# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-sheehan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:48:59.756Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-sheehan"
name: "Neil Sheehan"
slug: "neil-sheehan"
description: "Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan was 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 U.S. Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), which invalidated the United States government's use of a restraining order to halt publication."
tagline: "American writer, historian, soldier (1936-2021)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/bYianD43y9RypvReoCgpJqXlJXS.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1936-10-27"
deathDate: "2021-01-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.271622253389434
  historical:           13.02012933333333
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0790615"
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    title: "Neil Sheehan"
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    title: "Neil Sheehan"
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    title: "Шиэн, Нил"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump