The identity of Deep Throat remained a secret for 30 years. Scores of investigative journalists, documentarians and private detectives have tried to solve the mystery but no one pulls it off. One of Hollywood's final exploitations of the Watergate myth before Deep Throat outed himself was the 1999 comedy Dick.
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.