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Daniel Ellsberg
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he preci…
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Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he 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, The Washington Post, and other newspapers. In January 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a maximum sentence of 115 years. Because of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering (committed by the same people who were later involved in the Watergate scandal), and his defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. dismissed all charges against Ellsberg in May 1973. Ellsberg was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He was also known for having formulated an important example in decision theory, the Ellsberg paradox; for his extensive studies on nuclear weapons and nuclear policy; and for voicing support for WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden. Ellsberg was awarded the 2018 Olof Palme Prize for his "profound humanism and exceptional moral courage". He was a founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. Ellsberg died of cancer in 2023. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Ellsberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2026
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2025
The Six Billion Dollar Man
Movie Self
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2025
Kissinger
TV show Self (archival footage)
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2024
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
TV show Self - Anti-Nuclear Activist & Whistleblower
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2024
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
Movie Self
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2022
Ithaka
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
Movie Self
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2018
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Movie Self
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2017
Risk
Movie Self
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2014
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Movie Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
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2013
Our Nixon
Movie Self
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2011
Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2011
Julian Assange: A Modern Day Hero?
Movie Self - Whistleblower
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2009
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Movie Self (Narraror)
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2005
The Colbert Report
TV show Self
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- 2004
- 2004
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1990
Nixon
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1988
American Experience
TV show Self
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1979
Doomsday Chronicles
Movie Self
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1976
The Memory of Justice
Movie Self
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1974
Hearts and Minds
Movie Self - Former Aide, Defense Dept., Rand Corp.
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1970
Police Off Campus!
Movie Himself
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TV show Self
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How to Stop a Nuclear War
Movie Self
