Was one of the military leaders of Hungary's short-lived anti-Soviet revolution in 1956.
He was elected to a four-year term in parliament in the first post-communist elections in 1990 in Hungary.
Taught military history at Brooklyn College of City University of New York.
Became a US citizen in 1965.
One of the military leaders of Hungary's short-lived anti-Soviet revolution in 1956.
He wrote several books in Hungarian and English, mostly on Hungarian history and the 1956 Revolution.
In 1989, Kiraly was rehabilitated by Hungary's communist government. He gave a speech at that year's re-interment of former prime minister Imre Nagy, which was attended by around 100,000 people and marked Hungary's return to democracy.
He earned a doctorate in history at Columbia University.
He was sentenced to death in 1952 on trumped-up charges of conspiracy by Hungary's Stalinist regime. The sentence was eventually commuted to life in prison. He was freed a few weeks before the October 1956 Revolution.