Image: Robert Bork, Acting Attorney General speaking at the microphone in the White House Press Room (Nov. 1, 1973)

(Thursday, November 1, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — Following the Saturday Night Massacre, Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork today appointed Leon Jaworski to be the new Watergate special prosecutor, succeeding Archibald Cox, who was fired Oct. 20, 1973.