Never forget the Pentagon Papers & the importance of brave resistance now
Never forget the Pentagon Papers & the importance of brave resistance now Mickey Z. “The Pentagon Papers are mesmerizing, not as documentation of the history of the U.S. war in Indochina, but as insight into the minds of the men who planned and executed it.” (Arundhati Roy) On June 13, 1971, the New York Times published an article by Neil Sheehan called, “Vietnam Archive: Pentagon Study Traces 3 Decades of Growing U.S. Involvement.” It was the first installment of a 7000-page document that came to be forever known as the “Pentagon Papers.” ( Can you imagine a corporate media outlet doing something like this today? ) How important was the public airing of a secret government study of decision-making about the Vietnam War? None other than Henry Kissinger labeled the man who leaked that study — Daniel Ellsberg — “the most dangerous man in America.” (Projection much?) Author H. Bruce Franklin called Ellsberg, “That young man with boundless promise who graduated t...