Daniel Ellsberg
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 7, 1931
- Died
- June 16, 2023 (aged 92)
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers. In January 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a maximum sentence of 115 years. Because of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering (committed by the same people who were later involved in the Watergate scandal), and his defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. dismissed all charges against Ellsberg in May 1973. Ellsberg was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He was also known for having formulated an important example in decision theory, the Ellsberg paradox; for his extensive studies on nuclear weapons and nuclear policy; and for voicing support for WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden. Ellsberg was awarded the 2018 Olof Palme Prize for his "profound humanism and exceptional moral courage". He was a founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. Ellsberg died of cancer in 2023. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Ellsberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Hearts and Minds
Risk
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
American Experience
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Our Nixon
The Memory of Justice
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Ithaka
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Filmography
How to Stop a Nuclear War
Movie · as Self
The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream
Movie · as (archive footage)
The Six Billion Dollar Man
Movie · as Self
Kissinger
TV · as Self (archival footage) · 2 eps
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
Movie · as Self
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
TV · as Self - Anti-Nuclear Activist & Whistleblower, Self - Rand Corporation Analyst 1959 - 1964 · 1 ep
Ithaka
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Berrigans: Devout and Dangerous
Movie · as Self
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Movie · as Self
Risk
Movie · as Self
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Our Nixon
Movie · as Self
War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State
Movie · as Self - Pentagon Papers Whistleblower
Julian Assange: A Modern Day Hero?
Movie · as Self - Whistleblower
Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Movie · as Self (Narraror)
The Colbert Report
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Movie · as Self
Axis of Evil: Perforated Praeter Naturam
Movie
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Movie
Democracy Now!
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Nixon
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
American Experience
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Doomsday Chronicles
Movie · as Self
The Memory of Justice
Movie · as Self
Hearts and Minds
Movie · as Self - Former Aide, Defense Dept., Rand Corp.
Police Off Campus!
Movie · as Himself
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep