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POLITICSJun 13 · 08:10 UTCWTOP DCWTOP Staff

Today in History: June 13, first Pentagon Papers excerpts published

On June 13, 1971, The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam leaked by Daniel Ellsberg. Other historical events on this date include a Nazi sabotage team arriving in New York, the Supreme Court ruling in Miranda v. Arizona, and the nomination of Thurgood Marshall as the first non-white Supreme Court justice.

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