Dossier
Pentagon Papers
Coverage of Pentagon Papers in the Nexus archive.
- 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.