Former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein will speak at 6:45 p.m. Monday, May 15, in the Northside Hall auditorium at Indiana University South Bend.

The speech is sponsored by Teachers Credit Union and is part of the 75th anniversary celebration of the founding of the credit union.

Tickets, which are available at any TCU branch, are $1 for TCU members and $5 for non-members.

Following the talk there will be a question and answer period and a book signing.

Bernstein, who was in his mid-20s at the time, and fellow reporter Bob Woodward, broke the Watergate story for the Post in the early 1970s. The investigative reporting into the break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C., and the ensuing cover-up eventually brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon.

The story was recounted in the books “All the President’s Men” and “The Final Days.”

“All the President’s Men” was made into a movie starring Robert Redford as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein.

Bernstein and Woodward won numerous awards for the Post including the Pulitzer for the coverage.

Bernstein started in journalism at the age of 16 as a copyboy at the Washington Star. He rose through the ranks, dropped out of college, worked as a reporter in New Jersey and joined the Post at 22.

He left the Post in 1977 and spent a year working on an investigative story on the CIA and the relationship with the American press during the Cold War for Rolling Stone.

From 1980 to 1984, Bernstein was at ABC News as the Washington bureau chief and then as senior correspondent. For ABC, he reported on Afghanistan and Israeli and Palestinian conflict in Lebanon.

In 1986, he wrote the memoir, “Loyalties: A Son’s Memoir” about his parents’ encounters with McCarthyism.

Bernstein wrote a cover story in 1992 for Time magazine on the alliance between Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan. The two men worked to support the Solidarity labor movement in Poland. The movement led to the toppling of Communist rule in Poland and eventually the rest of Eastern Europe.

The work led to the papal biography “John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time.” The book was co-authored with Vatican expert Marco Politi.

In late 1989, following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, he reported from Iraq for Time magazine on the seething discontent of Saddam Hussein. That work led to his expulsion from the country and a plane trip to Egypt.

Currently he is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair.

For further information contact the credit union at (574) 284-6495.