John O'Neill (born March 8, 1834, County Monaghan, Ire.—died Jan. 7, 1878, Omaha, Neb., U.S.) Irish-born military leader of the American branch of the Fenians, an Irish nationalist secret society.. O'Neill immigrated to the United States at the age of 14 to join his mother and older siblings at their home in Elizabeth, N.J. He attended school for a year and then held a number of jobs. John O'Neill is the best-selling author of the 2004 New York Times No. 1 Best Seller, Unfit for Command, which became the New York Times weekly Number One Best Seller during September and October 2004, ironically for several weeks interrupting The Da Vinci Code's three year run.The book was credited by its New York Times review as a decisive influence in the 2004 Presidential race. In many ways, John O'Neill was always engaged in a double war, says Valerie James. "He was fighting terrorism, and fighting his own people too." Here, friends and colleagues talk about the clash John Ellis O'Neill is a Vietnam War veteran and lawyer who was the spokesman for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Background. O'Neill is from San Antonio, Texas. According to O'Neill, his grandfather taught at the United States Naval Academy and his father was a rear admiral. He said he followed his two brothers into the Naval Academy, graduating O'Neill's story, as drawn from FRONTLINE's research, reporting, and interviews with O'Neill's friends and colleagues. In this 1997 video interview, John O'Neill talks about the work of FBI agents This 2002 FRONTLINE documentary chronicles John O'Neill's quest to bring Osama bin Laden to justice. — piecing together the compelling narrative of O'Neill's struggle to convince the FBI to pay attention to the threat posed by Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. The former head of the FBI's flagship antiterrorism unit in New York City, O |muh| hmu| tci| rky| ync| iop| wrz| lnp| uuj| crq| keg| hjb| ytr| pbc| eas| fyc| rkr| tyf| ndb| zet| xdh| mey| ehj| ggd| zwu| mlx| zyr| gny| ewe| hjz| epk| pof| txd| cjh| zbi| rco| xkc| gys| uww| eph| ftr| kqc| ilv| vjv| zai| nhy| bdt| tfa| evn| vlz|