Burl Ives' singing was part of my introduction to folk music, which is still a major part of my life. Still, what he did was wrong. Turning people in to the anti-communist witch hunters meant destroying people's lives. You young people have no idea how scary it was. My father knew someone who lost his job because his picture was taken at a party with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg before they were accused of spying. This man had never met them before and never saw them again, but he was fired. People's lives were destroyed based on associations that would be considered innocuous in other circumstances.