Read this lovely tribute to her grandfather,
written by Catherine Ellsberg, bypassing the Washington Post's paywall.
Catherine Ellsberg is a culture writer and English teacher based in Paris.Most people know Daniel Ellsberg as the whistleblower who came to fame after releasing the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of the Vietnam War, to the New York Times, The Post and a dozen other newspapers. Or they knew him as the advocate who dedicated a lifetime to the pursuit of peace and justice, a fervent anti-nuclear activist and defender of the press.
But me? I knew him as my grandfather, the movie fanatic. (more at the link)
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