Peter Yarrow was born on May 31,1938 and is an American singer and songwriter who found fame for being in the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary.
36 Facts About Peter Yarrow
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Peter Yarrow is a political activist and has supported causes that range from opposition to the Vietnam War to school anti-bullying programs.
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Peter Yarrow was born in Manhattan, the son of Vera Wisebrode and Bernard Yarrow.
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Peter Yarrow's parents were educated Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, whose families had settled in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Bernard Peter Yarrow attended the Jagiellonian University and the Odesa University, before emigrating to the United States in 1922 at the age of 23.
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Peter Yarrow then maintained a private law practice in New York City until 1938, when he was appointed an assistant district attorney under the then-district attorney, Thomas E Dewey.
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Peter Yarrow was a founding board member of the National Committee for a Free Europe, an anti-Communist organization.
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Bernard Peter Yarrow married his wartime London OSS partner Silvia Tim, and converted to Protestantism.
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Peter Yarrow spent the summers of 1951 and 1952 at Interlochen's Music camp.
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Peter Yarrow graduated second in his class among male students with a physics prize from New York's High School of Music and Art, where he had studied painting.
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Peter Yarrow was accepted at Cornell University as a physics major but soon switched majors, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology in 1959.
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Peter Yarrow began singing in public during his last year at Cornell while participating in Harold Thompson's popular American Folk Literature course, colloquially known on campus as "Romp-n-Stomp".
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The course was "a highlight of late-1950s student life at Cornell", Peter Yarrow reminisced, and the ability to sing and play guitar was a prerequisite for enrollment.
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The experience of performing in front of a large audience was a thrilling one for Peter Yarrow, who discovered he loved it.
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Peter Yarrow branched out to lead community sings on weekends.
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Peter Yarrow noticed a picture of Mary Travers on the wall and asked Grossman who she was.
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Peter Yarrow recalled that when he told Dylan he would make more than $5,000 from the publishing rights, Dylan was speechless.
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Peter Yarrow was instrumental in founding the New Folks Concert series at both the Newport Folk Festival and the Kerrville Folk Festival.
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Peter Yarrow co-wrote and produced "Torn Between Two Lovers", a number one hit for Mary McGregor.
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Peter Yarrow produced three CBS TV specials based on "Puff, the Magic Dragon", which earned an Emmy nomination for him.
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In 1978 Peter Yarrow organized Survival Sunday, an antinuclear benefit, and after a period of separation, he was joined by Stookey and Travers.
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Peter Yarrow portrayed leftist intellectual Ira Mandelstam in the 2015 film While We're Young.
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Peter Yarrow has long been an activist for social and political causes.
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In 2000, in an effort to combat school bullying, Peter Yarrow helped start Operation Respect, a nonprofit organization that brings to children, in schools and camps, a curriculum of tolerance and respect for each other's differences.
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In 2005, Peter Yarrow performed in Ho Chi Minh City at a concert to benefit the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange; Peter Yarrow pleaded with the Vietnamese for forgiveness of the United States.
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Peter Yarrow serves on the board of directors of the Connecticut Hospice.
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On November 1,2008, Peter Yarrow performed across New York City for volunteers who worked for the presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama.
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Peter Yarrow has cited Judaism as one of the roots of his liberal views.
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Peter Yarrow did not press charges, as the person from whom it was recovered was not the same individual as the one who had stolen it.
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Peter Yarrow performed the world premiere of "The Colonoscopy Song" on the CBS early morning program The Early Show on March 9,2010.
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Peter Yarrow has acknowledged being an alcoholic, and sought treatment for the disease.
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In 1970, Peter Yarrow was convicted, and served three months in prison, for taking "improper liberties" with 14-year-old Barbara Winter, who went with her 17-year-old sister to Peter Yarrow's hotel room in Washington, DC seeking an autograph.
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Winter stated that Peter Yarrow answered the door naked and made her masturbate him until he ejaculated.
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Peter Yarrow was granted a presidential pardon by Jimmy Carter on January 19,1981, the day before Carter's presidency ended.
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For decades, Peter Yarrow avoided mention of the assault, but by the early 2000s, it became a campaign issue for politicians he supports.
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Peter Yarrow was awarded the Kate Wolf Memorial Award by the World Folk Music Association in 1993.