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Mitch Blank, Bob Dylan Preservationist, Talks About His Decades of Collecting (Flagging Down The Double E's) [10]
"Most of the recordings that I've worked on putting into the now-known body of work now live at the Bob Dylan Archives in Tulsa. A lot of these recordings sat in environments that were not healthy, in garages and all of the most horrendous situations imaginable, for decades upon decades."
Newly Uncovered Documents Reveal the FBI’s Campaign Against Bob Dylan (Truthout) [8]
"In the wake of the dinner, the New York FBI sent a memo, dated December 16, 1963, to J. Edgar Hoover recounting the particulars of the incident. In it, agents wrote, “The statement in the letterhead memorandum made by Dylan pertaining to the assassination of President KENNEDY has been furnished to the Secret Service in New York City.”