With the news of the death of the good friend of the Schiller Institute, Sen. Mike Gravel, Dennis Speed, moderating the second panel at today’s Schiller Institute Conference, offered the following, followed by a word from Helga Zepp-LaRouche. Joe Lauria, the editor of Consortium News, has worked closely with Mike since 2006, when Mike ran for president, and has recently published a book with Mike on his role in the release of the Pentagon Papers. Lauria’s eulogy is at https://consortiumnews.com/2021/06/27/what-mike-gravel-meant/
DENNIS SPEED: We are changing our program because this morning we joined the world in recalling and recognizing the importance of United States Senator Mike Gravel, who passed away yesterday.
Gravel immortalized himself as a man of courage with his release of the Pentagon Papers back in 1971. He also appeared in several conferences with our organization. On September 12, 2015, he joined Helga Zepp-LaRouche, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and Lyndon LaRouche in a forum in New York City. Ramsey Clark also passed away this year. The three World War II veterans — Clark, Gravel, and LaRouche — enjoyed each other’s company, and they enjoyed discussing the marked differences and remarkable convergences in their respective views of the world.
We have a short video in which Mike Gravel [speaking at that conference] described the dangers of the present day, his earlier life, and how he faced the truth.
