Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1915, May 11 | Born, Boston, Mass. |
1938 | Graduated, Lincoln Technical Institute of Northeastern University, Boston, Mass. |
1939 | Married Eva Gertrude Luscombe (divorced 1967) Sales representative, Holmes Direct Mail Service, Cambridge, Mass. |
1940 | Organizer and chairman, Cambridge Youth Council, Cambridge, Mass. Reported suspicions of communist control of Cambridge Youth Council to Boston, Mass., office, Federal Bureau of Investigation |
1941 | Began reporting to Federal Bureau of Investigation on actions of Communist party |
1942 | Joined Young Communist League |
1942-1949 | Assistant advertising director, Paramount Theaters Division of New England, M & P Theatres Co., Boston, Mass. |
1944 | Joined Communist party |
1949 | Testified in federal court as surprise witness against eleven Communist party leaders indicted for violation of the Smith Act |
1951 | Testified before hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities regarding Communist party activities in the Boston, Mass., area “I Led 3 Lives” serialized in the New York Herald Tribune |
1951-1957 | Lectured on anticommunist topics |
1952 | Published I Led 3 Lives: Citizen, “Communist,” Counterspy (New York: McGraw-Hill. 323 pp.) |
1952-1958 | Wrote syndicated column “Red Underground ” for the New York Herald Tribune |
1953-1956 | Technical advisor for television program “I Led 3 Lives” |
1961-1962 | Prepared series of five-minute television programs, “The Red Report” |
1963-1969 | Wrote newsletters, Dollar Hollar, Herb Philbrick's News Bulletin, Peoples Voice, and Schick Razor's Edge |
1964 | Candidate for delegate-at-large from New Hampshire to the Republican national convention for presidential candidate Barry M. Goldwater |
1967-1969 | National Director, United States Anti-Communist Congress |
1968 | Married Shirley J. Brown |
1969-1977 | Editor and publisher, Washington Exclusive, U.S. Press Association |
1972 | Published revised edition, I Led 3 Lives: Citizen, “Communist,” Counterspy (Washington, D.C.: Capitol Hill Press. 306 pp.) |
1976-1977 | Writer-editor, Division of Organization and Personnel, United States Nuclear Regulatory Agency, Washington, D. C. |
1977-1979 | Store manager, Fletcher's Paint Works, Hampton, N. H. |
1982-circa 1989 | Court reporter and free-lance writer for Rockingham County, N. H., newspapers |
1990-1993 | President, Constructive Action |
1993, Aug. 16 | Died, North Hampton, N. H. |