Daniel Ellsberg: villain or hero?
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Dershow before we get to the mixed legacy of Daniel Ellsberg, the |
| 0:08.7 | man who just recently died who was the person who gave the New York Times and others, |
| 0:14.8 | depending on papers. |
| 0:15.8 | Before we get to that, two updates. |
| 0:17.5 | Number one last night, I actually spoke at the Chilmarque Library, remember the Chilmarque |
| 0:23.7 | Library, little library, and Chilmarque Massachusetts, which I've been coming to 53 years had |
| 0:29.6 | banned me, had canceled me, had for seven years, they had invited me to speak, I was the |
| 0:35.5 | most popular speaker, then they banned me, and I was writing a student. |
| 0:39.2 | So they gave in, came to a compromise, they said, all right, you can talk, but only 25 |
| 0:45.6 | people. |
| 0:46.6 | And so they had 25 people last night, they reserved the spot for me and my wife, but nobody |
| 0:53.6 | else could get a reserved spot. |
| 0:55.7 | It had to be either take your chances and come. |
| 0:58.8 | And I spoke last night and everybody loved it. |
| 1:01.8 | It was, you know, I gave a speech about not the book that I've been talking about mostly, |
| 1:07.8 | but about my other new book, Dershow It's Untelling, How the Law Decides, You Shall Live |
| 1:13.0 | and You Shall Die. |
| 1:14.0 | And I spoke about capital punishment, and abortion, and organ transplants, and seatbelt |
| 1:20.4 | laws, and you name it, anything to do with death and life. |
| 1:24.2 | And then there were questions, not a single person asked me a question. |
| 1:27.8 | Either about Donald Trump or about being banned, but the Vineyard Times, the Martha's Vineyard |
| 1:33.4 | Times, who was printed over a hundred letters attacking me and condemning me and calling |
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