The release of these papers was politically embarrassing, not only to the incumbent Nixon Administration, but also to the previous Johnson and Kennedy Administrations. John Mitchell, Nixon's Attorney General, almost immediately issued a telegram to the Times ordering that it halt publication. The Times refused, and the government brought suit against it. Although the Times eventually won the trial before the Supreme Court , an appellate court ordered that the Times temporarily halt further publication.
This was not the first successful attempt by the federal government to restrain the publication of a newspaper as Lincoln illustrated during the civil war; this was remarkable because prior restraint has historically been viewed as the most oppressive form of censorship. Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers to other newspapers in rapid succession, making it clear to the government that they would have to obtain injunctions against every newspaper in the country to stop the story.
The right of the press to publish the papers was upheld in New York Times Co. He was taken into custody believing he would spend the rest of his life in prison; he was charged with theft, conspiracy, and espionage. In one of Nixon's actions against Ellsberg, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, members of the White House Special Investigation Unit also called the "White House Plumbers" broke into Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in September , hoping to find information they could use to discredit him.
The revelation of the break-in became part of the Watergate scandal. They backed out because the crowd was too large. Because of the gross governmental misconduct, all charges against Ellsberg were eventually dropped. White House counsel Charles Colson was later prosecuted and pled no contest for obstruction of justice in the burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Later life Daniel Ellsberg has continued as a political activist, giving lecture tours and speaking out about current events.
Recently he garnered criticism from the George W. Bush administration for praising Katharine Gun and calling on others to leak any papers that reveal deception regarding the invasion of Iraq. The Pentagon Papers is a movie documenting Ellsberg's life starting with his work for Rand Corp and ending with the day on which the judge declared his espionage trial a mistrial.
The government claims that all records of the wiretapping have been lost. May 10, The House of Representatives, for the first time, votes to cut off all funding for U.
May 11, Byrne grants a mistrial due to what he deems to be serious government misconduct. All charges against Ellsberg and Russo are dropped. August 15, All U. August 8, Facing probable impeachment, Nixon addresses the nation on television and announces that he will resign from his office "effective noon tomorrow. Embassy in Saigon. Within hours, the Saigon government surrenders to the National Liberation Front also known as the Viet Cong , an event known as both "the liberation of Saigon" and "the fall of Saigon.
Show Comments. Ellsberg graduates from Harvard University summa cum laude and receives a fellowship to study economics at Cambridge. Ellsberg voluntarily enters the U. Specializing in crisis decision-making and the command and control of nuclear weapons, Ellsberg is hired as a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation, a California think-tank. Ellsberg starts working for the Defense Department as assistant to John McNaughton assistant secretary of defense and a close advisor to McNamara.
During Ellsberg's first day on the job, President Lyndon Johnson goes on television and alleges that there have been two attacks by North Vietnamese forces on U. Ellsberg and Patricia Marx go on their first date, in Washington, D. Ellsberg serves in Vietnam as a civilian on special assignment for the U.
On national television, President Johnson announces a halt of the bombing of North Vietnam and then shocks the nation when he continues, "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president. Ellsberg first meets with Henry Kissinger, national security advisor to president-elect Richard Nixon, to advise him on options in the U.
Ellsberg meets draft resister and antiwar activist Randy Kehler, whose willingness to go to prison based on his opposition to the war makes a great impact on Ellsberg.
Ellsberg begins photocopying the Pentagon Papers. The New York Times publishes its first stories on the top-secret report, which soon becomes known as the Pentagon Papers. Invoking "prior restraint," the government obtains from the court a temporary injunction to stop The New York Times from publishing any more material from the Pentagon Papers.
Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg go underground after Daniel Ellsberg is identified by reporter Sidney Zion as the probable source for the Pentagon Papers. The Washington Post publishes excerpts of the Pentagon Papers but is immediately enjoined from publishing additional excerpts. Alaska Senator Mike Gravel convenes a hearing of the Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds in the middle of the night and only he attends. The U. A second indictment is issued against Anthony Russo and Ellsberg, naming them co-conspirators on 15 counts.
The United States v. The front- page revelations of continued deceptions gave powerful impetus to the anti-war movement and infuriated President Richard Nixon. Later that year, Ellsberg and Russo were charged under the Espionage Act of Their trial began early in Ellsberg faced a possible sentence of years.
The creation of the plumbers, however, was never about the Pentagon Papers. Nixon considered all that history, about the Kennedy and Johnson years. I would expect—I know him well
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