Richard J. Cull Jr. (September 12, 1914 – April 24, 1992) was a reporter in
Washington D.C.
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for the ''
Dayton Daily News
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'' and the
Cox Newspapers syndicate from 1947 to 1962.
Cull then served as a press information officer for the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service
The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was a United States federal government agency under the United States Department of Labor from 1933 to 1940 and under the United States Department of Justice from 1940 to 2003.
Refe ...
from 1962 to 1975. When the survivors of the
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion (, sometimes called or after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the United States of America and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front ...
were released from
Cuba
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n custody in 1962, Cull handled the press coverage of their return to the United States.
References
External links
Oral History With Richard Cull Jr., Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
*[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DDNB&p_theme=ddnb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F5051BB9262707E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Richard Cull Jr.'s obituary]
American male journalists
1914 births
1992 deaths
20th-century American writers
20th-century American journalists
20th-century American male writers
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