Neil Sheehan Dies at 84; Author and Times Reporter on the Pentagon Papers
His exhaustive coverage of the Vietnam War also led to the book “A Bright Shining Lie,” which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
The journalist and author Neil Sheehan outside his home in Washington in 2009.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
Published Jan. 7, 2021Updated Jan. 8, 2021
Neil Sheehan, the Vietnam War correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who obtained the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times, leading the government for the first time in American history to get a judge to block publication of an article on grounds of national security, died on Thursday at his home in Washington. He was 84.