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| {{Infobox person|name=John Reed|nationality=Statesian|death_place=[[Moscow]], [[Russian SFSR]]|death_date=October 17, 1920|birth_place=Portland, [[Oregon]], [[United States of America|United States]]|birth_date=October 22, 1887|death_cause=Typhus|image=John Reed.png|image_size=200}}
| | John Reed was born in [[Portland]], [[Oregon]] in 1887. |
| | After college he entered journalism and soon became the most highly paid ace reporter in the [[United States of America]]. He was a correspondent in the Mexican war of 1916 to 17 and a reporter in the [[First World War]], a job which took him to [[Russia]]- he was in [[Petrograd]] in 1917. He became personally involved in the Labour movement in the [[United States of America]] in 1913 when he helped organise a silk-workers' strike in Paterson, [[New jersey]]; and when he returned from [[Russia]] he toured the country speaking on the [[October Revolution]] and reporting for the [[Liberator]]. |
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| '''John Silas Reed''' (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was a Statesian journalist and socialist. He was born in [[Portland]], Oregon in 1887.
| | In 1919 he chaired the meeting which founded the [[Communist-Labour]] party, later the [[Communist Party of the United States of America|CPUSA]]. |
| After college he entered journalism and soon became the most highly paid ace reporter in the United States of America. He was a correspondent in the Mexican war of 1916 to 17 and a reporter in the [[First World War]], a job which took him to [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)|Russia]]. He became personally involved in the Labour movement in the United States of America in 1913 when he helped organise a silk workers' strike in Paterson, [[New Jersey]]; and when he returned from Russia he toured the country speaking on the [[Russian revolution of 1917|October Revolution]] and reporting for the [[Liberator]].
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| He was in [[Petrograd]] in 1917 and witnessed the October Revolution. In 1919, he chaired the meeting which founded the [[Communist-Labour]] party, later the [[Communist Party of the United States of America|CPUSA]].
| | John Reed then returned to the [[Russian Soviet Federative socialist Republic]], where he died of typhus in 1920. he was buried in the [[Red Square]], in the [[Heroes' Grave]]; a plaque in the [[[[Kremlin]] Wall]] commemorates him. |
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| John Reed then returned to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, where he died of typhus in 1920. He was buried in the [[Red Square]], in the [[Heroes' Grave]]; a plaque in the [[Kremlin]] Wall commemorates him.
| | His most notable work is [[ten days that shook the world]] which documents his first hand experiences with the [[October Revolution]]. |
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| His most notable work is [[ten days that shook the world|''Ten Days That Shook the World'']] which documents his first hand experiences with the [[October Revolution]]. | |
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