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Martha Mitchell’s account of restraint after a call to the press
The account: Restrained and injected after phoning UPI's Helen Thomas about Watergate; her account publicly dismissed as drunkenness or delusion
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What the record says
California case and incident register · Batch 1
- Date
- Jun 1972
- People / institutions
- Martha Mitchell; security guard Steve King; a physician; Newport Beach hotel
- Mechanism
- Private physical restraint and forced sedation (not 5150)
- Allegation
- Restrained and injected after phoning UPI's Helen Thomas about Watergate; her account publicly dismissed as drunkenness or delusion
- Finding or outcome
- Later corroborated by Watergate record; no legal proceeding over the restraint located
- Open questions
- LEAD: find contemporaneous UPI/press accounts and King's later statements; confirm no 5150 was invoked
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Reference and provenance
1972-CA-MITCHELL