Topic: Hootenanny Subversion, or, News From Out West

[eric]

So I'm reading the obits this morning to see if I'm listed (bada-boom) and I came across this quote from a once-prominent Nevadan:

In 1964, D****, a Reno urologist who helped form Nevada's John Birch Society chapter, asked the Young Republicans to seek a congressional investigation of folk singing.

"There is increasing and cumulative evidence indicating a deep interest in, and much activity by, the Communist party, USA, in the field of folk music," D**** wrote...

"It is becoming more and more evident that certain of the 'hootenannies' and other similar youth gatherings and festivals, both in this country and in Europe, have been used to brainwash and subvert, in a seemingly innocuous but actually covert and deceptive manner, vast segments of the young people's groups," he wrote.

So fellow Weenies, you have been warned.

[blueshome]

Too late, too late........