POV | The Most Dangerous Man in America | Interview with Daniel & Patricia Ellsberg | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/pov/mostdangerousman/ Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg talk about their participation in the film "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers," coming to POV on October 5. // In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist, concludes that America's role in the war is based on decades of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times, a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg and a who's-who of Vietnam-era movers and shakers give a riveting account of those world-changing events in POV's The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers by award-winning filmmakers Judith Ehrlich (The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It) and Rick Goldsmith (Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press). A co-production of ITVS in association with American Documentary/POV. (90 minutes)

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[MishuTaste]

The liars in Washington D.C. are more dangerous than Daniel Ellsberg.

[SpinachSalad01]

Look forward to watching the documentary. Probably a very good place to start gathering information about the debate surrounding what Private Bradley Manning did when he released the Afghanistan Documents and videos to WikiLeaks and how it compares to what Daniel Ellsberg did during the Vietnam Era.

[JixPol]

Daniel Ellsberg is a true American hero. Mr. Ellsberg is of a bygone era when there actually were people of conscience and integrity inside the government (or inside think tanks in his case). He's a personal hero of mine as he is Woody Harrelson's as he says so in the DVD extras of this documentary. I also like and admire Patricia Ellsberg very much, too.

[stephane1234567]

Truth will set ya free.