Background
Dudman, Richard Beebe was born on May 3, 1918 in Centerville, Iowa, United States. Son of Virgil Ernest and Wilma (Beebe) Dudman.
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“Richard Dudman, a lean, perceptive, honest reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has written a lean, perceptive, honest account of an extraordinary experience—his captivity by the Communists in Cambodia . . . refreshingly free of pretentious analyses and grandiose generalizations. And yet, more than all the academic studies and polemical treatises, it provides most profound insights into the nature of the enemy soldiers who have held the United States at bay in Indochina for years.” —Washington Post The story of a journalist held captive by guerrillas in Cambodia.
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journalist Communications company executive
Dudman, Richard Beebe was born on May 3, 1918 in Centerville, Iowa, United States. Son of Virgil Ernest and Wilma (Beebe) Dudman.
Bachelor, Stanford University, 1940; Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Missouri, St. Louis, 1979.
Reporter, photographer, Oroville (California) Mercury-Register, 1937;
reporter, Denver Post, 1945-1949;
reporter, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1949-1953;
Washington correspondent, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1954-1968;
bureau chief, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1969-1981;
Chairman of the Board, treasurer, Dudman Communications Corporation, Ellsworth, Maine., 1981-1992;
chairman emeritus, Dudman Communications Corporation, Ellsworth, Maine., since 1992. Member of advisory committee Nieman Foundation for Journalism, 1977-1981. Trustee South-North News Svc., 1985-1995, president, 1987-1990, managing editor, 1987-1995.
Consultant to Washington Bureau, 1997.
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(40 Days with the Enemy)
(Liveright 1971)
Trustee Washington Journalism Center, 1974-1992, Institute Current World Affairs, 1983-1989, 95-98. Board directors Downeast Family Young Men’s Christian Association, Ellsworth, 1987-1991. Public member Maine Lobster Promotion Council, 1991-2000.
With United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1945. Member National Association Broadcasters (First Amendment committee 1985-1989). Clubs: Gridiron (Washington).
Lodges: Rotary.
Married Helen Sloane, March 14, 1946. Children: Iris Janet Sloane, Martha Tod.