BS: Pentagon Papers, 50th Anniversary

Subject: Tech: Pentagon Papers, 50th Anniversary
From: robomatic
Date: 18 Jun 21 - 06:19 PM

I'm listening to Fresh Air on NPR. Daniel Ellsberg is talking to Dave Davies answering questions and giving his version of the events of fifty years past, when he was a young employee of RAND Corporation, and how his consciousness evolved in the matter.

I'm remembering how fifty years ago as a high school student I had a chance to visit The Soviet Union with my Russian teacher and fellow students, and was able to buy a copy of "Pentagoni Bumagi" on the street in Leningrad. Pretty sure I still have it.

Subject: RE: Tech: Pentagon Papers, 50th Anniversary
From: robomatic
Date: 18 Jun 21 - 06:21 PM

I thought I'd labeled this what it is supposed to be: BS Non-Music. I was surprised to see it come up 'Tech'.


Would some kind mod please fix this and put it below the line where it belongs.
Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Pentagon Papers, 50th Anniversary
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Jun 21 - 11:55 PM

Fascinating coverage.

Subject: RE: BS: Pentagon Papers, 50th Anniversary
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Jun 21 - 04:14 PM

There's a good movie about the Washington Post and the Pentagon Papers.

Subject: RE: BS: Pentagon Papers, 50th Anniversary
From: Charmion
Date: 21 Jun 21 - 02:14 PM

In June 1971, I was 16 years old, finishing Grade 12, and primarily concerned with the auditions being held for the Ontario Youth Choir. I read the Ottawa Citizen sporadically, but television news made little impression on me. That all changed with the publication of the Pentagon Papers and the ensuing burglary at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, which were widely reported in Canada.

My family were, shall we say, basically cooperative with whoever was in charge. I was certainly brought up to believe that the government did its best and told us as much of the truth as it was safe for us to know, and that the American government was equally trustworthy. I did not really understand much of what I read in the paper and heard in the CBC news coverage, but the part that sank in was the part where the U.S. government had committed a massive breach of trust that went on for years, and then agreed to criminal acts to cover up that breach of trust.

And another skeptic was born, right then and there.