He died of natural causes.
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Milo Radulovich, the subject of one of Edward R. Murrow's most famous anti-McCarthy broadcasts, died yesterday at the age of 81.
The original broadcast is available on a DVD remembering Murrow.
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In 1953, Edward R. Murrow devoted an entire broadcast to Milo Radulovich, a 28-year-old lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve, who was discharged as a security risk - but not because of anything he had done, CBS News correspondent Bill Plante reports.
“My sister and dad have taken, have read, what are now called subversive newspapers,” Radulovich told CBS News at the time.
The Air Force believed his family had communist sympathies and denied his appeal - without showing any evidence,
The L.A. Times has a more complete obituary:
When Radulovich was exonerated by the Air Force on Nov. 24, 1953, he felt "like a helium balloon in weather floating up to the sky," he told an interviewer last year. Getting his life back on track was a struggle, however. His first marriage disintegrated under the stress of the hearings. His father died of cancer within a year, and Radulovich believed his death was hastened by the ordeal.
Even though his record had been cleared, Radulovich had difficulty finding a good job in his field. Months passed before he found a small weather forecasting company in Northern California that would hire him. He eventually was hired by the National Weather Service, which often sent him into the field to predict weather patterns for firefighters. He retired from the service in the mid-1990s.
In addition to his sister, he is survived by three daughters, Kathy Radulovich and Janet Sweeney of Sacramento and Diane Berner of Bishop, Calif; and a grandson.
He was a consultant on the screenplay for "Good Night, and Good Luck," the George Clooney-directed movie that starred Clooney as Friendly and David Strathairn as Murrow, and approved of the final product.
