Neil Sheehan
American writer, historian, soldier (1936-2021) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 84
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.
Neil Sheehan is read about 80 times a day, in 15 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 21 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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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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Vivian WuAlso in A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
Harve PresnellAlso in A Bright Shining Lie (1998)Ben BagdikianBoth received The Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism
John SeigenthalerBoth received The Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism
Lowell BergmanBoth received The Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism