Archival find from @noreensnasir, who was searching for footage of unrest following the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984. Here’s a note sent to the NewsHour (then known as the MacNeil-Lehrer Report) by the Deputy Consul General of India.
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(Source: adamantineheart, via braiker)
The case of Bob Dylan’s missing frat — solved?
A New Jersey woman thinks she’s found the famous Fender Stratocaster that drew boos when Bob Dylan plugged in at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, but the singer disputes the claim.
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— Gwen Ifill on the ‘Dearth of Civility in the Public Square’
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