12. Season Two: Breaking the Blacklist of Pete Seeger

129 "You guys have done a great job": Ken Kragen. Interview with author, December 11, 2003.

130 In that same summer of 1950: Red Channels: The Report on Communist Influence in Radio and Television, Counterattack, p. 130.

131 "I'd given up the idea": Pete Seeger. Interview with author, May 18, 1994.

132 "I'm the one that gave the okay": William Tankersley. Interview with author, September 13, 2008.

132 the breaking of the Seeger blacklist: Perry Lafferty. We Can Put the Laughs in Later, unpublished manuscript, 2001.

133 "Tommy had said to me": Mason Williams. Interview with author, March 15, 2000.

133 "I wanted Seeger in": Tom Smothers. Interview with author, June 5, 2001.

133 The most persuasive account: Saul Ilson. Interview with author, February 19, 2009.

135 "Oh, that was a tremendous opportunity": Pete Seeger. Interview with author, May 18, 1994.

136 According to Lafferty: Perry Lafferty. Interview with author, April 19, 2001.

136 "That stanza": Tom Smothers. Interview with author, September 9, 2003.

139 "Pete's unusual": Mason Williams. Interview with author, March 15, 2000.