Learn about "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes," a song about a Native American marine at Iwo Jima that Cash dared radio to play. https://JohnnyCash.lnk.to/BitterTears | Johnny Cash

On this date in 1964, JOHNNY CASH released the single THE BALLAD OF IRA HAYES (Jun 2, 1964) Fifty-eight years ago today, Johnny Cash released the folk song, “The Ballad of Ira Hayes.” Backlash immediately followed. The song is about a real-life man, Ira Hayes who was a Pima Native American and one of the Marines in the famous photo from Iwo Jima. He was one of six men to return from that battle. However, after his heroic deeds during World War II, Hayes battled alcoholism and unhappiness on a re

Bob Dylan - The Ballad of Ira Hayes (HD FOOTAGE from the Tuscarora Reservation, 1975) __________________________________________________________ This is very special footage of Bob playing Peter La Farge's ballad that tells the story of Ira Hayes, one of the six Marines who became famous for having raised the flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II. This was recorded in 1975, and the footage was finally released in the new Netflix documentary, "Rolling Thunder Revue

Ira Hayes, a Native American Marine immortalized in the famous 1945 photograph of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, became a national hero overnight. But behind the image, he battled severe PTSD and alcoholism - arrested over 50 times before tragically freezing to d*ath in the Arizona desert in 1955. | LazBu