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Everyone used to know her name in politics. Now Martha Mitchell is back - Roll Call

“The Martha Mitchell Effect” aims to put the loudest, brashest Cabinet wife back where she belongs — right at the center of American history.

Roll Call

50 Years Later, the Motive Behind Watergate Remains Clouded

Despite the abundance of transcripts, FBI reports, and memoirs from those involved, we still know more about the cover-up than we do about the infamous political scandal.

Reason

God’s Favourite Idiot to The Martha Mitchell Effect: the seven best shows to stream this week

Melissa McCarthy’s quirky new comedy about the impending apocalypse, and the Watergate whistleblower gets her long overdue recognition. Plus: J-Lo!

The Guardian - UK

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The stars of BBC's Being Human whose glittering careers were launched by the UK answer to Buffy the Vampire Slayer

You might have caught the supernatural show by chance when it was first on our screens some 14 years ago

Wales Online

‘Gaslit’ review: Julia Roberts humanizes Watergate in new Starz series co-starring Sean Penn

Behind every great political scandal, there are players whose stories get shoved to the side by the first, second and even third drafts of history.

Chicago Tribune

Tributes paid after tragic death of young Irish sportsman remembered as 'true gentleman in every way'

Friends and neighbours have been paying tribute, with John described as "a lovely gentleman" and a "great young lad"

Irish Mirror

Gaslit review – a star-powered Watergate drama that grips and doesn’t let go

Julia Roberts is fantastic as ‘mouth of the south’ Martha Mitchell in this prestige bit of TV – and she knows it

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Gaslit review: A sublime Julia Roberts can’t save new Watergate series

A plodding new series shows us the infamous Seventies US political scandal through the eyes of Martha Mitchell, wife of Richard Nixon’s attorney-general, but lacks any of the drama of the actual event

The Independent UK

Julia Roberts lifts lid on Watergate scandal whistleblower wife in new TV show

The actress plays the outspoken socialite Martha Mitchell, the first to link President Richard Nixon to a burglary that led to his downfall.

Daily Mirror

When does the Gaslit TV series set around Watergate start and how to watch in the UK

Gaslit centres around Martha Mitchell, the wife of Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell

Manchester Evening News

‘Gaslit’: Julia Roberts skillfully settles into the ’70s as Martha Mitchell, a Watergate wife who wouldn’t be silent

She’s electric opposite Sean Penn, playing corrupt Nixon aide John Mitchell in the darkly funny Starz series.

Chicago Sun-Times

Julia Roberts returns to TV in Watergate-era series 'Gaslit'

Julia Roberts returns to television in the limited series "Gaslit" for Starz

The Independent UK

Clarence Thomas must go — and Ginni too

A history lesson for Democrats: Here's how Nixon pushed the Supreme Court hard right — it's time to fight back

Salon

Dublin actor Aidan Turner has odds slashed to play James Bond

Turner rose to fame after playing vampire John Mitchell on supernatural drama Being Human and dwarf Kili in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy between 2012 and 2014

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The Guardian - US

‘They called her crazy’: Watergate whistleblower finally gets her due

Martha Mitchell, wife of Nixon’s attorney general who ordered the break-in at the scandal’s heart, was drugged and kidnapped

Roll Call

It ‘opened my eyes’: Rep. Jim Costa on the summer of ’73 - Roll Call

He stood in line to get a seat at the Watergate hearings as a young intern during a summer away from the family's California farm.

The Guardian - AU

Paradise underwater: the floods that caught Byron Bay off-guard

Locals in the NSW town shocked by floods, but are now turning their attention to climate action

Tribune News Service

Gene Collier: John Mitchell, longest tenured Steelers assistant, doesn't need a qualifier to stand out

Eight o'clock on a morning cold as Pittsburgh. John Mitchell, assistant head coach, Pittsburgh Steelers, is at his desk. It is March, according to my research, about six months from the nearest NFL game, but it's 8 in the morning, so John Mitchell is at his desk, same as yesterday,…

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Evening Standard

John Mitchell faces England reunion at 2023 World Cup after appointment as Japan’s new defence coach

John Mitchell faces a reunion with England at next year’s men’s Rugby World Cup after agreeing to become Japan’s new defence coach.

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh man 'shaken' after spade of cement 'flung at him' on cycle path

John Mitchell says he was targeted by an irrate workman after questioning why a cement mixer had been placed in the middle of a public cycle path.

The New Daily

‘Stranger than fiction’: Watergate series reveals forgotten players who brought down a president

Unlike 'All The Presidents Men', 'Gaslit' focuses on forgotten characters who helped bring down President Nixon as the Watergate scandal was laid bare.

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