LA Theater Works: Top Secret - the Battle for the Pentagon Papers February 10, 2008

This riveting historical docudrama by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons takes an inside look at the Washington Post's decision to publish the top-secret study documenting the United States' involvement in Vietnam. The epic legal battle between the government and the press went to the nation's highest court and is arguably the most important Supreme Court case ever on freedom of the press. 'Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers' critically explores the government's relationship to the media, the citizenry's right to information, and the First Amendment against the canvas of the Vietnam War and the secretive Nixon White House. The cast features John Heard, Shannon Cochran, John Vickery and Gregory Harrison.