Former Alaska U.S. senator and presidential candidate Mike Gravel died last Saturday, June 26, 2021.
He was 91.
Gravel, the last Democratic U.S. senator elected beyond one term from Alaska—with elections in 1968 and 1974—was a gutsy politician.
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Daniel Ellsberg’s The Pentagon Papers. Gravel had the courage to read them into the public record on June 29, 1971.
Gravel was a 2008 Democratic candidate for U.S. President. He seeked the nomination again, for 2020, as he was nearing age 90, in 2019.
Below are April and June 2019 videos of the host of The Jimmy Dore Show interviewing Mike Gravel.
May he…Rest In Peace.
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