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Dorothy Ray Healey, 91; 'The Red Queen' Was Leader in American Communist Party
Washington Post ^ | Friday, August 11, 2006 | Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb

Posted on 08/14/2006 10:58:35 AM PDT by PurpleMan

Dorothy Ray Healey, 91, a former longtime leader in the American Communist Party who moved to Washington in 1983 to help raise her grandchildren and who hosted a weekly radio show on WPFW (89.3 FM), died of respiratory failure and pneumonia Aug. 6 at the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington in Rockville.

Mrs. Healey, once known as "the Red Queen," embraced the Communist Party in Los Angeles at 14 and rose through the ranks, becoming chairwoman of the Communist Party USA in Southern California. A labor organizer, civil rights activist and radio commentator, she remained a party faithful until 1973, long after she had begun to disagree with its orthodoxy and criticized it publicly

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To: PurpleMan

But oh how are the Leftists going to reconcile this image:

Mrs. Healey, a tiny woman about 5 feet tall, had arresting light eyes and a sturdy, forceful voice. A smoker for years, she is pictured on the jacket of her book smiling and with a cigarette in hand.

I mean it is one thing to embrace the political system that slaughtered millions, that imprisoned and mentally raped millions, that crushed dissent,that ran over freedoms with tanks both military and ideological but to smoke?? That is unforgivable.


41 posted on 08/14/2006 12:08:02 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: PurpleMan

Now she and Joe Hill can sing duets in Hell, in between having their entrails roasted over white-hot coals and their eyes gouged out with barbed wire.


42 posted on 08/14/2006 12:14:09 PM PDT by IronJack (ALL)
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To: IronJack

And chat about the good old days with Julius and Ethel.


43 posted on 08/14/2006 12:18:08 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: Borges

He also died broke.


44 posted on 08/14/2006 12:23:15 PM PDT by 308MBR ( "She pulled up her petticoat, and I pulled out for Tulsa!" Abstinence training from Bob Wills.)
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To: Borges

"Jefferson talked about the need for it actually"
George or Weezy?


45 posted on 08/14/2006 12:26:03 PM PDT by Holicheese (Gran Habano #5 Corojo is awesome)
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To: PurpleMan
Her marriages to "three good men," as she once called them, Lon Sherman, Don Healey and Phillip Connelly, ended in divorce.

Strange that the WaPo would report false info. According to numerous articles in LA Times from the 1940s, her first husband was Louis (Lou) Schneiderman, brother of William Schneiderman, State secretary of the Communist Party.

46 posted on 08/14/2006 12:56:11 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Stations are fond of making up phrases for their call letters, even when the letters were assigned randomly or originally chosen for another purpose.

In the case of WPFW, I'm pretty sure it stood for "Pacifica Foundation Washington."

Some other Pacifica Stations are/were KPFK (SF Bay area), KPFA (L.A.), KPFT (Houston), and at one time WLIB (NY City).

I'm a student of station slogans; just one of my many weaknesses < }B^)


47 posted on 08/14/2006 1:11:53 PM PDT by Erasmus (<This page left intentionally vague>)
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To: Erasmus

That's possible, but one thing is certain... there's literally NOTHING to the left of it on the dial.


48 posted on 08/14/2006 1:12:55 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Verry clever, those FCC mojos, putting the 'non-profits' down at that end of the band!

Hmm.. 90.9, 94.3, 103.9, 107.1. My progress in radio was rightward. Oops! Then I relapsed to 89.5.

< }B^)


49 posted on 08/14/2006 1:54:39 PM PDT by Erasmus (<This page left intentionally vague>)
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To: Madame Dufarge
Mrs. Healey, once known as "the Red Queen," embraced the Communist Party in Los Angeles at 14

And Hillary Clinton picked up the mantle sometime in the late 60's.

50 posted on 08/14/2006 2:43:46 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (VENGEANCE FOR OUR FALLEN WARRIORS......NOW!!)
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To: calcowgirl
" Her marriages to "three good men," as she once called them, Lon Sherman, Don Healey and Phillip Connelly, ended in divorce. Strange that the WaPo would report false info. According to numerous articles in LA Times from the 1940s, her first husband was Louis (Lou) Schneiderman, brother of William Schneiderman, State secretary of the Communist Party.

He probably changed his name because of the notoriety but kept the same initials.

51 posted on 08/14/2006 3:07:45 PM PDT by albee (The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
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To: jmaroneps37

What are "riddens"?


52 posted on 08/14/2006 3:33:04 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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To: albee

That's what it looks like, but it's just strange. The Schneiderman clan were Communists well known to the police and FBI dating back to the 1920s (William, Louis, Rose, Emma, et al). It's probably just sloppy WaPo reporting as she was remarried to her second husband by 1941.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=schneiderman+communist


53 posted on 08/14/2006 4:13:41 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Conservative4Ever

The torch has been passed.


54 posted on 08/14/2006 5:04:00 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: 308MBR

The first public school was established in my hometown in 1850 by Clara Barton, of Red Cross fame. It is a one room brick building that I pass by at least once every day. It just proves that truly horrible ideas start small.


55 posted on 08/15/2006 6:52:45 AM PDT by kylaka
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