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

Also on this date, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall to become the first non-white justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Daniel Ellsberg, former Defense Department researcher who says he leaked top-secret Pentagon papers to the press, reports at the Capitol on July 28, 1971 to an unofficial House panel investigating the significance of the war documents. From left are Fred Branfman, former Laos correspondant for Dispatch News Service; Ellsberg; and Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif. (AP Photo)
Daniel Ellsberg, former Defense Department researcher who says he leaked top-secret Pentagon papers to the press, reports at the Capitol on July 28, 1971 to an unofficial House panel investigating the significance of the war documents. From left are Fred Branfman, former Laos correspondant for Dispatch News Service; Ellsberg; and Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif. (AP Photo)
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The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study of America’s involvement in Vietnam since 1945, that had been leaked to the paper by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg.

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