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    • Mar 3, 1940
    Woody Guthrie joins Lead Belly, Will Geer and Alan Lomax, among others, to perform at a labor union fundraiser at New York's Forrest Theater attended by Pete Seeger. The show helps launch Guthrie to prominence as a singer/songwriter
    Aug 19, 1940
    Woody Guthrie and Burl Ives perform during the debut of the "Back Where I Come From" radio show on the CBS Network. By the end of the month, Guthrie is under contract to the firm
    Aug 27, 1940
    Woody Guthrie signs a contract with CBS Radio to be a regular cast member for their network show, "Back Where I Come From." His pay is $150 weekly, but the show lasts only a few months
    Nov 25, 1940
    Three months after he began appearing on "Back Where I Come From," Woody Guthrie receives his own CBS Radio show, "Pipe Smoking Time." Within a month, he abandons the show
    Sep 1, 1941
    Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger march in the Labor Day Parade in Los Angeles
    Feb 17, 1942
    Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger are branded among several other performers as Communists by the New York World-Telegram
    Dec 24, 1942
    Woody Guthrie takes his book editor for a night on the town in New York to celebrate the completion of his autobiography, "Bound For Glory"
    Feb 6, 1943
    Woody Guthrie and Marjorie Mazia have a daughter, Cathy Ann Guthrie, in Wilmington, Delaware
    Apr 15, 1943
    Woody Guthrie picks up Marjorie Mazia from her home in Wilmington, Delaware, and takes her back to New York. The couple has a two-month-old child, although they are still legally married to other spouses
    Jul 10, 1943
    Woody Guthrie is stationed along with fellow folk singer Cisco Houston on the S.S. Travis, which begins a three-week deployment at Gibraltar. Two months later, the ship is torpedoed by a German submarine
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