Early Life
John Roderick was born in Waterville, Maine, on September 14, 1914. He was orphaned when he was just 16 years old. His journalistic career began at the age of 15, when he began writing for a local newspaper, Waterville Morning Sentinel (now called The Central Maine Morning Sentinel). He graduated from Colby College before joining the Associated Press office in Portland, Maine, in 1937.
Roderick moved to the Associated Press' office in Washington D.C. in 1942. However, he was drafted into the United States Army in 1943 during World War II. He was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, which was a precursor of the CIA, and sent to the city of Kunming, China, which is the capital of Yunnan province. Kunming was a strategically important city at the end of the Burma Road with a large United States military base. He rejoined the Associated Press after the end of World War II.
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