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aquart

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5. My grandpa went into hiding during the Palmer Raids.

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Sun May 20, 2012, 11:56 AM

May 2012

He came in illegally through Canada, I think. FBI tried to toss him in the fifties. My uncle actually got his FBI file and they wasted a whole lot of time in surveillance of a minor red writer who couldn't resist women.

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