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John Paul Vann (born John Paul Tripp; July 2, 1924 – June 9, 1972) was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, later retired, who became well known for his role in the Vietnam War.
Her husband was the journalist Neil Sheehan, whom she urged to copy what became known as the Pentagon Papers for the Times with her help, [4] and who also won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction [1] for A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam in 1989. [2] Sheehan and her husband lived in Washington, D.C. [3]
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) is a book by Neil Sheehan, a former New York Times reporter, about U.S. Army lieutenant colonel John Paul Vann (killed in action) and the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.
A Bright Shining Lie is a 1998 American war drama television film written and directed by Terry George, based on Neil Sheehan's 1988 book of the same name and the true story of John Paul Vann's experience in the Vietnam War. It stars Bill Paxton, Amy Madigan, Vivian Wu, Donal Logue, Eric Bogosian and Kurtwood Smith. It aired on HBO on May 30, 1998.
A South Vietnamese village outside of Trang Bang was bombed with napalm in an errant air strike by the South ... Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, 47; ... his wife, three ...
Du's senior U.S. advisor, John Paul Vann acknowledged forthrightly that Du was corrupt and that, whatever his interest in drugs, his lifestyle far exceeded his legal income. Yet he was, said Vann, so amenable to American instruction that, to maintain respect for him within the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), his American advisers had ...
John Paul Vann (1924–1972) – U.S. soldier and civilian active in Vietnam; Marc Vann (b. 1954) – actor; Brandon Vera (b. 1977) – mixed martial artist, currently signed to UFC; Gene Vincent (1935–1971) – rock-a-billy artist recorded the hit "Be-Bop-a-Lula" Ben Watson (b. 1980) – football player for the New England Patriots
John Paul Vann (white shirt) and his CORDS staff at their Pleiku headquarters in 1971. In February 1970, John Paul Vann, CORDS head in the IV Corps area (the Mekong River delta south of Saigon), gave an optimistic progress report about pacification to the United States Senate. According to Vann, in IV Corps a person could drive during daylight ...