This is how dying communists get treated: as victims fighting for "truth, justice and the American way". Dying fascists or even just principled conservatives? Not so much.

I particularly liked the story about "liberating the pool" when it wouldn't let his black friends in. Only I doubt it happened. That sort of civil disobedience was not done by children back then. Sneaking in? Yes but defiantly handing it to the New Deal man your daddy was busily Popular Fronting with? No way Jose. And the anti racism tales were touching given communist stalwarts were forsquare behind Joseph Stalin who was busily murdering millions of Jews, Tartars, and Ukrainians and replacing them with more "reliable" Great Russians. Which was how Crimea - the Tartar homeland - came to be inhabited principally by Great Russians so that Putin could liberate them.

This dude was just a commie. Which means he was an ugly, perverted thug.