Another record from the in-laws' collection, the self-titled debut by 19-yr-old Joan Baez, lending her angelic voice to some weighty traditional ballads.
Today in Labor History April 15, 1920: Two men robbed and killed Frederick Parmenter & Alessandro Berardelli in South Braintree, Massachusetts. They stole $15,776.51. The anarchists, Sacco & Vanzetti, were blamed for the robbery. A kangaroo court convicted them and sentenced them to death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNKPUuxaLRE
Today in Labor History March 18, 1968: The staff of San Francisco's "progressive" rock station KMPX-FM walked out on strike citing a lack of control over programming & "hassles over the whole long-hair riff." Performers like the Rolling Stones, Joan Baez, the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead requested the station not play their music as long as the station was run by strikebreakers.