Neil Sheehan
Neil Sheehan
Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehanis 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 US Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. v. United States, when the United States government attempted to halt publication...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth27 October 1936
CountryUnited States of America