Tape From California (studio album) by Phil Ochs

High summer, 1970, four of us in a non-air-conditioned apartment on the third floor overlooking Central Square, getting high. Radio news came on and delivered the bummer story of the day from Viet Nam, again-- and suddenly the room changed. Frank, mild mannered Frank, wouldn't say s++t if he'd a mouthful, reached his limit. He threw up the window sashes, hauled the speakers over to the windowsills, fired up the turntable and dropped the needle on "The War Is Over."

The square was full of foot traffic and it was almost like "Get Back;" only the Londoners all knew the Beatles when they heard them, and these people, most of them couldn't have told Phil Ochs from Neil Diamond. They were impacted only by the tune and the sentiments expressed-- but a spring came into every step in the crowd, people laughed and clapped and gave us thumbs ups and peace signs, and a breeze came up the street off the river to show God's approval of Frank's gesture, and for a few minutes the world was exactly what it should be...