Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Friday, February 04, 2005
For Watergate buffs
This is a piece of history that still fascinates many people, including me. I wonder after all these years what the Cuba connection was, why was it Miami men who did the breakin? Seems there were never really good answers to these questions. And what about Howard Hughes? Now that everyone's going to see The Aviator there's interest in his strange life again too, and some of the burglars had connections to his organizations.
So now comes what many of us have been waiting for: Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward sold their papers to the University of Texas a couple years back, and now the university has put them online, or at least some of them. There is an online catalog and exhibitions showing some of the documents from 'Woodstein's' files, including a story that I had a part in, at least in some way, since I worked in the Post's library at the time and may have helped find some of this information.
Someone did a lovely design for this site, using typewriter fonts and images of the original documents. The home page looks like items from my desk at the time. Nostalgia. posted by liz at 10:05 AM
Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the
Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the
News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to
the field.
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