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Opinion: Remembering Journalist And Friend Neil Sheehan

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the life and work of famed reporter Neil Sheehan who obtained the Pentagon Papers. Sheehan died this week at the age of 84.
Journalist Neil Sheehan, pictured at the time as a reporter for UPI, died recently at the age of 84.

When I first got to know Neil Sheehan, he was going through trying times. We were war correspondents of different generations and I was in awe of the intrepid reporter of the Vietnam conflict, first for United Press International, then . He was the first to get his

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