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Looking back on CBS' coverage of America's bicentennial

Name: Looking back on CBS' coverage of America's bicentennial
Uploaded: 2026-06-23T17:50:00-0400
Duration: 2 min 32 s
Description: For more than two years in the 1970s, CBS honored America's 200th anniversary with a recorded tribute to revolutionary history called the "Bicentennial Minute." With the semiquincentennial now 12 days away, CBS News' Major Garrett looks back at one segment starring British-born actor Michael York.

For more than two years in the 1970s, CBS honored America's 200th anniversary with a recorded tribute to revolutionary history called the "Bicentennial Minute." With the semiquincentennial now 12 days away, CBS News' Major Garrett looks back at one segment starring British-born actor Michael York.