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Ellsberg, charged in federal warrants with unauthorized possession of top secret documents and failure to return them, arrived to surrender himself to the U.S. Daniel Ellsberg, source of published reports based on Pentagon Papers, places his hand on his wife's shoulder as he talks to newsmen at the Boston federal building on June 28, 1971. The Court issued its opinions on June 30 in all, the entire legal process had taken only 15 days. When the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the order, the Times made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case the next day (June 26). On June 13, 1971, after several months of review, the Times began to publish these so-called “ Pentagon Papers.”Īfter the first three installments were published, the Nixon administration, citing national security concerns, obtained a restraining order barring further publication of the Papers. In early 1971 Daniel Ellsberg, a RAND Corporation employee who had worked on the project, secretly made copies of the documents and passed them to reporters for the New York Times. The work was labeled classified, and only 15 copies were made. When completed in 1968, the project comprised 47 volumes containing more than 7,000 pages. In 1967 then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara commissioned a secret government study on American involvement in Vietnam. McNamara commissioned a secret Vietnam War study

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713 (1971), defended the First Amendment right of free press against prior restraint by the government. Often referred to as the “Pentagon Papers” case, the landmark Supreme Court decision in New York Times Co. (AP Photo/John Lent, republished with permission from The Associated Press) Sheehan, who obtained and wrote most of the stories about the papers for the Times, was not cited in the award. Greenfield are shown in an office of the New York Times in New York, May 1, 1972, after it was announced the team won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for its publication of the Pentagon Papers. Rosenthal and Foreign News Editor James L.

In this photo, (from left) Reporter Neil Sheehan, Managing Editor A.M.

United States (1971), also called the 'Pentagon Papers' case, defended the First Amendment right of free press against prior restraint by the government.

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