On December 13, 1963, Bob Dylan received the Tom Paine award at a Bill of Rights dinner held by the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee in New York. At this dinner he held a very uptight and confused speech saying things like
"... I got to admit that the man who shot President Kennedy, Lee Oswald,
... I got to admit that I, too - saw something of myself in him ... "
This was less than a month after the assassination.
The Emergency Civil Liberties Committee was a Communist front.