sᴇʟᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴡᴏʀᴋ: "ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴏɴᴇsᴏᴍᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏғ ʜᴀᴛᴛɪᴇ ᴄᴀʀʀᴏʟʟ" ʙʏ ʙᴏʙ ᴅʏʟᴀɴ


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rock - Neil Young's "Ohio" - about shooting of 4
protesters at Kent State University in 1970

Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs comment on current affairs

Och - I' Ain't Marching Anymore

Dylan - The Ballad of George Jackson (Black Panther
member shot in Folsom prison), Only a Pawn in Their 
Game (assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers)

8-28-1963 - Dylan travel home from March On Washington

William Zantzinger receive sentence for killing Hattie 
Carroll, charge from 2nd degree murder to manslaughter,
fine of $625, 6 months in jail deferred for tobacco harvest

served time in local jail to be protected from other inmates

arrived at Emerson Hotel in Baltimore with toy cane

assault 2 other employees, Carroll collapse, die 8 hours later

cause is hemorrhage, complicated by hardened arteries,
enlarged heart, high blood pressure

4 stanzas: crime and arrest, privileged live of Zanzinger,
humble life of Carroll, Zanzinger's sentence

quoted by Herald Tribune as saying "I'll just miss a lot of snow"

Hattie Carroll was 51, had 10 children


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