Taco Liberty Bell

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The Taco Liberty Bell was an April Fool's Day joke played by fast food restaurant chain Taco Bell. On April 1, 1996, Taco Bell took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times announcing that they had purchased the Liberty Bell to "reduce the country's debt" and renamed it the "Taco Liberty Bell". Thousands of people protested before it was revealed to them that the sale was a hoax .

Press secretary Mike McCurry responded that the federal government was also "selling the Lincoln Memorial to Ford Motor Co. and renaming it the Lincoln-Mercury Memorial."[1]

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  1. ^ Boese, Alex (2002). The Taco Liberty Bell. Museum of Hoaxes. Retrieved on April 1, 2007.

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