4.6 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey 7 Fried listeners, there is a new season of American scandal available from Wendry, |
0:05.3 | and it is so intriguing. In the 1960s, as war-raged in Vietnam, an inside operative leaked top secret |
0:12.7 | documents that shocked the American public, where his actions patriotic or treasonous. |
0:18.2 | American scandal is the podcast from Wendry that explores the darker stories that have shaped |
0:23.2 | the United States, from the Unibomor to Bernie Madoff. These are stories that reveal the underbelly |
0:28.9 | of America, ruthless, secretive, and power-hungry. In the new season, American scandal looks at the |
0:35.7 | controversial decision made by a young government official named Daniel Ellsberg to leak the |
0:40.9 | Pentagon papers, the documents that led Americans to demand an end to the catastrophic Vietnam war. |
0:47.6 | The Pentagon papers revealed that the government knew the Vietnam war could not be won, but kept |
0:53.1 | fighting anyway. Once Ellsberg realized this terrible truth, he made the bold decision to leak the |
0:59.0 | documents and the consequences altered the course of American history. You're about to hear a |
1:04.3 | preview of American scandal, the Pentagon papers. While you're listening, follow American scandal |
1:10.2 | on Apple podcasts, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's October 4, 1969 in |
1:17.6 | Los Angeles, California. In an office on the west side of town, Daniel Ellsberg creeps through |
1:23.0 | a silent corridor. The night is late, and by now the office is completely cleared out. |
1:29.0 | So Ellsberg moves carefully, stalking through the hall like a burglar. He can't risk being seen |
1:34.7 | by a security guard. A moment later, Ellsberg turns a corner and arrives at a small dark room. |
1:40.8 | He steps in and flicks a light switch, and the fluorescent bulbs come flickering to life. |
1:45.6 | And there, standing in the corner of the room, is a hulking Xerox copier. |
1:49.5 | Ellsberg pauses. The Xerox machine seems almost like something out of science fiction, |
1:55.0 | something that can spit out endless copies of paper documents. And that's exactly what Ellsberg |
2:00.2 | needs right now. In his arms is a thick blue-folder labeled Vietnam task force. It contains a top secret |
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