Today we are taking A Closer Look at a lovely pair of James Purdey Gold Name heavy proof sidelock ejector single trigger game guns made for Neil Sheehan, Pulitzer Prize winning author, journalist, and receiver of pentagon papers!
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Image Credit:
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection [reproduction number, e.g., LC-G612-T-45094]
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Theodor Horydczak Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-H824-0224]
- Sheehan, Neil. "The Pentagon Papers", Bantam Books Inc., 1971.
- Sheehan, Neil. "The Arnheiter Affair", Dell Publishing Co., 1973.
- Sheehan, Neil. "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam", Random House Publishing, 1988