Some of these organizations, led by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, have scheduled a 20 August press conference in Los Angeles - presumably to try to obscure the evident links between the alleged New FolsomPrison plot and their ministering to felons.
In February 1969 he had recorded the follow-up to FolsomPrison, Live at San Quentin, which would go on to sell even better than its predecessor, and ABC had just commissioned the weekly Johnny Cash Show which would turn him into a prime time TV star.