Posted on 12/17/2008 11:07:26 AM PST by Borges
U.S. journalist John W. Powell, whose 1950s articles alleging American use of germ warfare in Korea sparked sedition charges, has died at 89, his son says.
Powell, who had lived for many years in San Francisco, died in the city Monday of complications from pneumonia, son John S. Powell told Wednesday's New York Times.
U.S. prosecutors put Powell on trial in 1959 on a rare charge of sedition, after he authored articles for his Shanghai publication The China Monthly Review asserting that U.S. military had employed germ warfare against North Korea, using methods they had allegedly learned from the defeated Japanese army.
Powell wrote that a secret unit of the occupying Japanese army known as Unit 731 had carried out large-scale biological warfare attacks on Chinese soldiers and civilians during World War II, killing hundreds of thousands.
The U.S. government eventually dropped all charges against Powell, but his case dragged on for five years and became a cause celebre.
Afterwards, unable to continue his journalistic career, he made a successful career of buying and restoring Victorian mansions in San Francisco and operating an antiques business, the Times said.
Distinguished career: journalist to house-flipper.
I wonder what he thinks now, and if the temperature down there is higher than he thought it would be.
Good thing they gave his name - “seditous journalist” could have been almost ANYONE from the MSM.
Allow me to kick a little dirt on your coffin, John.
when i saw seditious journalist, i thought, which one?
Under redundant, see redundant.
Prayers for a profoundly misguided individual.
So why would he live for so long in a country that did such horrible things?
“I wonder what he thinks now, and if the temperature down there is higher than he thought it would be.”
The idea of eternal punishment in hell is not reconcilable with the idea of a benevolent God.
San Francisco Victorian home restorer & antique dealer dies
from “complications from pneumonia”
interesting...
“So why would he live for so long in a country that did such horrible things? “
Why do you live in a country that has elected Hussein 0bama?
You suspect he ate something which disagreed with him?
So is Communism.
Maybe not with your concept of god but it is easily reconcilable with my God.
AIDS?
“Maybe not with your concept of god but it is easily reconcilable with my God.”
Youre saying that there is no length of time appropirate to be punished for any act? You have all of eternity to pull numbers from.
Bury him in Plains, GA.
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