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Pentagon Papers Released (1971)June 13th, 1971
On this day in 1971, the Pentagon Papers, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, were published by the New York Times, detailing secret information about the history of and disinformation about U.S. involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
Image: Daniel Ellsberg, co-defendant in the Pentagon Papers case, talks to media outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles on April 28th, 1973. Photo credit Wally Fong, AP [nbcnews.com]
Walter Rodney Assassinated (1980)June 13th, 1980
Walter Rodney was a Guyanese public intellectual and Pan-African Marxist who was assassinated by the state on this day in 1980, at 38 years old. "If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be through revolutionary means."