned a while later to find another piece in its place, he decided to make the pivotal phone call to the D.C. police.
Just a feeling Frank Wills had 25 years ago led to one of the biggest political scandals in the country's history and the downfall of a president.
Wills, 49, can look out across the lawn and watch that night unfold 25 years ago today when he was working as a security guard in the Watergate Office Building.
www.rbgilbert.com /log/frankwills.html   (1552 words)

  
 DETNEWS | Weblog
Frank Wills, Jr., the night watchman who discovered the Watergate break-in on that fateful night in 1972, called the police and set off a torrent which would ultimately bring President Richard Nixon's government down.
Frank Wills is a hero to many of us, and that's why I'm writing this: so that the record for historical posterity will be straight.
Frank Wills opened more than the door to a burglary in the Watergate complex; he opened the door for the light to shine on the dirty laundry in America.
info.detnews.com /weblog/index.cfm?blogid=4264   (643 words)

  
 Frank Wills, Watergate security guard, dies at 52 [Free Republic]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Wills followed the officers to the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate.
Wills made headlines in 1983 when a Georgia court convicted him of shoplifting a $12 pair of sneakers.
At the time, Wills said he was going to buy the shoes for his son and was hiding them in a bag so they would be a surprise.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39d2af4c27df.htm   (605 words)

  
 win-george - pafg04.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Nellie Jessie WILLS (Frank Edward, George Edward, Edward) was born on 27 Mar 1887.
Frank Stanley WILLS (Frank Edward, George Edward, Edward) was born on 18 Feb 1891 in Johnsonville, Vic.
Frank was on Gallipoli and in France 1915 to 1919 and his daughter, Winifred, has written up his diaries for her family.
users.tpg.com.au /sharenet/fam/win-george/pafg04.htm   (232 words)

  
 Frank Wills ‘blew the whistle’ on Watergate
On June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, an African American worker, was making his rounds on the graveyard shift at the Watergate buildings when he sounded the alarm about the break-in.
Frank Wills was sentenced to a year in jail in 1983 for allegedly trying to shoplift a $12 pair of sneakers.
Frank Wills epitomizes the plight of hundreds of thousands of low-paid security guards today, many of whom are African American.
www.workers.org /2005/us/frank-wills-0623   (572 words)

  
 West Covina Police Chief Frank Wills named to Pacific Clinics Board of Directors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
As a member of Pacific Clinics Board of Directors, Wills will co-chair the Public Policy and Education Committee providing leadership that will heighten public awareness of mental health issues and the issue of the Uninsured in America.
Frank Wills was appointed Chief of Police for the City of West Covina in 1998.
Chief Wills was awarded the 2002 "Badge of Courage Award by the San Gabriel Chapter of the Boy Scouts of America.
www.pacificclinics.org /west_covina_police_chief_frank_w.htm   (310 words)

  
 Greenwich Village Gazette: Columns: Randy Burns
Frank was able to take his case as far as the Supreme Court, but fell short of his plea.
Frank couldn't afford to bury his own mother, so he was forced to donate her body to science.
Frank Wills did not live his life fighting for a place in history.
www.gvny.com /columns/burns/randy_burns09-13-02.html   (811 words)

  
 Wills, Frank (1822 - 1856) -- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
Frank Wills was an English-born architect and member of the Exeter Architectural Society who came to Philadelphia to lecture in 1848.
Wills had originally emigrated from England in 1845 with the Right Reverend John Medley, the First Bishop of New Brunswick, Canada.
Frank Wills was the author of Ancient Ecclesiastical Architecture and Its Principles, Applied to the Wants of the Church at the Present Day (New York: Stanford & Swords, 1850).
www.philadelphiabuildings.org /pab/app/ar_display.cfm?ArchitectId=A1508   (303 words)

  
 fwills
Frank spent the next stretch of years going from one job to another.
She died in 1992 and Frank couldn't afford to do a thing with his own mother's body, so he donated it to science.
Wills, and I wonder why it is that decent men must always bear the burden of those of lesser worth.
www.kenyada.com /fwills.htm   (1104 words)

  
 Mike's Comment of the Week - KILL THE MESSENGER--SLOWLY
Wills had his 15 minutes of fame, based on his discovering the famous taped door at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC, on the night of June 17, 1972.
If Wills had not done his job, life would have gone on, Nixon would have served out his second term, people would have been less cynical about government, and the elite media would have far less influence.
Far better to be in denial, forgetting that he even existed, thus maintaining the illusion that they themselves created the source of their wealth and fame.
www.gasdetection.com /MDS/m100900.html   (512 words)

  
 PR: New How-To Love Book Secretly Reveals Watergate’s Deep Throat
Frank Wills is the author of “How to Make Love to a Real Black Man,” a perceptive book that reveals valuable information to fl women who seek culturally conscious fl men.
Interestingly, Frank Wills (no relation) is also the name of the now deceased African-American security guard at the Watergate office complex whose phone call to DC police set in motion the events of the Watergate scandal.
While others became famous, Frank Wills was twice arrested for shoplifting, lived in a dilapidated house with no electricity or running water and finally died of a brain tumor.
www.prwebdirect.com /releases/2005/1/prweb203842.htm   (607 words)

  
 Watergate: 28 September 2000 - Frank Wills, Man Who Discovered Watergate, Dies, 52
Frank Wills, the man who discovered the Watergate burglary, has died in the United States, aged 52.
Wills was the security attendant who discovered taped locks in the Watergate office and apartment complex on June 17, 1972.
When Wills alerted the police, the capture of the Watergate burglars set off a train of events that resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon in August 1974.
pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/21947/20011112/vcepolitics.com/watergate/news/00-09-28.html   (115 words)

  
 School Committee August 10, 1999
Frank Wills moved to approve the Philosophy for first reading, Dana Berry seconded, and it was so voted, 5-0.
In response to a question from Frank Wills, Dr. Fleming confirmed that the Kosovo students were here for a maximum of one year and that she was researching the availability of Federal or State monies for educating the refugees.
Frank Wills made a motion to adjourn at 10:15 P.M. and it was so voted unanimously.
www.provincetowngov.org /mtbsc/sc990810.htm   (2094 words)

  
 Cognitive Therapy : Transforming the Image by Frank Wills [ISBN: 0761950826] - Find Cheap Textbook Prices & Save BIG
Despite the massive changes that have transformed cognitive therapy in recent years, many counselors still feel a lingering degree of resistance to the cognitive model and hold an image of cognitive therapy that is coldly rational and unimaginatively mechanistic in its methods.
Frank Wills and Diana Sanders describe its original methods clearly and simply, but concentrate mainly on the new wave of therapeutic creativity, which is sweeping through cognitive therapy and making an already effective therapeutic approach even more applicable to an increasingly wide client group and range of issues and problems.
It will be invaluable for training and practicing counselors in the fields of counseling psychology and social work.
www.gettextbooks.com /isbn_0761950826.html   (201 words)

  
 Frank Wills | BaseballLibrary.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Wills was a first-round pick out of Tulane University in the 1980 June draft.
Before the 1985 season he was traded to the New York Mets for Tim Leary,then sent along to the Seattle Mariners, where he posted a 5-11 record with a dreaful 6.00 ERA in 1985.
Switched to the bullpen in 1986 by the Cleveland Indians, Wills was unable to pitch significantly better.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/W/Wills_Frank.stm   (155 words)

  
 TOWN OF PROVINCETOWN
Fleming also reported that the National Faculty will be providing a site coordinator and that the hope was to reconvene the Panel on February 29, 2000.
Frank Wills   moved to approve the policy for a second reading, Dana Berry  seconded, and it was so voted, 5-0.
Frank Wills moved to approve the line item transfer in the amount of $2,500, Dana Berry seconded and it was so voted, 5-0.
www.provincetowngov.org /mtbsc/sc991109.htm   (1734 words)

  
 Starcats Astrology 2002: U.S. Politics. Watergate
"Frank Wills, the Watergate security guard who discovered the 1972 break-in that led to President Nixon's resignation, died Wednesday, September 27, 2000.
"Frank Wills, a young security guard working the graveyard shift at the Watergate Hotel, finds a piece of masking tape stuck to the lock of a door as he makes his rounds.
The stage is set for a national drama that will last more than two years, glue a nation to its television sets and result in the only presidential resignation in the history of the United States.
starcats.com /watergate/plumbers_arrested.htm   (227 words)

  
 Results in
The Black building guard who discovered the tape on the door of the Watergate building in Washington and touched off the biggest political scandal of the century was not remembered during the 30th observance of the event.
Frank Wills was not mentioned as the nation recalled the action that brought down the administration of President Richard Nixon.
Wills died in 2000 in South Carolina a broken man spiritually, mentally and financially.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1355/is_2_102/ai_88582466   (281 words)

  
 Making an Impact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Wills said he had no money to bury her.
But there was one moment when Frank Wills was involved in something that that changed history.
Security guard Frank Wills had helped put and end to the Watergate break-in, and, with time, the Presidency of Richard Nixon.
www.mondaymemo.net /001002feature.htm   (1210 words)

  
 Forums - Today's Topics
Wills succumbed to a brain tumor in Augusta, GA four years ago at the age of 52.
Wills was the darling of the media after his discovery became known.
Wills died as a destitute man, forgotten, with a criminal record for the shoplifting he resorted to in order to survive.
www.blackwebportal.com /nuforums/vm.cfm?Forum=6&Topic=70   (1472 words)

  
 Frank Wills
Frank Wills passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2000.
Wills' post-Watergate life was not all misery, though.
If I ever have a yard, I am erecting a statue of Frank Wills in it, to daily remind me of how lucky we are to have a watchman in the night.
nixonrules.freeservers.com /wills.html   (267 words)

  
 Frank Wills Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Frank Wills was born on Sunday, October 26, 1958, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Wills was 24 years old when he broke into the big leagues on July 31, 1983, with the Kansas City Royals.
His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Frank Wills baseball stats page.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=willsfr01   (300 words)

  
 George Curry, Journalist, Public Speaker, Affirmative Action Expert
However, the real hero of Watergate was Frank Wills, an alert, Black, $80-a-week security guard who discovered the burglary at the hotel-office complex overlooking the Potomac River.
In an interview years later with the Augusta Chronicle, he recalled: “A piece of tape was on the door; the catch on the door was taped back.
Wills, who died penniless five years ago in Augusta, Ga. at the age of 52, remains a forgotten hero.
www.georgecurry.com /columns/index1.shtml?id=1118066094   (722 words)

  
 thelastdayprophet THE WATERGATE BREAK IN ?
Wills done, should have commended with apreciation awards and a substantial sum of amount monies, to help improve his living conditions.
Frank Wills was a twenty-four year old security guard at the Watergate Hotel.
Frank couldn't afford to do a thing with his own mother's body, so he donated it to science.
www.geocities.com /thelastdayprophet/the-watergate-break-in.html   (3524 words)

  
 Police Chief
A past winner of the "Los Angeles County Law Enforcement Executive of the Year Award" by the Peace Officers Shrine Club of Los Angeles, Chief Wills is known for his dedication to his Department and his innovative approaches to crime reduction and Community Policing.
In November 1998, Chief Wills was appointed Police Chief for the City of West Covina.
Chief Wills holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cal State Fresno, a Master in Public Administration from Cal State Long Beach and a Master of Science from Cal Poly Pomona.
www.westcov.org /cityhall/depts/policedir.html   (153 words)

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