Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, offered an overview of the Iran-Contra affair of 1986-87 during President Reagan's ...

This past week an American hero, and hero of the faith, Lt. Col. Oliver North, USMC-ret, turned 80 years old. For those not old enough to remember the importance of Oliver North in the public ...

Alfonso Chardy, a Miami Herald journalist who anchored Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting that helped expose the Iran-contra affair, a covert and illegal Reagan administration network to aid rebels in ...

The disappointment that accompanied the release of former President Reagan's Iran-Contra testimony is unwarranted. If there were no revelations, no smoking guns, no sudden confessions, that's because ...

Two of the central figures in a 1980s White House scandal have married, nearly 40 years after becoming famous during televised congressional hearings. Oliver North, a Marine lieutenant colonel working ...

Richard V. Secord, a former Air Force general and CIA operative who was the logistical middleman in the Iran-contra scandal that rocked the Reagan administration with illegal arms sales to Iran to ...

Since Oliver North first exploded onto the national scene during the 1987 Iran-contra hearings, he has been one of the most polarizing figures in American politics, and his first venture into fiction ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on July 14, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. Does anyone remember Lt. Col. Oliver North? On this ...