Joyful editors in New York ordered the immediate resumption of publication, which had been on pause since June 15, under court order.
The Times had managed to print three installments of the series, which it called the “Vietnam Archive,” before the government effectively shut it down, leaving much of the exposé unpublished.
Credit... Barton Silverman/The New York TimesWhat distinguished the Pentagon Papers was that The Times was not only providing interpretive articles, but also presenting the documents themselves, which had been leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who had worked on the history.
These included cablegrams, memorandums, drafts of policy papers, instructions, transcripts and the like.
“The documents are the written words of the men who set the armies in motion and launched the warplanes,” Neil Sheehan, the chief reporter of the series, said.
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