CBS News - "Saturday Night Massacre" (Cox firing) - 1973-10-20
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[0:03] foreign
[0:07] ER Attorney General of the United States
[0:12] this man is no longer Deputy Attorney
[0:14] General of the United States
[0:16] and this man the special prosecutor in
[0:19] the Watergate Affair this man has been
[0:21] fired under orders issued by the
[0:24] president of the United States
[0:27] from CBS News in Washington this is a
[0:30] special report here is CBS White House
[0:33] correspondent Dan Rather
[0:36] good evening in breathtaking succession
[0:38] tonight the following historic events
[0:40] occurred the president of the United
[0:42] States demanded that the Attorney
[0:44] General fire special prosecutor
[0:46] Archibald Cox who was supervising the
[0:48] bringing to justice of all persons
[0:50] involved in the Watergate case and
[0:52] related crimes the Attorney General
[0:54] Elliot Richardson refused and resigned
[0:58] the president then ordered the Assistant
[0:59] Attorney General
[1:01] the deputy to Elliot Richardson William
[1:03] rockels house to fire the special
[1:05] prosecutor Rocco's house refused the
[1:08] president immediately fired ruckel's
[1:10] house
[1:11] so listen to General Robert Bork quickly
[1:13] was named acting attorney general bork
[1:16] was ordered to fire special prosecutor
[1:18] Cox he did
[1:20] the FBI acting upon orders from the
[1:22] president sealed off the special
[1:24] prosecutor's office
[1:26] at the White House Press Secretary
[1:27] Ronald Ziegler
[1:29] came out at nightfall to put into
[1:34] motion the rapid sequence of upheavals
[1:36] in the top ranks of the executive branch
[1:38] of government he made it official
[1:40] Nelson Benton was there
[1:43] Dan the trimmers that were generated at
[1:45] the White House by Archibald Cox news
[1:48] conference this afternoon were hardly
[1:50] visible