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How Americans celebrated the bicentennial ??? with fireworks, a Freedom Train and Farrah
In 1976, as the United States prepared to celebrate its 200th anniversary, the mood was ambivalent. Americans had outlasted the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, with the occasional moment of joy like the moon landing.
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