FORA.tv Speaker - William J. Daugherty

William J. Daugherty was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Following high school at the Oklahoma Military Academy, he served eight years in the United States Marine Corps, in both enlisted and officer ranks, earned his wings as a Naval Flight Officer, and flew one combat tour in Vietnam with a Marine fighter-attack squadron while deployed on the aircraft carrier USS America. During his first tour with the C.I.A in Iran, Daugherty was held hostage for 444 days along with fifty-one other Americans. After leaving the Marine Corps in 1974, he earned a BA in Social Science from the University of California-Irvine and a PhD in Government from the Claremont Graduate School, followed by nearly eighteen years of service with the Central Intelligence Agency as an operations and staff officer. In 1996 he joined the faculty of Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia.