Does it surprise you how well known it became? Countless books, movies, and TV shows reference that magazine. John: Soldier of Fortune had a huge impact on popular culture. In 1974, I sold my interest in Paladin to Lund…and headed to the bush war in Rhodesia. After returning from Nam, I joined with Nam vet Peder Lund to form Paladin Press in 1970. I became Special Forces qualified in 1966 after completing the Special Forces Officers Course at Ft. Brown: I founded Panther Publications in 1963 in the course of self-publishing “150 Questions for a Guerrilla,” authored by “General” Alberto Bayo, who trained Castro and his initial band of revolutionaries who then invaded Cuba on 6 December 1956. How did you go from Green Beret to a publisher? John: You became a publisher in 1970 by founding Paladin Press and then in 1975 you founded Soldier of Fortune magazine. When the Army found out that I had returned to Special Forces in Nam due to my pulling some strings, they kicked me out the second time. Brown: The first time was because the Army failed to update my security clearance…Top Secret…before assigning me Special Forces when I volunteered to go to Nam. What caused you to be kicked out and how did you get back into the Green Berets? īeth Del Ville, LAVIDGE, : In your book, I Am Soldier of Fortune: Dancing with Devils, you talked about being kicked out of the Green Berets twice. Houston, following Houston's death in 2020. Houston's second book, "Black Warriors: The Return of the Buffalo Solider," was posthumously completed by his son, Ivan A. A documentary film, "With One Tied Hand," chronicles Houston's return to Italy. During his life, he sat on many corporate and community boards. He is also the author of Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II. From 1970 to 1990, he served as the chief executive officer of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co., one of the nation's largest African American businesses, and was named one of the 100 Most Influential Black Americans by Ebony magazine. He entered the University in 1942, left to serve in the Army from 1943 until 1945, and returned to receive his B.S. Houston graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. "Black Warrior: The Return of the Buffalo Soldier" He didn't like to walk, but it showed him a whole country that was grateful." "While many hear about the Tuskegee airmen, Dad was part of the group on the ground walking. "Dad wanted to get the story out about the Buffalo Soldiers and their impact in Italy," said Ivan A. Italy is one of the few places they teach about Buffalo Soldiers." "The pictures represented Dad's feelings, and he was representing the Buffalo Soldiers. The book also features images from the people and places Houston visited during his seven consecutive trips back to Italy, from 2012 to 2019. I knew that his Italian friends would like to say something, so I asked them to share how dad contributed to their lives." "He was finished with about 95 percent of the book, and I was trying to figure out the best way to complete it. "My dad asked me to finish his book, and I wanted to because I knew it was important to him to get the story out there," said Ivan A. Houston, finished it with the help of some of the Italian people his father has impacted most. Although Houston died before completing the book, his son, Ivan A. The memoir shares a little-known history and features the country that recognizes and honors the importance of the Black soldiers that freed them. Houston, readers are introduced to an autobiographical account of one man's inspiring personal experience returning back to Italy seven decades after liberating the Tuscany region from the Axis powers during World War II. LOS ANGELES, J/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ - In "Black Warrior: The Return of the Buffalo Solider," by Ivan J. Author shares his experiences back to the towns in the Italian region he helped liberate 70 years ago as a Buffalo Soldier during World War II
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