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Neil Sheehan, Pentagon Papers reporter, Vietnam author, dies

by Will Lester
| January 8, 2021 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Neil 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 conflict, died Thursday. He was 84.

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