MEDIA
COVERAGE
A great
deal of media attention was focused on the fight to return Bud's remains. Here are links to a few of the stories.
We
especially recommend these two very in depth stories:
ProPublicia.org
NPR's All Things Considered
U.S.
Grave Science Marked By Risk Aversion And Bureaucracy
RECENT
COVERAGE
June
2, 2018
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/virginia/articles/2018-06-02/not-forgotten-bringing-fallen-heroes-from-world-war-ii-home
June 27, 2018
WOAI TV
http://news4sanantonio.com/
KENS TV
https://www.kens5.com/article/
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
https://www.expressnews.com/ne
WPRI TV
https://www.wpri.com/target-12
November 10, 2010
San Antonio Express-News
Man tries to bring WWII GI's
remains home
November 13, 2013
Fox 32, Chicago
Chicago family fights to get WW2
hero`s remains brought home
December 6, 2013
Stars and Stripes
JPAC Ignoring Clues
March 6, 2014
Failing the Fallen
http://www.propublica.org/article/missing-in-action-us-military-slow-to-identify-service-members
Bud’s Story, From the Records
http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/mia-letters
How You Can Help Find an MIA
http://www.propublica.org/article/interview-how-you-can-help-find-an-mia
NPR's All Things Considered
Grave Science
http://apps.npr.org/grave-science/
U.S. Grave Science Marked By
Risk Aversion And Bureaucracy
http://www.npr.org/2014/03/07/287328727/u-s-grave-science-marked-by-risk-aversion-and-bureacracy
February 20, 2013
Defense News Agency
SecDef Orders Reorganization
http://www.defense.gov/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=5375
March 31, 2014
CBS (web)
JPAC faces lawsuit for failure to ID remains of American soldiers
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/jpac-faces-lawsuit-for-failure-to-id-remains-of-american-soldiers/
CBS (aired on Evening News - Includes Hagel announcement - Scott Pelley intro)
ProPublica
Pentagon Overhauls Effort to Identify its Missing
http://www.propublica.org/article/pentagon-overhauls-effort-to-identify-its-missing
NPR
Hoping To Slim POW-MIA
Bureaucracy, Hagel Makes One Out Of Two
AP/ABC
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/hagel-acts-improve-pow-mia-accounting-effort-23128931
Star Advertiser
NBC
Stars & Stripes
Army Times
June 29, 2014
Stars & Stripes
Fight over US veterans' remains
in Philippine graves continues
July 1, 2014
CBS News
After Seven Decades Remains of WWII GI Could Soon Be Coming Home
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-7-decades-remains-of-wwii-gi-could-soon-be-coming-home/
ProPublica
Pentagon Finally Decides to Dig
Up Remains of Long Lost Soldier
http://www.propublica.org/article/pentagon-finally-decides-to-dig-up-remains-of-long-lost-soldier
NPR
Pentagon Decides To Dig Up
Remains Of Long-Lost Soldier
December 11, 2014
Stars & Stripes
Accuracy questioned in JPAC
identification of WWII remains from Philippines
May 13, 2015
Fox 9 Minneapolis
MISSING IN ACTION: Could DNA
evidence bring our war heroes home?
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/29059070/missing-in-action-could-dna-evidence-bring-our-war-heroes-home
May 22, 2015
Spooner Advocate
Remains of area WWII POW may
soon rejoin his family
http://www.apg-wi.com/spooner_advocate/news/local/we-want-to-bring-him-home-remains-of-area-wwii/article_b3e968b8-fef2-11e4-852e-5bc792b43ac2.html
June 3, 2015
Fox 9 Minneapolis
Missing WWII vet's remains
finally identified, set for proper burial
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/29232333/missing-wwii-vets-remains-finally-identified
July 9, 2015
CBS2 Chicago
Family Of
Fallen Soldier Battled Pentagon To Have Remains Returned To Chicago
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/07/09/family-of-fallen-soldier-battled-pentagon-to-have-remains-returned-to-chicago/
Journal Online
Returning Private Kelder: WWII POWs Body To Come Home
http://www.journal-topics.com/news/article_f8f7ac2a-25bd-11e5-82ab-27e0a3b27228.html
July 18, 2015
WBBM CBS 2 Chicago
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/07/18/remains-of-soldier-who-died-in-japanese-prison-camp-returned-to-chicago/
WLS ABC 7
WWII soldier's remains returned
to family 73 years after death
http://abc7chicago.com/news/wwii-soldiers-remains-returned-to-family-73-years-after-death/855799/
July 20, 2015
Fox 32, Chicago
CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) - It was a
fitting and bitter sweet farewell that was 73 years in the making.
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/clip/11696436/chicago-stories-private-arthur-buddy-kelder
July 23, 2015
Fox News 9, Minneapolis
Investigators: Fallen WWII
service member finally laid to rest next to family
PFC Lawrence Gordon
February 24, 2014
Milwaukee Journal Scent
DNA results get U.S. soldier
buried with enemy one step closer to home
April 7, 2014
CBS News
After 70 years, fallen WWII
soldier will finally come home
Bode Press release
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/04/prweb11741264.htm
Stars & Stripes
DNA test is latest to confirm ID
of American WWII soldier buried in Germany
NPR - January 27, 2015
Family's Long Fight With Pentagon Returns Name To
Unknown Soldier
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/27/381674839/pentagon-identifies-world-war-ii-veteran-featured-in-npr-propublica-investigatio
http://wfae.org/post/pentagon-identifies-world-war-ii-veteran-featured-nprpropublica-investigation
http://tpr.org/post/pentagon-identifies-world-war-ii-veteran-featured-nprpropublica-investigation
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/jan/27/pentagon-identifies-world-war-ii-veteran-featured/
Propublica - January 27, 2015
Pentagon Finally Identifies the Remains of a POW Lost Since 1942
http://www.propublica.org/article/pentagon-finally-identifies-the-remains-of-a-pow-lost-since-1942
Other Missing Persons Stories
August 4, 2014
Washington Post
First of 55 bodies buried at Florida reform school identified. Researchers seek more DNA matches.
Boy who went missing at Fla. reform school identified 70 yrs later.
October 3, 2014
Head of JPAC's flawed effort to
ID missing soldiers loses job
http://www.stripes.com/news/us/head-of-jpac-s-flawed-effort-to-id-missing-soldiers-loses-job-1.306425
October 19, 2014
JPAC leadership changes
criticized
http://www.stripes.com/news/us/jpac-leadership-changes-criticized-1.309132
October 20, 2014
Leadership dysfunction threatens
new JPAC command, DOD IG finds
http://www.stripes.com/news/leadership-dysfunction-threatens-new-jpac-command-dod-ig-finds-1.309242
October 28, 2014
DPMO head Winfield reportedly
resigns as agency reorganizes
http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/dpmo-head-winfield-reportedly-resigns-as-agency-reorganizes-1.310839
October 29, 2014
Medical examiner named for new
POW/MIA agency
http://www.stripes.com/news/medical-examiner-named-for-new-pow-mia-agency-1.310972
November 14, 2014
Hagel prodded on status of
exhumed USS Oklahoma sailors
http://www.stripes.com/news/hagel-prodded-on-status-of-exhumed-uss-oklahoma-sailors-1.314163
December 4, 2014
Remains of Japanese plane, crew
might lie on Hawaii golf course
http://www.stripes.com/news/remains-of-japanese-plane-crew-might-lie-on-hawaii-golf-course-1.317365
Last update: June 28, 2018
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