On June 13, 1971, The New York Times unleashed one of the great scoops of the 20th century. It began publishing the so-called Pentagon Papers, a top-secret, 7,000-page history of the Vietnam War that showed how four successive presidents — Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson — had lied to the American people as they increased US involvement in a war they knew to be unwinnable.
President Nixon was furious. He swiftly obtained an injunction against the newspaper, but almost immediately The Washington Post started publishing the papers instead. After 15 days the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favour of the newspapers’ right to publish. “Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the
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The Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB) has issued a formal apology to Professor Wazi Apoh, Dean of the School of Arts and Professor of Archaeology at the University of Ghana, following the c...