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  1. 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 ...

  2. Jun 12, 2024 · Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died June 16, 2023, Kensington, California) was an American military analyst and researcher who, in 1971, leaked portions of a classified 7,000-page report that detailed the history of U.S. intervention in Indochina from World War II until 1968.

  3. Jun 16, 2023 · Daniel Ellsberg was born on April 7, 1931, in Chicago and grew up in Highland Park, Michigan. His father, Harry, worked as a civil engineer, and his mother, Adele, worked as a fundraiser at the ...

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  4. Jun 16, 2023 · Daniel Ellsberg was born in Chicago on April 7, 1931, to Harry and Adele (Charsky) Ellsberg. His father, a structural engineer, moved the family in 1937 to Detroit, where Daniel grew up.

  5. Jun 16, 2023 · Anonymous/AP. Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers that detailed U.S. actions during the Vietnam war, died Friday at this home in Kensington, Calif. He was 92. The cause, his family ...

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  6. Learn about the life and achievements of Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers and exposed the Vietnam War. Find his biography, books, awards, and obituaries on his official website.

  7. Jun 23, 2023 · Ellsberg died June 16 at age 92. We listen back to a 2017 interview with him, and speak with New York Times correspondent Charlie Savage about Ellsberg's most recent document leak, at age 90.

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