[1] He worked a reporter in New Bedford, Massachusetts,[2] and practiced public relations for political campaigns until he was drafted into the U.S. military in 1941 as the U.S. entered World War II.
[1] He was stationed in North Africa, Europe and Asia as a navigator for the Army Air Forces.
[1] He and his brother, Albert Kahn, took over the family's wholesale business following the end of World War II.
[1] He became the sole owner of the business when his brother left the company to become a professor at Boston University.
[7] Leo Kahn was on the board of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.
Kahn died at the Springhouse care facility in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston from a series of strokes on May 11, 2011, at the age of 94.