1:31:04
Pete Seeger, very tall, like a towering figure.
1:31:07
I didn't realize he was a communist.
1:31:09
I really wasn't sure even
what a communist was.
1:31:16
If he was, it wouldn't have
mattered to me anyway.
1:31:21
I really didn't think about people
in those terms.
1:31:24
Bobby was not really a political person.
1:31:28
He was thought of...
1:31:32
as being...
1:31:35
a political person and a man of the Left.
1:31:38
And in a general sort of way, yes, he was.
But he was not interested...
1:31:44
in the true nature of the Soviet Union
or any of that crap.
1:31:48
We thought he was hopelessly
politically naive.
1:31:51
But in retrospect, I think he may have been
more sophisticated than we were.
1:32:06
The folk music revival was postponed
by almost 10 years by the witch hunt.
1:32:10
I mean, when US Army publishes
pamphlets on how to spot a communist...
1:32:14
that have lines in them like,
"He will sometimes play the guitar"...
1:32:18
that kind of thing had a very...
1:32:22
repressive and suppressive effect.
1:32:33
The song Goodnight Irene
was all over the country.
1:32:37
You couldn't escape that song...
1:32:39
in the United States of America,
in the summer of 1950.
1:32:42
Right then, the very moment that Irene
was at the top of the Top 40...
1:32:46
a bunch of blacklisters
probably said to themselves:
1:32:49
"How did we let these commie
so-and-so's slip through our fingers?"
1:32:52
They started out to see that we were
blacklisted, and about two years later...
1:32:56
instead of singing in the Waldorf-Astoria,
or Ciro's in Hollywood...