Pentagon Papers - Wikipedia
The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1968.
Pentagon Papers - National Archives
Jul 29, 2019 · Pentagon Papers. The Pentagon Papers, officially titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force", was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed.
Pentagon Papers | Summary, Case, Vietnam War, & Facts
Sep 12, 2024 · Pentagon Papers, papers that contain a history of the U.S. role in Indochina from World War II until May 1968 and that were commissioned in 1967 by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara.
Pentagon Papers - HISTORY
Aug 2, 2011 · The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. As the Vietnam War dragged on, with...
How The Pentagon Papers Changed Public Perception Of The …
Jun 18, 2021 · The study came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. It chronicled decades of failed U.S. policy in Vietnam and ways the American public was misled about how the war was conducted. The first...
40 Years After Leak, Weighing the Impact of the Pentagon Papers
Jun 13, 2011 · Forty years later, the Pentagon Papers were declassified and released in full Monday. Jeffrey Brown discusses the leak's significance with historian Michael Beschloss and journalist Sanford...
The Pentagon Papers at 50: A Special Report - The New York Times
The story behind the bombshell scoop and a look at its legacy of First Amendment protection and government accountability on the Vietnam War.
‘We’re Going to Publish’: An Oral History of the Pentagon Papers
Jun 9, 2021 · An Oral History of the Pentagon Papers. Interviews for this oral history were conducted in the spring of 2021 by Jennifer Harlan and Brian Gallagher. Neil Sheehan, who died in January 2021, was...
Pentagon Papers, Watergate and Trials - UMass Amherst
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the top-secret Pentagon Papers to the press, setting in motion a chain of events that ultimately led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Why did he do it?
How One Epic Document Exposed the Secrets of the Vietnam War
Jun 9, 2021 · The revelations in the Pentagon Papers infuriated a country sick of the war, the body bags of young Americans, the photographs of Vietnamese civilians fleeing U.S. air attacks and the endless...