How the Pentagon Papers Came to Be Published by the Beacon Press

Today, we hear the story from three men at the center of the storm: Former Pentagon and RAND Corporation analyst, famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. Mike Gravel - the former Alaska Senator who is now a Democratic Presidential candidate - who tells the dramatic story of how he entered the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional record and got them to the Beacon Press. And Robert West, the former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association which owned the Press and agreed to risk publication of the Pentagon Papers.

This is a story that has rarely been told in its entirety. Last weekend I moderated an event at the Unitarian Universalist conference in Portland, Oregon commemorating the publication of the Pentagon Papers and its relevance today.

We begin with Daniel Ellsberg, who Henry Kissinger once described as "the world's most dangerous man."

Read Amy Goodman's column, "Pentagon Papers as John Grisham Novel"
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/321502_amy28.html

LISTEN ONLINE:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/02/1331255