Background
He was born in Paducah, Kentucky.
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John Rudder
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After serving as an enlisted Marine in World World War II, he graduated from the Naval Reserve Officers" Training Corps.
Career
On May 28, 1948, he received his commission as a 2nd lieutenant, and entered the Marine Corps Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, on August 25. He resigned in 1949. Though he experienced discrimination at Quantico, he stated his departure was for personal reasons, and the matter was handled quietly. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (Federal Bureau of Investigation), however, was skeptical and put him under long-term surveillance as a suspected communist, eventually accumulating eight volumes of material on the Rudder family by 1967.
As told to Morley Safer on the 60 Minutes segment ""Sins" of the Fathers..", which aired on March 1, 1981, she was working as a file clerk for the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations, which was looking into the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Junior.
In order for the chairman to obtain the documents he wanted, all committee employees had to get a security clearance.
