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Archive
Timeline
20
Years of Opening Governments

The
Archive's Greatest Hits
20 Years
of "Unearthing Major Revelations"

20th Anniversary Program
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Washington, D.C., December 9, 2005 - The National Security
Archive celebrates its 20th anniversary today with a special event
at George Washington University, headlined by Bill Moyers, with Seymour
M. Hersh, Tina Rosenberg, Scott Armstrong, Geneva Overholser, Walter
B. Slocombe, Morton H. Halperin and Sherry Jones.
To mark 20 years of opening governments at home and abroad, the
Archive today posted 20 of its "greatest
hits" declassified documents with the headlines they made
around the world. Also posted on the Archive's award-winning Web
site are a timeline of
key moments in Archive history, and the full program
for today's celebration. Watch this site later today for the Archive's
Podcast of Bill Moyers' speech, and more.
If you can't join us, C-SPAN is broadcasting the celebration live,
from 1 to 5 p.m. today, as well as on www.c-span.org.
Program
Jack Morton Auditorium,
Media & Public Affairs Building
The George Washington University
1:00 pm - Welcome and Introduction
Thomas S. Blanton
Executive Director, The National Security Archive
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
President, The George Washington University
Keynote address
Bill Moyers
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Saddam
Hussein and Donald Rumsfeld, December 20, 1983: The
complete transcript of their meeting is one of the Archive's
"Greatest Hits." |
2:30 pm - Panel: Debating National Security
Policy
Moderator: Sherry Jones
Morton H. Halperin
Walter B. Slocombe
3:45 pm Panel: Journalism, Sources and
Secrecy
Moderator: Geneva
Overholser
Scott Armstrong
Seymour M. Hersh
Tina Rosenberg
Presentation: Info Czar Awards
Thomas S. Blanton
Second Floor Lobby, Media & Public Affairs
Building
5:00 pm - Reception
Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres
About the Speakers
BILL MOYERS has used National
Security Archive resources in his documentary journalism work for
many years, and has participated in several Archive research and
litigation projects. Moyers has covered a broad spectrum of journalism
during his 25 years in broadcasting, winning more than 30 Emmys
as well as the prestigious DuPont-Columbia Gold Baton. He was elected
to the Television Hall of Fame in 1995 and a year later received
the Charles Frankel Prize (now the National Humanities Medal) from
the National Endowment for the Humanities "for outstanding
contributions to American cultural life." In 1986, Moyers formed
Public Affairs Television, Inc., with his wife and partner, Judith,
after serving as executive editor of the Bill Moyers' Journal
on public television, senior news analyst for the CBS Evening
News, and chief correspondent for the acclaimed documentary
series CBS Reports. Moyers has also written five best-selling
books based on his TV work. Before entering broadcasting, Moyers
served as deputy director of the Peace Corps in the Kennedy Administration
and was special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1967),
including two years as White House press secretary. He left the
White House in January 1967 to become the publisher of Newsday.
For 12 years, Moyers was a trustee of The Rockefeller Foundation
and now serves as President of the Schumann Center for Media and
Democracy.
SHERRY JONES is an award-winning
television documentary producer and a fellow at the National Security
Archive. She heads her own production company, Washington Media
Associates, and has produced 23 documentaries for the PBS series
FRONTLINE, including two with Bill Moyers. She has also produced
two ABC News "Peter Jennings Reporting" specials, and
seven films based in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Her honors
include six Emmy Awards, three DuPont-Columbia Awards, three George
Foster Peabody Awards, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and three Edward
R. Murrow Awards from the Overseas Press Club.
MORTON H. HALPERIN was an
original sponsor of the Archive when he was Washington director
of the American Civil Liberties Union and director of the Center
for National Security Studies. He is a senior vice president and
senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and director of
the Security and Peace Initiative, a joint initiative of the Center
for American Progress and the Century Foundation. He is also the
executive director of the Open Society Policy Center and director
of U.S. advocacy for the Open Society Institute. Halperin has served
in senior positions at the State Department and Pentagon, and on
the NSC staff during the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations,
and is the author of Bureaucratic Politics.
WALTER B. SLOCOMBE is a
former chair of the Board of Directors of the National Security
Archive. A partner in the law firm of Caplin & Drysdale, he
served in Iraq in 2003 as defense adviser to the Coalition Provisional
Authority. He served in the Clinton administration as undersecretary
of defense for policy from 1993 to 2000. From 1986 to 1993, he consulted
for RAND and served on several advisory panels at the Strategic
Air Command Technical Advisory Committee.
GENEVA OVERHOLSER is a friend
and adviser of the Archive, the Hurley Professor of Journalism at
the University of Missouri, and former ombudsman of the Washington
Post. Under her editorship, the Des Moines Register
won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service for "It
Couldn't Happen To Me: One Woman's Story," a series based on
a powerful essay written by Overholser that argued the press should
reconsider the way it covers rape cases. Previously, she had been
an editorial writer for the New York Times and for the
Register, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and a
reporter for the Colorado Springs Sun, among other assignments.
SCOTT ARMSTRONG conceived
of the idea for the National Security Archive while working at the
Washington Post in 1985 and became the founding director
of the organization. He is now an investigative journalist and executive
director of the Information Trust, a nonprofit organization devoted
to facilitating freedom of expression in the U.S. and abroad. He
is the co-author with Bob Woodward of The Brethren, and
assisted Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward as a researcher/writer
on The Final Days. He is a member of the National FOIA
Hall of Fame and recipient of the ALA's James Madison Award.
SEYMOUR M. HERSH is a long-time
friend of the Archive, where he gives an annual seminar on investigative
journalism for Archive staff and interns. One of America's premier
investigative reporters, now with the New Yorker, he has
won more than a dozen major journalism prizes including the 1970
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, four George Polk Awards,
and the National Magazine Award for his reporting on Iraq. He is
also the author of eight books, including The Price of Power:
Kissinger in the Nixon White House, which won the National
Book Critics Circle Award, and most recently Chain of Command:
The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.
TINA ROSENBERG was a fellow
at the National Security Archive while researching and writing The
Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, which
won the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for
non-fiction. She has been an editorial writer at the New York
Times since 1996, concentrating on foreign policy and human
rights. She was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for editorial
writing. Before joining the Times, Rosenberg was a freelance
writer of books and magazine articles, lived for six years in Latin
America, and was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. |