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There’s a crucial, overlooked aspect of Daniel Ellsberg’s legacy that’s very much worth saluting, you might say: his transformation from a believer in the Vietnam war to a horrified opponent of it, ready to risk prison time to bring classified truth about its pointlessness into public awareness.
Ellsberg, who died on June 16 at age 92, had been part of the military-industrial establishment in the 1960s — a smart young man working as a Pentagon consultant at the Rand Corporation think tank. In the mid-’60s. he wound up spending two years in Vietnam, on a mission for the State Department to study counterinsurgency. He traveled through most of the country — witnessing not simply the war up close but Vietnam itself, and the people who lived there.
Dan’s incredible life of brilliance and service has us all in awe.
Beautiful tributes come from NORMAN STOCKWELL (publisher of Progressive.org), DOROTHY REIK (Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains), DENNIS BERNSTEIN (KPFA’s “Flashpoints”), DR. RUTH STRAUSS, TATANKA BRICCA, WENDI LEDERMAN, ANNA GYORGY and many many more.
This is a deeply moving program about a truly great historic figure who will be deeply missed and never forgotten.
Monday, June 19, 2023, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Kicking off at 9:30 AM at Hudson Avenue and proceeding southbound down Cleveland Ave. to 11th Avenue @ 4-Corners/Point of Pride at 1:00 PM. Fun, Food, Vendors, Family, Friends.
(Note: This is the edited text for Rampell’s final introduction to the April 30 screening of Salt of
