At the beginning of the Netflix documentary The Martha Mitchell Effect, Richard Nixon, deflated in his ex-presidential phase, sits for an interview with David Frost. A somber Nixon tells his natty …
“The more digging we did, the more we realized, oh, there is a reason why we didn’t hear about her,” Alvergue tells Deadline. “She was essentially a victim of a gaslighting campaign from the Nixon administration to silence her and stop shedding the spotlight on the Watergate scandal at the time. We thought, this is truly a hidden figure in history, and there’s never been a documentary about her.
Her propensity to speak with journalists on camera or over the phone came to irk Nixon, who conveniently left a record of his thoughts through his secret White House tapes. Martha eventually told reporters about her captivity, but the White House spread the story that she was mentally unstable and a drunk. Watergate burglar James McCord, who had known and worked with the Mitchells at one point, later revealed that Martha’s account of being held captive was true.
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