- Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein (February 14, 1944) is an American journalist who, as a reporter for "The Washington Post" along with Bob Woodward, broke the story of the Watergate break-in and consequently helped bring about the resignation of US president Richard Nixon. For his role in breaking the scandal, Bernstein received many awards; his work helped earn the "Post" a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973. - Charles Colson
Charles Wendell "Chuck" Colson (born October 16, 1931) was the chief counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 and was one of the Watergate Seven, jailed for Watergate-related charges. His later life has been spent working with his non-profit organization devoted to prison ministry called Prison Fellowship. Colson is also a public speaker and author. He is founder and chairman of the Wilberforce Forum, which is the "Christian worldview thinking, teaching, … - Jack Anderson
Jackson Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922 - December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret American policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. - Katharine Graham
Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, "The Washington Post", for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. - Frank Sturgis
Frank Anthony Sturgis, born Frank Angelo Fiorini, was one of the Watergate burglars. He served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary army as a soldier of fortune, and later trained Cuban exiles for the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Frank Fiorini Sturgis' family moved to Philadelphia when he was a child. In 1942, Sturgis joined the U.S. Marine Corps and, during the Second World War, served in the Pacific. - Alan J. Pakula
Alan Jay Pakula was an American film producer, writer and director noted for his contributions to the conspiracy thriller genre. Pakula was born in New York to Polish Jewish parents and was educated at Yale University, where he majored in drama. He started his Hollywood career as an assistant in the cartoon department at Warner Brothers. In 1957, he undertook his first production role for Paramount Pictures. In 1962, he produced "To Kill a Mockingbird", … - Linda Lovelace
Linda Susan Boreman, better known by her stage name Linda Lovelace, was a pornographic actress in the 1972 film "Deep Throat", who went on to leave the pornography industry and became a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement. "Deep Throat" was notable for beginning a brief fad of porn chic; it was also the inspiration for Bob Woodward's name of his secret Watergate source, W. Mark Felt. - John Connally
John Bowden Connally, Jr. (February 27 1917 - June 15 1993) was a powerful American politician from the state of Texas. He was initially a member of the Democratic Party, but in 1973, at the height of the Watergate affair, he switched allegiance to the Republican Party. He was also noteworthy as a passenger in the car in which John F. Kennedy was shot to death. Although badly wounded himself, Connally made a full recovery from his injuries. - Stephen Breyer
Stephen Gerald Breyer (born August 15, 1938) is an American attorney, political figure, and jurist. Since 1994, he has served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Known for his pragmatic approach to constitutional law, Breyer is generally associated with the more liberal side of the Court. Following a clerkship with Supreme Court Associate Justice Arthur Goldberg in 1964, … - John Sirica
Judge John Joseph Sirica was the Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, where he became famous for his role as the chief judge presiding over the Watergate Scandal. He rose to national prominence during the Watergate scandal when he demanded that President Richard Nixon turn over his recordings of White House conversations. Sirica's involvement in the case began when he presided over the trial of the Watergate burglars. - Ron Ziegler
Ronald Louis Ziegler (May 12, 1939 - February 10, 2003) was White House Press Secretary during United States President Richard Nixon's administration, from 1969-1974, and Assistant to the President in 1974. Ziegler was born to Louis Daniel Ziegler, a production manager, and Ruby Parsons, in Covington, Kentucky. He was raised Presbyterian and graduated from Dixie Heights High School in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. - John N. Mitchell
John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913 - November 9, 1988) was the first United States Attorney General ever to be convicted of illegal activities and imprisoned. He also served as campaign director for the Committee to Re-elect the President, which engineered the Watergate first break-in and employed Watergate burglar James W. McCord, Jr. in a "security" capacity. Mitchell was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up on Long Island in New York. - Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron (born May 19 1941) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and blogger. Ephron was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was born into a Jewish family and her parents, Henry and Phoebe Ephron, were both East Coast-born and raised screenwriters. They based Sandra Dee's character in the James Stewart film "Take Her, She's Mine" on their 22-year-old daughter Nora. Both died from alcoholism. - William Ruckelshaus
William Doyle Ruckelshaus (born July 24, 1932) is an attorney and civil servant in the United States. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Ruckleshaus served as the first head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970, was subsequently acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and then Deputy Attorney General of the United States. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. - Richard Kleindienst
Richard Gordon Kleindienst was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Winslow, Arizona, he served in the United States Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1946, attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, graduating from the latter in 1950. From 1953 to 1954 he served in the Arizona House of Representatives and then went into private practice, which he continued until 1969. In 1964, he was the Republican candidate for Governor of Arizona, but lost to Sam Goddard, 53%-47%. - Lesley Stahl
Lesley R. Stahl (born December 16, 1941, in Lynn, Massachusetts) is an American television journalist. As of 2007, she has reported for CBS on "60 Minutes" for nearly 16 seasons. A graduate of Wheaton College, her career received a running start from her coverage of the Watergate affair. She went on to become White House correspondent during the presidencies of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. - Leonard Garment
Leonard Garment (born May 11 1924, Brooklyn, USA) was acting Special Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon for the last two years of his presidency. A noted attorney, he is the author of the 2000 book "In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time", which supported the theory that Deep Throat was John Sears. Before Deep Throat's identity was revealed in 2005 as being former FBI Acting Associate Director W. Mark Felt, … - Jeb Stuart Magruder
Jeb Stuart Magruder (born November 5, 1934, New York City) was the second official in the administration of President Richard Nixon (the first was Fred LaRue) to plead guilty to charges of involvement in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and the subsequent Watergate scandal. - Egil Krogh
Egil “Bud” Krogh, Jr. is a lawyer who came to prominence as a Nixon Administration official who went to prison for his role in the what would be known as the Watergate scandals. Krogh was raised in Bellevue, Washington; his father was a Norwegian immigrant. After his service in the U.S. Navy, he went to law school in 1968. He went to work at Hullin, Ehrlichman, Roberts and Hodge, the Seattle law firm of family friend John Ehrlichman, … - Mary McGrory
Mary McGrory (August 22, 1918 - April 20, 2004) was an American journalist and columnist. She was a fierce opponent of the Vietnam War and was on Richard Nixon's enemies list for writing "daily hate Nixon articles." Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Edward and Mary McGrory, she shared her father's love of Latin and writing, and she graduated from the Girls' Latin School and began her career as a book reviewer at "The Boston Herald". - David Young
David R. Young, Jr. (born November 10, 1936, Jersey City, New Jersey) was a special assistant at the National Security Council in the Nixon Administration and an administrative assistant to Henry Kissinger. Young received degrees from Wheaton College, Illinois, and Oxford University, as well as a law degree from Cornell University, New York. In 1965 he was employed with law offices of Millbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, New York. - Barry Sussman
Barry Sussman is a former "Washington Post" editor of 22 years duration, who worked on the city desk, Watergate, and assorted other areas. He is the author of "The Great Coverup: Nixon and the Watergate scandal". He currently is an editor of the Nieman Watchdog, a manifestation of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. - Robert Mardian
Robert Charles Mardian was a former United States Republican party official who served in the administration of Richard Nixon, but was embroiled in the Watergate scandal as one of the Watergate Seven who were indicted by a grand jury for campaign violations. His conviction for conspiracy was overturned because of procedural unfairness and he was not subsequently retried. - A. M. Rosenthal
Abraham Michael "A.M." Rosenthal (May 2, 1922 - May 10, 2006), born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, was a "New York Times" executive editor (1977-88) and columnist (1987-1999) and "New York Daily News" columnist (1999-2004). He joined the "New York Times" in 1943 and worked for the "Times" for 56 years - from 1943 to 1999. Rosenthal won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for international reporting. - Alicia Shepard
Alicia C. Shepard (born April 27, 1953, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American journalist, author, media writer and expert on the work and lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Shepard teaches journalism at American University. She was a Times Mirror Visiting Professor at University of Texas at Austin for the 2005-2006 academic year where she taught a class she designed on Watergate and the Press. - Richard North Patterson
Richard North Patterson is an American author of fiction. He was born in Berkeley, California, the eldest child of a retired corporate executive and a housewife. While still a child, he moved with his parents to Ohio. He grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland and graduated in 1968 from Ohio Wesleyan University. - Clark MacGregor
Clark MacGregor was U.S. Representative from Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District. MacGregor was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1944. He served in the 87th, 88th, 89th, 90th, and 91st congresses, January 3, 1961 – January 2, 1971. He was a delegate to the 1964 and 1968 Republican National Convention from Minnesota. He was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senator from Minnesota in 1970, … - Victor Lasky
Victor Lasky (1918-1990) was a conservative columnist who wrote several best selling books. He was one of the first journalists to do a serious, critical analysis of President John F. Kennedy. His 1963 book "JFK: The Man And The Myth" pointed out many negative things about the popular young president. Lasky questioned Kennedy's wartime heroics on the PT-109 and pointed out he had a lackluster record as a congressman and senator. - Donald Nixon
Francis Donald Nixon was a brother of United States President Richard Nixon. He was the third of five children: *Harold Nixon (June 1 1909 – March 7 1933) *Richard Nixon (January 9 1913 – April 22 1994) *Donald Nixon *Arthur Nixon (May 26 1918 – August 10 1925) *Edward Nixon (May 3 1930) He married Clara Jane Lemke and had a son named Donald A. Nixon. In January 1957 Howard Hughes lent Donald Nixon $205,000 to bail out his "Nixon's" drive-in restaurant in Whittier, … - W. Clement Stone
William Clement Stone (May 4,1902 - September 3,2002) was a prominent businessman, philanthropist and self-help book author. Stone is remembered for contributing $2 million to President Richard Nixon's election campaigns in 1968 and 1972-these were cited in Congressional debates after Watergate to institute campaign spending limits. Stone himself was born in Chicago and was just 3 when his father died. - John Ball
John Dudley Ball (1911-1988), writing as "John Ball", was an American author best known for novels involving the character Virgil Tibbs, first introduced in 1965 in "In the Heat of the Night". Tibbs was an African-American police detective from Pasadena who in the first book of the series must solve a murder in a racist small town in the American South. - Tom Liddy
Tom Liddy is a nationally-syndicated conservative talk radio host. Along with Austin Hill, Liddy has hosted the "Liddy & Hill Show" at station KFYI in Phoenix, Arizona, since 2003 until moving to KKNT 960 in October 2006. Liddy, who is also a practicing attorney, is the son of Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy. He has been a vocal critic of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, claiming they profited unduly from Watergate. - Peter W. Rodino
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. (June 7, 1909 - May 7, 2005) was a Democratic United States Congressman from New Jersey from 1949 to 1989. Rodino rose to prominence as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where he was chair of the impeachment hearings that lead to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Rodino was born Pelligrino Rodino, Jr. in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were immigrants from Italy. - Kenneth H. Dahlberg
Kenneth H. Dahlberg (1917-) is an American businessman and World War II fighter ace who became a figure involved in the Watergate scandal. A Minnesota native, Dahlberg joined the United States Army Air Forces after high school. Dahlberg flew the P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51 Mustang with the USAAF Eighth Air Force in Europe. He was shot down three times and on the third time in 1945 he was captured by the Germans and held as a prisoner of war. - Danny Lloyd
Danny Lloyd (born January 1 1973 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American former child actor. His first and best-known role is Danny "Doc" Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", with Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. He was selected for the role of Danny Torrance due to his ability to retain his concentration for extended periods of time. Because of his age (6) and the genre of "The Shining" (1980), … - Bill Liedtke
Bill Liedtke, was the co-founder of Zapata Corporation in 1952, along with his brother, Hugh, and former U.S. President George H.W. Bush. Zapata merged with Pennzoil, and the Liedtkes took over United Gas Pipeline in 1956. They made a fortune in the Texas oil industry. Bill Liedtke became the Texas finance chairman for Richard Nixon's Presidential campaigns in 1968 and 1972. Liedtke raised $700,000 in anonymous donations in 1972, … - Chesterfield Smith
Chesterfield Smith (1917 - July 16, 2003) was the founder of Holland & Knight LLP, one of the largest law firms in the United States, and president of the American Bar Association during the Watergate scandal, from 1973-1974. Smith was born, and grew up, in, Arcadia, Florida. He attended the University of Florida, where he joined the Florida National Guard. In 1940, he was called to active duty, eventually serving with the Third United States Army in France. - George Reedy
George Edward Reedy (August 5, 1917 - March 21, 1999) was White House Press Secretary from 1964 to 1965. Reedy served under President Lyndon B. Johnson. Born in East Chicago, Indiana, Reedy attended Senn High School in Chicago and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1938. Reedy was a reporter for United Press International in Washington, D.C. before joining Johnson's Senate staff in 1951. He worked as an aide to Johnson during his presidential campaign in 1960, … - Herbert Porter
Herbert L. Porter was a campaign aide to United States President Richard M. Nixon. On January 28, 1974, Porter pleaded guilty to the charge of lying to the FBI during the early stages of the Watergate investigation. - Herbert W. Kalmbach
Herbert W. Kalmbach (b. October 19, 1921 in Port Huron, Michigan) was the personal attorney to United States President Richard Nixon. Kalmbach was involved in a secret Nixon polling operation hidden from all but his closest senior advisors. Nixon used the poll results to shape policy and campaign strategy and manipulate popular opinion. On December 21, 1971, Kalmbach set up a Delaware shell corporation with private funding to hide Administration sponsorship of polls.
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