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Pentagon Papers: Key People

Biographical Databases

Biography databases

Mike Gravel, Senator

Anthony Russo, an associate of Ellsberg

America entered the Vietnam War in the Sixties as part of containment, a policy designed to stop the spread of Communism. The war was heavily protested in the United States and in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony J. Russo, two researchers at the Santa Monica-based RAND Corporation, copied classified government papers that documented the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. 

Watergate

Watergate Files

L-R: John Sirica, John Mitchell, E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, Sam Ervin, Richard M. Nixon, Burglars

From The Gerald R. Ford Library and Museum 

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