Neil Sheehan
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican writer, historian, soldier (1936-2021)
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. S. Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. v. S.
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Vivian WuAlso in A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
Harve PresnellAlso in A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
Eric BogosianAlso in A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
Omar El AkkadAlso won National Book Award for Nonfiction
Philip CaputoAlso won The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
John SeigenthalerAlso won The Hillman Prize for Newspaper JournalismAbout this person
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.
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