Video: 'Spiro Agnew ...... Go Quietly Or Else'

(Tuesday, September 17, 1996, about 3:00 p.m. EDT) — Spiro T. Agnew, who was forced to resign as the 39th Vice President of the United States in 1973 when he pleaded no contest to a charge of income-tax evasion, died today at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin, Maryland, after struggling with undiagnosed acute leukemia.

Agnew, who was elected twice and served under President Richard Nixon (1969-1973), was 77 years old.