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@RobertEllsberg

Jun 28, 2021

50 years ago on June 28 1971 my father surrendered for arraignment in Boston for copying the Pentagon Papers. A reporter asked him how he felt about facing jail. He said: “Wouldn’t you go to jail if it would help end this war?” Here with my stepmother Patricia.

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@RobertEllsberg

americamagazine.org

Fifty years ago, my father leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times. It changed his life —...

Half a century later, Robert Ellsberg looks back on his father’s famous release of the Pentagon Papers—and the consequences of that decision for his father, for him and for the nation.

11:00 AM · Jun 28, 2021

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