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Capp and his family lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Harvard during the entire Vietnam War protest era.

The turmoil that Americans were watching on their TV sets was happening live — right in his own neighborhood.

Campus radicals and “ hippies ” inevitably became one of Capp ’ s favorite targets in the sixties.

Alongside his long-established caricatures of right-wing, big business types such as General Bullmoose and J. Roaringham Fatback, Capp began spoofing counterculture icons such as Joan Baez ( in the character of Joanie Phoanie, a wealthy folksinger who offers an impoverished orphanage ten thousand dollars ' worth of " protest songs ").

The sequence implicitly labeled Baez a limousine liberal, a charge she took to heart, as detailed years later in her 1987 autobiography, And A Voice To Sing With: A Memoir.

Another target was Senator Ted Kennedy, parodied as " Senator O. Noble McGesture ," resident of " Hyideelsport.

" The town name is a play on Hyannisport, Massachusetts, where a number of the Kennedy clan have lived.