A Badge of Solidarity
The U.S. government named 22 defendants in its suit to stop The Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers. Two Times journalists designed a way to show support for their colleagues.
By David W. Dunlap
The U.S. government named 22 defendants in its suit to stop The Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers. Two Times journalists designed a way to show support for their colleagues.
By David W. Dunlap
Mr. Ellsberg took issue with how the newspaper portrayed his role, and how he was treated by the project’s primary reporter.
By Benjamin Mullin
Readers express gratitude for the risk he took in leaking the Pentagon Papers. Also: Maternal health; the 2024 election; reasons for hope; diversity in orchestras.
When Daniel Ellsberg was 42, a judge threw out Espionage Act charges against him. At 90, he sought such charges again in hope of challenging their constitutionality.
By Charlie Savage
Deeply disturbed by the accounting of American deceit in Vietnam, he approached The New York Times. The disclosures that followed rocked the nation.
By Robert D. McFadden
At the end of his life, the man behind the Pentagon Papers has a warning for us all.
By Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Wyatt Orme, Kaari Pitkin, Stephanie Joyce, Anabel Bacon, Pat McCusker, Isaac Jones, Sonia Herrero and Carole Sabouraud
The whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg shares a final warning for America.
By Alex Kingsbury
Judge Ronnie Abrams’s husband is an accomplished former Brooklyn federal prosecutor, and her father represented The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case.
By Benjamin Weiser
As a top editor who was both feared and revered at the newspaper for decades, he left a deep imprint as its arbiter of language, taste, tone and ethics.
By Todd S. Purdum
Garrett M. Graff’s “Watergate: A New History” is a thorough account of everything that is known about the epic events of Richard Nixon’s last year in office.
By Douglas Brinkley
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