Seymour hirsh biography
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Seymour hirsh biography
Seymour Hersh
American investigative journalist (born 1937)
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| Born | Seymour Myron Hersh (1937-04-08) April 8, 1937 (age 87) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Other names | Sy Hersh |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Sarah Klein (m. 1964) |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | George Polk Award (1969, 1973, 1974, 1981, 2004) Pulitzer Prize (1970) National Book Critics Circle Award (1983) National Magazine Award (2004, 2005) |
| Website | seymourhersh.substack.com |
Seymour Myron Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American investigative journalist and political writer.
He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times, also report