1) Howard Zinn wanted to fight Fascism so he enlisted into the Air Force during WWII.
2) Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were family friends of Howard Zinn so they incorporated "A People's History" into their screenplay of Good Will Hunting.
3) Daniel Ellsberg ,who released the Pentagon Papers, gave a copy of the papers secretly to Howard Zinn before they were released.
4) Howard Zinn was an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the Civil Right Movement.
5) During McCarthyism the F.B.I. believed that Howard Zinn was a member of the Communist Party of the United States.
