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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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Notes to The Watergate Scandal, 1972-19741 Most notably from...
- The Watergate Coverage
Feb 9, 2010 · In Washington, D.C., the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, headed by Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, begins televised hearings on the escalating Watergate scandal ...
May 17, 2013 · 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...
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May 18, 2023 · Dan Cooney. Leave your feedback. What the Senate Watergate hearings showed about America. Politics Updated on May 18, 2023 1:14 PM EDT — Published on May 17, 2023 6:59 PM EDT. This week marks...
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Jun 6, 2022 · The House Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol will begin public hearings on TV on Thursday night, eight days before we mark the 50th anniversary of the bungled...
Nov 12, 2019 · But the most striking thing for a viewer in 2019, watching the gavel-to-gavel public-TV coverage of the first Senate hearings that began on May 17, 1973, is the quiet.