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This was Peter Yarrow's introduction of Phil Ochs during the Newport Folk Festival in 1963. The song that Ochs would open with was the Ballad of Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader slain only a few weeks earlier.

“There is something happening in the world of art today. There are people who some think are new idols, new grand personalities. A lot of people resent the fact that these people are saying critical things, penetrating things. But it’s not idolatry, it’s the most positive, most affirmative aspect of our nation today.”