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Category Archives: Scandals
“What Did the President Know, and When Did He Know It?” – The Watergate Hearings of 1973
May 17, 2023, marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the hearings of the Senate Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. More commonly known as the Watergate hearings, the inquiry focused the attention of the American public on the activities … Continue reading
Posted in American history, Political history, Scandals, Uncategorized
Tagged Alexander Butterfield, Bob Woodward, Burglary, Carl Bernstein, Cover-up, DNC Headquarters, Executive Privilege, Howard Baker, John Dean, Presidential Campaigns, Resignation, Richard Nixon, Sam Ervin, Senate Committee, Supreme Court, Watergate
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The “Peculiar Vibrations” of the Sweetwater County Seat
Were some of Sweetwater County’s earliest records stolen from the new county seat and lost in the desert way back in the 1870s? This is a popular story around Green River, the current Sweetwater County seat. It turns out, there … Continue reading
Privy to Scandal: The Ralph O. Dietler Papers
One of the biggest scandals to ever rock the petroleum industry was the fraudulent leasing of United States oil reserves at Wyoming’s Teapot Dome, and the discovery of the Continental Trading Company, a Canadian corporation organized in 1921 to funnel … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Geology, energy resources, found in the archive, mining history, oral histories, Politics, Scandals, Teapot Dome scandal, Uncategorized, Western history, Wyoming history
Tagged Continental Trading Company, Corporate Fraud, Henry M. Blackmer, interviews, Midwest Oil Company, oil, Petroleum Industry, Ralph O. Dietler, Standard Oil Company, Teapot Dome scandal
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