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...criminal charges may result from the publication of the Pentagon papers. A federal grand jury in Boston started hearing evidence on how the documents had been reproduced and distributed, giving specific attention to the roles of the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. Timesman Neil Sheehan, who first obtained the papers, and his wife, were also mentioned. But neither they nor any other newspaper employees had been subpoenaed by week's end, nor had the grand jury filed any charges...
...involved. "Anyone on the Times, the Post or the Globe is potentially liable to a charge of receiving stolen Government property," says a Government official. The penalty would be ten years and $1,000 fine. (The newspapers themselves would be liable only for the fine.) For the Times and Sheehan there is also the possible additional charge of taking stolen property across state borders since Sheehan is thought to have brought the Times's copies from Boston to New York; the penalty there could be ten years and $10,000 on each count...
...Ellsberg even enlisted the help of his two children, Robert, now 14, and Mary, 12, in the arduous copying task. When Ellsberg joined M.I.T. as a senior research associate in 1970, he transported the copied documents to Cambridge with him. It is known that New York Times Reporter Neil Sheehan traveled to Boston in March, 1971, shortly before the Times began working on its series...
...secret" classification bothered some journalists. "We have serious doubts," said Publisher Robert C. Notson of the Portland Oregonian, "whether penetration of the confidential files of the Pentagon should be treated in this manner." The Oregonian subscribes to the New York Times News Service and was offered Neil Sheehan's three resume stories, but it held off more than a week before finally deciding to run them. "The classification would have bothered me a hell of a lot," admitted Chicago Sun-Times Editor James Hoge. "There would have been a lot of discussion. But in the end, like the Times...
...story, and it was believed that the Washington Post was on to the Pentagon study. For seven weeks the team worked seven days a week, often past midnight; in all, some 30 Times staff members were eventually involved. Gold saw his family only five times during the period. Sheehan, who has a bad back, took daily walks in the beginning; but as deadline time neared, had even given up sleeping. The last push was provided by his wife Susan, a New Yorker writer. On the Monday after publication, with Sheehan's third piece still in the typewriter, she brought...