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June 11, 2021 04:12 pm GMT
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Gripping oral history of the Pentagon Papers from the New York Times
In 1971, the New York Times published the Pentagon Papers, quite possibly the biggest journalistic scoop of the century. The classified government documents, leaked by RAND Corporation consultant Daniel Ellsberg to New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan (who died in January), revealed how the Johnson Administration had lied to Congress and the American people about its involvement the Vietnam War. — Read the rest
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