Today's mystery guest

[dochermes]

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[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.

[guidoc]

Johnny, we hardly knew ya. ( But what we don't know, we will make up to suit ourselves.)

[dochermes]

From what little I've read about Birch himself and the JBS, you have a point.

It reminds me of Buddha telling people not to worship idols and to think for themselves, and soon after he died, there were idols of him.