Second in Command Author:Edward R Murphy, Jr. Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, Captain of the USS Pueblo, and Lieutenant Edward R. Murphy, Jr., Executive Officer and second in command, receiving Purple Hearts for wounds inflicted during the capture of the spy ship. The ceremony followed their return to the United States, after 11 months'imprisonment in North Korea. Commander Bucher's version of t... more »he Pueblo story has been widely publicized. Lieutenant Murphy's greatly differing account of these events is now made public for the first time in Second in Command.« less