Neil Sheehan

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. ^{Neil Sheehan, American journalist and author (d. 2021)}

27 October 1936

Born on the same birth day (27 October): Aron Ralston • Carlos Frenk • Carmen Argenziano • Felix Bwalya • Guillaume Franke • Harry Saltzman • Janusz Korwin-Mikke • Lonzo Ball • Lou Williams • Luigi Piotti • Marek Napiórkowski • Mary T. Meagher • Mihkel Mathiesen • Nicola Mazzucato • Sandra Volk • Teresa Wright

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