Robin Moore

Robin Moore (born October 31, 1925) is a U.S. writer who authored the lyrics of "Ballad of the Green Berets", and the books The Green Berets, The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy and, with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.

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October 31 - 1925 - Ballad of the Green Berets - The Green Berets - Yvonne Dunleavy

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Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Moore attended Middlesex School, Belmont Hill School. He flew combat missions over Germany in the closing months of World War II, and graduated from Harvard College in 1949. He worked in television production and then on Sheraton Hotel Company co-founded by his father. Working in the hotel business in the Caribbean he recorded the early days of Castro in the non-fiction book The Devil To Pay. Connections with his Harvard classmate Robert F. Kennedy, led to his joining US Special Forces in a civilian role and writing a book about the Green Berets. Another book, The Khaki Mafia, written with June Collins, gives a fictional account of the Vietnam service club scandal involving Sergeant Major of the Army William O. Wooldridge and others.

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Boston, Massachusetts - Middlesex School - Belmont Hill School - World War II - Harvard College - 1949 - Sheraton Hotel - Robert F. Kennedy - Sergeant Major of the Army - William O. Wooldridge

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