Edward Michael Keating
Edward Michael Keating | |
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Born | New Jersey, U.S. | April 17, 1925
Died | April 2, 2003 Stanford, California, U.S. | (aged 77)
Other names | Edward M. Keating |
Alma mater | Stanford Law School |
Occupation(s) | Newspaper publisher, journalist, author, lawyer, politician, businessman |
Known for | Left-wing politics, activism |
Spouse | Helen English |
Children | 6 |
Edward Michael Keating, Sr. (1925–2003), was an American newspaper publisher, journalist, author, lawyer, politician, and businessman.[1] He was the founder and publisher of Ramparts, a magazine in print 1962 to 1975, that had started as a Catholic literary magazine and evolved into a voice for the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, and support of the New Left movement.[2][3][4]
Early life
[edit]Edward Michael Keating, Sr. was born on April 17, 1925, in New Jersey.[2][5] In 1940, when he was a teenager, the family moved to Menlo Park, California.[2] During World War II, Keating served in the Pacific in the United States Navy.[2] He attended Stanford Law School, graduating in 1950.[2] He married Helen English, who also attended Stanford.[6]
He was raised as a Protestant and converted to Roman Catholicism in 1954.[2][7]
Career
[edit]After college he worked for 4 years as a commercial real estate lawyer, followed by teaching English at the Santa Clara University for one year.[2][6] In 1962, he found and published Ramparts, a Catholic quarterly literary magazine based in Menlo Park.[3] He personally financed the quarterly publication, and the magazine reached circulation of 400,000.[1][3] Ramparts printed articles about the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi; and in 1967 they exposed the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret financing of the National Student Association.[2] Writers in Ramparts included Susan Sontag, Seymour Hersh, Robert Scheer, Eldridge Cleaver, and John Howard Griffin.[3]
In 1965, Keating left the Catholic church and became agnostic, and in the same year wrote the book The Scandal of Silence (1965) about the Catholic Church during World War II.[3]
On December 12, 1966, Keating helped Eldridge Cleaver get paroled from Folsom State Prison and get hired as a staff writer at Ramparts.[6] Keating was forced to leave Raparts in 1967, and ran for United States Congress for the 11th Congressional District seat in San Mateo.[3][8] He lost the election to Pete McCloskey.[3][9]
Keating wrote a few books, short stories, and novellas after his Congressional run. He served on the legal council for Huey Newton of the Black Panthers Party.[3] In 1971, Keating published the book Free Huey!. In March 2003, he donated his 1960s Black Panther documents to the Black Panthers Papers at Stanford University.[3]
Death
[edit]Keating died of pneumonia on April 2, 2003, at Stanford Hospital in Stanford, California.[10][5] At the time of his death he was living in Mountain View, California.[11][3] He was survived by 6 children.[1]
Publications
[edit]- Keating, Edward M. (1965). The Scandal of Silence. New York City, NY: Random House.
- Keating, Edward M. (1971). Free Huey!. a Dell book. Charles R. Garry (introduction). Berkeley, CA: Rapparts Press. ISBN 9780878670000.
- Keating, Edward M. (1975). The Broken Bough: The Solution to the Riddle of Man. New York City, NY: Atheneum. ISBN 9780689106798.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Edward Keating, 77, Founder of Ramparts". The New York Times. 2003-04-12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Obituary: Edward Keating". the Guardian. 2003-05-03. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j McLellan, Dennis (2003-04-12). "Edward Keating, 77; Founder of Ramparts". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
- ^ America, History and Life, Volume 29, Issue 2. Clio Press. 1992. p. 439.
- ^ a b "Edward M. Keating Sr. Obituary (2003)". Legacy.com. San Jose Mercury News. April 4, 2003. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
- ^ a b c Richardson, Peter (2009-08-18). A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America. The New Press. pp. 14–16. ISBN 978-1-59558-525-7.
- ^ Burns, Jeffrey M. (1990). "No Longer Emerging: "Ramparts" Magazine and the Catholic Laity, 1962-1968". U.S. Catholic Historian. 9 (3): 321–333. ISSN 0735-8318. JSTOR 25153917.
- ^ Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri (2001-02-08). Peace Now!: American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War. Yale University Press. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-0-300-08920-2.
- ^ "CA District 11 - Special Primary Race - Nov 14, 1967". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
- ^ Buchanan, Wyatt (2003-04-10). "Edward Keating -- Ramparts founder". SFGATE. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
- ^ "E. Keating, Ramparts founder". The Seattle Times. April 13, 2003. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
External links
[edit]- Video: Edward M. Keating on the Huey Newton Trial (1968), KTVU News, from the Bay Area Television Archive, San Francisco State University
- Archive: Merton's Correspondence with: Keating, Edward Michael (1963–1967), from The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University
- 1925 births
- 2003 deaths
- Stanford Law School alumni
- People from Menlo Park, California
- People from Mountain View, California
- 20th-century American journalists
- New Left
- American publishers (people)
- California lawyers
- United States Navy officers
- American magazine publishers (people)
- Deaths from pneumonia in California
- Far-left politics in the United States
- American civil rights activists
- American anti-war activists