Barry Serafin was a young CBS television reporter when he covered an arraignment in 1972 for burglars who’d broken into the Democratic Party’s National Committee offices at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. At the time, the Roseburg native didn’t think much of the burglary. “It was more bizarre than anything else,” Serafin said. “We didn’t see any political import. It was just a bizarre event.” Serafin, 71, of Eugene, who spoke Tuesday about his 35 years as a broadcast journalist to the Roseburg Kiwanis Club at Kowloon Restaurant in Roseburg, would soon find out the break-in was much more …




