Daniel Ellsberg Meets the Media Before His Presentation at UND, March 1974

Creator

Preview

Date of Work

3-5-1974

Identification #

OGL791-1372

Description

Daniel Ellsberg meets with the news media prior to a presentation at the Chester Fritz Auditorium on March 5, 1974. Ellsberg was a military analyst for the RAND Corporation when he released "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force" (more commonly known as the Pentagon Papers) to the New York Times in 1971. The Pentagon Papers revealed that officials in the United States military had misgivings regarding the likelihood that the Vietnam War could be won and that the military had secretly broadened the scope of the war.

Places Depicted

Chester Fritz Auditorium

People Depicted

Daniel Ellsberg

Rights

Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota