NPR's Slow Burn podcast on Watergate comes to Epix. Martha Mitchell's story is the 1st installment.

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Epix has created a documentary series based on NPR's Slow Burn podcast series on Watergate. The first installment is a look into the story of Martha Mitchell, John Mitchell's wife. The most harrowing point of the story was how Martha was constrained in a LA hotel room by a Republican thug.

https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/epix-to-premiere-watergate-docu-series-slow-burn-feb-16


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mitchell

During a phone call with Helen Thomas of the United Press, reportedly Mitchell's favorite reporter, Mitchell informed Thomas of her decision to leave her husband until he resigned from the CRP.[11] The phone call, however, abruptly ended. When Thomas called back, the hotel operator told her that Mitchell was "indisposed" and would not be able to talk.[10] In her subsequent report of the conversation, Thomas said that it was apparent someone had taken the phone from Mitchell's hand and the woman could be heard saying "You just get away." ... A few days later, Marcia Kramer, a veteran crime reporter of the New York Daily News, tracked Mitchell to the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. Kramer found "a beaten woman" who had "incredible" black and blue marks on her arms....Mitchell related how in the week following the Watergate burglary, she had been held captive in that California hotel and that it was King that had pulled the phone cord from the wall. After several attempts to escape from the balcony, she was physically accosted by five men, which had left her needing stitches, and forcefully sedated by a psychiatrist. The incident left her fearing for her life.

Footnote: The thug that restrained her was Steve King, and where is he now? Why he's Trump's ambassador to the Czech Republic.

In June 1972, at the time of the Watergate complex break-in, King was the security agent for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President assigned to abduct and hold Martha Mitchell, the wife of then United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, in a hotel room in California, to prevent her from learning about the break-in.[7][8][9] Mitchell contended that she had been held in her room against her will by King, during which time he used physical force to prevent her from speaking to the press and restrained her while she was injected with a sedative.[10][11][9] The plot to hold Mrs. Mitchell was later confirmed by James McCord, one of the Watergate burglars.[12] King has not denied his involvement in Mrs. Mitchell's confinement, but disputes parts of her story.[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_King_(ambassador)

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