His third album would establish him as the undisputed king of protest music, even if as he was being crowned, Dylan was beginning to experience grave misgivings about both that type of song, fame in general and his own position as reluctant leader of a movement—misgivings which grew when, as he was recording The Times They Are A-Changin’ that November, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. From this point onwards, he would be harder to pin down, both in his songs and in person. “Being noticed can be a burden,” he explained later. “Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.” There would be significant changes on the personal front, too. Following his first liaison with Joan Baez following the Monterey Folk Festival, rumors quickly spread about the nature of their relationship, placing further stress on his already strained relations with Suze, though she initially doubted that his ego would cope with Baez’s fame. “Bobby couldn’t love Joan Baez,”
