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Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg participates in a news conference held by the whistleblower group ExposeFacts.org at the National Press Club in Washington April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Politics Jun 16

Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers exposing Vietnam War secrets, dies at 92

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

Nation Jan 07

Neil Sheehan, Pentagon Papers reporter and Vietnam author, dies

The reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who broke the story of the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times and who chronicled the deception at the heart of the Vietnam War in his epic book about the war died Thursday.

By Will Lester, Associated Press

Arts Jan 22

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How ‘The Post’ stood up to the power of the presidency

In the film "The Post," editor Ben Bradlee and publisher Katharine Graham must obtain the Pentagon Papers and then decide whether to defy a court order by publishing the classified history of the Vietnam War. A story about a consequential…

By Jeffrey Brown

Arts Oct 25

Tom Hanks on how the Pentagon Papers remain relevant today

“The truth was so volatile...so toxic at that time... that no one wanted to talk about it,” actor Tom Hanks said…

By Lora Strum

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