Pentagon Papers - Wikipedia
The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1968.
Pentagon Papers - National Archives
Jul 29, 2019 · Pentagon Papers. The Pentagon Papers, officially titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force", was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed.
Pentagon Papers - HISTORY
Aug 2, 2011 · The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. As the Vietnam War dragged on, with...
Pentagon Papers | Summary, Case, Vietnam War, & Facts
Sep 12, 2024 · Pentagon Papers, papers that contain a history of the U.S. role in Indochina from World War II until May 1968 and that were commissioned in 1967 by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara.
How The Pentagon Papers Changed Public Perception Of The …
Jun 18, 2021 · The study came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. It chronicled decades of failed U.S. policy in Vietnam and ways the American public was misled about how the war was conducted. The first...
The Pentagon Papers at 50: A Special Report - The New York Times
The story behind the bombshell scoop and a look at its legacy of First Amendment protection and government accountability on the Vietnam War.
Nixon and the Pentagon Papers - Miller Center
The leak of the Pentagon Papers brought forth a profound paranoia in Richard Nixon, hardening his conviction that he would never be safe from a vast conspiracy seeking to destroy him.
The Complete Pentagon Papers - Document - NYTimes.com
Forty years after the New York Times published a leaked version of the secret government study of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers, the National Archives has released them in their...
‘We’re Going to Publish’: An Oral History of the Pentagon Papers
Jun 9, 2021 · An Oral History of the Pentagon Papers. Interviews for this oral history were conducted in the spring of 2021 by Jennifer Harlan and Brian Gallagher. Neil Sheehan, who died in January 2021, was...
How One Epic Document Exposed the Secrets of the Vietnam War
Jun 9, 2021 · The revelations in the Pentagon Papers infuriated a country sick of the war, the body bags of young Americans, the photographs of Vietnamese civilians fleeing U.S. air attacks and the endless...