The death of John L. Simon, Lincoln Brigade

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Date:         Mon, 27 Dec 1999 12:23:33 -0500
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From: "Seth M. Wigderson" <seth.wigderson at gte.net>
Subject:      The death of John L. Simon, Lincoln Brigade

From: Benjamin Harris <harrisb at uwp.edu>

The small type death notices of yesterday's New York Times brings the sad
news of the death of John L. Simon, M.D. (b. 1913), a psychiatrist who
served as a medic in the Spanish Civil War (he was as the assistant to the
[Abraham Lincoln] Brigade Doctor) and in the 1950s was head of the
Committee to Defend Lincoln Veterans.

In the late 1940s Simon and his wife published a mimeographed
journal/newsletter called PSYCHIATRIC NEWSLETTER which addressed
theoretical issues in politics and psychiatry.  The editorial line of that
publication was to the left of the CP and vigorously anti-Freudian.  For a
while the masthead featured a stethoscope and hammer [the little one that
tests reflexes] arranged in the shape of a hammer and sickle.

When I met Simon in 1997 he was a bit frail but still energetic and
intellectually curious and friendly.

Ben Harris

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