Phil Ochs and Kennedy

One of old friend Phil's greatest songs, inspired by the JFK assassination, "Crucifixion."  Live.  Phil played the song for Bobby Kennedy in 1967, who reportedly cried when he realized it was partly about his brother.  Phil later told Studs Terkel:  "The Kennedy assassination, in a way, was destroying our best in some kind of ritual. People say they really love the reformer, they love the radical, but they want to see him killed. It's a certain part of the human psyche—the dark side of the human psyche."

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Published on November 22, 2013 04:34
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