"Baez and the Prisoners", San Francisco Chronicle, December 22, 1972

American singer Joan Baez, who was active in the antiwar movement, traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam, in December of 1972, where she performed for a small group of American prisoners of war. It was a controversial act not approved of by the U.S. government. Some Americans criticized her for performing in North Vietnam at all, arguing that her presence there could be seen as supporting the enemy or being used for propaganda by the North Vietnamese government.