Born in Kensington, London, the son of American journalist Negley Farson, his childhood was mostly divided between Britain and North America.
Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Farson was raised by his eccentric grandfather, the Civil War General James Negley.
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Farson went on to become one of the most renowned foreign correspondents of his day, interviewing Gandhi in India, witnessing Gandhi's arrest in Poona, witnessing bank-robber John Dillinger's naked body in the morgue just after he had been shot down by Hoover’s men and meeting Hitler, who described Farson’s blond son, Daniel, as a “good Aryan boy.”
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