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Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan (born October 27, 1936) 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.[citation needed]
He received a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his 1989 book A Bright Shining Lie, about the life of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann and the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Born on a farm in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Sheehan graduated from Mount Hermon School (later Northfield Mount Hermon) and Harvard University with a B.A. in 1958. He served in the U.S. Army from 1959 to 1962, when he was assigned to Korea, and then transferred to Tokyo, where he did work moonlighting in the Tokyo bureau of United Press International (UPI). After his stint in the army he spent two years covering the war in Vietnam as UPI's Saigon bureau chief.
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Q&A;: Neil Sheehan
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BILLY SHEEHAN; NEIL TURBIN; MATT STARR; DAMON FOX; MAYUKO OKAI: ULTIMATE JAM NIGHT
BILLY SHEEHAN RAY LUZIER NEIL TURBIN MAYUKO OKAI STEVE FERLAZZO JAM NIGHT LUCKY STRIKE 7/1/2015
BURN with BILLY SHEEHAN NEIL TURBIN OKAI SISTERS DAMON FOX MATT STARR LUCKY STRIKE JAM 5/6/2015
Killing Bono interview with Ben Barnes, Robert Sheehan, Neil and Ivan McCormick
Rush soundcheck Jam with Billy Sheehan 4/5/90
Film DIY: Ben Barnes, Robert Sheehan, Nick Hamm, Neil McCormick
Actors: Kenneth Welsh (actor), Martin Roach (actor), Michael Stevens (actor), James Spader (actor), Sean McCann (actor), George R. Robertson (actor), Carl Marotte (actor), David Fox (actor), Richard Fitzpatrick (actor), Alan Arkin (actor), Richard Blackburn (actor), Paul Giamatti (actor), Damir Andrei (actor), Ralph Berge (miscellaneous crew), Normand Corbeil (composer),
Plot: Daniel Ellsberg, a hawkish analyst for the Rand Corporation think-tank and later for the U.S. government, supports the war in Vietnam until two powerful occurrences: the experience, first-hand, of combat and political turmoil in Vietnam, and the discovery of secret Defense Department documents detailing the deliberate fabrication of reasons to initiate and expand the war. Facing a crisis of conscience, Ellsberg becomes convinced that the American people have not been told the truth about the war, its justifications, or its likely outcome. He decides to expose the secret history of the war in hopes that the American public, its eyes opened, will force the government to end the war. In order to do so, he must risk his career and his freedom, perhaps even his life.
Keywords: anti-war, archive-footage, based-on-true-story, information-leak, lingerie-slip, pentagon-papers, politics, vietnam-war, whistleblowerActors: Hans-Peter Korff (actor), Heinz Schimmelpfennig (actor), Gerd Vespermann (actor), Gunther Malzacher (actor), Hermann Treusch (actor), Peter von Zahn (writer), Carlheinz Caspari (director), Heidi Schaffrath (actress), Klaus Ebert (actor),
Genres: Drama,