Seymour Hersh
1937 – ? American Investigative journalist
Reporter who exposed the My Lai massacre.
- Religion
- Born to a Jewish family.
- Affiliations
- Investigative journalist, formerly with the Associated Press and The New Yorker.
Seymour Hersh is an American investigative journalist who broke the story of the My Lai massacre in 1969, winning a Pulitzer Prize. Over a long career he reported on intelligence abuses, secret wars, and abuses at Abu Ghraib. His work has often relied on confidential sources inside the government and military.
Connections
- associate of Daniel Ellsberg — Contemporaries in exposing the hidden record of the Vietnam War.
In the timeline
- 1969 The My Lai massacre is exposed mentioned
- 1974 Seymour Hersh exposes CIA domestic spying central figure