By Ryan Shepard On June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, a Black security guard, was working the night shift at the Watergate office building in Washington D.C. when he called the police after discovering that a lock had been taped over to a room in the basement. When the police came they began checking darkened offices and would find five men on the sixth-floor headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. One of the men captured in the burglary told prosecutors that President Nixon’s re-election committee was behind the break-in. Nixon, who would go on to win re-election that November, led the coverup by instructing the CIA to stop the FBI’s investigation. After it was revealed through White House tapes that Nixon was central in the coverup, the President resigned in 1974 rather than face impeachment and conviction.