Watergate's Screenwriter
July 18, 2003
Thirty years ago this summer, millions of Americans tuned in to daily congressional hearings, and watched the Watergate plot unfold like a Perry Mason trial. The role of Perry Mason was played by Sam Dash, Chief Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee. He tells Brooke that the drama of the hearings was no accident. It was carefully scripted - by him - for television.
