Ellsberg Obituaries & Tributes

What Daniel Ellsberg Knew About Doomsday: Unilateral Sanity Could Save the World, by Norman Solomon, TomDispatch.com, 12/14/23

Daniel Ellsberg (1931 – 2023), by George Perkovich, Arms Control Today, July/August 2023

Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92, by Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 6/16/23

We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong, by Glenn Greenwald, Rolling Stone, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg, Former Defense Analyst Who Released Top-secret Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92, by Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92, by Harrison Smith and Patricia Sullivan, The Washington Post, 6/16/23

Vietnam-era Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92, by Hillel Italie, Associated Press, 6/16/23

Passage: Remembering Daniel Ellsberg (video), CBS Sunday Morning, 6/18/23

Daniel Ellsberg’s Message to Us, and to Future Generations, by Martin E. Hellman, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 6/16/23

A Father’s Legacy to His Son – and His Country, by Robert Ellsberg and Chris Zimmerman, Plough.com, 6/16/23

A Letter to My Father, by Michael Ellsberg, 6/16/23

You Knew Daniel Ellsberg, Whistleblower. I Knew Him as a Film Fanatic, by Catherine Ellsberg, Washington Post Opinion, 6/18/23

Reporter’s Notebook: Why the Pentagon Papers Leaker Tried to Get Prosecuted Near His Life’s End, by Charlie Savage, New York Times, 6/18/23

Celebrating an Extraordinary American Life: Daniel Ellsberg, by Richard Falk, Counterpunch, 6/23/23

My Reflections on Dan Ellsberg, a Man Who Helped End a Tragic War, by Morton H. Halperin, Responsible Statecraft, 6/17/23

Daniel Ellsberg’s Life Beyond the Pentagon Papers, by Ben Bradlee Jr., The New Yorker, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg, Whistleblower Who Exposed Top-Secret History of the Vietnam War, Dies at 92, by Fred Kaplan, Slate.com, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg Is Gone — But He Left Us an Important Message, by Norman Solomon, Salon, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg Was One of History’s Most Consequential Figures, by Trevor Timm, The Guardian Opinion, 6/17/23

Remembering Daniel Ellsberg, Courageous Truth-Teller, by Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg, American Hero, by Chip Gibbons, Jacobin, 6/16/23

Remembering Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked Pentagon Papers, Fresh Air, National Public Radio, 6/23/23

Ellsberg and ‘The Process of My Awakening,’ by Patrick Lawrence, Scheerpost, 6/27/23

Berkeley Journalism Establishes Whistleblower Program in Honor of Daniel Ellsberg, Berkeley Journalism, 6/26/23

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, 6/20/23:

Watch the full hour of Amy Goodman’s Ellsberg tribute show on Democracy Now!, 6/20/23

PART ONE: RIP Daniel Ellsberg: “Most Dangerous Man in America” on Leaking Pentagon Papers, Exposing Gov’t Lies

PART TWO: Months Before Death, Daniel Ellsberg Warned Crisis over Ukraine & Taiwan Could Lead to Nuclear War

PART THREE: “The Doomsday Machine”: Confessions of Daniel Ellsberg, Former Nuclear War Planner

PART FOUR: Daniel Ellsberg’s Dying Wish: Free Julian Assange, Encourage Whistleblowers & Reveal the Truth

Against the Unthinkable: Life After Ellsberg, by Richard (RJ) Eskow, Absolute Zero, 6/21/23

Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked Pentagon Papers, Was a Prophet of Truth and Disarmament, by Fr. John Dear, National Catholic Reporter, 6/17/23

Thank You for Your Service, by Caitlin Johnstone, caitlinjohnstone.com, 6/18/23

How Daniel Ellsberg Opened the Door to One of the Most Consequential Climate Stories of Our Time, by David Sassoon, Inside Climate News, 6/20/23

Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers Leaker, Had Roots in Metro Detroit, Cranbrook Schools, by Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6/18/23  

Daniel Ellsberg (video) – Courage Is Contagious, Washington Post, 6/16/23