After 33 Years, "Deep Throat" Identity Revealed

doug65oh · Post by **doug65oh** » Tue May 31, 2005 9:23 pm

WASHINGTON - Breaking a silence of 30 years, former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward Tuesday as Deep Throat, the secret Washington Post source that helped bring down President Nixon during the Watergate scandal. Within hours, the paper ratified his claim. "It's the last secret" of the story, said Ben Bradlee, the paper's top editor at the time the riveting political drama played out three decades ago.
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/richard_nixon

Liz Crouthers · Post by **Liz Crouthers** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:47 pm

Yeah we heard about it all day long

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:12 pm

Gee, I always heard "deepthroat's" real name was Linda.

Tracy...

doug65oh · Post by **doug65oh** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:27 pm

Not that "Deep Throat" Tracy

... the other one!!

(You know...Hal Holbrook.)

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Tue May 31, 2005 11:30 pm

LOL...Doug. We really age ourselves admitting that we know about THAT "Deep Throat"...ya know ?

Tracy...

doug65oh · Post by **doug65oh** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:22 am

Ayup, that we do Tracy...that we do. There are though, worse things I suppose. In an odd way, there's a certain...oh I dunno...almost a "pride" you might say, in being able to reflect on things that are nowadays "ancient history" and yet at the same time be able to say (as Maurice Chevalier used to) "Ah yes... I remember it well."

The "Watergate summers" I remember particularly well, because the committee hearings were almost all that was on, all the time.

(The other "Deep Throat" I knew of by filthy repute. I think it was one of the few X-rated films I ever saw a television ad for!)

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:44 am

Yes, there's a lot of history happening in our lifetime!
I think of the fact that it was only a couple of decades before I was born that King Tut's tomb was found!

Imagine the stuff Lizbeth Borden lived through!

The Western world is still finding new species of animals on the planet!

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:58 am

I remember watching the trial that summer. I was spending time at my Grandmother's house...helping her with her yard. And you are right...the trials were about the only thing on. I do "remember it well".

Tracy...

Audrey · Post by **Audrey** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:01 pm

Does anyone remember the old SNL skit with Steve Martin singing "King Tut... How'd he get so funky?"

FairhavenGuy · Post by **FairhavenGuy** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:19 pm

Yes, Audrey, I saw that episode of SNL when it first aired. While Tracy and doug65oh were following politics I was watching the killer bees and the coneheads.

I has Steve Martin's albums, too.

Audrey · Post by **Audrey** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 9:22 pm

They were looking at porn dear... (They are sick in that way)

How I miss SNL....

It's like my great, great grandmother, Hortense Rosannadanna used to say.....

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:52 am

We have Cosby albums, that's how old I am...

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:54 am

Well, I will have you know I STILL have a Roseann Rosannadanna t-shirt packed away in my basement...AND...I have THE SNL album...yes album..those old vinyl things ! I can recite most of the Point/Counterpoint, Emily Lietella, Roseann Rosannadanna, and Conehead skits ! Last time I was in NYC, one of THE things I HAD to do was do the NBC studio tour just so I could get a picture of the infamous 'door' from the original SNL set. I am SO SNL...infact, I think I wil go fix some fried chicken embryos for breakfast ! MEPS !

Tracy..

doug65oh · Post by **doug65oh** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:18 am

Cosby albums, Kat? You mean, as in "I was at home working in my basement when suddenly I heard a voice: 'Noah! It's...the Lord!'" (That one?)

...and I remember the "classic years" of SNL too, thank ya vettymuch!

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:54 am

The name of that Cosby album is "To Russell my brother, whom I slept with" I know it well.

Tracy...