PETE SEEGER - SEEGER RECEIVES BELATED APOLOGY

SEEGER RECEIVES BELATED APOLOGY

Folk singer PETE SEEGER has won an apology from a San Diego, California school board - almost 50 years after he was forced to sign an oath against communism or cancel a concert planned at a local high school.
The Grammy Award winning star was scheduled to perform at Hoover High School in May 1960 when the school board ordered him to pledge that the concert would not be used to promote a communist agenda or overthrow the government.
Seeger, who at the time of the board's demand was under scrutiny for his left-wing politics, refused to sign the oath - although a judge later allowed the concert to proceed anyway.
Now, 49 years later, school board officials have issued an apology to Seeger. In a statement released on Tuesday (11Feb09), the board declares it "deeply regrets its predecessors' actions".
And Seeger is happy to accept the apology, calling the board's resolution a "measure of justice that our right to freedom of expression has been vindicated".