How the Pentagon Papers Came to be Published By the Beacon Press Told by Daniel Ellsberg & Others
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2013
- www.democracynow.org - Forty-one years ago, Beacon Press lost a Supreme Court case brought against it by the U.S. government for publishing the first full edition of the Pentagon Papers. It is now well known how The New York Times first published excerpts of the top-secret documents in June 1971, but less well known is how the Beacon Press, a small nonprofit publisher affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association, came to publish the complete 7,000 pages that exposed the true history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Their publication led the Beacon press into a spiral of two-and-a-half years of harassment, intimidation, near bankruptcy and the possibility of criminal prosecution. This is a story that has rarely been told in its entirety.
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In 2007, Amy Goodman moderated an event at the Unitarian Universalist conference in Portland, Oregon, commemorating the publication of the Pentagon Papers and its relevance today. Today, we hear the story from three men at the center of the storm: former Pentagon and RAND Corporation analyst, famed whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times; former Alaskan senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel, who tells the dramatic story of how he entered the Pentagon Papers into the congressional record and got them to the Beacon Press; finally, Robert West, the former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association. We begin with Ellsberg, who Henry Kissinger once described as "the world's most dangerous man."
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Great example of authority vs. journalism
Great American, Daniel Ellsberg. No selfish gene there.
Wondering why Ellsberg took the time, effort, paper, and increased risk of copying and distributing all 7,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers, rather than just a handful of the most damning excerpts.
In the US, truth seekers and human rights defenders are punished, persecuted and prosecuted. What does that say about the US?
Mr. Ellsberg is a credit to himself and a fine example to others!
Max
this is a much cooler story than hearing about this chump sitting in an airport for weeks on end.
I wouldn't say so. Market forces should cater to human needs, which truth, freedom and peace are major components of. I would say corrupt government, paranoid corporate leaders & collusion of the 2 (crony capitalism). The whole system is deviant.
I'm getting so fucking sick of hearing people saying "the corporations" are responsible for our problems. FUCK that, just go right on out and say what is REALLY the problem: THE RICH.
lol good luck with that.
Snowden's hardly a 'chump', chump.