Cartoons Friday!

Plus: When David Lynch did Dylan.

Greg Mitchell is the author of more than a dozen books including “The Tunnels” “Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady” and “The Campaign of the Century” and now writer/director of three award-winning films aired via PBS, including “Atomic Cover-up” and “Memorial Day Massacre.” Watch the trailer for his new film “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today.” You can still subscribe to this newsletter for free:

Before we get to this week’s cartoons: We are nearly done watching the very lengthy, very interesting, and finally streaming “Soundtrack to a Coup d’etat,” which explores in a very creative way the assassination of Lumumba in the Congo back in the early 1960s. The “soundtrack” angle includes how the U.S. used jazz greats, such as Louis Armstrong, as ambassadors to newly independent African states.

Nina Simone was not one of them, but she is shown singing a hypnotic version of Dylan’s not so well known “Ballad of Hollis Brown.” This took me to, unknown to me, an electronica cover of Nina doing Dylan by….wait for it…the late David Lynch. Story about it here, and Lynch cover and then Dylan demo version from 1962 below:

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