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...Ellsberg said Sheehan was essential in getting The Times to publish the documents, which earned the paper the most prestigious Pulitzer Prize, for public service...
...While covering the war in Vietnam, Sheehan met Daniel Ellsberg ’52, a government official working for the RAND Corporation, who would later leak the Pentagon Papers...
...According to Ellsberg, Sheehan had written two articles for The Times that suggested the possibility that war crimes had been committed in Vietnam. These articles were so impressive to Ellsberg who Sheehan was the first person who came to mind when he decided to give the papers to The Times...
...thought a journalist that had that perspective and was sticking his neck out to suggest Americans had committed war crimes would have the guts to write about the Pentagon Papers,” Ellsberg said...
...served 33 months in prison for his role in the scandal, which exploded when one of the burglars was found to have Hunt's White House telephone number in his address book. Hunt had previously helped orchestrate another famous break-in, at the office of the psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon papers. In 1997 Hunt declared bankruptcy, blaming, among other things, Watergate fines and legal fees. "I think I've paid my debt to society," he said...