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Pentagon Papers
(Daniel Ellsberg) Trial


1972-73
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The Pentagon Papers
Cronkite Interviews Ellsberg
Nixon Phone Calls On Pentagon Papers
     
    Daniel Ellsberg outside the Federal Court Building in Los Angeles during his trial. (AP Photo)
Supreme Court
Oral Argument

New York Times v. United States
Ellsberg's
Indictment
Trial
Testimony
The Pentagon Papers (Daniel Ellsberg) Trial: An Account
by  Douglas O. Linder  (c) 2011 
"[T]he sonofabitching thief is made a national hero and is going to get off on a mistrial, and the New York Times gets a Pulitzer Prize for stealing documents...What is the name of God have we come to?"  --President Richard Nixon (Oval Office discussion, May 11, 1973)

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