three fundraiser for daniel ellsberg with yoko ono, the beatles, john lennon, ringo starr, and george harrisonis is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. mike gravel, the former presidential candidate and democratic u.s. senator from alaska died this weekend at the age of 9 he played a seminal role in the release of the pentagon papers, the 7000 pages of top-secret documents outlining the secret history of the u.s. work in vietnam. the liquid and up helping take president nixon come help end the vietnam war, lead to a major victory for press freedom. the papers were the two "the new york times" and "the washington post" by henry ellsberg, gravel spearheaded a one-man push to get the pages of the pentagon papers into the congressional record so it would become public record and anyone could read them and publish them. beacon press went on to do just that, publishing a seven-point set of the pengon papers. morrow, june 29, is the 50th anniversary of the y in 1971 when gravel read the pentagon papers into the record. he cried within seconds d could not conti