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‘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. ....
4/28/2021 Truth, Dissent & the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg: Free, Open Online Conference April 30-May 1 Historians in the News Inspired by Daniel Ellsberg’s vast collection of personal papers, recently acquired by University of Massachusetts Special Collections and University Archives, this free online conference brings together more than two dozen distinguished historians, journalists, activists, whistleblowers, and former policymakers on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Ellsberg’s leak of the Pentagon Papers. In a keynote address by Daniel Ellsberg and seven roundtable discussions, presenters will explore the major issues that have engaged Ellsberg’s life: the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons, antiwar resistance, the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, whistleblowing, and the wars of the 21st century. ....
A famous light on secrets: UMass examines legacy of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg, second from left, in 2019 with Gar Alperovitz, far left; Patricia Ellsberg; and Janaki Natarajan as he joined his co-conspirators at the University of Massachusetts Amherst after the school acquired his papers. STAFF FILE PHOTO University of Massachusetts Amherst history professor Christian Appy is a principal organizer and a moderator for the virtual conference on Daniel Ellsberg’s legacy. STAFF FILE PHOTO As his co-defendant, Anthony Russo, right, and wife, Patricia, listen, Daniel Ellsberg addresses reporters outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles on Jan. 17, 1973, during his trial for leaking the Pentagon Papers. AP FILE PHOTO ....