Enemies of Nixon RE: re Jon Stewart

Jim Westrich westrich at miser.umass.edu
Fri May 10 11:39:33 PDT 2002


Helen Keller was an articulate and serious socialist. http://archive.8m.net/keller.htm http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/index.htm

It is very telling to see how important to her activism was to her whenever she told her own story (see the "Thoughts that Will Not Let Me Sleep" chapter of her 2nd autobiography and the focus of her autobiographical film *Deliverance*) but how Hollywood wanted to tell Anne Sullivan's story as "the Miracle Worker".

Jim

At 12:23 PM 5/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, liked to remind people
>that the FBI kept a file on Helen Keller. (she was an IWW symp)
>
>mbs

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