So were going to get started with our second panel. We spent the first hour talking about the of war and something about the military issues and strategies associated with it. In this hour, were going to talk about writing about war. What it means to be on the ground in the place, sort of study it and reflect on it from. A historical or literary point of view. And id like to start with we have panelists. Ill introduce them very briefly, although i suspect known to all of you, robert brigham, the shirley ecker. Barsky professor of history and International Relations at vassar and author of numerous books on vietnam war, including reckless Henry Kissinger and the tragic tragedy of the vietnam war and vietnam and the limits of american power. Bob brigham. Next, we have philip caputo, a vietnam vet and author of 71 books, including a rumor of war, one of the most important early books on vietnam. And indeed, it helped to establish a whole genre. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for investigati
Trouble tonight at eight eastern on cspan q a. You can listen to q a and all of our podcasts on our free cspan. Now app. Daniel ellsberg has passed away at the age of 92. He is best known for leaking sensitive documents on the vietnam war, known as the pentagon papers, which many believe helped to end the longest u. S. Conflict of the 20th century. The disclosures would also lead to a Landmark Supreme Court decision on freedom of the press. In 2019, the university of massachusetts amherst acquired the papers of Daniel Ellsberg and next from the school he talks about his career and his fight against the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This is just over 2 hours. All right. Good evening. Good afternoon. Good evening. Were going to get started. So greetings and welcome to the 21st annual friends of the umass librarys fall reception. Im simon nehme, dean of libraries here at Umass Amherst. And today i have the honor of welcoming you to a very, very special program planned to celebrate the
Thank. Thank you very much. Oak oak. So were going to get started with our second panel. We spent the first hour talking about the of war and something about the military issues and strategies associated with it. In this hour, were going to talk about writing about war. What it means to be on the ground in the place, sort of study it and reflect on it from. A historical or literary point of view. And id like to start with we have panelists. Ill introduce them very briefly, although i suspect known to all of you, robert brigham, the shirley ecker. Barsky professor of history and International Relations at vassar and author of numerous books on vietnam war, including reckless Henry Kissinger and the tragic tragedy of the vietnam war and vietnam and the limits of american power. Bob brigham. Next, we have philip caputo, a vietnam vet and author of 71 books, including a rumor of war, one of the most important early books on vietnam. And indeed, it helped to establish a whole genre. Winner
Planner was to improve the eisenhower euro plan for Strategic Nuclear operations in general war with the soviet union. That was a low bar because the eisenhower plan was a diverse military plan. Amy that is Daniel Ellsberg, one of the worlds most wellknown whistleblowers. In 1971, he was a high level defense analyst when he leaked a top secret report on u. S. Involvement in vietnam to the New York Times and other publications that came to be known as the pentagon papers and played a key role in ending the vietnam war. Few know that ellsberg was also consultant who drafted plans for nuclear war. In his new book titled the doomsday machine confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, Daniel Ellsberg reveals for the first time that he also made copies of topsecret documents from his Nuclear Studies an entire second set of papers in addition to the pentagon papers for which he is known. I want to awaken people to the dangers and the possibility of destroying most life on earth by general war, not
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