The Paralex Corporation

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Robert Redford says he chose Alan Pecula to direct all the President's Men because of the paralex view, which came out this summer of Nixon's resignation. The movie begins with the assassination of an American senator atop the Space Needle in Seattle. Three years later, reporter Joe Frady gets a visit from his ex-girlfriend who witnessed the assassination. She tells him that other witnesses have recently turned up dead. He goes undercover and discovers a mysterious organization called the Paralex Corporation.

A remixed complete version of our two part Watergate series from last year: Journalists may write the first draft of history but Hollywood prints the legends and the myths. The 1976 film All the President’s Men remains our most authoritative account of Watergate. The film is also responsible for the myth of Deep Throat. Your host follows the myth… from 1976 to the present. Plus a reporter from the Washington Post newsroom who never made it into All the President’s Men yet did more to safeguard the free press and American democracy than Woodstein ever did.