Before the Mass Arrest, NYC 1967
A group of musicians was performing in Tompkins Square Park on Memorial Day 1967. They had a city-issued troubadour permit. But when local Ukrainian Nazis -- war criminals given U.S. sanctuary after World War II -- complained to the police "dirty hippies" were making peaceful music on a war holiday, the cops busted everybody in sight. Published in The East Village Other's post-riot Extra, then in Newsweek and -- according to my agent (I saw the check but not the tear sheet) -- also in Paris-Match.