In beautiful, mountainous Eastern Kentucky, local economies are struggling, coal jobs continue to disappear, and people are frustrated by decades of failed government programs that have done little to help with problems connected to poverty, hazardous work conditions and poor nutrition. On a reporting road trip across America, we hear from those who feel unheard.

Unheard in Appalachia

At the height of the Vietnam War, a government insider named Daniel Ellsberg leaked 7,000 pages of classified documents to American newspapers. The Pentagon Papers revealed that Americans had been lied to for decades about the war. Fifty years later, Ellsberg reveals his evolution from Cold Warrior to Whistleblower in the GroundTruth Podcast series The Whistleblower: Truth, Dissent and the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg.

Based at GBH in Boston, the award-winning GroundTruth Podcast has covered global affairs from the <a href="https://thegroundtruthproject.org/projects/foreverstan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">War in Afghanistan</a> to <a href="https://thegroundtruthproject.org/democracy-undone-signs-of-authoritarianism/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rising populist nationalism</a> through shoe-leather, <a href="https://thegroundtruthproject.org/projects/on-the-ground/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on-the-ground</a> reporting.

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At the height of the Vietnam War, a government insider named Daniel Ellsberg leaked 7,000 pages of classified documents to American newspapers. The Pentagon Papers revealed that Americans had been lied to for decades about the war. Fifty years later, Ellsberg reveals his evolution from Cold Warrior to Whistleblower in the GroundTruth Podcast series The Whistleblower: Truth, Dissent and the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg. Based at GBH in Boston, the award-winning GroundTruth Podcast has covered global affairs from the War in Afghanistan to rising populist nationalism through shoe-leather, on-the-ground reporting.

At the height of the Vietnam War, a government insider named Daniel Ellsberg leaked 7,000 pages of classified documents to American newspapers. The Pentagon Papers revealed that Americans had been lied to for decades about the war. Fifty years later, Ellsberg reveals his evolution from Cold Warrior to Whistleblower in the GroundTruth Podcast series The Whistleblower: Truth, Dissent and the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg.

Based at GBH in Boston, the award-winning GroundTruth Podcast has covered global affairs from the&nbsp;<a href="https://thegroundtruthproject.org/projects/foreverstan/" rel="noopener noreferrer">War in Afghanistan</a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href="https://thegroundtruthproject.org/democracy-undone-signs-of-authoritarianism/" rel="noopener noreferrer">rising populist nationalism</a>&nbsp;through shoe-leather,&nbsp;<a href="https://thegroundtruthproject.org/projects/on-the-ground/" rel="noopener noreferrer">on-the-ground</a>&nbsp;reporting.

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