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From 1968 through 1973 Harris was married to folk singer Joan Baez . Baez related the amusing story of his arrest to the audience during her performance at the Woodstock Festival . Harris and Baez had one son together, Gabriel Harris.

From 1975 until her death in 1993 , Harris was married to author and New York Times reporter Lacey Fosburgh .

At Stanford, Harris was a protegé of Allard K. Lowenstein , a political organizer and later one-term Democratic congressman from New York . In the early 1980s , Lowenstein was shot to death by Harris's onetime friend Dennis Sweeney . Two years later, Harris wrote the book '' Dreams Die Hard '' about his experiences throughout the 1960s and 1970s with Lowenstein and Sweeney, and about the events leading up to the shooting.