 By the end of 1963 , Dylan felt both manipulated and constrained by the folk and protest movements . Accepting the " Tom <unk> Award " from the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy , an intoxicated Dylan questioned the role of the committee , characterized the members as old and <unk> , and claimed to see something of himself and of every man in Kennedy 's assassin , Lee Harvey Oswald . 
