Point of info on John M Murphy. Murphy is a highly decorated war hero. During the Korean War Lt. Murphy was responsible for taking a hill from the enemy. He ran out of bullets in his gun and proceeded to charge up the hill swinging the gun at the enemy. As to his service to SI during his 18 years in congress. John was responsible for many of the projects that made SI what it is today. John was a CONSERVATIVE democrat that caught the ire of the liberal power structure of the democartic party. In 1979 John supported a candidate that was running for President against a sitting democratic president in Jimmy Carter. That is the reason that John was “targeted” in abscam by the Carter justice dept. No MONEY HAS EVER BEEN TRACED BACK TO MURPHY OR ANY OF HIS ASSOCIATES!!