FORMER AMBASSADOR WILSON RECEIVES TRUTH-TELLING AWARD
Dr. Daniel Ellsberg speaks to the media after receiving the Ron Ridenhour Courage Award on October 15, 2003, at the National Press Club in Washington. Ellsberg was honored in part for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971. (UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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