Lieutenant threatened during red scare dies

[unhappycamper]

Milo Radulovich poses with a portrait from his Air Force days. During the anti-communist crackdown of the 1950s, Radulovich refused the military's demand that he denounce his father and sister.



Lieutenant threatened during red scare dies
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Nov 20, 2007 17:47:09 EST

DETROIT — Milo Radulovich, an Air Force Reserve lieutenant championed by CBS-TV newsman Edward R. Murrow when the military threatened to decommission him during a Cold War anti-communist crackdown, has died. He was 81.

Radulovich died Monday in Vallejo, Calif., after complications from a stroke, family members said.

He served as a consultant on the 2005 film “Good Night, and Good Luck,” based on Murrow’s journalistic challenge to U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy. The movie included the Radulovich case and the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings that led to the senator’s downfall.

Radulovich was born in Detroit, joined the Air Force Reserve, worked as a meteorologist in Greenland, then enrolled at the University of Michigan on the GI Bill.

In 1953, the Air Force threatened to decommission him on grounds that he maintained a “close and continuing relationship” with his father and sister. The military said they were suspect because of the father’s subscription to a Serbian newspaper and his sister’s political activities.

Radulovich refused the military’s demand that he denounce his relatives and appealed his discharge.


Rest of article at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/11/ap_radulovich_071120/

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Rest in Peace, Milo Radulovich...

:(

[midnight]

2. Good night, and Good luck was an eye opener that honed in on

how much pressure was on those who stood up to those who wanted to silence the news. Maybe it was a lesson that was meant for our current crop of news reporters. But hardly can digest this stuff about his decommission based on seeing his sister, and father. That hate keeps recycling.