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- He is said to have been a "person of interest" during the McCarthy era, which speaks very well of him.
From "In Memoriam: Robert K. Murray" (citation details below):
During World War II, he served in the European Theater of Operations as a Signal Intelligence Specialist and, after the war, served briefly with the National Security Agency. […]
Dr. Murray was first an Instructor in History at Ohio State University before accepting a job at Pennsylvania State University in 1949. At Penn State University, Dr. Murray was promoted to full professor of American History in 1959 and served as Head of the History Department for ten years from 1959 to 1969. From 1964 to 1967, he was also an Assistant Dean in the Graduate School and was instrumental in the development and planning for the Penn State Kern Graduate Center. In 1974, he was elected a Senior Fellow in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and retired in 1984 after 35 years of service with Penn State. […]
Believing that the historian owed as much to the general public as to his students and his profession, Dr. Murray's research and publications illustrate that point. His publications included six books, over thirty articles, numerous book chapters, and many book reviews. His book Red Scare was published just at the end of the McCarthy hysteria in 1959. He helped open the Harding Papers, which were thought to have been burned. His resultant Harding Era (1969) was a History Book of the Month Club selection and also received the McNight Distinguished Book Award and the Phi Alpha Theta National Book award in 1970. He appeared on the “Today Show" and was widely interviewed in connection with his 103rd Ballot (1976), which was also a History Book of the Month Club selection. His book Trapped (1979) brought him a Life Membership in the National Speliological Society. His computer survey involving historians' ranking of the presidents, Greatness in the White House, 1989, set a standard for historians judging presidential performance.
Dr. Murray was an institutional Peace Corps representative from 1961 to 1963; he was a special consultant to the American Council on Education from 1962 to 1964; he served on the National Archives Commission from 1971 to 1976; and he was a referee for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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