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Now that I've had a chance to read it, and everyone else can as well, we can all form our own impressions. I won't share mine except to point out that the events that transpired in that hotel room took place in August 1969, which was over 55 years ago. A year later, he was convicted and sentenced, he served out the time he was sentenced to, and Carter pardoned him more than a decade later, in January 1981. (Was it too light of a sentence? Maybe? But if so, that's on the judge. The point is, Yarrow had served out that time long before he was pardoned by Carter, so it's not like he got off scot free.)

So, imo, this is all water under the bridge at this point, and there doesn't seem to be any solid evidence that he was a serial offender. (Unsubstantiated allegations =/= solid evidence.) I therefore see no need to smear a man who is now dead and can't defend himself. I am sorry Winter's life has been so negatively affected by this, but I don't see how dragging Peter Yarrow's name through the mud posthumously would be helpful to her.

Furthermore, it seems to me that he still deserves credit for his contributions to the music world, as well for his decades of political activism. Whatever mistakes he made over half a century ago, this man gave the world a great deal, and I for one would prefer to focus on that.