Freeman, Joseph

Joseph Freeman served as a senior analyst for the Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board. He had a Rotary International Foundation Fellowship at the School of Peace at the University of Bradford, England, and he received his B.A. from Harvard University.

From the description of Freeman, Joseph (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10610960

Biographical Note

• 1897, October 9: Born, Piratin, Poltawa, Ukraine
• 1904: Emigrated to the United States
• 1919: A.B., Columbia University
• 1920 - 1921 : Reporter, Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News (in Paris and London)
• 1921 - 1923 : Assistant Editor, Liberator
• 1924: Publicity Director, American Civil Liberties Union
• 1925: Author, Dollar Diplomacy (with Scott Nearing)
• 1925 - 1931 : Correspondent for Tass (intermittent)
• 1926: Co-founder and Editor, New Masses
• 1926 - 1927 : Trip to Russia as New Masses Moscow correspondent
• 1929: Trip to Mexico as New Masses Mexico correspondent Married Ione Robinson
• 1930: Author, Voices of October (with Joshua Kunitz and Louis Lozowick)
• 1931 - 1933 : Editor, New Masses
• 1931 - 1933 : Speaking and fund-raising trips in the United States for the John Reed Clubs and the Communist Party, including accompanying Boris Pilynak to Hollywood (1931) and Henri Barbusse on a tour of the Midwest (1933)
• 1932: Author, The Soviet Worker
• 1932: Divorced Ione Robinson
• 1934: Co-founder, Partisan Review
• 1936: Author, American Testament
• 1936 - 1937 : Editor, New Masses
• 1937: Attended Mexican Writers Conference as delegate of the League of American Writers
• 1938: Married Charmion von Wiegand
• 1939: Left the Communist Party
• 1940 - 1942 : Publicity Director, American Civil Liberties Union
• 1943: Author, Never Call Retreat
• 1943 - 1945 : Researcher, Information Please (radio show), including a U.S.O. tour in the summer of 1945
• 1947: Author, The Long Pursuit
• 1948: Publicity Director, Poet's Theatre
• 1948 - 1952 : Staff member, Edward L. Bernays (public relations firm)
• 1953 - 1961 : Staff member, Executive Research, Inc. (public relations firm)
• 1965 August 8: Died, New York City

From the guide to the Joseph Freeman papers, 1904-1966, (Hoover Institution Archives)