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Secret Tapes Listen in on Nixon Presidency Under Grips of Watergate Scandal
Secret Tapes Listen in on Nixon Presidency Under Grips of Watergate Scandal…
A Look Back at the Senate Watergate Hearings
EmbedVideo(6481, 482, 304); The Watergate hearings began on May 17, 1973. Public Television aired all 250 hours of testimony that summer. Here are some of the highlights. Video edited by Justin Scuiletti The Watergate scandal began with a…
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Covering Watergate: 40 Years Later With MacNeil And Lehrer
On May 17, 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer launched public broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings. Forty years later, the two recount their memories after some of the more gripping moments and how their partnership changed not…
15 Figures Who Made Watergate an American Epic
On May 17, 1973, Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., gavelled in the first public hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, better known as the Senate Watergate Committee. The impending result was almost unfathomable. The months that…
EmbedVideo(6418, 482, 304); "Covering Watergate," a PBS NewsHour special report, will air May 17. Forty years ago, in the summer of 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer led public broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings -- co-anchoring…
Watch the NewsHour's Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer introduce historic gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Watergate hearings on May 17, 1973.
The Watergate complex is located along a sharp bend in the Potomac River. A dozen blocks from the White House, the irregularly shaped buildings seem to be from another era. Designed in…
W. Mark Felt, the former FBI official who revealed himself as "Deep Throat" 30 years after he tipped off Washington Post reporters to the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon, has died at age 95.
Former FBI official W. Mark Felt claims to be Deep Throat, the legendary source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate cover-up to The Washington Post, Vanity Fair magazine said Tuesday. The Washington Post confirmed Felt's story, bringing to a…
