Actor Dean Jones, who plays the part of former Nixon aide Charles Colson in the movie “Born Again,” has his tie adjusted at a dinner before the premiere of the movie, Sept. 24, 1978, in Washington. Colson looks on at center with ex-Sen. Harold Hughes who plays himself in the film about Colson’s involvement in Watergate and his subsequent conversion to Christianity. (Charles Tasnadi / Associated Press)
Watergate felon and prison reformer Charles W. Colson, died Saturday at age 80 in northern Virginia.
In a Aug. 2, 2000 file photo, Charles Colson bears testimony at a conference for evangelical Protestants at Amsterdam’s RAI congress center. Colson, the tough-as-nails special counsel to President Nixon who went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case and became a Christian evangelical helping inmates, has died. He was 80. . (Peter Dejong / Associated Press)
