Robert Upshur Woodward was an American investigative journalist and a reporter for The Washington Post.
Biography[]
The Comedian discussing the deaths of the Washington Post journalists
During the summer of 1972, Bob Woodward teamed up with fellow Washington Post journalist Carl Bernstein to investigate the June 17th break in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. on. In January 1973, they uncovered evidence exposing Richard Nixon's involvement in the burglary and numerous other criminal activities. Before they can report their findings to the public, both Woodward and Bernstein are found murdered in a garage (presumably by the Comedian) with the evidence they gathered exposing Nixon's involvement is destroyed.[1]
Sometime later that year, Eddie Blake casually joked about their assassination during a banquet in his honor amongst of group of politicians, humorously suggesting that the writers for the underground newspaper The Berkeley Barb are simply imaging things due to smoking too much weed and claiming that he is "clean", before jokingly telling his colleague not to ask Blake where he was when he heard John F. Kennedy was shot in 1963 .[1]
Trivia[]
- The assassination of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein is an important point of divergence between the alternate history of Watchmen and the real world. With Woodward and Bernstein dead, the Watergate investigation was buried and Richard Nixon remained in power up into the 1980s.
- It is vaguely implied that the Comedian had killed Woodward and Bernstein under Nixon's orders.
