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Richard Dudman

American journalist (1918-2017) · United States · On the map · Journalists · Died at 99

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,...

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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.

Country
United States
Category
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1918 to 2017 · aged 99