The Pentagon Papers: A Primer for Top Secret at New York Theatre Workshop Do you know what the Pentagon Papers are? In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked top secret US Defense Department documents to the New York Times and The Washington Post, exposing the government's role in deliberately escalating the Vietnam War. Quickly, a federal court blocked The New York Times from publishing the top-secret history of US invol…
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