Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1918, May 3 | Born, Centerville, Iowa |
| 1937 | Photographer, Oroville (Calif.) Mercury-Register |
| 1940 | A.B., Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. |
| 1942-1945 | United States Naval Reserve |
| 1946-1949 | Reporter, Denver Post |
| 1948 | Married Helen Sloane |
| 1949-1953 | Reporter,St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
| 1953-1954 | Nieman Fellow, Harvard |
| 1954-1969 | Member, Washington Bureau, St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
| 1962 | Published Men of the Far Right.New York: Pyramid Books |
| 1969-1981 | Chief, Washington Bureau, St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
| 1970 | Captured and detained by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam for forty days, Cambodia |
| 1971 | Published40 Days with the Enemy.New York: Liveright |
| 1974 | Trustee, Washington Journalism Center |
| 1977-1981 | Member, advisory committee, Nieman Foundation for Journalism |
| 1981 | Chairman of the board and vice president, Dudman Communications Corp. |
| 1988 | Helped open southern Africa news bureau for South-North News Service, Swaziland |
| 1993 | Recipient, George Polk Career Award |
| 1994-1996 | Trained and coached newspaper reporters and editors, Knight International Media Fellowship, South Africa, with an absence in 1995 |
| 2000-2012 | Senior contributing editor, Bangor Daily News |