Milo Radulovich

At the end, it was recommended that he be severed from the Air Force., although it was also stated that there was no question whatever as to the lieutenant's loyalty.He was born on October 28, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan, of ethnic Serb parentage from Yugoslavia.

Radulovich demanded an Air Force hearing, aided by retired lawyer Charles Lockwood, who worked pro bono.

Among the readers was a former classmate of Radulovich, attorney Kenneth Sanborn (who went on to become a State Representative and Macomb County Circuit Judge in Michigan).

For months, Murrow, producer Fred Friendly and the See It Now team had debated how to address Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt, until the Radulovich affair.

A crew (reporter/assistant producer Joseph Wershba and cameraman Charlie Mack) went to Dexter and filmed impassioned interviews with the lieutenant and his family.

The image of the lieutenant and his immigrant father led many viewers to question the impact of McCarthyite tactics for purging the government and military of potential security risks.