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Mar 12, 2024 · Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House. Photo: Sony Pictures Classics. Angle On The Scandal: One of the greatest mysteries surrounding Watergate was the identity of the man who tipped off the press - Mark Felt, AKA Deep Throat. This film tells the story of Watergate through Felt’s eyes.
Jun 17, 2022 · There have been movies based on the lives of colorful ancillary figures like Charles Colson (“Born Again”) and G. Gordon Liddy (“Will”). There’s even a satire about Watergate set in a convent, “Nasty Habits.”. Watergate, to filmmakers, is the gift that keeps on giving. This year included "Gaslight," a series starring Julia Roberts ...
Jun 17, 2022 · Watergate: High Crimes in the White House: Directed by Matthew DeVoe, Adam Goldfried. With Richard Ben-Veniste, Carl Bernstein, Alexander Butterfield, Dwight Chapin. Follows the crime and scandal that took down President Richard Nixon the day of the break-in at the Watergate Hotel.
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Richard Nixon orders the installation of a secret taping system that records all conversations in the Oval Office, his Executive Office Building office, and his Camp David office and on selected telephones in these locations.
The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers, the Defense Department's secret history of the Vietnam War. The Washington Postwill begin publishing the papers later in the week.
Nixon and his staff recruit a team of ex-FBI and CIA operatives, later referred to as “the Plumbers” to investigate the leaked publication of the Pentagon Papers. On September 9, the "plumbers" break into the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, in an unsuccessful attempt to steal psychiatric records to smear Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analy...
One of the “plumbers,” G. Gordon Liddy, is transferred to the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), where he obtains approval from Attorney General John Mitchell for a wide-ranging plan of espionage against the Democratic Party.
Liddy’s team breaks into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. for the first time, bugging the telephones of staffers.
Five men are arrested after breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters. Among the items found in their possession were bugging devices, thousands of dollars in cash and rolls of film. Days later, the White House denied involvement in the break-in.
Bob Woodward has his first of several meetings with the source and informant known as “Deep Throat,” whose identity, W. Mark Felt, the associate director of the FBI, was only revealed three decades later.
An article in The Washington Postreports that a check for $25,000 earmarked for Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign was deposited into the bank account of one of the men arrested for the Watergate break-in. Over the course of nearly two years, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein continue to file stories about the Watergate scandal, relying on many source...
Nixon announces that John Dean has completed an internal investigation into the Watergate break-in, and has found no evidence of White House involvement.
The Washington Post reports that while serving as Attorney General, John Mitchell had controlled a secret fund to finance intelligence gathering against Democrats. When Carl Bernstein calls Mitchell for comment, Mitchell threatens both Bernstein and Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Post. The Postprints the threat.
Jun 14, 2022 · The movies have portrayed Watergate for almost the entire half-century since it happened, and the ways they’ve depicted the break-in and scandal have led and reflected Americans’ views of the ...
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Apr 19, 2022 · The movie: Frost/Nixon (2008) The Nixon: Frank Langella. The premise: Langella, 84, earned a best actor Oscar nomination for this Ron Howard–directed drama about the real-life 1977 conversations between former president Nixon and British journalist David Frost, played by Michael Sheen, 53. Though the story takes place three years after his ...
Aug 25, 2023 · This is the first segment of the tapes to be opened, other than the twelve and a half hours of recordings that were entered into evidence in U.S. v. Connally and U.S. v. Mitchell, et al. —the so-called Milk Fund and Watergate trials.
