The Pentagon Papers

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01/26/2018 Added

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The movie The Post has been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. A University of Nebraska professor talks about the history behind the Pentagon Papers and what students can learn from studying them.

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[00:00:00.183](suspenseful music)
[00:00:02.360]Do you have the papers?
[00:00:05.389]Not yet.
[00:00:08.100]The Pentagon papers are massive.
[00:00:10.340]So it's 3,000 or so pages of text
[00:00:14.770]and 4,000 of documents.
[00:00:16.887]The most highly classified documents of the war.
[00:00:20.140]And this is controversial because
[00:00:21.660]of the way it came down with these secret documents
[00:00:24.480]being leaked to the media by a government official.
[00:00:28.960]And then that raises the whole issue
[00:00:30.530]about the role of the press, and secrecy,
[00:00:32.960]and the balance between secrecy and national security.
[00:00:35.950]If you'd publish we'll be at the Supreme Court next week.
[00:00:39.690]Meaning?
[00:00:41.520]Well we could all go to prison.
[00:00:43.350]And it raises the central questions
[00:00:46.220]about democracy and oversight that continue
[00:00:50.160]to be central particularly in the post 9 11 era
[00:00:53.680]of national security.
[00:00:55.630]My name is Edward Snowden.
[00:00:57.483]Those are ongoing and enduring questions related
[00:01:01.240]to democracy, they're precisely the kinds
[00:01:03.360]of questions that we should be thinking
[00:01:04.720]about at a university, discussing in a class.
[00:01:08.570]A lot of times students come into a class like that,
[00:01:10.770]not understanding it, feeling like this is far away
[00:01:13.560]from them and detached from them and then hopefully,
[00:01:16.811]they come out the other end seeing the resonance
[00:01:19.687]with our own time period and being able
[00:01:22.750]to use in this case the historical knowledge
[00:01:25.440]to think more deeply about contemporary issues
[00:01:28.829]to raise questions
[00:01:30.750]and then to make what will be their own decisions
[00:01:33.600]as citizens and members of our society.
[00:01:38.598](heartbeats)

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