Friends of John Laesch, Democrat for U. S. Congress (IL-14)
Researcher, 2006. Research Director, 2007 to 2008.

"... he certainly knows how to compile opposition research."

Emily Heil, "Hastert's Great Listening Skills," The Hill, October 11, 2006

See also: "Denny's Double Dealing: Hastert and the Gaming Industry," by n0madic (aka Jeffrey Hearn), The Progressive Fox (originally posted at Daily Kos and Fireside 14),
November 2-4, 2006; and IL-14: Bill Foster and ETC, by n0madic (aka Jeffrey Hearn), The Progressive Fox (originally posted at Daily Kos and Fireside 14), February 4, 2008

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"Jeff Hearn's data searches in Washington furnished vital statistics and direction."

Thomas A. DeLong, Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1996)

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"My chief debt is to Jeffrey Hearn, who tirelessly conducted the immense job of obtaining thousands of relevant documents in Washington, DC"

Charles Higham, Rose: The Life and Times of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
(NY: Pocket Books, 1995)

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"Jeff Hearn, who indefatigably tracked down many useful sources of information on the bodies of Abraham Lincoln, Sitting Bull, Eva Peron, and others."

Edwin Murphy, After the Funeral: The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses
(NY: Citadel Press / Carol Publishing Group, 1995)

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"Jeff Hearn, prince of Washington sleuths and archival whiz kid"

Charles Higham, Howard Hughes: The Secret Life
(NY: Putnam's, 1993)

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"Jeffrey Hearn in Washington, D.C., performed miracles in locating previously untapped government files ..."

Charles Higham, Merchant of Dreams: Louis B. Mayer, M.G.M., and the Secret Hollywood
(NY: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1993)

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"Jeffrey Hearn, whose efforts in tracking down the cartoons and photographs I wanted to use were exceedingly helpful"

Caroline H. Keith, "For Hell and a Brown Mule": The Biography of Senator Millard D. Tydings
(Lanham, Md.: Madison Books, 1991)

 

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Other Clients

Patrick McGilligan, Clint: The Life and Legend, (NY: St. Martin's Press, 2002).



Cari Beauchamp, Without Lying Down:
Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood, (NY: Scribner, 1997).



Todd McCarthy, Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood, (NY: Grove/Atlantic, 1997).


BBC Documentaries
research for various projects:
Coco Chanel's WWII intrigues ... Kamikazes ...
Allied banking's wartime collaboration with the Nazis


Julio Vera
book-in-progress on the Spanish-American War


John Creelman
biography-in-progress of globetrotting turn-of-the-century
newspaper correspondent, James Creelman


Patricia Digh, RealWork, Washington, DC
writer, speaker, and consultant focusing on workplace issues
of diversity, ethics, and globalization


Dan Strone, William Morris Agency, Inc., New York, NY