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Neil Sheehan

Acting

Born October 27, 1936 · Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA

Died January 7, 2021

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Biography

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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Awards & recognition

  • The Hillman Prize — Book Journalism · 1989
  • National Book Award — Nonfiction · 1988
  • Pulitzer Prize — General Nonfiction · 1988
  • The Hillman Prize — Newspaper Journalism · 1972
  • Guggenheim Fellowship

Filmography2 titles

Dateline: Saigon

2017as Self

The Sixties

2014as Self