Bro Lowell Jackson Thomas - One of a Kind. Writer & broadcaster and a Freemason
Bro Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981)
Bro Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker, known as a world traveler. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narratives and popular biographies of explorers and military men. Between 1930 and the mid-1970s.
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| Lowell Thomas in Arabia, 1918 |
He was a member of St. John's Lodge in Boston, Massachusetts, which is one of the oldest Masonic lodges in North America. Thomas is listed among other notable Masons such as Paul Revere, Henry Ford, and George Washington.
Thomas was especially known for the writings and documentary films that turned T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) into an international celebrity.
Thomas shot dramatic footage of Lawrence in Arab dress, then returned to America and began giving public lectures in 1919 on the war in Palestine, "supported by moving pictures of veiled women, Arabs in their picturesque robes, camels and dashing Bedouin cavalry." In 1924, Thomas published the memoir With Lawrence in Arabia.
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| Photo of T. E. Lawrence taken in Jerusalem |
Thomas appeared regularly on radio and occasionally on television as a travel and news commentator. Until the 1950s, he was a narrator of Movietone newsreels shown in cinemas.
Later in his career, Thomas was involved in promoting the Cinerama widescreen system.
Sources:
Freemasons NZ (https://masonica-glnz.glide.page/dl/alerts/s/f70a95/r/pp6nBIxgQpeYe10Ov1TWSA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Thomas (Images all Public Domain)
Header Image: Jam Handy Organization, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lowell Thomas in Arabia, 1918: Lowell Thomas (?), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
T. E. Lawrence (by Lowell Thomas, 1918): Lowell Thomas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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