Watergate conspirator Jeb Stuart Magruder has died

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DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Jeb Stuart Magruder, the man who claimed to have heard President Richard Nixon
order the Watergate break-in, has died. He was 79.
Jeff Hull, owner of Hull Funeral Service in Danbury, Connecticut, says Magruder died May 11 of
complications from a stroke.
Magruder was a businessman who became Nixon’s deputy campaign director and then served in the Republican
president’s administration.
He spent seven months in prison for lying about the involvement of Nixon’s re-election committee in the
1972 break-in at Washington’s Watergate complex. The burglary eventually led to the president’s
resignation.
Magruder later became a minister serving in California, Ohio and Kentucky, and a church fundraising
consultant. In 2003, he moved to suburban Columbus, Ohio.

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