Rockwell was mentioned in Bob Dylan’s latest composition, a satirical song called “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues.” Dylan was booked on The Ed Sullivan Show, but CBS got nervous when they learned he was going to perform the song. “Dylan went through it,” recalls The Ed Sullivan Show director John Moffitt. “Ed said, ‘That’s fine by me.’ And CBS said no. Usually they left Ed alone because he censored the show himself and was very strict. It was the only time they ever overruled him.”
