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 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.