Daydream Sunset:'60s Counterculture in the '70s
An alternative look at the history of the 1970s by Ron Jacobs
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017
War Is Over 1975
May 11, 1975 War is Over concert in Central Park, NYC. Saigon was liberated days before....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqrkPP_g8Xs
I write about another celebration in College Park, MD...in my book Daydream Sunset...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
War is Over May 1975
On May 11, 1975 Phil Ochs and others hosted a celebration in Central Park of the final end of the US war on the Vietnamese. Titled "War is Over," it featured Joan Baez, Lee Hays, Tom Paxton, Patti Smith and many others. (see setlist below)
https://sites.google.com/site/philipdavidochs/philochslive-may11,1975
On May 12, 1975. Saigon fell to the Vietnamese national liberation forces and US troops, CIA and others fled.
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