How Americans celebrated the bicentennial — with fireworks, a Freedom Train and Farrah
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FILE - Ships participate in Operation Sail between the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center to celebrate the U.S. bicentennial in New York on July 4, 1976. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams, File)FILE - Five-year-old Thomas Scott of Bridgewater, Mass., celebrates the U.S. bicentennial in Boston's Fourth of July parade, Sunday, July 4, 1976. (AP Photo/File)FILE - People wait in line to see the American Freedom Train in Archbold, Ohio, June 20, 1975. (AP Photo/File)FILE - Floats and participants in the 10.8-mile All Nation, All People Official Los Angeles County Bicentennial Parade along Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, Sunday, July 4, 1976. (AP Photo/File)FILE - Actor and screenwriter Sylvester Stallone, left, poses with Eletha Finch, center, widow of actor Peter Finch, and actress Faye Dunaway at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 28, 1977. (AP Photo/File)
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FILE - Ships participate in Operation Sail between the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center to celebrate the U.S. bicentennial in New York on July 4, 1976. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams, File)