3 broadcasts · 2 hours · 85 claims · 22 entities
Martha Mitchell on the Brain
Broadcast 51 · July 1, 1972
Two weeks after five men were caught inside the Democratic National Committee’s offices at the Watergate, the other story of the week was Martha Mitchell, who told reporters she had been thrown on a bed and given a needle in California. Mae reads the two stories as one. In her account the wife of the man whose committee employed the burglars’ security chief is a political prisoner, held because she saw the four guests who were never caught.
From Maryland to Milwaukee
Broadcast 106 · June 25, 1973
On the day George Wallace was shot, the Washington Post reported that week, Charles Colson telephoned Howard Hunt and told him to go to Arthur Bremer’s apartment in Milwaukee. Mae broadcast that evening with the report and the first day of John Dean’s testimony in hand. She reads both against her files: Hunt’s demand for money becomes the same bargain she sees in the book deals of earlier alleged assassins, and Dean’s mention of White House interest in Mary Jo Kopechne takes her to Chappaquiddick.
Marita Lorenz Comes Forward
Broadcast 288 · September 26, 1977
A week before Carl Bernstein’s article on the CIA and the news media reached the stands, Mae used it to read the whole Kennedy story as a story about the press, from the Warren Commission’s minutes to ABC’s new docudrama. The second half turns from the papers to the new inquiry: her telephone call to the House Select Committee’s chief counsel, who would not say whether he had the document she offered him. Then the week’s news supplies a witness.