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29. Joan Baez, a folk rock hero whose songs of peace inspired a generation. I met her once

Fri Jan 23, 2026, 11:42 PM

Jan 2026

by chance while covering a protest in 2005, where she was on her say to sing at the Capitol Mall to a half million people protesting Bush's war in Iraq--four decades after she gained fame as a leading voice of peace during the Vietnam War.

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