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Actions Help FAQs Can't find what you're looking for? Browse Collections A-Z University of London	Watergate Remove from selection Add to selection Request this item TitleWatergate Held atSenate House Library, University of London Reference codeMS976 Date1962-1994 Creator Brian Lapping Associates, television documentary producersMore Info on CreatorLess Info on Creator Brian Lapping Associates was formed by Brian Lapping and Norma Percy in 1988, and is a London-based television production company specialising in documentaries. Watergate was a joint production with the BBC and the Discovery Channel, produced by Norma Percy and broadcast in the UK and the USA in June and August 1994. Scope and ContentMaterial relating to the documentary film series Watergate, 1960s-1990s, concerning the Watergate scandal and the fall of President Richard Nixon, made by Brian Lapping Associates Ltd and broadcast in 1994, including U-matic cassettes of video taped interviews with members of Richard Nixon's administration and those that prosecuted Watergate, notably H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson and John Dean; typed transcripts of the above interviews, including both original research interviews and transcripts from the final production interviews; U-matic tapes of the newsreel used in the programme; transcripts of the White House tapes containing President Nixon's conversations with his aides taped by his hidden system, 1971-1973; copies of Haldeman's handwritten notes of conversations with the President and others, especially relating to Watergate, 1970-1973; other research material, including Books of Information compiled by the House Judiciary Committee relating to Watergate, transcripts of evidence given to the Senate Watergate Committee in private session, copies of newspaper articles, books and unpublished memoirs, as well as VHS and audio tapes containing Nixon's press conferences of 1972, John Dean's testimony and previous documentaries made on the Watergate scandal. Conditions governing accessOpen for research. However, certain sections of the collection are closed and are unavailable for consultation. These include MS976/1, MS976/4/1, MS976/4/14 and MS976/10. For further details on viewing MS976/9, please contact the Archivist. At least 24 hours notice of a research visit should be given. Extent78 Boxes (30 Archive Boxes; 48 Banker’s Boxes) System of ArrangementThe collection is divided into the following sections: MS976/1: Transcripts of Research Interviews MS976/2: Transcripts of Interviews MS976/3: The White House Tapes Transcripts MS976/4: Research Materials MS976/5: H.R.Haldeman's Notes MS976/6: Legislative Archive MS976/7: White House Special Prosecutor's Files MS976/8: 'The Presidential Conduct of Foreign Policy, 1969-1973' MS976/9: Audio and Visual Material MS976/10: U-Matic Tapes MS976/11: U-Matic Footage Tapes MS976/12: U-Matic Footage Tapes Content Lists MS976/13: Programme Footage Scripts Finding aidsCatalogued online (click on the "contains" icon below). A pdf copy of the hard-copy catalogue is also attached to this description. Related files File-level catalogue The Library also holds Fred Emery's papers relating to the Watergate project (MS1254). Level of descriptionfonds Hierarchy browser contains 13 parts Watergate MS976 \| 1962-1994 fonds

TitleWatergate

Held atSenate House Library, University of London

Reference codeMS976

Date1962-1994

Creator
- Brian Lapping Associates, television documentary producersMore Info on CreatorLess Info on Creator
  Brian Lapping Associates was formed by Brian Lapping and Norma Percy in 1988, and is a London-based television production company specialising in documentaries. Watergate was a joint production with the BBC and the Discovery Channel, produced by Norma Percy and broadcast in the UK and the USA in June and August 1994.

Scope and ContentMaterial relating to the documentary film series Watergate, 1960s-1990s, concerning the Watergate scandal and the fall of President Richard Nixon, made by Brian Lapping Associates Ltd and broadcast in 1994, including U-matic cassettes of video taped interviews with members of Richard Nixon's administration and those that prosecuted Watergate, notably H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson and John Dean; typed transcripts of the above interviews, including both original research interviews and transcripts from the final production interviews; U-matic tapes of the newsreel used in the programme; transcripts of the White House tapes containing President Nixon's conversations with his aides taped by his hidden system, 1971-1973; copies of Haldeman's handwritten notes of conversations with the President and others, especially relating to Watergate, 1970-1973; other research material, including Books of Information compiled by the House Judiciary Committee relating to Watergate, transcripts of evidence given to the Senate Watergate Committee in private session, copies of newspaper articles, books and unpublished memoirs, as well as VHS and audio tapes containing Nixon's press conferences of 1972, John Dean's testimony and previous documentaries made on the Watergate scandal.

Conditions governing accessOpen for research. However, certain sections of the collection are closed and are unavailable for consultation. These include MS976/1, MS976/4/1, MS976/4/14 and MS976/10. For further details on viewing MS976/9, please contact the Archivist. At least 24 hours notice of a research visit should be given.

Extent78 Boxes (30 Archive Boxes; 48 Banker’s Boxes)

System of ArrangementThe collection is divided into the following sections: MS976/1: Transcripts of Research Interviews MS976/2: Transcripts of Interviews MS976/3: The White House Tapes Transcripts MS976/4: Research Materials MS976/5: H.R.Haldeman's Notes MS976/6: Legislative Archive MS976/7: White House Special Prosecutor's Files MS976/8: 'The Presidential Conduct of Foreign Policy, 1969-1973' MS976/9: Audio and Visual Material MS976/10: U-Matic Tapes MS976/11: U-Matic Footage Tapes MS976/12: U-Matic Footage Tapes Content Lists MS976/13: Programme Footage Scripts

Finding aidsCatalogued online (click on the "contains" icon below). A pdf copy of the hard-copy catalogue is also attached to this description.

Related files

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The Library also holds Fred Emery's papers relating to the Watergate project (MS1254).

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