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'Courage is contagious': Daniel Ellsberg's decision to release the Pentagon Papers didn't happen in a vacuum

  • Written by Christian Appy, Professor of History, UMass Amherst
'Courage is contagious': Daniel Ellsberg's decision to release the Pentagon Papers didn't happen in a vacuumDaniel Ellsberg addresses supporters during an anti-war protest in 2010 in front of the White House.Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images

In 1971, when Daniel Ellsberg arrived at a federal court in Boston, a journalist asked if he was concerned about the prospect of going to prison for leaking a 7,000-page top-secret history of the Vietnam War....

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