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RICHARD NIXON Watergate 1974 (Part 4) The Geoff Shepard presentation of facts exhibit B, (The Judge and The Special Prosecutors)
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This is our second episode where we listen to lectures from Geoff Shepard that deals directly with two of the most important, and frankly, sinister factors that led to the downfall of Richard Nixon.
Judge John Sirica, often portrayed as the hero of Watergate, was in fact a known attention seeker with one of the worst records of any Judge on the D.C. Court. He was famous for disregarding the rights of defendants. It is combination of these weaknesses and his desire to play the hero, all fed to him by private meetings he was having with those interested in seeing that Richard Nixon would eventually be politically hurt by the case. It is a damning indictment of his behavior on the Bench that had it been known at the time would have led to his disbarment.
Then we get a look at the Watergate Special Prosecutors Task Force, a team of lawyers we have labeled the Sinister Force of Watergate. They were formed with only one target in mind and they never hid it. That target was Richard Nixon and over these lectures you will see a case form that should scare any person who has ever thought that somehow they could end up in the crosshairs of the criminal justice system.
This is an excellent overview of the way things unfolded that led to the resignation of President Nixon. It is following this road map, complete with historical documents and various news reports from the time period that our podcast will soon begin to move you through the events of early 1974 that would lead to indictments of the President's top aids and the naming of President Nixon as an unindicted Co-Conspirator on March 1, 1974.
Links to lectures and Website below:
1. https://youtu.be/hZIF0oSXBJE Mysteries of Watergate Lecture Nixon Library May 29, 2010
2. https://youtu.be/qXA2T23yoFU Geoff Sheppard lecture Richard Nixon Library August 11, 2015
3. https://youtu.be/9EPgLIWpFKA Geoff Shepard - Special Prosecutors: Yesterday and Today
November 21, 2018 St. Vicente College
4. https://youtu.be/gHRv7WG7yTM Watergate lecture at Hillsdale College November 6, 2018
*** For more information please go to the following website ShepardonWatergate,com
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