"The words in the Declaration served as lyrics to a song by the Fifth Dimension, which had a number of popular hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Appearing on the “Portrait” album as part of a medley with the songs “A Change Is Gonna Come” and “People Got to Be Free,” the group sang it on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Dec. 7, 1969, back then, just the 28th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
Believe it or not, the lyrics of “The Declaration” were controversial at the time, considered an anti-government, anti-President Nixon protest. At the time, statements like “a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing, invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism;” hit home for war protesters."
From The Journal Gazette, 600 W. Main St., Fort Wayne In
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