Ledlecreeper27 at 18:56, 17 July 2023

2023-07-17T18:56:53Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 18:56, 17 July 2023
Line 6:		Line 6:
	The Pentagon Papers contained 7,000 pages of classified documents. They showed that the USA knew it would lose the Vietnam War as early as July 1965. [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] believed the USA would not defeat [[Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945–1975)\|Vietnam]] even if it lost 50,000 people. [[Henry Kissinger\|Kissinger]] described Ellsberg as "the most dangerous man in America", and [[Richard Nixon\|Nixon]] banned newspapers from publishing the papers.<ref name=":0" />		The Pentagon Papers contained 7,000 pages of classified documents. They showed that the USA knew it would lose the Vietnam War as early as July 1965. [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] believed the USA would not defeat [[Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945–1975)\|Vietnam]] even if it lost 50,000 people. [[Henry Kissinger\|Kissinger]] described Ellsberg as "the most dangerous man in America", and [[Richard Nixon\|Nixon]] banned newspapers from publishing the papers.<ref name=":0" />

	== ~~Other~~ activism ==		== Later activism ==
	In 2019, he spoke out against U.S. coup attempts against [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela\|Venezuela]]. In May 2021, he released a classified document from 1958 that showed that the United States would start a nuclear war if [[People's Republic of China\|China]] retook [[Taiwan Province\|Taiwan]].<ref name=":0" />		In 2019, Ellsburg spoke out against U.S. coup attempts against [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela\|Venezuela]]. In May 2021, he released a classified document from 1958 that showed that the United States would start a nuclear war if [[People's Republic of China\|China]] retook [[Taiwan Province\|Taiwan]].<ref name=":0" />

	== See also ==		== See also ==

Ledlecreeper27: Created

2023-06-26T17:55:01Z

Created

New page

{{Infobox person|name=Daniel Ellsberg|birth_date=April 7, 1931|birth_place=Chicago, [[Illinois]], [[United States of America|United States]]|death_date=June 16, 2023|death_place=Kensington, [[California]], United States|image=Daniel Ellsberg.png|image_size=200}}

'''Daniel Ellsberg''' (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was a Statesian anti-war activist who leaked the [[Pentagon Papers]] in 1971, exposing U.S. war crimes in the [[Vietnam War]]. He was arrested more than 90 times. U.S. charged him with espionage, which carried a punishment of 105 years in prison.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Richard Becker|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]|title=How Daniel Ellsberg exposed the U.S. war machine and became a top enemy of empire|date=2023-06-21|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/how-daniel-ellsberg-exposed-the-u-s-war-machine-and-became-a-top-enemy-of-empire/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622115416/https://www.liberationnews.org/how-daniel-ellsberg-exposed-the-u-s-war-machine-and-became-a-top-enemy-of-empire/|archive-date=2023-06-22}}</ref>

== Pentagon Papers ==
The Pentagon Papers contained 7,000 pages of classified documents. They showed that the USA knew it would lose the Vietnam War as early as July 1965. [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] believed the USA would not defeat [[Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945–1975)|Vietnam]] even if it lost 50,000 people. [[Henry Kissinger|Kissinger]] described Ellsberg as "the most dangerous man in America", and [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] banned newspapers from publishing the papers.<ref name=":0" />

== Other activism ==
In 2019, he spoke out against U.S. coup attempts against [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]]. In May 2021, he released a classified document from 1958 that showed that the United States would start a nuclear war if [[People's Republic of China|China]] retook [[Taiwan Province|Taiwan]].<ref name=":0" />

== See also ==

* [[Julian Assange]]
* [[Chelsea Manning]]
* [[Edward Snowden]]

== References ==
[[Category:Targets of censorship]]
[[Category:Anti-war activists]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ellsberg, Daniel}}

Daniel Ellsberg - Revision history

Ledlecreeper27 at 18:56, 17 July 2023

Ledlecreeper27: Created