Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 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. |