- Collection:
- Local Television Newsfilm Collections
- Title:
- Legislators react to release of Nixon tapes--outtakes
- Creator:
- WIS-TV
- Publisher:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
- Date of Original:
- 1974-08-06
- Subject:
- Watergate Affair, 1972-1974
Impeachments - People:
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
- Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481
- Medium:
- motion pictures (visual works)
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/H264
- Description:
- Reporter Bill Chapman interviews South Carolina state legislators about their opinions on President Richard Nixon following the public release of subpoenaed audiotapes. Several lawmakers call for the president's resignation, as the content of the "smoking gun" tape proved Nixon's involvement in the cover-up of the Watergate incident. Nixon announced his resignation from office days later.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/localtvnews/id/212
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright Moving Image Research Collections. All rights reserved. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC 29208.
- Extent:
- Film: 16mm. Sound. Reversal: positive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Acetate.
01:43 - Original Collection:
- Local Television Newsfilm Collections
WIS-TV News Story 74-930 - Contributing Institution:
- South Caroliniana Library
- Rights:
-
