Neil Sheehan
Neil Sheehan
Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehanis 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 US Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. v. United States, when the United States government attempted to halt publication...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth27 October 1936
CountryUnited States of America
Neil Sheehan quotes about
People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.
The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.
We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.