| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Reed, John |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  r d |
| DATES: | 1887–1920 |
| American journalist. A World War I correspondent, he was in Petrograd during the October Revolution (1917), an experience he recounted in Ten Days That Shook the World (1919). In 1919 he founded the American Communist Labor Party. Reed is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow.
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