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Fifty years ago today, Senator Mike Gravel read the Pentagon Papers into the official record. More lawmakers should follow his lead.
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Senator Mike Gravel and Daniel Ellsberg on the Reading of the Pentagon Papers into Congress. - YouTube
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Mike Gravel RIP: Watch the Senator's Stunning 2007 Speech on How He Made the Pentagon Papers Public - YouTube
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Mike Gravel, political legend who read Pentagon Papers into Congressional Record, dies at 91 – SFBay
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