The Martha Mitchell Effect

6.35

40 minutes

1/20/2022

Overview

She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican wife who was discredited by Nixon to keep her quiet. Until now.

Cast List

Martha Mitchell
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
as Self (archive footage)
Connie Chung
as Self (voice)
Dwight L. Chapin
as Self (voice)
Piper Dankworth
as Self (voice)
John Dean
as Self (voice)
Dan Romaine Kirkham
as Self (voice)
Sally Quinn
as Self (voice)
Bob Woodward
as Self (voice)
David Frost
as Self (archive footage)
J. William Fulbright
as Self (archive footage)
George McGovern
as Self (archive footage)
Bonnie Angelo
as Self (archive footage)
John Mitchell
as Self (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite
as Self (archive footage)
Lily Tomlin
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)