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Senate House Library, University of London

Watergate


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 MS 976

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Watergate

Date(s): 1962-1994

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 14 boxes

Name of creator(s): Brian Lapping Associates | television production company

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

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.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Material 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of evidence given to the Senate Watergate Committee in private session, copies of newspaper articles, books and unpublished memoirs, as well as VHS and audio tapes containing Nixon's press conferences of 1972, John Dean's testimony and previous documentaries made on the Watergate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.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The 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 Interview Tapes
MS976/11 U-Matic Footage Tapes
MS976/12 U-Matic Footage Tapes Content Lists
MS976/13 Programme Footage Scripts

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. However, certain sections of the collection are closed and are unavailable for consultation. These include MS976/1, MS976/4/14 and MS976/10. For further details on viewing MS976/9, please contact the Archivist.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests. Audio and video material within the collection cannot at be copied.

Physical characteristics:

The collection includes U-matic, audio and VHS video tapes.

Finding aids:

Hard copy catalogue available. This collection has been fully listed and is included in the ULRLS on-line catalogue, http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/default.aspx.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Brian Lapping Associates in 1996.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Further material relating to documentaries produced by Brian Lapping Associates is held at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London; and the British Library of Political and Economic Science.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997

Date(s) of descriptions: Catalogued by Stefan Dickers, November 2004.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Political history | History
Television programmes | Television | Broadcasting
Internal politics

Personal names
Colson | Charles | b 1933 | US political advisor
Dean | John | b 1939 | lawyer and writer
Ehrlichman | John | 1926-1999 | US political advisor
Frost | Sir | David Paradine | b 1939 | Knight | television presenter, political interviewer and producer
Haldeman | Harry Robbins | 1926-1993 | US political advisor x Haldeman | H R
Nixon | Richard Milhous | 1913-1994 | US President

Corporate names
House Judiciary Committee
Senate Watergate Committee

Places
USA | North America