Showing posts with label Patti Smith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patti Smith. Show all posts

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)



On May 12, 1975.  Saigon fell to the Vietnamese national liberation forces and US troops, CIA and others fled.