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The Watergate Coverage. The American Archive of Public Broadcasting holds the full run of NPACT's coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings. Each day is divided into 2-7 parts that can be accessed by clicking on the hyperlinked numbers. To watch a specific person testify, click on their name.
- Research Notes
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- Research Notes
The broadcasts of the Senate Watergate hearings cover 51 days of “gavel-to-gavel” coverage. Each episode begins with about five minutes of commentary from anchors Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, including an “hour by hour line-up” of what happened in that day’s hearings.
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You can stream all of public TV’s 1973 coverage — 51 days of it, up to six hours a night — at the American Archive for Public Broadcasting. (Helpfully, the site links to key highlights, like John...
May 17, 2013 · 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...
May 18, 2023 · It also marked the start of a public television “experiment,” as the late Jim Lehrer put it: gavel-to-gavel coverage of the hearings, rebroadcast each evening.
Jul 4, 1997 · NBC Watergate Coverage. Portions of NBC news coverage of Watergate in April 1973 were shown. On this day H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and Richard Kleindienst res… read more. Report Video...
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