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    Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers (2008 Tour Edition)
    Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers (2008 Tour Edition)
    Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers (2008 Tour Edition)
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    Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers (2008 Tour Edition)

    Written by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons

    Narrated by Diane Adair, Bo Foxworth, John Getz and

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    About this audiobook

    Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons’ timely docudrama about The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public’s right to know against the government’s desire for secrecy.

    An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

    Diane Adair as Meg Greenfield
    Bo Foxworth as George Wilson/Eugene Patterson
    John Getz as Ben Bagdikian
    James Gleason as Murray Marder/Judge Martin Peel
    Gregory Harrison as Brian Kelly
    John Heard as Ben Bradlee
    Raphael Sbarge as Robert Mardian/Ron Ziegler
    Russell Soder as Soldier/Darryl Cox/Clerk-Bailiff
    Susan Sullivan as Katherine Graham
    Peter Van Norden as Fritz Beebe/Dr. Henry Kissinger
    Tom Virtue as Dennis Doolin/President Richard Nixon
    Geoffrey Wade as General John Mitchell/Chal Roberts/Lamont Vanderhall

    Directed by John Rubinstein. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in March of 2008.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL.A. Theatre Works
    Release dateJun 25, 2008
    ISBN9781580815574
    Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers (2008 Tour Edition)

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