Samuel Dash

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Sam Dash
Senate Watergate Committee
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseSara Dash (1947–2004)
Children2
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Samuel Dash (February 27, 1925 – May 29, 2004) was an American lawyer. He was chief counsel for the

Senate Watergate Committee during the Watergate scandal. Dash became famous for his televised interrogations during the hearings held by the United States Congress
on the Watergate incident.

Early life and education

Dash was born in

Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union.[1]
His family later moved to Philadelphia.

He graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia and went on to study at Temple University.[2] While in high school he was the president of the Interscholastic League of Student Associations.[3] He interrupted his studies when at the age of 18, with the United States engaged in fighting World War II, Dash enlisted in the Army Air Corps and served as a bombardier navigator, flying missions over Italy. After the war, he finished his undergraduate degree at Temple University in 1947. Dash then studied at Harvard Law School where he gained his degree in 1950.

Career

In 1955, Dash became a district attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He later went into private practice.

Dash became a law professor at

Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., and the effort to obstruct investigation of the burglary. The university gave Dash a leave of absence to do this work, and he became the committee's chief counsel.[4]

Two decades later, Dash was again in the news, after resigning his post as ethics adviser to

Kenneth Starr. After working for the investigation for four years, Dash resigned to protest Starr's appearance before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary
. Dash thought that Starr was acting as an "aggressive advocate" instead of an impartial investigator.

Dash returned to Georgetown, where, for nearly 40 years, he taught criminal procedure. In 1976, he was elected to the

PATRIOT Act
.

Death

Dash died in

Parklawn Memorial Park in Rockville, Maryland.[5]

Media appearances
  • In the WETA-TV 2-part special Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings in 1983, marking 10 years after the hearings.[6][7]
  • In Episode 4 of the TV adaptation of Slow Burn Season 1 on the Watergate hearings (via archival footage).

References

  1. ^ "Samuel Dash". Spartacus Educational. Archived from the original on 2013-09-03.
  2. ^ Leary, Warren E., "Samuel Dash, Chief Counsel for Senate Watergate Committee, Dies at 79", The New York Times, May 30, 2004
  3. ^ "Dash and ILSA Move To Aid in War Effort". The Centralizer. Vol. XXXIX, no. 10. Philadelphia, PA: Central High School. June 2, 1942. p. 3.
  4. ^ "Georgetown and Watergate". Georgetown University. November 2007.
  5. ^ "Samuel Dash". Find a Grave.
  6. ^ "Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings, Part 1". WETA. 1983. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings, Part 2". WETA. 1983. Retrieved 16 August 2021.

External links

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