Tonight, on Landmark Cases: New York Times v. United States - LIVE at 9pm ET on C-SPAN In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that newspapers could publish articles based on the leaked Pentagon Papers, a classified history of the Vietnam War drafted by the Defense Department. Where is the line between the public's right to know and the government's ability to control classified information? More info here: http://landmarkcases.c-span.org/Case/25/New-York-Times-v-United-States | C-SPAN

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