Anniversary of the woodstock Music Festival which affected half a Million People to a dairy farm in up state new york. Next an interview with woodstock cocreator Artie Kornfeld. He recalled how the concert came together, how he signed the Musical Artists and the business arrangements for the documentary film. This is half an hour. I wanted to be a baseball player but i always loved music and my mother always had Benny Goodman of the lombardos. Not guy lombardo, but the two brothers. They both had bands. One of the two guys who had the big bands. Anyway, she listened to big band music and my uncle loved jazz. And he was always listening to jazz. That was the influences i had. Then was your mother a pianist, a performer . No, my mother founded the freedom rides and became a very famous shes a founder of the freedom rides. If you get my book, youll see the letter that will blow your mind about shirley kornfeld. Shes a star in my family. Not me. Today you are the star. Im just a representa
How it came together, and the contracts signed for the music festival, and how it was arranged. This is about an hour. I always wanted to be baseball player, but i always loved music. My mother always had on Benny Goodman or the lombardos, and not guy lombardo, but the two brothers, and they both had bands, and who were the two guys with the big bands . Anyway. She listened to the big band music and my uncle always listened to jazz, and this is my influences. Was your mother a pianist . No, my mother founded the freedom rides and she became very famous. If you get my book, you will see the letter from the department of racial equality that will blow your mind. And she is the star of the family and i am just a representative of a hope of a dream. Well, at Capitol Records you took a commanding position there. How did that happen . My good friend, charles, who just sold the stock of Martha Stewart and chairman of the board at emi records, and so we met by accident in a snack bar in Queens
This is half an hour. Wanted to be a baseball player, but i always loved music, and my mother always had beeny goodwin and the lombardos, one of the two guys that had the big bands. She was into big band music and my uncle loved listening to jazz so those were the influences i had. Was your mother a pianist . No. My mother founded the freedom rise, and if you get my group youll see the equality that will blow your mind about shirl kornfeld. Shes the star in my family, not me. Today you are the star. Well, im just a representative of a hope, of a dream. Capitol records was a new concept at the time and you took a pretty commanding position there. How did that happen . My good friend sold his stock in Martha Stewart and was change an of the board of emi records for 15 years. We met if you read my book youll see, we met by accident in a snack bar, and he had taken over the job working for donny kisher in, and if you were a writer, i had already had a record out when i was 16. I was signed
Dark and dawn when the music th finally stopped, they e disappeared across the country. Y although thousands remained on the rented 600acre dairy farm pitching in on cleanup detail or just waiting out the crowd. The festival site is nestled in the heart of the catskills resort area. The biggest town nearby is monticello. And the toin townspeople, quite frankly, were terrified of the prospect of the hippy arrival. Before it was over something happened in monticello. Residents and resorts freely emptied their cupboards for the kids. Merchants were stunned by their politeness. Polite. Thats what i can say about them. Polite kids. You didnt sell too many oo shoes. No, not too many, but they were happy here. I thierful i think they are really a Wonderful Group of kids. Have neg i never met so many kids in such large numbers that were so polite, so patient, so courteous and understanding under these conditions that we had here in the last three days. Certainly in the beginning there was a gr
Magazine, making woodstock number two when they said it was the greatest peaceful man made event in history of all mankind and it was second to the man landing on the moon. The legacy of Artie Kornfeld is what . That im sitting here with you right now. [ laughter ] 45 years later. Yeah. Im just so thrilled. I hope what i do next year will be my legacy. Yeah . Yeah. Terrific. Yeah. Thank you. My pleasure. American history tv products are now available at the new cspan online store. Go to cspan store. Org to see whats new for American History tv and check out all of the cspan products. Today marx the 50th anniversary of a Landmark Supreme Court case, tinker v. Des moines. In just a moment well be talking to one of the key players in that case. John tinker will be joining us from des moines, iowa, but first, courtesy of cbs news walter cronkite, the evening news 50 years ago today. The Supreme Court today endorsed the right of student protests so long as the protests does not disrupt orde