Daniel Ellsberg

Known for ActingBorn 1931-04-07Died 2023-06-16Chicago, Illinois, USA

Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers. In January 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a maximum sentence of 115 years. Because of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering (committed by the same people who were later involved in the Watergate scandal), and his defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. dismissed all charges against Ellsberg in May 1973. Ellsberg was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He was also known for having formulated an important example in decision theory, the Ellsberg paradox; for his extensive studies on nuclear weapons and nuclear policy; and for voicing support for WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden. Ellsberg was awarded the 2018 Olof Palme Prize for his "profound humanism and exceptional moral courage". He was a founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. Ellsberg died of cancer in 2023. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Ellsberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories

Doomsday Chronicles

Ithaka

Kissinger

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

Axis of Evil: Perforated Praeter Naturam

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

The Most Dangerous Man in America

Hearts and Minds

Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words

The Colbert Report

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire

Democracy Now!

Risk

The Memory of Justice

Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Our Nixon

The Dick Cavett Show

American Experience

The Trust Fall: Julian Assange

The Mike Douglas Show

The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream

The Six Billion Dollar Man

The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky

Julian Assange: A Modern Day Hero?

Nixon

Police Off Campus!

How to Stop a Nuclear War