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Gallery Chat: Bob Greenfield on the Bitburg Letter

Gallery Chat for Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution, on view Mar 17–Jul 5, 2016 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Bill Graham biographer Robert Greenfield unravels the story of Graham's organized protest of President Reagan's visit to the Bitburg cemetery and the subsequent bombing of the Bill Graham Presents offices.

Recorded Mar 18, 2016.

about the speaker
Robert Greenfield

An award-winning novelist, playwright, journalist, and screenwriter, Robert Greenfield is the author of several classic rock books, among them S.T.P.: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones as well as the definitive biographies of Timothy Leary and Ahmet Ertegun. With Bill Graham, he is the co-author of Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out which won both the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award.