DanielEllsberg

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Daniel Ellsberg:

Daniel Ellsberg was born in Detroit in 1931. He graduated from Harvard in 1952 and then studied at King's College, Cambridge. In 1954, Ellsberg joined the U.S Marine Corps and would be a part of it for the next 3 years. After being part of the Defence Department in 1964, Ellsberg joined the State Department in 1965. In 1967 Ellsberg became a member of the McNamara Study Group that created the classified History of Descision Making in Vietnam. He thought that this document should be available to the public. Ellsberg ended up publishing extracts of this document, or the "Pentagon Papers", to the New York Times revealing top secret information about the Vietnamese War. Ellsberg was arrested, but his trial was dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct against him.

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