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Murray Lerner, filmmaker who captured Dylan “going electric” at Newport Folk Festival, dead at 90

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Jason Kempin/Getty ImagesMurray Lerner, the filmmaker whose 1967 documentary Festival features footage of Bob Dylan‘s historic “electric” performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, died Saturday of kidney failure at the age of 90, Variety reports. Lerner’s