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U.S. Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr. of Watergate Fame

On April 23, 1985, former U.S. Senator and Watergate Committee chairman Sam J. Ervin, Jr., died of respiratory failure at North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. He was 88.

Remembering Watergate Up Close with Woodward and Bernstein

While anybody who lived through the 1970s, or has taken a course on American history, knows about Watergate and the president it brought down, not nearly as many realize North Carolina’s prominent role in the congressional hearings that gripped the nation as a result of the scandal.