night. and this thing was unfolding in the most dramatic way. >> alaska's 41-year-old democratic senator held a mock meeting of his sub committee meeting osbuilding and groundings and began reading aloud the 7,000 page pentagon secret report in public. >> the papers proved that for 20 years we have been victims of our southeast asia policy. >> i was frightened to death over releasing the pentagon papers, all i could think of is my country is killing people, maiming americans, and this is terrible. so i was overcome with emotion, not patriotism, just emotion of something you love dearly that had gone astray. >> he continued until emotion overcame him after 1:00 this morning. >> keep in mind i'm the only one in the committee. i asked to put all of these