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POV | Preview: Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers | PBS

Duration: 02:30
Program: POV #2314
Broadcast Date: Oct. 5, 2010

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A comprehensive look at the release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and the resultant political firestorm, but also an intensely intimate look into the conscience of a gifted and intelligent man who National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger told his staff was “the most dangerous man in America who must be stopped at all costs.”

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