Editing Neil Sheehan (section)

{{Short description|American journalist (1936–2021)}}
{{About|the journalist|the record label owner|StandBy Records}}
{{other people|Cornelius Sheehan}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Neil Sheehan
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| birth_name         = Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1936|10|27}}
| birth_place        = [[Holyoke, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|2021|1|7|1936|10|27}}
| death_place        = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S.
| death_cause        = 
| education          = [[Harvard University]]
| years_active       = 
| spouse             = 
| occupation         = [[Journalist]]
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}}
'''Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan''' (October 27, 1936 – January 7, 2021) 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, {{ussc|name=New York Times Co. v. United States|volume=403|page=713|year=1971}}, which invalidated the United States government's use of a restraining order to halt publication.<ref name="case">{{cite web|title=''New York Times Co. v. United States'', 403 U.S. 713 (1971)|url=http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/403us713.htm|access-date=December 5, 2005}}</ref>

He received a [[Pulitzer Prize]] and a [[National Book Award]] for his 1988 book ''[[A Bright Shining Lie]]'', about the life of Lieutenant Colonel [[John Paul Vann]] and the United States involvement in the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Sheehan dies at 84 |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/pulitzer-prize-winning-author-neil-sheehan-dies-at-84/article33527087.ece |work=The Hindu |date=8 January 2021 |language=en-IN}}</ref>