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Sheehan, Neil

LC control no.n 87935617
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Personal name headingSheehan, Neil
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Variant(s)Sheehan, Cornelius Mahoney, 1936-2021
LocatedWashington (D.C.)
Birth date1936-10-27
Death date2021-01-07
Place of birthHolyoke (Mass.)
Place of deathWashington (D.C.)
Field of activityJournalism Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
AffiliationHarvard University
United States. Army
Profession or occupationJournalists Authors
Found inHis A bright shining lie, 1988: CIP t.p. (Neil Sheehan)
LC data base, 11/10/87 (hdg.: Sheehan, Neil)
U.S. copyright file, Oct. 18, 2007 (Sheehan, Neil, 1936- )
Wikipedia, viewed March 21, 2019 (Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan (born October 27, 1936) is an American journalist; born in Holyoke, Massachusetts; Harvard University with a B.A. in history in 1958; served in the U.S. Army from 1959 to 1962)
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Sheehan>
Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 8, 2021 (in obituary dated Jan. 7, 2021: Neil Sheehan, a tireless chronicler of the Vietnam War who obtained the Pentagon Papers for the New York Times and later received the Pulitzer Prize for his book "A Bright Shining Lie," a meticulously researched indictment of America's role in that conflict, died Jan. 7 at his home in Washington. He was 84. Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan was born in Holyoke, Mass., on Oct. 27, 1936)
Associated languageeng