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The " Saturday Night Massacre " was a series of resignations over the dismissal of special prosecutor Archibald Cox that took place in the United States Department of Justice during the Watergate scandal in 1973. [1] The events followed the refusal by Cox to drop a subpoena for the Nixon White House tapes at President Richard Nixon 's request ...
Cox was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, the son of Archibald and Frances "Fanny" Bruen Perkins Cox, the eldest of seven children. [a] His father Archibald Sr. (Harvard College, 1896; Harvard Law School, 1899 [4]) was the son of a Manhattan lawyer, Rowland Cox, and rose to prominence as a patent and trademark lawyer, and who wrote Cox's Manual on Trade Marks.
John Dean. John Wesley Dean III (born October 14, 1938) is a disbarred American attorney who served as White House Counsel for U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. Dean is known for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal and his subsequent testimony to Congress as a witness. His guilty plea to a single felony ...
[121] [122] In March 1995, 74-year-old Yu Nguk Ding was arrested for carrying two "undesirable publications"—one of them a Bible printed by the Watch Tower Society. [ 123 ] In 1996, eighteen Jehovah's Witnesses were convicted for unlawfully meeting in a Singapore apartment and were given sentences from one to four weeks in jail. [ 124 ]
Crime Story is a British true crime drama anthology television series, first broadcast on 18 September 1992 on ITV. [1] Two series were produced between 1992 and 1995, containing a total of fifteen episodes. Each episode depicts the events leading up to and encompassing a notable true crime, including cases such as the Erwin Van Haarlem mystery ...
Leon Jaworski. Leonidas "Leon" Jaworski (September 19, 1905 – December 9, 1982) was an American attorney and law professor who served as the second special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal. He was appointed to that position on November 1, 1973, soon after the "Saturday Night Massacre" of October 19–20, 1973, which included the ...
A suspect has finally been identified in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Atlanta girl killed in 1995. The The post 1995 cold case murder of Nacole Smith solved appeared first on TheGrio.
The case also involved the killings of Lori's previous husband Charles Vallow and of Chad's wife Tammy Daybell, as well as the attempted murder of Lori's nephew-in-law Brandon Boudreaux. Lori's brother Alex Cox, [a] who is believed by authorities to have participated in the crimes, died before he could be brought to justice.