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  • Daniel Ellsberg (1931– ), a former defense analyst, set in motion a chain of events that led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that government efforts to halt publication of the Pentagon Papers represented a prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment freedom of the press. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ellsberg attended Harvard University, where he studied economics and was elected to the editorial board of the Harvard Crimson. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; Ellsberg, Daniel]

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