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West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s News Department has secured 11 nominations in eight categories in the 2023 Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters annual awards competition. This competition includes the best radio and television stations in both West Virginia and Virginia.
‘I’ve never seen a class so engaged’: How famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, a UMass professor and a journalist created a class unlike any other
Updated May 06, 2021;
Dr. Daniel Ellsberg was roughly five minutes into responding to a student’s question on wargaming nuclear conflict with the Soviet Union when the time for his answer ran out.
That was a fairly common occurrence. The famed whistleblower had at age 40 leaked the Pentagon Papers, top-secret documents on the Vietnam War. Now, he had been given a time limit on his comments by Christian Appy, a renowned professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It wasn’t that Ellsberg would ramble off-topic. It was that for every question, he simply had so much to say.