The Church Committee was formed following one of the most controversial events in American history. Watergate had revived American feelings of distrust in their government. …
Seymour Hersh, of the New York Times, ran an article on December 22, 1974, concerning alleged intelligence abuses by the CIA and other intelligence agencies; …
Pulitzer prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh publishes a story about Operation CHAOS, the domestic surveillance and infiltration of anti-war and civil rights groups in the …
National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests (NSSM200) was completed by the United States National Security Council under the …
Karen Silkwood, a labor union activist who had discovered numerous health and safety violations and alleged Kerr-McGee falsified inspection records at the chemical plant in …
President Gerald Ford (R) pardoned President Richard Nixon (R), (who had chosen Ford to be his vice-president), just before Nixon could be tried for conspiracy and impeached by Congress …
In an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings …
In 1974, the intelligence and climate science communities put out a propaganda warning that global cooling was a world threat.
Every few years, the small town of Troy in Miami County, Ohio celebrates an historic occasion that for a few giddy weeks puts it on …
Although Richard Nixon was featured on the cover of the June 24, 1974 issue of Time magazine, from a historian’s point of view the most …
