 Their efforts were said to have contributed to the victory of the Allied forces.He later graduated from Columbia University Law School and interrupted a career with the Davis Polk law firm to become an investigator of the conditions of dock workers through the New York State Crime Commission, Waterfront Investigation, an issue made popular by the 1955 Academy Award winning film, On the Waterfront with Marlon Brando.Samuel John Murray was born December 7, 1918 in Cincinnati, OH to William J. Murray and Anna Ahearn.