May 16 Watch A Look Back at the Senate Watergate Hearings A Look Back at the Senate Watergate Hearings… Continue watching
May 16 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… Continue reading
May 09 Watch How Did Watergate Affect You? In the summer of 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer led PBS’s gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings — launching the beginnings of what the PBS NewsHour is today. On May 17, the NewsHour will look back at the… Continue watching
May 06 How Did Watergate Affect You? 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… Continue reading
Apr 12 Watch Shields, Brooks Debate McConnell’s ‘Watergate,’ NCAA Winner Shields and Brooks Debate McConnell's 'Watergate,' Love and Politics… Continue watching
Jun 15 Watergate Remembered: Watch PBS’s 1973 Special Report Watch the NewsHour's Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer introduce historic gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Watergate hearings on May 17, 1973. Continue reading
Jun 15 Forty Years Later, Watergate Still Intrigues By Alex Bruns 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… Continue reading
Feb 22 Watch Former Nixon, Reagan Adviser Al Haig Dead at 85 Gen. Alexander Haig, who served as Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan and as an aide in the Nixon administration, died Saturday at age 85. Robert MacNeil sat down with Haig in 1987 during his bid for the Republican presidential… Continue watching
Dec 19 Watergate ‘Deep Throat’ Source Felt Dies at 95 By Admin, PBS News Hour 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. Continue reading