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A comprehensive look at the release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and the resultant political firestorm.
Why would a dedicated Cold Warrior throw away his career and his friends, and risk life in prison for a chance to help end the Vietnam War?
"The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the
Pentagon Papers" is a comprehensive look at the release of the
Pentagon Papers in 1971 and the resultant political firestorm that
may have sealed Americans' disenchantment with the war, and which
certainly sealed the fate of the Nixon administration. The film is
also an intensely intimate look into the conscience of a gifted and
intelligent man who National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger told
his staff was "the most dangerous man in America who must be
stopped at all costs" upon his leaking of the Pentagon Papers to
The New York Times and who wrestled personally and
professionally with what he came to see as the contradictions
between American ideals and American power in Southeast Asia.
Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.
Encores: Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 9:00-11:00 p.m. ET