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John Reed (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  His wikipedia entry:
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reed_%28journalist%29

• Outrageous Snow said:

  pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) So interesting! Thanks for posting.

• Jesús Roberto Duarte said:

  In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pancho Villa's army for four months, present with Villa's Constitutional(must say Constitutonalist) Army (under Venustiano Carranza who was its "First or Principal Chief" as he was known) when it defeated Federal forces at Torreón, opening the way for its advance on Mexico City. Reed's time with the Villistas resulted in a series of outstanding magazine articles that brought Jack a national reputation as a war correspondent. Reed deeply sympathized with the plight of the peons and vehemently opposed American intervention, which came shortly after he left. Jack adored Villa, while Carranza left him cold. Jack's Mexican reports were later republished in book form as Insurgent Mexico, which appeared in 1914.
  In
  www.nevadaobserver.com/Mexican%20Revolution%20-%20People/...
  Back to back with the driver, wearing his mounted police Stetson
  and
  www.nevadaobserver.com/Mexican%20Revolution%20-%20People/...
  you can see Pancho Villa and "Juanito" Reed (as Pancho rebaptized him).

• Melinda Young Stuart said:

  pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) Thanks! I was trying to recall. . .

• Melinda Young Stuart said:

  Jesús Roberto Duarte Thank you for these wonderful images.