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4 days ago'Country' Joe McDonald, Songwriter and Proud Counterculture Agitator, Dies at 84 | KQED
Country Joe McDonald, 1960s hippie rock star whose Vietnam War protest song became a Woodstock anthem, died at age 84.
On Nov. 15,1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam War. Also on this date: In 1777, the Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation. In 1806, explorer Zebulon Pike sighted the mountain now known as Pikes Peak in present-day Colorado. In 1864, late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM'-seh) Sherman began their March to the Sea from Atlanta;