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Milo Radulovich | McCarthy-era figure, 81

Milo Radulovich, 81, an Air Force Reserve lieutenant championed by CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow when the military threatened to decommission him during a Cold War anticommunist crackdown, died Monday in Vellejo, Calif., after complications from a stroke. He served as a consultant on the 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck, based on Murrow's journalistic challenge to Sen. Joseph McCarthy. The movie included the Radulovich case and the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings. 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. Mr. Radulovich refused the military's demand to denounce them. Murrow's See It Now aired a segment, "The Case Against Lt. Milo Radulovich," in October 1953. The next month, the Air Force reversed its declaration that Mr. Radulovich was a security risk. - AP

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Milo Radulovich, 81, an Air Force Reserve lieutenant championed by CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow when the military threatened to decommission him during a Cold War anticommunist crackdown, died Monday in Vellejo, Calif., after complications from a stroke.

He served as a consultant on the 2005 film

Good Night, and Good Luck,

based on Murrow's journalistic challenge to Sen. Joseph McCarthy. The movie included the Radulovich case and the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings.

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. Mr. Radulovich refused the military's demand to denounce them.

Murrow's

See It Now

aired a segment, "The Case Against Lt. Milo Radulovich," in October 1953. The next month, the Air Force reversed its declaration that Mr. Radulovich was a security risk.

- AP

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