Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Forbes, Allan, Jr.
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Forbes, Allan, Jr., 1919-2006
Other form(s) of name
- Allan Forbes, Jr.
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Description area
Dates of existence
1919-2006
History
Allan Forbes, Jr. was "a documentary filmmaker, writer, and peace activist" who "helped found Council for a Livable World with Leo Szilard, the physicist who worked with the Manhattan Project, then tried to get the US government to promise not to use the atomic bomb against Japan." He writes to Merton from Philadelphia. (Source: Marquard, Bryan. "Allan Forbes; pacifist found direction in war." Obituary from «The Boston Globe», online edition. 24 February 2006. Bellarmine University Library, Louisville, KY. 4 April 2008. ‹http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/02/24/allan_forbes_pacifist_found_direction_in_war/›.)