Cartoons Monday!

And Jimmy Carter memories from Bob Dylan and....Abbie Hoffman?

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.” You can still subscribe to this newsletter for free.

Watch the trailer for my new film “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero & The Forgotten Bomb.” All-star game played in Nagasaki on January 1, 1946.

As you all know, Jimmy Carter passed away yesterday at the age of 100+. Much has been and will be written and said in admiration so I don’t really have to add my two cents here, but check out a couple of cartoons below. Given the focus of this little newsletter, let me just add a couple of things here. For one, Bob Dylan’s words from years back hailing their personal relationship have often been quoted today, so here are all the Dylan extracts from the fine documentary “Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President.”

Couple of photos:

To illustrate how far Jimmy ended up traveling from his roots, let me recall that when Abbie Hoffman was on the lam in the mid-1970s and filed several articles for us at Crawdaddy as our “Travel Editor,” he took the trouble to re-visit Plains, Ga., shortly after Carter’s election as President. Here’s how he opened his piece (Miss Lillian, you may recall, was Jimmy’s mom, a civil rights activist and Peace Corps volunteer):

Having been a civil rights worker in Americus, literally a stone’s throw away, I find it hard to swallow all the honey-coated grits being dished out daily by the fawning media. Can we really take four maybe eight more years of that good ol’ gas station, that good ol’ church, and all those good ol’ boys swattin flys and dispensing home-spun philosophy? Way back then (more than a dozen years ago) working in Sumter County on one of the toughest voter registration campaigns in the South, we had a slightly different view of all those good ol’ boys….When someone got word that a group from Plains was coming over it didn’t mean Miss Lillian’s Relief Brigade. It meant “board up the windows and duck.”

Finally, about ten years after writing the piece, Abbie (now above ground) was arrested with Amy Carter, the former president’s 19-year-old daughter, and seven others in an anti-CIA protest at the Univ of Massachusetts. Jimmy said he approved of Amy’s actions. Below, Carly Simon joins Abbie and Amy.

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