Seeger was born in 1919, so he would have been 44 at the time of the protest. So the photo is probably from considerably before then. His career was reviving at the time of the Rutgers protest -- Seeger had a very successful concert two months later at Carnegie Hall that became the basis of an album that sold well. Seeger eventually returned to network TV on the Smothers Brothers (remember them?) Comedy Hour in 1967. That appearance was controversial because CBS snipped out an anti-Vietnam War song that he performed; the Smothers brothers invited him back, and the song was included on the program.Students protested a taping of the "Hootenanny" television show on April 15, 1963 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The protest was due to folk singer Pete Seeger not being invited to participate in the show due to his political beliefs and concerns, which effectively blacklisted him from network television. About four hundred "singing, card carrying students" protested outside of the Ledge, while inside there was an audience of approximately six hundred students.
