Attorney and author John D. O’Connor, the Notre Dame alumnus who revealed the identity of Watergate source “Deep Throat” earlier this year, will present a lecture titled “The Deeper Significance of Deep Throat” at 2p.m. Nov. 4 (Friday) in the Carey Auditorium of the University’s Hesburgh Library.
Co-sponsored by the University’s John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy and the Notre Dame Alumni Association under the auspices of its Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series, the presentation is free and open to the public.
In an article for the July edition of Vanity Fair, O’Connor, a 1968 Notre Dame graduate, broke the news that former FBI official W. Mark Felt secretly helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein investigate the misdeeds of President Nixon and his administration in the early 1970s.
O’Connor currently is working with the Felt family on a book with the tentative title “A G-Man’s Life: The FBI, Being `Deep Throat’ and the Struggle for Honor in Washington,” which will explain Felt’s governmental service and involvement in the Watergate affair. The book, to be published by PublicAffairs Books, is scheduled for release next spring.
O’Connor is a director in the litigation group of the San Francisco law firm Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin. He was graduated from law school at the University of Michigan in 1972 and served as assistant U.S. attorney for the northern district of California from 1974 to 1979.
Originally published by at newsinfo.nd.edu on October 27, 2005.