The man in the left set into motion a series of events captured in the three newspaper clippings shown. It resulted in a landmark case in US judicial history. Who is he and what did he do?Answer: The picture shows Daniel Ellsberg, a RAND employee who released an internal government memo on the Vietnam war to the New York Times. The government tried to stop the publication of the memo but the Supreme court decided that it is within the press' first amendment rights to publish the memo. The memo is popularly termed the "Pentagon papers". Shweta, Pappu, Divya, Rajeev, Anon, Manix, Arvind, Iam, Vetti, Swapnaa, Avinash and Rajesh got it. Well done.
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Daniel Ellsberg ( Military analyst)....He leaked classified US dept of defense documents called "pentagon papers" ( documents on America's conduct of the Vietnam War) to New York Times in 1971.
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Daniel Ellsberg - Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg.
Released top-secret pentagon documents pertaining to the decision-making chain inside the Pentagon
The Pentagon Papers (Secret docs exposing govt knowledge of futility of Vietnam war and its further disregard) were published in NYtimes and other papers.
Daniel Ellesburg (with help from Anthony Russo) worked for RAND corp and gave these secret docs to NYtimes
Times was banned from publishing for 15 days
Daniel Ellsberg, a former American military analyst, released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times in 1971.
Daniel Ellsberg. He leaked top government secrets about the Vietnam war to popular newspapers.
Daniel Ellsberg - leaked the Pentagon papers to the press. Documents which showed that the US Govt decided to go to war in Vietnam knowing that they mightn't win it and lots of ppl would die..
The NY Times and Washington post were ordered to stop publishing the papers by Nixon admin but the supreme court refused to approve such an action.
Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
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