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Line 25: ==Biography== James ~~Wilder~~ “Kimo” Wilder McVay was born September 16, 1927 in Washington, D.C.. His father was Navy Captain [[Charles Butler McVay III]].<ref name="Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis">{{cite book \| last =Kurzman\| first =Dan \| title =Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis\| publisher=Broadway \| year =2001 \| isbn =978-0-7679-0678-4 }}</ref> His mother was Hawaiian heiress Kinau Wilder (1902–1992), great-granddaughter of pioneering missionary physician and politician [[Gerrit P. Judd\|Gerrit Parmele Judd]], and granddaughter of shipping magnate [[Samuel Gardner Wilder]]. One of his many cousins on his mother's side was [[George R. Carter]] (1866–1933), the [[Territorial Governor of Hawaii]].<ref>{{cite book \|title= A record of the descendants of Dr. Gerrit P. Judd of Hawaii, March 8, 1829, to April 16, 1922 \|date= July 1922 \|editor= George R. Carter \|editor-link= George R. Carter \|editor2= Mary H. Hopkins\|url= https://archive.org/details/recordofdescenda00cart \|publisher= Hawaiian Historical Society }}</ref> It was possibly the clearing of his father's name that gave Kimo Wilder McVay the most personal satisfaction.<ref name="Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis"/> His father was found guilty of negligence in the 1945 sinking of the [[USS Indianapolis (CA-35)\|USS ''Indianapolis'']] in the closing days of World War II and eventually committed suicide as a result. Kimo spent his adult life on a quest to clear the record. Half a century later, the United States Congress passed action exonerating the senior McVay.<ref name="Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis">{{cite book \| last1 =Nelson\| first1 =Pete \| last2=Scott \| first2=Hunter \| title =Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis\| publisher=Delacorte Books for Young Readers \| page=155 \|year =2003 \| isbn =978-0-385-73091-4}}</ref>

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