Hayden died in Santa Monica, California on October 23, 2016, aged 76, following a lengthy illness including a stroke. Billy Graham. And you wanted to try to catch what they symbolize. Bobby Kennedy was listening (and so too was Martin Luther King Jr.). by Bonnie Raitt from her new album, Just Like That Street date 4/22/22 with global release in all formats! He taught a class at University of California, Los Angeles on protests from Port Huron to the present. Recorded on tour June 3, 2017 - Centennial Hall, London - Ontario Canada, Activist & Politician Tom Hayden 1939-2016 Memorial Video, http://img.youtube.com/vi/Mxz2QBsslrE/0.jpg. The service opened with one civil rights march song, Keep Your Eyes on the Prize, and closed with another, Aint Nobody Going to Turn Me Around. Joining a four-person choir in the final number were singers Bonnie Raitt, Holly Near and Barbara Williams, Haydens wife, along with the couples son, Liam Hayden, and Haydens ex-wife, Jane Fonda. He mounted a bid in the Democratic primary for California Governor during 1994 on the theme of campaign finance reform and ran for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1997, losing to incumbent Republican Richard Riordan. Sen. Robert F . There was humor and irony (Hayden had both in spades), eloquence and tears. Michael Finnegan is a Los Angeles Times reporter covering federal courts and law enforcement. While things were looking up, we had no idea of what to expect on the evening of March 31, when we gathered in the student union at the University of Wisconsin to watch a "special announcement" from the president. In Indianapolis, Bobby Kennedy braved an angry crowd to urge the non-violence that King had espoused. With Johnson still on the ballot, McCarthy won an overwhelming victory in the Wisconsin primary. My 22 yr old son Cameron gave his whole. Kennedy's funeral seemed surreal. The conference was followed by a commemoration at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. It seemed unreal. It was from a prison cell in Albany, Georgia, where their ride was to land him, that Hayden began writing the SDS manifesto. Hayden died on Sunday after a long illness, said his wife, Barbara Williams, noting that he suffered a stroke in 2015. http://img.youtube.com/vi/Z2Br1RWvYxg/0.jpg, Tom Hayden, a prominent leader of the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements died Sunday at the age of 76. 2023 Getty Images. His hair was braided down his back, and he wore a beaded headband and black rubber sandals that the Vietnamese had made out of the tires of a downed U.S. plane. Tom Hayden, Contributor. And it was forever. He never stopped trying to make Democracy a reality. Two of the most moving speeches were made by Alex Sanchez and DeWayne Holmes. By Robert D. McFadden. In discussing the legacy of JFK on the 50th anniversary of his assassination, Tom Hayden warmly remembered meeting JFK as a student leader of the anti-war and civil rights movements. He died Sunday after a long illness, his wife said. Those who claim to care about marginalized voices have nothing to say about those who have no voice at all. I found her inexpressibly lovely and wanted only to tell her things would be all right. SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Famed '60s anti-war activist Tom Hayden, whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago 8 trial, Vietnam War protests and his ex-wife actress Jane Fonda,. But your dove couldn't sing. He previously covered state and national politics, including the 2020 presidential campaign. As the two-hour 10-minute movie comes to a close, the judge allows one defendant to speak on the behalf of the seven-man group Tom Hayden. Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who . That fall, my friends and I continued to organize vigils and protests. I, for one, have long been intrigued by Tom Haydens friendship with the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, towards the end of Bobbys life. Hayden lived in Los Angeles and was married to his third wife, actress Barbara Williams, at the time of his death. But none of the roughly 1,000 people who gathered to remember him doubted how vigorously he would have fought Trumps administration. While McCarthy was eloquent about the fiasco in Vietnam, Kennedy offered more hope of uniting the war protestors with union members, minorities and the poor. Williams spoke just a few lines about her husband before singing a folk song about pushing a rock uphill. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in Los . During the next week I could barely contain my grief. !, The Three Hebrew Words that Make All the Difference., From West Hollywood to Yeshiva University: A Sephardic Jews Journey in the World of the Holocaust, This Poem Counts as Rabbinic School A poem for Parsha Tetzaveh, Young Actress Juju Brener on Her Hocus Pocus 2 Role, Behind the Scenes of Jeopardy! with Mayim Bialik, Israels Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll Goes to Hollywood, From Comedy Festival to Shootings on Pico. "Shot him in LA last night just as he was about to claim victory.". Senator John V. Tunney. Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. Throughout his career, Eddie Redmayne (Newt Scamander in the Fantastic Beasts franchise) has portrayed several historical characters to high praise: Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, Lile Elbe in The Danish Girl, and James Glaisher in The Aeronauts.This year, he's done it again and worked his magic with a compelling performance as Tom Hayden in The Trial of the Chicago 7. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. Cesar thought for a few moments and then said, It only makes sense if you build a movement out of your campaign structure when its over.And that became CED: The California Campaign for Economic Democracy that got scores of progressives elected to state and local offices and many measures passed like Prop 65. He understood that progressives had to be prepared to take power and learn to govern, not just protestsomething else we would do well to think about for today. When it was over, I felt a slow realization that the times we thought were changing would change glacially if at all. Their dialogue was peppered with the N word and references to "good riddance.". [21] Six months after the convention, he and seven other protesters including Rennie Davis, He can be reached through his website: www.johndegraaf.com. We celebrated with pitchers of beer and drove back to Superior with headaches the next day, happy to have them. Mostly, we felt fortunate for having known him. When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings. Political icon Tom Hayden delivers a rousing call to action based on a profound historical overview of the arc of justice and social movements. Bonnie: vocal, electric slide guitar James Hutch Hutchinson: bass Ricky Fataar: drums, percussion, backing vocal Glenn Patscha: rhodes piano, hammond B3, backing vocal Kenny Greenberg: electric guitar. A powerful critic of Stalinism in Russia, Sakharov suggested a middle way between Communist dictatorships and capitalist inequality. He believed in change. Hayden even personally delivered one to the Kennedy White House. [13], President of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Ralph Helstein arranged for Hayden to meet with Saul Alinsky. She had blood on her broken wing. I think now of LBJ as the lead victim in a Greek tragedy. Delores Huerta spoke. Protestors gathered outside, some of them "Yippies" (for "Youth International Party") who had nominated a pig for President. Bonnie Raitt Wins Song of the Year for Just Like That at Grammy Awards. Among the most important progressive political figures of our era, he co-authored the historic SDS-founding Port Huron Statements in the early 1960s, was a defendant in the trial of the legendary Chicago Seven, and went on to serve as a California State Senator. Shockingly, I also overheard several fraternity boys at one table suggesting that King had gotten what was coming to him. In a discussion about the book with Theodore Hamm published in the Brooklyn Rail, Hayden argues, "The apparatus of occupation is never going to turn into a peacekeeping economic development agency. The three toured villages and factories and met with an American POW[who?] Author Describes Her Return to Judaism in God Said What? You watched them in the sky. Together we can make this a great community and make many new friends. [37] In that same year, he helped initiate Progressives for Obama (now called Progressive America Rising), a group of political progressives that provided assistance for Obama in his initial presidential campaign. A final word: Hayden wasnt a hater. Hayden also founded the Indochina Peace Campaign (IPC), which operated from 1972 to 1975. During January 2008, Hayden wrote an opinion essay for The Huffington Post's website endorsing Barack Obama's presidential bid in the Democratic primaries. These images, and the Tet Offensive, shocked many otherwise placid Americans and led to a shift in public opinion. Organize, control, distribute and measure all of your digital content. To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page. Used by permission. Then too, the coffins continued to return home in large numbers, carrying the bodies of sons and husbands, fresh-faced children barely out of their teens, if that. In her version, in pushing the rock we become stronger, not weaker. 2015 Birthday Cake Media A (SOCAN) administered by Warner Chappell Music Canada Ltd., Super Big Music (ASCAP) administered by Big Machine Music, LLC, Jett Music (ASCAP) administered by Big Machine Music, LLC. David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, Hayden, and Bobby Seale. Bonnies Pride and Joy is offering all Bonnie Raitt fans a place where you can meet each other to exchange photos, videos, read news and talk about her music and life. Please give it a try and become a member or subscribe to the newsletter of Bonnies Pride and Joy, Bonnie Raitt Charts Her Second Career No. ), Bobby Kennedy Jr. shed light on the relationship. Collect, curate and comment on your files. So, hope you like it ? But despite the King tragedy, my overall mood remained hopeful. I Cant Make You Love Me : A 25th Anniversary Oral History, MUSICIANS ON MUSICIANS Bonnie Raitt & Brandi Carlile, Joan Baez and Bonnie Raitt Tree-Sit In Protest, Together we can make this a great community and make many new friends. He traveled singing gospel music for 35+ years. He saw the real me.. The Nation magazine named him one of the 50 "greatest progressives of the 20th century". And you started to cry, but now dry out your eyes. Friends Dan Martin, right, and Michael Deiden embrace before a memorial service for activist and politician Tom Hayden at UCLAs Royce Hall on Sunday. We laughed; we all knew that walk of Haydens (which I always thought of as the walk of a wary, James Dean-like, outsider). Jane Fonda, a supporter of the IPC, later turned this moniker into a name for her film production firm, IPC Films, which produced in whole or in part, movies and documentaries such as F.T.A. He died in the bloody military coup that overthrew him on September 11, 1973. When Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, the senators family picked Tom Hayden to be an honorary pallbearer at the funeral because the young antiwar activist embodied the great hope that my father had in the future of our country, Robert Kennedy Jr. recalled Sunday night at a memorial for Hayden. In this deeply moving, visionary talk, he considers how a grassroots movement might overcome the most powerful empire in world history. He was 76. . But considering the alternative of a Nixon presidency, I still hoped Humphrey would prevail. It seemed to be emerging in places like Sweden and Czechoslovakia. [1] When Hayden was 10, his parents divorced, and his mother raised him. Now, the leading living scion of one of America's most beloved political families was also hammering Johnson from the campaign trail. Only two days later, civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he'd gone to support striking sanitary workers. Chapter 1238 enacted Section 76060.5 of the California Education Code. Mayor Daley audibly shouted a Jewish slur at Ribicoff. Hayden was in Newark, working on an anti-poverty project, when the riots broke out in which 26 people were killed. [29] He also was revealed to have developed a friendship with Sen. Robert Kennedy, and served as one of the pallbearers for Kennedy's casket during Kennedy's funeral. To illustrate the cultural impact that the Port Huron Statement had, we were able to get clips fromMad Men and the film,The Big Lebowski in which characters talked about the document and howcool it was. 2022 Redwing Records, LLC. Tens of thousands of copies of the 25,000-word document were printed in booklet form. [33] During this time, he was frequently protested by conservative groups, including Vietnamese refugees, military veterans, and members of Young Americans for Freedom. Jackie Ward reports. There's a generation looking for a new beginning, And our sparkling eyes and songs prophesize, Are adding our bodies to the protest line. [citation needed]. Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939 - October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. William Hayden Kennedy (86) passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at his home in Wheeler. Back in Superior, my friends and I watched troubling news on television, when on August 21, Soviet tanks crushed the democratic uprising in Prague. Please read and accept our website Terms and Privacy Policy to post a comment. I wanted to believe the words of the song were true, but I really didn't feel that way. Haydens critics and there were many were given voice in a couple of video snippets, including one that focused on his three years of community organizing in poor black sections of Newark in the mid-60s. 2, the anticipated newJohn Prinetribute record fromOh Boy Records, is out today. The last person who gave me a ride told me Kennedy was leading in the exit polls and dropped me off at a campsite near Donner Lake, barely over the border from Nevada. [1], Hayden attended Dondero High School in Royal Oak, Michigan. We delivered our message demand that Congress cut aid toour puppet regime in Saigonin union halls, churches, editorial boards, oncampuses,to crowds of sometimes 10,000 people. Pre-order/Pre-save Just Like That now: https://lnk.to/justlikethat_br Stream here: https://lnk.to/somethingsgotaholdofmyheart, Credits: Produced by Bonnie Raitt Recorded and Mixed by Ryan Freeland, Bonnie: vocal, electric slide guitarJames Hutch Hutchinson: bass Ricky Fataar: drums, percussion , backing vocal Glenn Patscha: clavinet, piano, electric piano, backing vocal Kenny Greenberg: electric guitar George Marinelli: electric guitar, backing vocal. We held the memorial at UCLAs Royce Hall on Sunday February 19. To a standing ovation she turned back a motion denying support for sit-ins in the struggle against racial segregation: I cannot say to a person who suffers injustice, Wait, And having decided that I cannot urge caution, I must stand with him. Alan Haber of the fledgling Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) recruited her on the spot. Hayden lived in Los Angeles beginning in 1971[42] and was married to his third wife, Barbara Williams, at the time of his death. With the war over, Tom could see that the Watergate scandal had created cracks in the walls of the establishment and that now was the time for progressives to squeeze through those cracks and run for office. Hayden was dubbed "the liberal rebel" by George Skelton of the Los Angeles Times . ARLINGTON COUNTY, VA - JUNE 9: Pallbearers (including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., John Glenn, Douglas Dillon, LeMoyne Billings, Lord Harlech, James Whittaker, Steven Smith, David Hackett' Robert S. McNamara and Rafer Johnson) carry the coffin of Senator Robert Kennedy to the grave site at Arlington National Cemetery on June 9, 1968 in Arlington (Hayden, teary- eyed, joined a small honor guard . [47] Former U.S. President Bill Clinton memorialized him, saying, "Hillary and I knew him for more than thirty years and valued both his words of support and his criticism."[48]. The result of this tour of North Vietnam, at a high point in the war, was a book titled The Other Side. I was with Tom when he visited Cesar Chavez to ask whether he should run for the U.S. Senate. And dreaming of a time when all humankind will be free. At the end of the month, I was invited to attend an event called the Hemispheric Conference Against the War in Vietnam being held in the Canadian city of Montreal. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 23:34. [41] In his last years, however, he also described himself as "an archeological dig", noting the varied layers to his life, the many publications he produced, and the different ways future researchers would likely interpret his life and work.[29][42]. The Watergate scandal and the unraveling of the presidency gave decisive new leverage to Toms Congressional strategy and in the fall of 73 the IPC tour went out again with the same team plus 3-month-old Troy who slept in dresser drawers along the way. [38], Hayden was known widely in California as a staunch endorser of animal rights and was responsible for writing the bill popularly known as the Hayden Act, which improved protection of pets and extended holding periods for pets confined as strays or surrendered to shelters. He was a member of. In early February, during the Vietnamese New Year's celebration, National Liberation Front (the Americans called them "Viet Cong") troops attacked throughout South Vietnam, capturing the famed "Citadel" in Hue and other prominent posts formerly thought impregnable. [1] Hayden attended a Catholic elementary school, where he read out loud to nuns and "learned to fear hell. His speech was strongly-worded, but thoughtful and not merely rhetorical. The next day, he showed her his own slide show, which focused on Vietnamese history. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. It depicts their travels through North and South Vietnam in spring 1974.[24]. Hayden was in the vanguard of the 1960s counterculture movement, a radical who led civil rights and antiwar protests and later became a prolific author and member of of the California Legislature. SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Famed '60s anti-war activist Tom Hayden, whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago 7 trial, Vietnam War protests and his ex-wife actress Jane Fonda,. We admired his earlier stand for civil rights, dating back to 1948. A growing body of New Left analysis, including C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite and G. William Domhoff's Who Rules America? 2022 Open Secret Music (ASCAP,) Lapiotrope Music (BMI) administered by Bluewater Music Services Corp. Used by permission. The demonstrations were broken up by what the U.S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence later described as a police riot. Feared they might hold all whites responsible for the slaying. Created as a celebration of Prines life and career, the album features new renditions of some of Prines most beloved songs performed byBrandi Carlile(I Remember Everything), Tyler Childers(Yes I Guess They Oughta Name A Drink After You),Iris DeMent(One Red Rose),Emmylou Harris(Hello In There),Jason Isbell (Souvenirs), Valerie June(Summers End),Margo Price(Sweet Revenge), Bonnie Raitt(Angel From Montgomery), NathanielRateliff& The Night Sweats(Pretty Good),Amanda Shires (Saddle in the Rain), Sturgill Simpson(Paradise) andJohn Paul White(Sam Stone). He evolved from 1961 to 1963 from viewing the . https://www.bonnieraitt.eu/wp-content/plugins/bookshelf-slider/, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/c91FbvW2hCo/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/5zwGe0O_MHU/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/0b0BkFj8jW8/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/PnnBk4HzJzQ/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/8qTQjuUfLu0/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/Z71L4JdrVBY/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/hCJa0505jZk/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/jXG6ULcK-qs/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/yHeBLEo4TOM/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/BQqk001wvy8/hqdefault.jpg, http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/kucKKw9C8DA/hqdefault.jpg. Raitt contributed to a new album, If You're Going To The City: A Tribute To Mose Allison, which celebrates the late singer and pianist, who famously blended the rough-edged blues of the Mississippi Delta with the 1950s jazz of New York City. Im whats known as a Cantorial Songleader. [40] He also claimed that he never endorsed Sanders and only supported his campaign with the hope that it would push Clinton's policies leftward. [40], Hayden maintained that he remained radical towards the end of his life, commenting, "I'm Jefferson in terms of democracy," he said, "I'm Thoreau in terms of environment, and Crazy Horse in terms of social movements". "The radicalism of the 1960s is fast becoming the common sense of the 1970s", The New York Times reported him saying at the time. He agitated and organized, even during the Obama presidency, for a coalition of the many and the diverse for a sharing of the promise of America. The SDS was the vanguard of the student unrest that characterized the decade of the 1960s. All rights reserved. Hayden and Fonda were a major force in California politics in the 1970s and 80s, and Hayden went on to represent the liberal Westside in the state Assembly and Senate for 18 years. When school ended, I hitchhiked home to visit my family in San Francisco. This speech was given at the 2003 Bioneers National Conference. Just be a bit more patient and we'd all see it. Hayden is a longtime activist and former California state senator. Hes there with my father, and with Martin Luther King, and they are right now exhorting that when we leave this hall, we go out into the streets, and onto the barricades, and we fight to reclaim our country from these very, very bad people, Kennedy said to a round of applause. Hayden told HuffPost Live how empowering it was for him and his fellow student leaders to deliver a proposal to Kennedy and witness Kennedy carry it out in the . whose plane had been shot down. Troy, edited a wonderful opening video calledWho the Hell is Tom Hayden? and then started everything off with an emotional, funny and welcoming speech that really set the perfect tone. William Hayden Kennedy (86) passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at his home in Wheeler. She stars with Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen in the Netflix original series Grace and Frankie, which premiered in 2015. Los Angeles, Downtown L.A stabbing sends six to hospital; 1 arrested, San Diego Roman Catholic diocese facing yet another lawsuit from its insurance company, K-Pop isnt the only hot ticket in Koreatown how trot is captivating immigrants, Los Angeles is suddenly awash in waterfalls, Officials unprepared for epic mountain blizzard, leaving many trapped and desperate. I watched with pride as Don Peterson, a Wisconsin businessman I'd worked with on the McCarthy campaign, nominated the brilliant African-American leader Julian Bond as a Vice Presidential candidate. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Bonnie Raitt about her friendship with the Mose Allison. We need to withdraw our stamp of approval and our tax dollars from supporting the occupation. No other year has left such vivid memories for me, though it may be that this year, 2018, will be even more decisive for the future of America. Music video by Bonnie Raitt performing Made Up Mind (Lyric Video). He had a non-rhetorical way of putting big new ideas together so that people sawthemselvesin the narrative. The American response was to inflict horrible casualties on combatants and non-combatants alike. And because of you, and what you've been through. It was part memorial, part movement rally, part testimonial, part reunion. Snipers fired randomly into the crowd, killing hundreds of students and bystanders. You see,Tom wanted to win. Students were beginning to exercise power in American universities, carrying out sit-down strikes at prestigious academic institutions like Columbia. Direct to your inbox. Lets take those three simple words and embrace the future! That doesn't mean that there can't be some attempts at remedies, but these should never be used as an excuse to stay."[43]. ARLINGTON COUNTY, VA - JUNE 9: Pallbearers (including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., John Glenn, Douglas Dillon, LeMoyne Billings, Lord Harlech, James Whittaker, Steven Smith, David Hackett' Robert S. McNamara and Rafer Johnson) carry the coffin of Senator Robert Kennedy to the grave site at Arlington National Cemetery on June 9, 1968 in Arlington County, Virginia. I never saw Luz again after that night. Known best for his major role as an anti-war, civil rights, and radical intellectual counterculture activist, Hayden was the former husband of actress Jane Fonda and the father of actor Troy Garity. For maybe tomorrow you'll wake up and find, The long years of sorrow were worth all the pain, For all of your struggles have been left behind. [31] Starting far behind, Hayden mounted a spirited campaign and finished a surprisingly close second in the Democratic primary. Both former gang members who evolved into becoming successful peace activists. He and Fonda later initiated the Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED), which formed a close alliance with then-Governor Jerry Brown and promoted solar energy, environmental protection and renters' rights policies, as well as candidates for local office throughout California, more than 50 of whom would go on to be elected.