Patricia Marx Ellsberg

Patricia Marx Ellsberg (born 1938) is Daniel Ellsberg’s second wife. She is daughter of toy magnate Louis Marx. She was a nationally syndicated reporter for public radio and an opponent of the Vietnam War when she first dated Ellsberg, who was working at the Pentagon, in 1965. They married in August 1970. She is a social-change advocate with decades of experience in the peace and energy movements and often speaks with her husband at anti-war and anti-nuclear events. A practicing Buddhist, she teaches and writes on the subject.