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Neil Sheehan, N.Y. Times reporter who obtained Pentagon Papers and chronicled ‘Bright Shining Lie’ of Vietnam, dies at 84 Harrison Smith © AP Reporters David Halberstam of the New York Times, Malcolm Brown of the Associated Press and Neil Sheehan of United Press International chat beside a helicopter in Vietnam in the early to mid-1960s. Neil Sheehan, a tireless chronicler of the Vietnam War who obtained the Pentagon Papers for the New York Times and later received the Pulitzer Prize for his book “A Bright Shining Lie,” a meticulously researched indictment of America’s role in that conflict, died Jan. 7 at his home in Washington. He was 84.

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