The butt of many a joke in its day and even into the 21st century, The Bicentennial Minute was an occasionally bland but also occasionally interesting minute-long segment delivered by a celebrity about what happened in U.S. history 200 years ago that day. Celebrate your Fourth of July holiday listening about this patriotic throwback to the 70s.
"Lucy's Bicentennial Minute" - https://papermoonloveslucy.tumblr.com/post/175503525253/lucys-bicentennial-minute
Betty Ford Bicentennial Minute Materials (Gerald Ford Presidential Library and Museum): - https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0126/1489543.pdf
Press Release for Congressman Butler Derrick's (D-SC) appearance on the Bicentennial Minute on November 12, 1975 (University of South Carolina Library) - https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/derrick/id/89/
August 24, 1975: Congresswoman Bella Abzug (D-NY) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsnFrd63j4k
August 31, 1975: Jessica Tandy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUoto1lsX50
January 8, 1976: Laurence Luckinbill - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir6pabr4CD0
January 22, 1976: Gary Lockwood - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hai2OxMwl9w
March 9, 1976: Jim Hutton - https://youtu.be/zgwiC4TT9aM?t=499
March 18, 1976: Val Avery - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93s5mXL0WZk
May 7, 1976: Otto Preminger - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1HwX6TdHbk
May 12, 1976: Mitchell Ryan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TpBK7tZc2k
May 20, 1976: Zubin Mehta - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bt3SNBOrw
May 27, 1976: Garson Kanin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgxOYH7fHX4
June 4, 1976: Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHDXxzuXBok
July 22, 1976: Will Rogers Jr. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfG8LHyRlNY
December 20, 1976: Emlyn Williams - https://youtu.be/8nUKzWGVWe4?t=1671
December 31, 1976: President Gerald Ford (Last 42 Seconds) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0TB76tc5Tg
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