She wanted something good for show-and-tell, and that’s how classified documents ended up at school in 1984

She wanted something good for show-and-tell, and that’s how classified documents ended up at school in 1984

Her dad had found the presidential debate prep pages in his Cleveland hotel room several years earlier and taken them home as a souvenir.

How classified documents became a schoolgirl's show-and-tell

On a winter's day in 1984, a briefcase stuffed with classified government documents showed up in a building in Pittsburgh, borne by someone who most certainly wasn't supposed to have them.

How classified documents became a schoolgirl's show-and-tell

On a winter's day in 1984, a briefcase stuffed with classified government documents showed up in a building in Pittsburgh, borne by someone who most certainly wasn't supposed to have them.

How classified documents became a schoolgirl's show-and-tell

On a winter's day in 1984, a briefcase stuffed with classified government documents showed up in a building in Pittsburgh, borne by someone who most certainly wasn't supposed to have them.

How classified documents became a schoolgirl's show-and-tell

On a winter's day in 1984, a briefcase stuffed with classified government documents showed up in a building in Pittsburgh, borne by someone who most certainly wasn't supposed to have them.

How classified documents became a schoolgirl's show-and-tell

On a winter's day in 1984, a briefcase stuffed with classified government documents showed up in a building in Pittsburgh, borne by someone who most certainly wasn't supposed to have them.