Douglas Caddy

{{Short description|American attorney|bot=PearBOT 5}} '''Douglas Caddy''' (born March 23, 1938),{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} is an American attorney who was briefly counsel for the five men arrested for the Watergate burglaries, as well as two other men involved in the Watergate scandal, E. Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy.<ref name="Hudson">{{cite journal |last=Hudson |first=Mike |date=August 16, 2005 |title=Our "Deep Throat" |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52 |journal=The Advocate |issue=944 |location=Los Angeles |publisher=LPI Media Inc. |issn=0001-8996 |pages=52, 54, 56 |accessdate=July 21, 2014}}</ref>

==Background== Caddy was born in 1938.{{citation needed|date=July 2014}} He was educated at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S. degree) and New York University School of Law (J.D. degree).{{citation needed|date=July 2014}}

==Watergate== According to Caddy, he met Hunt at a public relations firm then became friends due to shared political views.<ref name="Hudson"/> He served as national director for Young Americans for Freedom and had volunteered for the Committee to Re-elect the President.<ref name="Hudson"/> Caddy said that he also provided routine legal work for Hunt.<ref name="Hudson"/>

Around 3 a.m. on the morning of June 17, 1972, Caddy stated that Hunt called him from an office in the Old Executive Office Building and said that they needed to talk.<ref name="Hudson"/> The two men met at Caddy's house where Hunt's predicament became evident.<ref name="Hudson"/> Caddy never spoke in court for Hunt, Liddy, or the five burglars.<ref name="Hudson"/> Inexperienced in criminal law, he enlisted the help of a criminal attorney to represent the five burglars.<ref name="Hudson"/> Liddy also retained Caddy's services on Hunt's advice.<ref name="Hudson"/>

Citing attorney–client privilege, Caddy refused to divulge to government investigators who arranged legal counsel for the burglars.<ref name="Hudson"/> Eleven days after the burglaries, Judge John Sirica of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia subpoenaed him to testify before a grand jury.<ref name="Hudson"/> Refusing to do so, he was found in contempt of court.<ref name="Hudson"/> Caddy alleged that judges and prosecutors attempted to manipulate him because he was gay.<ref name="Hudson"/> An appeals court eventually upheld his right to refuse to testify.<ref name="Hudson"/>

The character "Markham" in the 1976 film ''All the President's Men'' is based on Caddy.<ref name="Hudson"/>

==JFK assassination== Caddy claims that when he asked Howard Hunt why President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Hunt told him it was because Kennedy was about to disclose 'the Alien Presence' to the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gCpfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT79| author=Douglas Caddy| title=Being There: Eye Witness To History| publisher=TrineDay| date=2018| pages=79–80| isbn=9781634241151}}</ref>

==Later activities== As of 2005, Caddy was a private practice attorney in Houston, Texas.<ref name="Hudson"/>

==See also== Shearn Moody Jr.

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Caddy, Douglas}} Category:American gay men Category:20th-century American lawyers Category:American LGBTQ lawyers Category:Living people Category:1938 births Category:21st-century American LGBTQ people