The Pentagon Papers
The leak that put truth — and the free press — on trial
In the summer of 1971, Americans woke up to front-page headlines that exposed decades of government secrecy.
The New York Times had obtained more than 7,000 pages of a classified Pentagon study formally titled “The Defense Department History of the United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam.”
You probably know it by another name: the “Pentagon Papers.”
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