HR!Day455 - The Pentagon Papers Case: From The Inside

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The Pentagon Papers trial is considered one of the most important First Amendment trials in the entire history of the United States. Hear the story from Daniel Sheehan, the lawyer who argued the case for The New York Times.

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It was Tuesday morning, April 13, 1971, just four days after his 26th birthday and less than one year following his graduation from Harvard Law School as the Co-Founder of The Harvard Civil Rights Law Review, that Attorney Daniel Sheehan received the call at his New York City law office overlooking Wall Street. It was from James Goodale, the Vice President & General Counsel of The New York Times. Goodale was calling to secure the legal services of Dan Sheehan and his Wall Street law firm to defend the right of The New York Times to publish the 47 volume Top Secret Rand Corporation study secretly prepared for Johnson Administration Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara outlining the decision-making process of the U.S. Defense Department and four American Presidents in initiating – and continuing to prosecute – The Vietnam War….that cost over 2 million Southeast Asian civilian lives, the lives of over 1 million North Vietnam and Viet Cong combatants and over 58,200 American lives. How was it that a First Year Junior Associate of America’s #1 Corporate Litigation Law Firm came to be the person who was called to defend The New York Times in what remains today, still the most important First Amendment case ever litigated in the entire 233-year history of the United States? And what “secrets” concealed within those papers were to remain a secret…. because they were deemed, by the Owners & Editors of The New York Times, to be NOT part of “All The News That’s Fit to Print?

On Thursday, April 14th – virtually 51 years to the day on which he received that historic phone call from James Goodale -- Attorney Dan Sheehan will share with us the answer to these questions – and more, here in an age when THE TRUTH is more important than ever…and when we stand, once again, on the brink of a possible extended war half way around the world that may affect us all as deeply as did that tragic war two generations ago.    

  • Attorney Daniel P. Sheehan is a 1967 Honors Graduate of Harvard College – where he studied American Foreign Policy under Dr. Henry Kissinger and American History and American Government; a 1970 graduate of Harvard Law School where he studied American Constitutional Law under Professor Lawrence Tribe, and co-founded The Harvard Civil Rights Law Review in 1968; and a former Master’s Degree and Ph. D. graduate student at Harvard Divinity School where he was recruited by The United States Jesuit Order, to become General Counsel at The U.S. Jesuit Order’s NATIONAL OFFICE OF SOCIAL MINISTRY in Washington, DC, where Attorney Sheehan was responsible for formulating both the foreign policy and domestic policy of The Society of Jesus for the United States and where he founded THE CHRISTIC INSTITUTE in 1980. He has been involved in numerous of the cases that have shaped American culture and law. Daniel is the author of THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE and has taught American Constitutional Law at The Washington, DC School of Law and “The Hidden History of America” at the University of California at both Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz. He is presently preparing a 24-Episode Audio Podcast production of “THE RULERS OF THE REALM: A History of The Shadow Government in America” and an eight-episode documentary film series to be produced by David C. Taylor, the 20-year Senior Executive Producer of The BBC in Washington, DC.

Co-convener:

  • Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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