DANIEL ELLSBERG - The Interview Burns & Novick Missed in "The Vietnam War" Series
Channel: Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee
Date: 2017-11-06

A video presentation featuring Daniel Ellsberg for the October 21, 2017  "From Protest to Resistance” conference on the 50th anniversary of the March on the Pentagon. 

Organized by the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee
http://www.vietnampeace.org

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Marine veteran and former defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg played a major role in turning public opinion against the U.S. war in Indochina. 

In 1971, Ellsberg gave the top-secret Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and Washington Post, risking life in prison. The 7,000 pages he helped to compile reveal how U.S. government officials repeatedly lied to the public about the origins and conduct of the war. 

Yet, he was not interviewed for "The Vietnam War” 10 episode series on PBS.

Consider this "Episode 11, Part 1".

In this interview, Ellsberg critiques the PBS Vietnam War series, discusses what he was doing at the Pentagon on October 21, 1967, reveals how Defense Secretary McNamara had secretly proposed ending the war, confirms the peace movement’s essential role in shortening the war, speaks of how draft resisters inspired him to release the Pentagon Papers, and notes current parallels to the war in Afghanistan.

Ellsberg’s book “Secrets” provides more details on his release of the Pentagon Papers. His latest book is “Challenging the Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner”.