| LC control no. | n 87858326 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Matusow, Harvey, 1926-2002 |
| Variant(s) | Matusow, Harvey Marshall, 1926- Matusow, Harvey, 1926- Matusow, Marshall, 1926-2002 |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) England Claremont (N.H.) |
| Birth date | 1926-10-03 |
| Death date | 2002-01-17 |
| Place of birth | Bronx (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Claremont (N.H.) |
| Field of activity | Politics Music Journalism |
| Profession or occupation | Musicians Artists Editors |
| Found in | Kahn, A.E. The Matusow affair, 1987: CIP galley (Harvey Matusow) LC data base, 7/23/87 (hdg.: Matusow, Harvey Marshall, 1926- ; usage: Harvey Matusow) Chess-Checker-Cadet LP sampler January 1970 release [SR] 1970: label (Harvey Matusow, vocals) Rolling stone (San Francisco, Calif.), Aug. 17, 1972: page 20, etc. (Harvey Matusow; Harvey Marshall Matusow; born 1926, East Bronx, New York; served in the Army in WWII; after the war, became an actor and joined the Communist Party; expelled in 1951, likely for being a paid informant for the FBI; served in the Air Force during the Korean War; testified for the House Un-American Activities Committee; published False witness in 1955, claiming to have been paid to lie in his testimony; went to prison for four years; after release in 1960, worked in New York as a commercial artist; sometimes used the name Marshall Matusow to avoid hassles; moved to England in 1966; editor of numerous publications; organizer of Harvey Matusow's Jews-Harp Band and Naked Software, a "composer-performer multimedia" group; founder and chairman, International Society for the Abolishment of Data Processing Machines) The New York times, Feb. 4, 2002; page B7 (Harvey Matusow; born Oct. 3, 1926, in the Bronx; died Jan. 17 at his home in Claremont, N.H. at age of 75) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | no2006117227 |
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