Seymour Myron Hersh
(born April 8, 1937, Chicago, Ill., U.S.) U.S. journalist. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1954. He began his journalistic career in 1959 as a police reporter, and he later worked for UPI and
The New York Times and as a national correspondent for
The Atlantic Monthly. His report on the
My Lai incident won him a 1970 Pulitzer Prize; he also wrote about domestic spying by the CIA and produced many other investigative reports. His
The Dark Side of Camelot (1997) was a controversial, negative look at
John F. Kennedy;
Against All Enemies (1998) discussed the ailments suffered by Persian Gulf War veterans.
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