Who Am I? Week #808

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kingchuck69

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Welcome to the 808th edition of Who Am I?, the weekly game where I dish out a daily clue to a subject and you have to guess who or what it is.

Every day, the clues get easier. The winner of this week's game gets a piece of my gratitude.

This week's subject is a PERSON.

CLUE #1: I was born in the 1910s.
 
Robert Earl Jones (1910-2006), father of James Earl Jones.

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Robert Earl Jones, acting pioneer, blacklistee, dies at 96

Stage and film actor Robert Earl Jones, father of actor James Earl Jones, died Sept. 7 at age 96. Jones got into acting during the Depression when poet Langston Hughes cast him in the 1938 production “Don’t You Want to be Free?” Jones also made early screen appearances in the all-Black films w...
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scotchandcigar said:
Woody Guthrie
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Congratulations, Scotch!

This week's subject was folk singer Woody Guthrie, best-known for "This Land is Your Land".

Born in Okemah, Oklahoma July 14, 1912, Guthrie's mother suffered from Huntington's Disease when he was young. He left during the Dust Bowl and worked in California refining his folky image. In 1944, Guthrie authored his 'Land' to counter Irving Berlin's "God Bless America", which he hated.

However, by the 1950s, Guthrie's health was deteriorating badly because of Huntington's, which led him to live out the rest of his years institutionalized. He died in 1967 at 55. He was survived by his son Arlo, who is best-known for the Thanksgiving day classic "Alice's Restaurant" and "City of New Orleans".

Long before Macklemore was using the stage to combat fascism, Guthrie did the same with a sticker on his guitar that read "This Machine Kills Fascists".



New game next week!
 
Many celebrities born in the 1910s had a famous son – and scotch picked the correct one. Congratulations! In 1961, Bob Dylan visited Woody Guthrie several times at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris Plains, New Jersey, and at the East Orange home of Guthrie's friends Bob and Sidsel Gleason where Guthrie frequently spent weekends. During one of those visits, Dylan played guitar and sang Song To Woody, a tribute song he had written. Dylan recorded the song November 22, 1961, and included it on his 1962 debut album cleverly titled Bob Dylan.

 
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