Joan Baez | How I Found My Voice as a Pacifist



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Joan Baez. (photo: Jim Gilbert)
Joan Baez, The Wall Street Journal
Baez writes: "When I was 9, my father faced a moral dilemma. After getting his Ph.D. in physics, he took a job at Cornell University on a project to improve the bulletproof windows of fighter jets. But in the late 1940s, he wasn't comfortable working for the defense industry, given the horrors of the atomic bomb."
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