Members of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, left to right: Paul Stookey, Mary Travers and Peter Yarrow in 1978. (The Heritage Foundation) Yarrow was born on May 31, 1938, in New York. His ...

Peter Yarrow was born in Manhattan to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on May 31, 1938. His father, Bernard, became a lawyer at the venerable Wall Street law firm Sullivan and Cromwell.

Peter, Paul and Mary perform in Chicago in 1983. Getty Images. In 1970, Yarrow was convicted of “taking indecent liberties” with a 14-year-old girl in a Washington, DC, hotel room.

Peter Yarrow, who co-wrote “Puff the Magic Dragon,” died Tuesday at his home in New York. The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul ...

Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers and Noel Paul Stookey in Chicago on Aug. 12, ... They couldn't vote. In Washington, D.C., if you were a person of color, you couldn't use a public bathroom.

Peter Yarrow, who found folk music ... recorded a popular cover of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind,” which they performed in 1963 at the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peter, Paul and Mary were also deeply involved in some of the biggest social and political movements of the Sixties. They performed during Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington, as ...

You like Peter, Paul and Mary?” Jack Byrnes (played by Robert De Niro) asks Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) in Meet the Parents, as ...

Peter Yarrow, founding member of the legendary folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, died Jan. 7, 2025, at his home in New York City after a four-year battle with bladder cancer.

In a separate incident, Yarrow was accused in a 2021 lawsuit of raping a teenage girl in a hotel room in 1969, according to The Washington Post and the New York Post.. How Peter, Paul and Mary was ...