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Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who experienced a sobbing antiwar epiphany on a bathroom floor and in 1971 disclosed the secret history of American lies and deceit in Vietnam that came to be known as the Pentagon Papers, died on Friday at his home in Kensington, Calif. He was 92. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife and children said in a statement. In March, Mr. Ellsberg, in an email message to “Dear friends and supporters,” announced...

Deeply disturbed by the accounting of American deceit in Vietnam, he approached The New York Times. The disclosures that followed rocked the nation.

A top-secret history of the Vietnam War led to a historic victory for freedom of the press — though The Times’s publisher said it put him to sleep.

Carl Milton Bernstein, born February 14, 1944, is an American investigative journalist and author who gained prominence for his groundbreaking reporting

A sleek craft that had helped protect American convoys from German submarines during World War I visited Henderson and Evansville a century ago.