The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24645   Message #284834
Posted By: Rick Fielding
25-Aug-00 - 02:56 AM
Thread Name: Music at the 1950s HUAC Hearings
Subject: RE: Music at the 1950s HUAC Hearings
Would have been fascinating anyway to know what Woodie would have done. He apparently never cared a whit about money, so they couldn't have threatened him with loss of a MAINSTREM career (as they did Burl Ives and Josh White). My guess is he would have talked for a VERY long time if called, and would have been considered a major pain in the ass to them. I'm not even sure if the possibility of jail would have deterred him. When he did get thrown in the clink for that "obscene letter" thing, he apparently enjoyed himself.

Rick