District Court in Washington after getting the go-ahead to print the Pentagon Papers on Vietnam. In this Jfile photo, Katharine Graham, left, publisher of The Washington Post, and Ben Bradlee, executive editor of The Washington Post, leave U.S.
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Nixon administration sought injunction to prevent publicationĪfter a lengthy examination of the material and fierce internal debate, the Times decided to publish the study as a nine-part series beginning June 13. When efforts to do this through official channels failed, in March 1971 he turned over a copy to Neil Sheehan of the New York Times, holding back four volumes concerning negotiations in order not to interfere with ongoing efforts. Hoping that if members of the public learned what the study revealed, they would have a similar conversion, he began a campaign to make the papers public. What made the Pentagon Papers the center of national attention was the obsession of one of the authors, Daniel Ellsberg.Īfter he had spent two years working alongside the military in Vietnam, Ellsberg’s support for the war turned to staunch opposition. Johnson used parts in writing his memoirs, neither McNamara nor Nixon’s secretary of defense Melvin Laird read them. Fifteen copies of the 47-volume top secret study were distributed. Work continued after McNamara was replaced by Clark Clifford and ended shortly after President Richard M. The authors of the papers were granted access to numerous classified documents but were not permitted personal interviews. Pentagon Papers leaked to press by author who opposed the Vietnam War United States (1971), regarding censorship and freedom of the press. They became the subject of a major Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. They were commissioned in June 1967 by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara after he had developed doubts about the wisdom of that war. Decision-Making in Vietnam, 1945–68,” the Pentagon Papers are a study of the origins and development of the Vietnam War. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, republished with permission from The Associated Press.) The New York Times appealed to the Supreme Court, which, in a 6-3 decision, dissolved the restraining order and allowed publication. After the newspaper began publishing the so-called "Pentagon Papers," the Nixon administration obtained a restraining order to stop them. In 1971, Ellsberg gave the New York Times copies of a secret government report on American involvement in the Vietnam War. See more Encyclopedia articles on: U.S.Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg speaks at the National Press Club in Washington in 2010. Copyright © 2022, Columbia University Press. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Rudenstine, The Day the Presses Stopped (1997). Ungar, The Papers and the Papers (1972) D. See the New York Times ed., The Pentagon Papers (1971) S. On May 11, 1973, a federal court judge dismissed all charges against them because of improper government conduct. Russo on charges of espionage, theft, and conspiracy. The government indicted (1971) Daniel Ellsberg, a former government employee who made the Pentagon Papers available to the New York Times, and Anthony J.
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obtained a court injunction against further publication on national security grounds, but the Supreme Court ruled (June 30) that constitutional guarantees of a free press overrode other considerations, and allowed further publication.
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On June 13, 1971, the New York Times began publishing a series of articles based on the study. marines had taken place long before the American public was informed.
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government had continually resisted full disclosure of increasing military involvement in Southeast Asia-air strikes over Laos, raids along the coast of North Vietnam, and offensive actions by U.S. The study revealed a considerable degree of miscalculation, bureaucratic arrogance, and deception on the part of U.S.
It was written by a team of analysts who had access to classified documents, and was completed in Jan., 1969. McNamara in June, 1967, the 47-volume, top secret study covered the period from World War II to May, 1968. Commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert S. Pentagon Papers, government study of U.S.
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