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Date of Birth
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27-October-1936
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Place of Birth
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Holyoke
(Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan
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Profession
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Journalist, Writer, Author
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Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan 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 U.S. Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and led to a U.S. Supreme Court case when the United States government attempted 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.
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