It’s wonderful you wrote about Phil Ochs (“Phil Ochs Wrote the Soundtrack to the New Left” by Peter Dreier). I lived in Chile from 1970 to ’73, and I met Phil there in 1972. He was then traveling with Jerry Rubin and Stew Albert. They spent about a week or so in there.

After that, in the spring of 1974, Phil organized an amazing fundraiser for Chilean political prisoners at the Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden, which sold out. Bob Dylan, who hadn’t then performed publicly in a few years, Arlo Guthrie, the Living Theatre, Pete Seeger, and even one of the Beach Boys were there, among others. It was the last event he was able to put on.

I will never forget what a kind and generous man he was. One never quite gets over the sorrow and sense of guilt when he died, wondering what more could I or anyone have done.