Editing Neil Sheehan (section)

==Early life==
Sheehan was born in [[Holyoke, Massachusetts]] on October 27, 1936.  His father, Cornelius Joseph Sheehan, worked as a dairy farmer; his mother, Mary (O'Shea), was a housewife.  Both immigrated to the United States from [[Ireland]].<ref name="NYT obit">{{cite news|title=Neil Sheehan Dies at 84; Times Reporter Obtained the Pentagon Papers|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/business/media/neil-sheehan-dead.html|first=Janny|last=Scott|date=January 7, 2021|access-date=January 8, 2021|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> He was raised on a dairy farm near Holyoke. Sheehan graduated from Mount Hermon School (later [[Northfield Mount Hermon]]) and [[Harvard University]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in history (''[[cum laude]]'') in 1958. He served in the [[U.S. Army]] from 1959 to 1962, when he was assigned to [[Korea]] and then transferred to [[Tokyo]]; there, he did work moonlighting in the Tokyo bureau of [[United Press International]] (UPI).<ref name="NYT obit"/>