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Charley and Nora Guthrie named their son after the Democrat elected president that year. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie knew hard times as a youngster (his house burned down, his sister Clara burned to death, his father's small-town business and political careers never went anywhere, his mother suffered from undiagnosed Huntington's Disease and was declared insane), but he enjoyed performing (dancing, playing harmonica, writing songs) and learning (he read voraciously in the public library). In 1933 he married Mary Jennings, five years his junior, with whom he would have three children. In 1935 he joined the Oakies and Arkies driven to California by the Dust Bowl. His songs went from describing the tragedy of the migrants to urging their unionization. Though he wrote a column for the Weekly People, he never joined the Communist Party. When Will Geer got a part in the play "Tobacco Road" he invited Woody to join him in New York where he met Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Leadbelly, Cisco Houston. He was commissioned to write songs for a never-completed documentary on Washington State's Grand Coulee Dam, and it was in the Pacific Northwest that his family left him. Back in New York in 1940, Woody joined Pete Seeger's Alamanc Singers and married Martha Graham dancer Marjorie Mazia. His autobiography, Bound for Glory, was published in 1943. He served in the Merchant Marine in World War II, and three ships were torpedoed from under him. In 1947 his and Marjorie's daughter, Cathy, was burned to death in an apartment fire. They had three more children: Arlo, Joady and Nora. In 1953 he married for a third time, to Anneke Van Kirk. They had a child, Lorinna Lynn Guthrie. When Anneke and Guthrie divorced, their daughter was adopted by a couple they knew, and did not have any further contact with Guthrie. Lorinna died prematurely (at age 19) in 1973, in a car accident in California.
In the 1950s he experienced bouts of irrational behavior and was often unable to play his guitar; his condition was ultimately diagnosed as Huntington's Disease. The rest of that decade and into the 1960s a new generation, notably including Bob Dylan, began to discover and play his music, adapting some of it to the new Civil Rights movement.- Music Department
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Gwen Guthrie was born on 14 July 1950 in Okemah, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Spenser Confidential (2020), Chasing Amy (1997) and Very Bad Things (1998). She was married to Donald Wakefield. She died on 3 February 1999 in Orange, New Jersey, USA.- Glenn Kezer was born on 2 April 1923 in Okemah, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Irish Whiskey Rebellion (1972), The Werewolf of Washington (1973) and Play Dead (1983). He died on 26 March 1987 in Okemah, Oklahoma, USA.
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Julian Swann was born on 7 December 1962 in Okemah, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor, known for Fair Game (2005). He has been married to Michelle Hodges since 24 June 2000. They have two children.- Mary Jo Guthrie Edgmon was born on 24 December 1922 in Okemah, Oklahoma, USA. She died on 16 March 2019 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA.
- William R. Pogue was born on 23 January 1930 in Okemah, Oklahoma, USA. He died on 3 March 2014 in Florida, USA.