The government collected diaries, financial records, and tape transcripts to convict Nixon's chief lieutenant, but a significant portion of that evidence was never introduced in court.
By Desmond Okafor ·
The Watergate Special Prosecution Force fought to wrest evidence from a presidency in collapse, while the gap between the subpoenas and the final files masks a systematic scrubbing of the truth.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Kept in government exhibits for decades, these records map the inner circle's plot to bury the Watergate break-in while Richard Nixon fought a private legal war to keep them secret.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A July 1973 subpoena dragged the Nixon administration's private recordings into the light, where prosecutors spent months marking up the evidence of a conspiracy.
By Marcus Boone ·
The inner circle of the Nixon White House faced a trial while the government handled files on electronic surveillance that remained buried in task force archives.
By Marcus Boone ·
Presidential conversations were scrubbed into final transcripts to prosecute those who managed a conspiracy of silence and political sabotage.
By Miriam Adler ·
John Mitchell and his associates attempted to bury the Watergate break-in under a mountain of lies, but the Watergate Task Force kept the tapes and transcripts to prove the perjury.
By Marcus Boone ·
Witnesses were summoned and defendants were trapped while the US Marshal for the District of Columbia tracked every minute of the proceedings in records kept for decades
By Desmond Okafor ·