Freda Reiter – Prosecutor Jill Wine-Volner Questions Jeb Magruder – Pastel Drawing

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Jeb Stuart Magruder was deputy director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. He had already pled guilty, and was serving his sentence, when he testified in the Watergate cover-up trial. Assistant special prosecutor Jill Wine-Volner questioned a number of witnesses during the trial.

Pastel drawing, 17″ x 14″

Signature (detail)

Watergate exhibition page

Freda L. Reiter

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Watergate Courtroom Sketches by Freda L. Reiter, 1973–75
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To provide sufficient visuals for the substantial airtime allotted to the story each night, Reiter made multiple sketches a day: close-up portraits, as well as wide-angle views of the courtroom incorporating as many as 28 figures.