{"id":29713,"date":"2024-06-12T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-12-1982-bruce-springsteen-james-taylor-and-more-headline-rally-for-nuclear-disarmament\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:00:11","slug":"on-this-day-june-12-1982-bruce-springsteen-james-taylor-and-more-headline-rally-for-nuclear-disarmament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-12-1982-bruce-springsteen-james-taylor-and-more-headline-rally-for-nuclear-disarmament\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, June 12, 1982: Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor and more headline Rally for Nuclear Disarmament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-12\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, June 12, 1982 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>James Taylor<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jackson Browne<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Joan Baez, Linda Ronstadt\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Gary\u00a0U.S. Bonds\u00a0<\/strong>performed for a million protesters at the Rally for Nuclear Disarmament\u00a0on the Great Lawn in New York\u2019s Central Park.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rally was timed to coincide with a United Nations Special Session on Disarmament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The gathering was the largest anti-nuclear weapons demonstration in U.S. history.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">In 2018, a two-CD set featuring highlights from the rally was released, including performances of Springsteen\u2019s \u201cPromised Land,\u201d Browne\u2019s \u201cRunning On Empty,\u201d Ronstadt\u2019s \u201cBlue Bayou\u201d and Taylor\u2019s \u201cYou\u2019ve Got a Friend.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, June 12, 1982 &#8230; Bruce Springsteen,\u00a0James Taylor,\u00a0Jackson Browne,\u00a0Joan Baez, Linda Ronstadt\u00a0and\u00a0Gary\u00a0U.S. Bonds\u00a0performed for a million protesters at the Rally for Nuclear Disarmament\u00a0on the Great Lawn in New York\u2019s Central Park.\u00a0 The rally was timed to coincide with a United Nations Special Session on Disarmament. The gathering was<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-12-1982-bruce-springsteen-james-taylor-and-more-headline-rally-for-nuclear-disarmament\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}