Given the question: Facts: - residence: united states penitentiary in atwater , california - caption: jerry alfred whitworth , circa 1985 - name: jerry alfred whitworth - nationality: united states - image: file : portfolio-whitworth-jerry001 . jpg - motive: financial gain - occupation: united states navy communications specialist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of jerry whitworth .
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jerry alfred whitworth -lrb- born 1939 -rrb- was sentenced to 365 years for his part in the walker family spy ring , which , at the time of whitworth 's arrest , us authorities described as '' the most damaging espionage ring uncovered in the united states in three decades '' whitworth was born in his grandparents ' house next door to the new covenant free will baptist church in the paw paw bottoms of the arkansas river , seven miles south east of muldrow , oklahoma .whitworth came from a broken home .his father left his mother and moved to california before he was one year old .he seems to have been a lonely child - at the time of his arrest , one of his teachers said that whitworth '' seemed to need a place to belong '' .soon after he joined the us navy at the age of 17 , whitworth used his first weekend pass from alameda naval air station in california , to go to mendota to see his father for the first time since childhood .by the early 1960s , whitworth had left the navy and was a student at coalinga college , a community college in coalinga which is now known as west hills college coalinga , and was planning to go on to study engineering at the university of california .however , deciding that this would take too long , he decided to re-join the navy and make it his permanent career .he took several courses in communications and served aboard a communications relay ship , a supply ship and three carriers .other postings included two at a naval communications center on diego garcia and two in san diego .whitworth agreed to help john walker in getting highly-classified communications data in 1973 ; from then until his retirement in 1983 , his work for the navy involved encrypted communications and required security clearance .at first , walker told whitworth that the information was going to israel but , even when whitworth learned that the material was actually going to the soviet union , he continued to provide it .whitworth married for the first time in 1967 but his wife left him within a...