From the Archives: Ford pardons Nixon [+video]
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Boston Herald front page from Sept. 9, 1974. (Herald archive screenshot by Joe Dwinell.)
“A full, free and absolute pardon” is one heck of a free ticket.
That’s what President Gerald Ford granted on Sept. 8, 1974, and here’s that front page: Herald Sept 9 1974.
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