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listening. Terms apply. Good evening. We have a mystery story out of Washington.

Five people have been arrested and charged with breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the middle of the night.

Watergate.

Before Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, before Deep Throat, before the cover-up, there was the Watergate break-in itself and the arrest of the five men who did it.

At the time, almost nobody understood the significance of those arrests, or how they would lead to the fall of President Richard M. Nixon, or how they very nearly didn't happen at all.

Welcome to a special bonus episode of Flashback.

I'm Sean Braswell.

Today we consider another extremely fateful moment from history.

The summer night in 1972,

when five burglars were arrested at the exclusive Watergate condo and office complex in Washington, D.C.

Sometimes the fall of a powerful leader takes years of resistance in political organizing.

Sometimes it takes a bloody coup.

And sometimes, it's as simple as a single man doing nothing one night in a local bar.

They were called the Bum Squad. Late on a Friday night in June,

172, Sergeant Paul Leeper of the Washington DC Police Department

and two fellow officers were dressed up as hippies

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