Before Edward Snowden and Wikileaks, there were still people who had access to classified information that they felt the rest of society should know about. During the Vietnam War, that person was Daniel Ellsburg and the papers he leaked were known as The Pentagon Papers. You can read about his story below.
Now that we understand what happened during the Cold War, we need to understand how it still affects us. To begin this process we will listen to an interview with Daniel Ellsburg who was a military analyst during the Vietnam War. He will discuss what he did during the war, why he disliked the Vietnam war, and what he thinks of our current state of affairs.