HOLYOKE The group of 13 people gathered behind Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia on Tuesday evening were a who’s who of civic leaders in the city.Standing together in City Hall, the Garcia administration’s transition team held a press conference Tuesday.
Holyoke family, friends remember Neil Sheehan
Reporter Neil Sheehan is shown in an office of The New York Times in New York, May 1, 1972. AP FILE PHOTO
Journalist Neil Sheehan is shown in New York, Nov. 29, 1988. Sheehan, a reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who broke the story of the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times and who chronicled the deception at the heart of the Vietnam War in his epic book about the war, has died. He was 84. AP PHOTO/ED BAILEY
Published: 1/10/2021 7:25:18 PM
HOLYOKE A short time after writer Neil Sheehan earned the Pulitzer Prize for his in-depth account of the Vietnam War, his deep family roots in Holyoke brought him back to the city for recognition at the St. Patrick’s Parade.