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      • The release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 was seen by many Americans as a significant escalation of the Vietnam War. The classified documents, leaked by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, detailed the true extent of US involvement in Vietnam and revealed a pattern of deception and mismanagement by the government.
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  2. 3 days ago · A transcript of their short telephone conversation surfaced in 1971, when the New York Times published “The Pentagon Papers.” It showed Lodge responding frostily, offering the doomed South Vietnamese President no ticket out.

  3. 3 days ago · In 1971 the Times became the centre of controversy when it published a series of reports based on the “ Pentagon Papers,” a secret government study of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War that had been covertly given to the Times by government officials.

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  4. 3 days ago · Pentagon, large five-sided building in Arlington county, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., that serves as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, including all three military services— Army, Navy, and Air Force. Constructed during 1941–43, the Pentagon was intended to consolidate the offices of the War Department, which had ...

  5. 6 days ago · Pentagon Papers A 7,000 page document- leaked to press in 1971 by the former Defense Department worker Daniel Ellsberg- revealing that the U.S. government had not been honest about its intentions in the Vietnam War

  6. 2 days ago · MLA. "Pentagon Papers (1971), Excerpt." American History, ABC-CLIO, 2024, http://betaamericanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/254843. Accessed 26 May 2024. MLA Style Citation guidelines follow the conventions of the Modern Language Association (MLA).

  7. 4 days ago · Ben Bradlee, the editor in chief for the Post, played by Tom Hanks, wants those papers too, since he sees the Times as his paper’s biggest competitor. Please answer the following questions: A lot of the movie tries to be faithful to the 1971 time frame – pay phones, newspapers, teletype, black and white TVs, the clothes, etc.

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