Arlo Guthrie’s Alice's Restaurant song is played on the radio around the country every year on Thanksgiving Day at noon. Alice’s Restaurant Massacree was the official name of Alice’s Restaurant is singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie’s most prominent work that was based on a true story that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965, and it later inspired the 1969 Alice's Resturant movie.
Guthrie’s song points out that in 1965 any American citizen who had been convicted of a crime, no matter how minor (even littering), could avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War, according to Wikipedia. Beginning in the 1960s radio stations in the US played the song at noon on Thanksgiving Day across the country. The song is an incredible story that takes over 18 minutes to tell as Arlo Guthrie’s plays his guitar and tells the interesting story.
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