Dr. ed murphy biography

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Spiritual Warrior Ed Murphy talks with Dr. Michael Wayne in an installment of Interviews with the Leading Edge, the exclusive video series.

In this interview, Ed talks about his life and his life’s work as an activist for political and spiritual change. Born on the same day as when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945, Ed has always been a man of peace – it was as if he knew from the moment he was born about the insanity of war and especially weapons of mass destruction. As a young man, he studied for the seminary, but while doing a required retreat he went through a change of mind and dropped out of seminary and immediately enlisted in the military and was shipped off to Vietnam. He served for awhile in the military, and on his return to the U.S., he became part of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Yet, the country of Vietnam had a lot of significance to him, and when he finally returned to the country in 1991, he realized that Vietnam was part of his soul.

Since then, he has had four photography exhibits related to Vietnam, has participated in the development of two movies related to Vietnam, and co-wrote a book with his daughter Zoe entitled “Vietnam: Our Father Daughter Journey.”

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Ed Murphy (activist)

American peace and labor activist (born 1945)

Ed Murphy (born August 6, 1945) is an American peace and labor activist, the founding and retired Executive Director of the Workforce Development Institute. He was a former military intelligence soldier who exposed the CIA's Phoenix Program in April 1970.

Early life

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Murphy attended a public grammar school and graduated from St. Peter's Boys High School,^{[citation needed]} run by the Christian Brothers. When he discerned a vocation to the priesthood, he chose the Paulist Fathers in Baltimore.^[1]

He spent his third year in seminary in silence and meditation as a Paulist novitiate without academic classes, radio, TV or newspapers. In July 1966 he left the seminary without being ordained, returning to secular life.^[2]

He surrendered his draft deferment and enlisted in the military, to work in Military Intelligence. In January 1967 he attended Basic Training at Fort Gordon, Georgia and then returned to Baltimore for the US Army Intelligence School at Fort Holabird; followed by eight months studying Vietnamese, at the Defense Language Institute, Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas.^[3]

Career

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Murphy served in Vietnam from May 1968 to May 1969 as a sergeant i

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