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Public Watergate Hearings

United States of America · Politics / Watergate. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1973

Samuel James Ervin17 May 1973

Washington · Politics / Watergate

Opens the Senate Watergate Committee's public hearings, beginning months of nationally televised testimony about the burglary, campaign abuses and cover-up.

Names involved

Samuel James Ervin

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