Martha Elizabeth Beall Mitchell (2 September 1918 – 31 May 1976), wife of John Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon. Martha Mitchell was famous for her phone calls to the press about matters the Nixon-era conspirators wanted kept under wraps. Eclipsing her husband as a household name, Martha's portrait appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1970, and later on the cover of New York magazine in a glamor shot sup...
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Martha Elizabeth Beall Mitchell (2 September 1918 – 31 May 1976), wife of John Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon. Martha Mitchell was famous for her phone calls to the press about matters the Nixon-era conspirators wanted kept under wraps. Eclipsing her husband as a household name, Martha's portrait appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1970, and later on the cover of New York magazine in a glamor shot supervised and photographed by Francesco Scavullo.
Martha Beall was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to cotton-broker George V. Beall and teacher Arie Elizabeth Beall (née A. E. Ferguson). Martha graduated from Pine Bluff High School in 1937. Her talkative nature was noted even in her high school days, when the comment beside her picture in the yearbook said:
She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and the University of Miami, from which she received a BA in history. She worked for about a...
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