Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers was a secret Department of defense study of U.S. Involvement in Vietnam between 1945-1967. When the number of American Troops increased to more than 500,000 by 1968, the military analyst Daniel Ellsberg opposed the war decided that the information contained in these papers should be avaible not only be more known to government but also to the Public eye. he copied the report and in march of 1971 he gave the copy to The New York Times, which published a series of articles on the findings of the papers. This led to a very angry nation and even an international uproar.
The Pentagon Papers was a secret Department of defense study of U.S. Involvement in Vietnam between 1945-1967. When the number of American Troops increased to more than 500,000 by 1968, the military analyst Daniel Ellsberg opposed the war decided that the information contained in these papers should be avaible not only be more known to government but also to the Public eye. he copied the report and in march of 1971 he gave the copy to The New York Times, which published a series of articles on the findings of the papers. This led to a very angry nation and even an international uproar.