John (Silas) Reed
Journalist and activist, born in Portland, Oregon, USA. A lifelong radical, he was a World War 1 correspondent and later observed the Russian Revolution firsthand, describing it in Ten Days That Shook the World (1919). Indicted for sedition in 1919, he fled to the Soviet Union where he contracted a fatal case of typhus.
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John Reed may be:
John Reed (journalist) (1887-1920), journalist and Bolshevik activist John Reed, Sr. middle name "Francis" John Shedd Reed, former chairman of Santa Fe Industries John S. middle name "Shepard" John Reed (actor), and singer -- D'Oyly Carte Opera Company John Reed (art critic), Australian critic and art patron
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