The Pentagon Papers revealed how the U.S. government had lied to the public about its involvement in the Vietnam War. Leaked by the New York Times, this opened the door for future whistleblowers to expose the truth.

In episode 24 of Supreme Court Briefs, a man exposes dark government secrets about the Vietnam War, and gets in big trouble from the government for it. Should whistleblowers be protected?

Understanding the U.S. Constitution: 6. This clip examines the guarantee of Freedom of the Press in the Bill of Rights as well as the legal limitations placed on this right.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara creates the Vietnam Study Task Force at the Pentagon to create a study of the Vietnam War, which, by the way, was raging on the time with no end in sight. This study was to remain classified but...

Oct.11 -- Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistle-blower and former Rand Corp. researcher, discusses the role of a whistle-blower in a democracy and reflects on the Pentagon Papers nearly 50 years later. He speaks with Bloomberg's David...

USA (Watergate/Vietnam)

Nixon Inaugur
ation
Children running away from gunfire
(Vietnam)
Peace talks for Viet
nam (Nixon SO
F)
P
eace placard
CS Nixon
H
anoi's Generals drink to...

News conference on steps of Los Angeles courthouse held by Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo

1 SOUNDBITE: (English) Daniel Ellsberg speaking before cameras says "we won't stop the killing , every week of this trial the deaths and...

1. Wide of news conference

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-c
hief:
"'The first casualty of war is the truth.' But the attack on the...

Kensington, California

1. Mid of Daniel Ellsberg, former military analyst who leaked Pentagon Papers in 1971, at
desk
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Ellsberg, former military analyst who leaked Pentagon...

Interview with US Military Analyst Daniel Ellsberg after his Pentagon papers trial of conspiracy to publish secret material had been dismissed.

1. ms Ellsberg talks to reporter outside court SOUNDBITE (English): started for...

White House aide John Ehrlichman coming out of court and being interviewed by the press after the charges of burglary of Daniel Ellsberg.

1. SOUNDBITE (English): mcu of Ehrlichman speaking to the
press
2. SOUNDBITE (English):...

CLEAN : Whistleblower Ellsberg criticises Obama on

Demonstrations in Washington at the end of "Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice"

1. various of people marching along
road
2. ms Daniel Ellsberg addressing
the crowd
3. various of protesters carrying coffins which...

Doctor Daniel Ellsberg speaking at a news conference after his re indictment on charges of stealing and distributing defence department documents, "The Pentagon Papers"to the New York Times

1. SOUNDBITE: Doctor Daniel Ellsberg...

Publication of the Pentagon papers, based on the documents leaked from the Pentagon, by Doctor Daniel Ellsberg, showing that the military and government knew the war in Vietnam was unsustainable

1. various shots, copies of the...

Pentagon paper trial defendants Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo speaking to the press outside the court building in Los Angeles.

1. ws press and men on s
teps
2. SOUNDBITE (English): mcu Russo and Ellsber
g speaking

3....

With the powers of the presidency being argued in the courts of the US, former aides of the President are apperaing in court over the Daniel Ellsberg break in

1) interior White House, US President Nixon at his desk 2) Charles...

English/Nat

French President Jacques Chirac may be receiving a warm state welcome from President Clinton, but the two Presidents were also the subject of pro
test.
About 150 members of the group Greenpeace have...

Roadside Attractions

1. Trailer excerpt: "The
Cove"
AP
Television
Los Angeles, 1
2 February 2010
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Louie Psihoyos/Director, on whether awards season attention...

John Ehrlichman, is questioned over the break in at the Watergate complex and Daniel Ellsberg

1. interior Watergate hearing, SOUNDBITE: various shots, John Ehrlichman answers questions on his connection with the covert bre
ak...

Interview with Daniel Ellsberg after a demonstration outside a Russian building in New York

1. SOUNDBITE: Daniel Ellsberg, interview states, congress in in the process of saving the USA from a change for the wor
se...
Film: Pos...

1. Slow pan right on members of Granny Peace Brigade singing, holding placards

2. Close up one grandmother si
nging
3. Sign held up saying "Not one more death, not one more dollar", pull out to...

US soldier is sentenced to 35 years in prison for giving classified documents to WikiLeaks

AP Telev
ision
Fort Meade, Maryland - 21 A
ugust 2013
1. Wide of white vehicle pulling up outside
court...

1. Wide of protest

2. Medium of protestors holding up pictures of deformed chi
ldren
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Roy Bourgeois, Founder
SOA Watch
"We dropped 300 metric tons of depleted uranium in the Gulf...