Editing G. Gordon Liddy (section)

=== Youth, family, education ===
Liddy was born in [[Brooklyn]] on November 30, 1930.<ref name="WP obit"/>  His father, Sylvester James Liddy, was a lawyer; his mother was Maria (Abbaticchio) Liddy.<ref name="NYT obit"/> His family was of [[Irish Americans|Irish]] and [[Italian Americans|Italian]] descent, and Liddy had a strict [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] upbringing.<ref>Amy Tikkanen, 
[https://www.britannica.com/biography/G-Gordon-Liddy 'G. Gordon Liddy']. ''Brittanica'', 5 July 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2024</ref> He was named for [[George Gordon Battle]], a noted [[attorney at law|attorney]] and [[Tammany Hall]] leader.<ref name="WP obit">{{cite news|title=G. Gordon Liddy, undercover operative convicted in Watergate scandal, dies at 90|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/gordon-liddy-dead/2021/03/30/4d50c40c-91ae-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html|first=Michael|last=Dobbs|date=March 30, 2021|access-date=March 31, 2021|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|archive-date=March 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210331000031/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/gordon-liddy-dead/2021/03/30/4d50c40c-91ae-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He was raised in [[Hoboken, New Jersey|Hoboken]]<ref>Grove, Lloyd. [https://archive.today/20130411175606/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/77780698.html?dids=77780698:77780698&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+16,+2001&author=Lloyd+Grove+Washington+Post+Staff+Writer&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=The+Reliable+Source&pqatl=google "The Reliable Source"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', August 16, 2001. Accessed February 6, 2013. "When G. Gordon Liddy was a puny lad in Hoboken, N.J., he roasted and ate a rat – 'to demonstrate to myself my lack of fear', the convicted Watergate burglar explained in his 1980 autobiography, ''Will''."</ref> and [[West Caldwell, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wechsler |first1=Philip |date=August 27, 1973 |title=Liddy Is Recalled As Youth in Jersey |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/27/archives/liddy-is-recalled-as-youth-in-jersey-tenacity-recalled-average.html |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |access-date=May 16, 2023 |archive-date=April 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422093259/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/27/archives/liddy-is-recalled-as-youth-in-jersey-tenacity-recalled-average.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He attended [[St. Benedict's Preparatory School]], his father's alma mater, in [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]].<ref name="NYT obit"/>