Today's mystery guest

[dochermes]

Comments

[harvey_rrit]

Oh. Damn. Um. In business with Claude Rains briefly. Also lived in China.

(Doesn't he look kinda like Benicio Del Toro?)

OH YEAH! Founder of the San Francisco bus system.

[dochermes]

He was in China, where he died at a youthful age and his murder was covered-up. This led to the founding of the group that bears his name.

I did not know until recently that he was a missionary.

[harvey_rrit]

I thought it was Paul Muni. Who is it?

[dochermes]

That is John Birch, in whose memory the John Birch Society was founded.

[harvey_rrit]

Eeeeuuchh. Man did almost as much as McCarthy to give the Reds undeserved credibility.