Ira Gershwin English-language programs to primarily Hispanic and Chinese Americans. Ira and his younger brother George spent many after-school hours at the Settlement. The George and Ira Gershwin Collection is at the Library of Congress Music Division. The Edward Jablonski and Lawrence D. Stewart Gershwin Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin holds a number of Ira's manuscripts and other material. In 2007, the United States Library of Congress named its Prize for Popular Song after him and his brother George. Recognizing the profound and positive effect of American popular music on the world's
Ira Einhorn framed him for the crime because he knew too much about the agency's paranormal military research. He was convicted and is currently serving a life sentence. His moniker, "the Unicorn", came from his surname being the German translation of the word. Ira Einhorn was born into a middle-class Jewish family. As a student at the University of Pennsylvania, he became active in ecological groups and was part of the counterculture, anti-establishment, and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Einhorn participated in the first Earth Day event in Philadelphia in 1970, and later claimed to have been instrumental in creating