Loeb that they would be fired if they took the Fifth Amendment. In 1955, Shelton was one of 30 New York Times staffers subpoenaed by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, who were informed by Times counsel Louis M.

He moved to New York in the 1950s, and soon joined the staff of The New York Times. Shelton was raised in Chicago, served in the US Army in France during 1944–45, and attended the School of Journalism at Northwestern University. His father, a research chemist, was born in Minsk and came to the US in 1905. Shelton was born in Chicago in 1926 under the name Robert Shapiro, the son of Joseph and Hannah Shapiro, Russian Jewish immigrants. 'Among the newer promising talents deserving mention are a 20-year-old latter-day Guthrie disciple named Bob Dylan, with a curiously arresting mumbling, country-steeped manner.' This was Dylan's first live radio performance. Shelton had previously noted Dylan in a review for The New York Times of WRVR's live twelve-hour Hootenanny, July 29, 1961, at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Shelton's positive review in The New York Times brought crucial publicity to Dylan and led to a Columbia recording contract. In 1961, Dylan was performing at Gerdes Folk City in the West Village, one of the best-known folk venues in New York, opening for the bluegrass act the Greenbriar Boys. Shelton helped to launch the career of a then-unknown 20-year-old Bob Dylan. Robert Shelton, born Robert Shapiro (June 28, 1926, Chicago, Illinois, United States – December 11, 1995, Brighton, England) was a music and film critic.

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