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Howard Rushmore was born into poverty on a farm in Mexico , Missouri , in He worked for local newspapers. He was converted to socialism after witnessing a lynching.

Mount Rushmore is one of the most historic places to visit, it's nestled in the black hills of the South Dakota city.

He later joined the American Communist Party and contributed articles to the The Daily Worker and eventually became the newspaper's film critic. In he reviewed Gone With the Wind. This upset Benjamin Davis , a black member of the editorial board. Rushmore was instructed to rewrite the review and when he refused he was sacked.

After the killing of Leon Trotsky he left the party. Rushmore wrote was known as a "red-baiting" column for New York World Telegram.

Howard Clifford Rushmore (July 2, – January 3, ) was an American journalist, nationally known for investigative reporting.

Millard Lampell said that he was often around picking up evidence against left-wing entertainers. Later he moved to the New York Journal American where he specialized in writing smear stories. Cederic Belfrage claims that he was as important in this role as Westbrook Pegler , Frederick Woltman and George Sokolsky in creating a blacklist.

Pegler described himas "one of the most effective enemies of treason in American journalism. Matusow later admitted that he used his testimony to get headlines in the newspapers. For example he told the HUAC that "Communists would use intellectual as well as sexual weakness to recruit people.