Episode 131: RICHARD NIXON and WATERGATE. 1974 Through the Fire ( Part 6) Introducing the Players and reliving the Saturday Night Massacre (Part A )
In this episode we are going to step back to October of 1973. The singular event that changes everything in Watergate was the Saturday Night Massacre. When we originally told the story we did so from the overall perspective of the Nixon White House and the news media that covered it. We travel back in this episode and let you hear the story from the oral histories of the members of the Special Prosecutor's office whose boss was fired.
It is, we thought, the best way to introduce you to several people whose oral histories will take you to the very end of our Podcast Documentary look at Richard Nixon. While this episode centers more on the Special Prosecutors you will hear from two top level Nixon staffers, Ray Price and an oral history of Alexander Haig, read by me. You will also hear from Elliot Richardson, William Ruckelshaus, and Robert Bork.
But at the end you will get a play by play from three members of the special prosecutor's office we have only brushed upon in our earlier episodes. They are the number two man in the office, Henry Ruth, who will one day become the Special Prosecutor, along with Richard Ben Veniste, and Jill Wine Banks. It will give you some insight as to what it was like for those in the office on the night of the firing of Archibald Cox.
This is the first of three episodes centered on the people of the Watergate Scandal and their roles in it.
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