Journalist
Seymour Hersh
American reporter who exposed the My Lai massacre.
Seymour Myron Hersh 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 reporting on the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia and the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) program of domestic spying. In 2004, he detailed the U.S. military's torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq for The New Yorker. Hersh has won five George Polk Awards and two National Magazine Awards. He is the author of 11 books, including The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (1983), an account of the career of Henry Kissinger that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
- Born
- 1937-04-08, Chicago, USAA Thursday
- At birth
- Sun in Aries, Moon in Pisces
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Birth Chart
1937-04-08, Chicago, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Chicagothe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aries | 18°28′ | Direct |
| Moon | Pisces | 14°37′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Taurus | 3°10′ | Direct |
| Venus | Taurus | 2°56′ | Retrograde |
| Mars | Sagittarius | 5°19′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 25°15′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Pisces | 28°06′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Taurus | 8°21′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Virgo | 16°46′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Cancer | 26°29′ | Retrograde |
Seymour Hersh is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Seymour Hersh was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.
