![]() This black-and-white video documents his Australia media blitz of September 1963, starting with a concert filmed before 3,000 fans (some of them seated on-stage) in Melbourne. There, he was a visiting folk star, and television was only too happy to accommodate him. Having regained his passport, he embarked on a world tour in August and discovered on his second stop in Australia that a different attitude obtained in the national media. But he continued to be blacklisted from network television in the U.S. By mid-1963, 44-year-old Pete Seeger had been cleared of the charges of Contempt of Congress stemming from his 1955 testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and a major label, Columbia Records, was preparing to release what would be his most successful LP, We Shall Overcome, drawn from his appearance in June at Carnegie Hall. ![]()
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