The New York Times publishes the first installment of the Pentagon Papers, leaked excerpts from a Defense Department study on U.S.-Vietnam relations between 1945 and 1967. Daniel Ellsberg, a RAND Corporation employee, disclosed numerous volumes of the report to the Times reporter Neil Sheehan, detailing American bombing in Cambodia, Laos, and North Vietnam.
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