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Seymour Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He is best known for his reporting on the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He has also won two National Magazine Awards and five George Polk Awards. Hersh was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Yiddish-speaking Jewish parents who emigrated from Ukraine. He attended the University of Chicago, where he studied history and mathematics, but dropped out after two years. He later received an honorary degree from the University of Chicago in 2004. Hersh began his career as a police reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago in 1959. He later worked for United Press International and the Associated Press, where he covered the Vietnam War. In 1972, he joined the New York Times, where he wrote about the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers. Hersh has written several books, including The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (1983), The Dark Side of Camelot (1997), Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (2004), and Reporter: A Memoir (2020). He has also written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Washington Post. Hersh is 84 years old as of 2021. He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.

Popular As Seymour Myron Hersh
Occupation actor
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 8 April, 1937
Birthday 8 April
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nationality United States

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His wife is Elizabeth Sarah Klein (1958 - present)

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2004

A 2004 article investigated how Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld circumvented the CIA in their quest to invade Iraq; his coverage of Richard Perle in another article led Perle to say that Hersh was the "closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist.

1969

Hersh was born along with a twin brother to a middle-class family. His father ran a dry-cleaning plant, and he had older sisters who were also twins. He attended the University of Chicago, and after flunking out of law school, he was hired by the Chicago City News Bureau for $35 a week. In 1969, he gained worldwide recognition for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. He later became a correspondent for United Press International in South Dakota, correspondent for the Associated Press, and a reporter for The New York Times Washington Bureau. His book `The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House' won him the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hersh has written a total of eight books and contributes regularly to The New Yorker on military and security matters. He continues to stir controversy with his stories.