Neil Sheehan, a Pulitzer Prize winner and the New York Times journalist who obtained the Pentagon Papers, has died.His wife, Susan Sheehan, told the New York Times that he died Thursday due to complications of Parkinson’s disease in in his Washington home.
He was 84.Born on Oct. 27, 1936 in Holyoke, Massachussetts, Sheehan graduated from Harvard and began his reporting career as Army journalist.
For the New York Times and United Press International, Sheehan chronicled the events of the Vietnam War.Sheehan, however is most known for reporting on the Pentagon Papers, which revealed U.S.
involvement in Vietnam ordered by the Department of Defense. Military analyst Daniel Ellsberg granted Sheehan access the critical documents in 1971, which
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