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red dog 1

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5. Thanks for posting the OP

Reply to sabrina 1 (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 30, 2014, 05:28 PM

Jan 2014

Wow!..He sure looks young in that B/W photo..
(It could be from WW2)

I just now heard an old radio interview with Pete,
and he said that during his trial (for contempt of Congress?)..when he refused to testify before the HUAC Committee, he asked the judge if he could play him a song right there in the courtroom, and the judge banged down his gavel & said "Case closed".(Guilty)& ordered him taken away to jail.
(Pete only spent 4 hours in jail that time)

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Pete Seeger at Occupy Wall Street in NYC: [View all] sabrina 1 Jan 2014 OP

Jim Hightower on Pete Seeger red dog 1 Jan 2014 #1

Thank you for those links. I love Jim Hightower also, another national treasure. sabrina 1 Jan 2014 #2

Thanks for posting the OP red dog 1 Jan 2014 #5

He was very brave from all I've read about him. Lol, and while everyone knows and will remember Pete sabrina 1 Jan 2014 #6

Read a story where a journo drove to Pete's, and passed a protester in the rain BelgianMadCow Jan 2014 #3

Great Pete Seeger story! red dog 1 Jan 2014 #4

He was in his eighties then. What a great man, really. sabrina 1 Jan 2014 #7