The Ballad of a Watergate Security Guard

In 1975, the civil rights activist and musician Reverend Douglas Kirkpatrick came to the WNYC studios and performed "The Ballad of Frank Wills." The song tells the story of the Watergate break in and the eventual resignation of Richard Nixon on August 9th, 1974. What makes the song so great is that it's told from the perspective of Frank Willls, the security guard who discovered the five burglars in the DNC headquarters.

Listen to track above and Kirkpatrick's entire in in-studio performance on Dave Sear's Folk and Baroque below. Original airdate, January 1st, 1975.