| Seymour Hersh  AKA Seymour Myron Hersh
Born: 8-Apr-1937
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Journalist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Uncovered the My Lai Massacre Military service: US Army Hersh is the reporter who uncovered the My Lai Massacre, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. More recently Hersh broke the story about U.S. torture at Abu Ghraib prison in The New Yorker.
Richard Perle (March 9, 2003): "Look, Sy Hersh is the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist, frankly. [...] he sets out to do damage and he will do it by whatever innuendo, whatever distortion he can -- look, he hasn't written a serious piece since My Lai." Brother: Alan (fraternal twin, b. 8-Apr-1937)
Wife: Elizabeth Sarah Klein
University: BA History, University of Chicago (1958)
Law School: University of Chicago Law School (expelled)
Lithuanian Ancestry paternal side
Polish Ancestry maternal side
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity
Polk Award 1969
Polk Award 1973
Polk Award 1974
Polk Award 1981
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting 1970
George Orwell Award 2004
The New Yorker Staff
The New York Times 1972-79
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (14-Jun-2002) Himself
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