Editing Daniel Ellsberg (section)

===Release and publication===
Throughout 1970, Ellsberg covertly attempted to persuade a few sympathetic [[United States Senate|U.S. Senators]]{{Snd}}among them [[J. William Fulbright]], chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations|Senate Foreign Relations Committee]], and [[George McGovern]], a leading opponent of the war{{Snd}}to release the papers on the Senate floor, because a Senator could not be prosecuted for anything he said on the record before the Senate.<ref>Sanford J. Ungar, The Papers & The Papers, An Account of the Legal and Political Battle Over the Pentagon Papers, 1972, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York; p. 127</ref>

Ellsberg allowed some copies of the documents to circulate privately, including among scholars at the [[Institute for Policy Studies]] (IPS), [[Marcus Raskin]] and [[Ralph Stavins]].<ref name="AP obituary 2023">{{cite web|last=Italie|first=Hillel|url=https://apnews.com/article/daniel-ellsberg-vietnam-war-pentagon-papers-12f57b417c372c1b8760a21d447cb502|title=Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers exposing Vietnam War secrets, dies at 92|website=Associated Press of New York (AP)|date=June 16, 2023|access-date=June 26, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Secrets"/> Ellsberg also shared the documents with ''The New York Times'' correspondent and former Vietnam-era acquaintance [[Neil Sheehan]], who wrote a story based on what he had received both directly from Ellsberg and from contacts at IPS.<ref name=wildmanreviewinreason>{{Cite news|last=Young |first=Michael |title=The devil and Daniel Ellsberg: From archetype to anachronism (review of ''Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg'') |newspaper=[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]] |page=2 |date=June 2002 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_2_34/ai_85701104 |access-date=July 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830070005/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_2_34/ai_85701104/ |archive-date=August 30, 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Secrets"/><ref name="Scott 2021">{{cite web | title=How Neil Sheehan Got the Pentagon Papers |last=Scott|first=Janny| website=The New York Times | date=January 7, 2021 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/pentagon-papers-neil-sheehan.html | access-date=June 25, 2023}}</ref> While Ellsberg had asked him to only take notes of the documents in his apartment, Sheehan defied Ellsberg's wishes on March 2,<ref name="Secrets"/><ref name="Chokshi 2017">{{cite web | title=Behind the Race to Publish the Top-Secret Pentagon Papers|last=Chokshi|first=Niraj | website=The New York Times | date=December 20, 2017 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/us/pentagon-papers-post.html | access-date=June 26, 2023}}</ref> by frantically copying them in various Boston-area shops while Ellsberg was vacationing in the West Indies. Sheehan then flew the copies to his home in Washington and then New York.<ref name="Scott 2021"/><ref name="Sanger Scott 2021">{{cite web | last1=Sanger | first1=David E. |last2=Scott|first2=Janny|last3=Harlan|first3=Jennifer|last4=Gallagher|first4=Brian|title='We're Going to Publish': An Oral History of the Pentagon Papers | website=The New York Times | date=June 9, 2021 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/09/us/pentagon-papers-oral-history.html|archive-date=June 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613071158/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/09/us/pentagon-papers-oral-history.html| access-date=June 26, 2023}}</ref>

On Sunday, June 13, 1971, ''[[The New York Times]]'' published the first of nine excerpts from, and commentaries on, the 7,000-page collection. For 15 days, ''The New York Times'' was prevented from publishing its articles by court order requested by the [[Nixon administration]]. Meanwhile, while eluding an [[FBI]] manhunt for thirteen days, Ellsberg gave the documents to [[Ben Bagdikian]], then-national editor of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' and former RAND Corporation colleague, in a Boston-area motel.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers|journal=The Nation|author=H. Bruce Franklin|date=July 9, 2001|url=http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/ELLSBERG.htm|access-date=July 15, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509054438/http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/ELLSBERG.htm|archive-date=May 9, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Secrets"/> On June 30, the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] allowed the resumption of publication by ''The New York Times'' (''[[New York Times Co. v. United States]]''). Two days prior to the Supreme Court's decision, Ellsberg publicly admitted his role in releasing the Pentagon Papers to the press, and surrendered to federal authorities at the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston.<ref name="Secrets">{{Cite book|last=Ellsberg|first=Daniel|author-link=Daniel Ellsberg|title=Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers|publisher=Viking Press|location=New York|year=2002|isbn=978-0-670-03030-9|url=https://archive.org/details/secretsmemoirofv02ells}}</ref>

On June 29, 1971, U.S. Senator [[Mike Gravel]] of Alaska entered 4,100 pages of the Papers into the record of his Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds{{Snd}}pages which he had received from Ellsberg via Ben Bagdikian on June 26.<ref>{{citation |url=https://freedom.press/news/fifty-years-ago-today-senator-mike-gravel-read-the-pentagon-papers-into-the-official-record-more-lawmakers-should-follow-his-lead/ |title=Fifty years ago today, Senator Mike Gravel read the Pentagon Papers into the official record. |author=Parker Higgins |date=June 29, 2021 |publisher=Freedom of the Press Foundation}}</ref><ref name="Secrets"/>