Garret asks: << Has Joni gone on record talking about this case? and what exactly was her
stance? What was the dominating view of the day? >> This is from http://www.jmdl.com/articles/docs/8805q.cfm. There are four other articles that come up when you type Hurricane in the search engine, but this is one I read last week. It's from an interview with Joni, and the following words are hers: There's a whole history that led up to that action. The first seed was on Rolling Thunder. Bobby and Joan Baez were in whiteface and they were going to rescue Hurricane Carter. I had talked to Hurricane on the phone several times and I was alone in perceiving that he was a violent person and an opportunist. I thought, Oh my God, we're a bunch of white patsy liberals. This is a bad person. He's fakin' it. So when we got to the last show, which was at Madison Square Garden, Joan Baez asked me to introduce Muhammad Ali. I was in a particularly cynical mood - it had been a difficult excursion. I said, Fine, what I'll say is - and I never would've - I'll say, We're here tonight on behalf of one jive-ass nigger who could have been champion of the world and I'd like to introduce you to another one who is. She stared at me, and immediately removed me from this introductory role. I thought then, I should go on in blackface tonight. Anyway, Hurricane was released and the next day he brutally beat up this woman.....
