{"id":210765,"date":"2026-06-04T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210765\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:16:08","slug":"watch-live-pittsburgh-to-unveil-fourth-of-july-celebration-plans-for-americas-250th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210765\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Live: Pittsburgh to unveil Fourth of July celebration plans for America&#8217;s 250th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh city leaders are unveiling plans for Fourth of July celebrations on Thursday afternoon, and residents can expect plenty of fanfare to mark America&#8217;s 250th anniversary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O&#8217;Connor and partners like America250PA, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership and Heinz History Center will announce Independence Day plans on Thursday at a press conference scheduled for 2 p.m. You can watch it live in the video player above.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It comes after USA Today readers voted Pittsburgh&#8217;s Fourth of July celebration the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pittsburgh-fourth-of-july-best-in-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">best in the nation<\/a>. The festivities usually kick off in the afternoon, with entertainment, food trucks and family-friendly activities. The night culminates with a fireworks display from Pittsburgh Three Rivers, with some of the best viewing spots up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pittsburgh-fireworks-4th-of-july-north-shore-mount-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mt. Washington<\/a>, looking down at the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh city leaders are unveiling plans for Fourth of July celebrations on Thursday afternoon, and residents can expect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40018,35679,92364,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-210765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-4th-of-july","tag-corey-o039connor","tag-july-4th","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}