IMAGE COURTESY OF ROBERT S. COX SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES RESEARCH CENTER, UMASS
IMAGE COURTESY OF ROBERT S. COX SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES RESEARCH CENTER, UMASS
IMAGE COURTESY OF ROBERT S. COX SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES RESEARCH CENTER, UMASS
AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts Amherst has opened a new exhibit, available for both in-person and online viewing, on the life of Daniel Ellsberg, the famous peace activist and whistleblower who leaked government papers about the Vietnam War to the press in 1971.
“Daniel Ellsberg: A Life in Truth,” which can be viewed in-person at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, is based on a huge trove of documents, photographs, letters, and other personal materials — 500 boxes worth — that Ellsberg, who’s now 90, gave to UMass in 2019.
The project is designed to offer a comprehensive look at Ellsberg’s multi-faceted life, in which the Harvard graduate served as a Marine, a U.S. Department of Defense analyst, a government contractor, and later as a writer, teacher, peace activist and public speaker.
Jeremy Smith, the archivist for the university’s Ellsberg collection, is the primary organizer of the exhibit, but he says UMass students Andrew Bettencourt, Talya Torres, and Maia Fudala have selected most of the items; all three were part of a special class on Ellsberg taught last year by history professor Christian Appy.
The exhibit also follows an online conference UMass hosted...
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