#RIP Mike Gravel W/ Dan Ellsberg & Gravel's Daughter

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Katie Halper

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🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Mike Gravel, the Alaska Senator and two-time presidential candidate, died on Saturday at 91. Dan Ellsberg, the former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, eulogizes Mike Gravel, the late Alaska senator, who entered the classified documents into the Congressional Record. Ellsberg is joined by Lynne Mosier, Gravel's daughter. Both praise his moral courage and urge others to honor his memory by challenging political cowardice. Gravel's daughter Lynne Mosier shares her memories, talks about what was important to her father and calls out The New York Times for disrespecting him in an obit written by someone who died in 2018. Ellsberg warns, "we humans won't get through this nuclear era, this era of climate change without a lot more moral courage of the kind that is extremely rare and that Mike Ravel showed."

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the KD Helper Show.
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0:23.8	Show.
0:24.8	Today's show honors the memory and legacy of Mike Grovel, the late senator of Alaska.
0:31.9	Mike Grovel also ran for president in 2008 and 2020 when he was drafted by the Grovel
0:37.0	team who co-founded the Grovel Institute with him.
0:40.4	The Grovel Institute is a crowd-funded organization that creates short videos to combat right-wing
0:45.4	disinformation and bring progressive ideas to new audiences.
0:49.4	I speak to Mike Grovel's daughter Lynn Mosier as well as Dan Ellsberg who met Mike Grovel
0:55.5	over the course of the Pentagon papers and worked with Ellsberg around that obviously
1:01.1	as Ellsberg gets into on the show.
1:03.2	Today June 29th marks the 50-year anniversary of Senator Mike Grovel entering 4,100 pages
1:11.0	of the papers into the record of his subcommittee on public building and grounds.
1:17.2	And these portions of the Pentagon papers were later edited by Harrison and Noam Chomsky
1:23.0	and then published by Beacon Press which is the publishing arm of the Unitarian Universalist
1:29.1	Association of Congregations.
1:31.8	This show was reported on Sunday night the day after Mike Grovel died.
1:36.2	Standby for a free bonus episode of the KD Helper Show where I released an excellent interview
1:40.8	that we did with Mike Grovel from November.
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