It occurred 50 years ago this month, a story known primarily by people now dead but one that is vital for our times, and for all time.
It is a tale about the Pentagon Papers, the Unitarian Universalist Church, a teeny publishing house, a radical historian, a renegade Pentagon employee, a couple of suitcases spilling over with secret documents, a meeting on Boston Common, a few FBI agents, and â here is the poetry and poignance of it all â a tourist walk called the Freedom Trail.
And at the center of it all is an enigmatic senator who died at age 91, last month on June 26.
It occurred 50 years ago this month, a story known primarily by people now dead but one that is vital for our times, and for all time. It is a tale about the Pentagon Papers, the Unitarian Universalist Church, a teeny publishing house, a radical historian, a renegade Pentagon employee, a couple of suitcases spilling over with secret documents, a meeting on Boston Common, a few FBI agents, and â here is the poetry and poignance of it all â a tourist walk called the Freedom Trail.
And at the center of it all is an enigmatic senator who died at age 91 last weekend.
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