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Apr 12, 2024 · Pentagon Papers, papers that contain a history of the U.S. role in Indochina from World War II until May 1968 and that were commissioned in 1967 by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. They were turned over (without authorization) to The New York Times by Daniel Ellsberg , a senior research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
Apr 8, 2021 · April 8, 2021. Photograph by Justin Maxon for The New Yorker. Fifty years ago this spring, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, a seven-thousand-page top-secret history of U.S....
Jun 18, 2021 · The study came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. It chronicled decades of failed U.S. policy in Vietnam and ways the American public was misled about how the war was conducted. The first...
[The Pentagon Papers represented] a body of authoritative information, of inside government deliberations, that demonstrated beyond questioning the criticisms that antiwar activists had been making for years not only were not wrong but, in fact, were not materially different from things that had been argued inside the US government.
The Pentagon Papers. A First Amendment Case That Made an ‘Incoherent State of the Law’. The Pentagon Papers decision, hailed as a flat-out free-speech victory, in reality had a more...
Jun 9, 2021 · An Oral History of the Pentagon Papers. Interviews for this oral history were conducted in the spring of 2021 by Jennifer Harlan and Brian Gallagher. Neil Sheehan, who died in January 2021, was...
Jun 13, 2011 · Jun 13, 2011 6:33 PM EDT. Leave your feedback. Transcript. In 1971, parts of a secret Pentagon report began to surface in The New York Times calling the Vietnam War's validity into question....
