He left the Communist Party in response to the revelation of Stalin 's purges , and in 1956 , moved to California with his wife and two-year-old son , Pete ( b. 1954 ) . He abandoned the family many times in order to pursue more lofty goals of " saving the world " and in 1959 , when his daughter , Jo ( b. 1958 ) , was only six months old , his wife filed for divorce . In 1962 , Abe married his third wife Noel Carrawan . They had three children , Nick ( b. 1959 ) , Dov ( b. 1962 ) , and Sara ( b. 1964 ) and lived in Venice , California until they divorced in 1972 . Abe was key in the struggle to save the Venice Canals from development and to stop authorities from driving out the poor families , like his , that dominated the area . Abe worked as a carpenter and taught his two sons , Nick and Dov , the trade
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Abraham Osheroff