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Chronology
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Famous Trials
Pentagon Papers
(Daniel Ellsberg) Trial
1972-73 |
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The Pentagon Papers
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Cronkite
Interviews Ellsberg
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Nixon
Phone Calls On Pentagon Papers
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Daniel Ellsberg outside the Federal Court Building in
Los Angeles during his trial. (AP
Photo)
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Supreme
Court
Oral Argument
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New
York Times v. United States
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Ellsberg's
Indictment
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Trial
Testimony
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The
Pentagon Papers (Daniel Ellsberg) Trial: An Account
by
Douglas
O. Linder (c) 2011
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"[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)
[CONTINUED]
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Case Dismissed:
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The Most Dangerous Man in America
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