Case
Who was being convicted?
What is Daniel Ellsburg
Who wasn't allowed to see the papers?
What is the public and anyone that wasn't associated with the topics of the papers
What was the Supreme Court decision for Elssburg?
What is dropped all charges
Who made the Espionage Act of 1917?
Who is Congress
What information was leaked to the New York Times?
What is Vietnam War classified information
What were the voted for the New York Times?
What is 6-3
What was the cause of the dropped charges?
What is Elssburg has already written two books about the Vietnam War and what the U.S. was doing about it.
What makes up the First Amendment?
What is provides that Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise.
What kind of violation took place?
What is a violation of the first amendment, freedom of the press
What was the Supreme Court decision on the papers?
What freed the newspapers to resume publishing the material
What is one word that the Supreme Court said during trial about the whole case?
What is security
How many years would Ellsburg be convicted of if the charges weren't dropped?
What is 115 years in prison
Did the New York Times have permission to publish the papers?
No
What is the Espionage Act of 1917?
What is obtaining information recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation
What 2 books did Elssburg write?
What are Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers and Papers on War
How did the case impact America?
What is that the supreme court is likely to find cases of government censorship unconstitutional to the first amendment right of a free press against prior restraint by the government
Where did the papers get leaked from?
What is the Pentagon
What was Elssburg indicted with?
What is for conspiracy, misappropriation of government property, and violations of the Espionage Act of 1917
What quote was used in the court case against the New York Times?
What is " vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.”
What other newspaper company copied the illegal documents?
What is The Washington Post