40 Years After Leak, Weighing the Impact of the Pentagon Papers
Listen to the Audio JEFFREY BROWN: Next, the impact of the Pentagon Papers, then and now.June 1971: Vietnam dragged into its sixth year of major combat. Tens of thousands of Americans were already dead, and still thousands more protesting on the home front asked why. But to the world's surprise, the Pentagon itself had already secretly posed that question and others years earlier.And, on June 13, 1971, parts of its answers from a multivolume history of the ... Full Story »
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