On this day in 1971 the New York Times began publishing "the Pentagon Papers", the same being an internal report smuggled out by Daniel Ellsberg who had worked on the report. The documents demonstrated an early involvement in the Vietnam War that differed from the one that the Johnson Administration had boosted.
The documents were one more step towards a disillusionment on the part of the public with the war, and indeed helped achieve a permanent distrust of the Federal Government that has never been restored.
On the same day the London Times broke a story regarding Pakistani massacres of the Bengal Hindu population in East Pakistan.
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