# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-dudman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:02:50.733Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-dudman"
name: "Richard Dudman"
slug: "richard-dudman"
description: "Richard Beebe Dudman was an American journalist who spent 31 years with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch during which time he covered Fidel Castro's insurgency in Cuba, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, the Watergate scandal, the Iran-Contra scandal, the Khmer Rouge, 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 the master list of Nixon political opponents."
tagline: "American journalist (1918-2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1918-05-03"
deathDate: "2017-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.296330666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dudman"
    title: "Richard Dudman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ريتشارد دودمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dudman"
    title: "Richard Dudman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%86%D8%B1%DA%88_%DA%88%DA%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "رچرڈ ڈڈمین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dudman"
    title: "Richard Dudman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dudman"
    title: "Richard Dudman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7325292"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump