Back to People
Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg

Acting
07 Apr 1931
16 Jun 2023
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Daniel Ellsberg, PhD, (born April 7, 1931) is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. Description above from the Wikipedia article D...

Photos

Daniel Ellsberg photo 1