Academics dissect Bob Dylan and the Law

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Dylan "wrote some very powerful songs about what happens to folks when the system, and when the law, fail them," said Richard H. Underwood, a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law. But while Dylan was inspired by real-life cases, Underwood said, he "was not necessarily concerned with true facts. He took a lot of poetic license."

Zantzinger "killed poor Hattie Carroll with a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger at a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin' ...," sings Dylan. "In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel to show that all's equal and that the courts are on the level. And that the strings in the books ain't pulled and persuaded and that even the nobles get properly handled."

Criminals in their coats and their ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise while Rubin sits like Buddha in a 10-foot cell, an innocent man in a living hell." Read more at minnesota.publicradio.org

 

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