Richard Dudman
Richard Dudman | |
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| Born | May 3, 1918 Centerville, Iowa,U.S. |
| Died | August 3, 2017(aged 99) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Spent 31 years with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
Richard Beebe Dudman(May 3, 1918 – August 3, 2017) was an American journalist who spent 31 years with theSt. Louis Post-Dispatchduring which time he coveredFidel Castro's insurgency in Cuba, theassassination of President John F. Kennedy,the invasion of Cuba at theBay of Pigs,theWatergate scandal,theIran-Contrascandal, and wars and revolutions in Latin America, the Middle East, and the Far East. He was chief of the Washington bureau during the 1970s which landed him on themaster list of Nixon political opponents.[1]
Biography
[edit]Dudman was born inCenterville, Iowa.He majored in journalism and economics atStanford University,where he wrote for the school paper, graduating in 1940. During World War II, he served in the merchant marines, dodging German submarines in the North Atlantic. He joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1942 and served four years, becoming executive officer of his ship.[2]
He started his journalism career atThe Denver Post,where he wrote for four years before joining thePost-Dispatchin 1949.[2]Dudman reported on theassassinationof PresidentJohn F. KennedyinDallas,Texas,on November 22, 1963. He reported seeing an entrance bullet hole in the windshield of thepresidential limousine.
In May 1970, he was captured by the Viet Cong and held captive in Cambodia, an experience he wrote about in his bookForty Days With the Enemy.[3]A few days after his release, he and his wife hosted a youngBill Clintonwho was working in Washington for the summer as part of Project Pursestrings.[4]
In December 1978 he was a member, along withElizabeth BeckerandMalcolm Caldwell,of the only group of Western journalists and writers invited to visit Cambodia since the Khmer Rouge had taken power in April 1975. During this visit Caldwell was murdered under mysterious circumstances.[5]
On his last day as Washington bureau chief, in 1981, he ran up Connecticut Avenue to cover the shooting of President Ronald Reagan. He moved toMaineafter retirement, but continued to work for thePost-Dispatch.From 2000 to 2012, he was theBangor Daily News'senior contributing editor, writing over 1,000 editorials.[2][6]In 1993, he won the George Polk Career Award.[2]He died on August 3, 2017, at the age of 99.[6]
Selected works
[edit]- Forty Days With the Enemy
- Men of the far right
- Dateline: Vietnam
- Pol Pot brutal, yes, but no mass murderer:https://cambodiatokampuchea.files.wordpress /2015/08/dudman.pdfThe New York Times,August 17, 1990; accessed August 3, 2017.
References
[edit]- ^Who's who in Entertainment.Marquis Who's Who. August 4, 1989.ISBN9780837918501– via Google Books.
- ^abcd"After 76 years of newspaper writing, BDN contributing editor says farewell".July 2, 2012.RetrievedMay 29,2016.
- ^"Dudman turns 95: A reflection on a great American reporter".RetrievedMay 28,2016.
- ^Clinton, William (2005).My Life.Vintage. p.229.ISBN1400096715.
- ^Becker, Elizabeth,When the War was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge RevolutionNew York: Public Affairs Books, 1998, pp. 426–430
- ^ab"Richard Dudman dies; he covered Vietnam war for the Post-Dispatch".St. Louis Post-Dispatch.August 3, 2017.
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