Ralph J. Begleiter (born 1949 in

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) is a retired American

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and educator who taught courses in

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and

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at the

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Career

He holds an Honors B.A. in political science from Brown University and an M.S. in journalism from

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. He was Founding

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of the university's Center for Political Communication, hosted the TV series ''Great Decisions'', broadcast on many

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stations, and worked for two decades in CNN's Washington bureau as its world affairs correspondent. In the mid-1990s, working with the National Security Archive at George Washington University, he used the Freedom of Information Act to prompt the Pentagon to release hundreds of previously unreleased photos of U.S. military personnel returning from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in flag-draped caskets.

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Official biography
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