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It’s been said that there’s no time like the present. But where we are now is often the result of where we’ve been in the past. With that in mind, Briefly Legal invites you to travel back in time to take a look at what happened during this week in legal history:

June 14, 1922, marked the first time a U.S. president spoke on the radio, when President Warren G. Harding gave a Flag Day address that was broadcast over the airwaves. Calvin Coolidge is credited with using radio specifically as a means of communicating with the American public three years later.

June 14 also marks the conviction of America鈥檚 favorite baby doctor. On that day in 1968, Dr. Benjamin Spock was convicted in a federal district court in Boston of aiding draft resisters. Spock, a well-known antiwar leader, was arrested several times for protesting the Vietnam War. His conviction was overturned in 1969.

About two months after the U.S. entered World War I, Congress passed the Espionage Act on June 15, 1917. The act was intended to prevent people from sharing information that aided America鈥檚 enemies or hindered its military operations during the war. Punishment for the crime was up to 20 years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine.

June 17 marks the 40th anniversary of the Watergate burglars鈥� arrest at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. The arrests, which included James McCord, security chief for Richard Nixon鈥檚 Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), ignited an investigation that found Nixon had approved illegal attempts to derail the Democratic party and led to his resignation.

On June 20, 1947, notorious mafia member Benjamin 鈥淏ugsy鈥� Siegel was murdered in the Beverly Hills home of his mistress, Virginia Hill. Siegel is perhaps best known for establishing the first hotel/casino in Las Vegas, then a little known town in the middle of the Nevada desert. The suspected mastermind behind Siegel鈥檚 murder was his partner in organized crime, Lucky Luciano.

Thanks to History.com for this week’s legal tidbits.