Neil Sheehan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Neil Sheehan

American writer, historian, soldier

Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1936

Place of Birth: Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: war correspondent, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan (born October 27, 1936) is an American journalist.
As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg.
His series of articles revealed a secret United States Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and led to a US Supreme Court case, New York Times Co.
v.
United States, 403 U.S.
713 (1971), when the United States government failed to halt publication.He received a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his 1988 book A Bright Shining Lie, about the life of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann and the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.