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♪ (rock 'n' roll music plays) ♪

Reporter: There are
colonies of hippies

springing up
in most American cities.

Unidentified Male:
It's all related

the psychedelics
and the war, the protesting.

Janis Joplin:
I'm planning on having

a good time as long as I can.

Unidentified Male:
Smoke pot with your kids

and then you'll understand
why the kids are happier.

Reporter:
There's a giant love-in.

Unidentified Female:
People should be uninhibited

in their sexual expression.

Unidentified Male:
You cannot ignore

a change in morality.

Unidentified Male:
They're fascists.

They don't like hippies and
they don't like things we do.

Police officer:
We do have to maintain law,

order and decency
on the streets.

Jerry Garcia:
What we're thinking about

is a peaceful planet. We're not
thinking about anything else.

Unidentified Male:
They are trying to do

what no one else has
ever done before,

find a new way for humanity.

♪ (theme music) ♪

Ken Babbs: America
in the early sixties,

it was a real good time
of prosperity

but it was also kind of
a stagnant time

in terms of
spiritual growth.

Things were,
kind of, at a standstill.

Peter Coyote: The baseline
culture was materialism

and also the feeling that
the culture itself

didn't honor
the human spirit

and didn't honor creativity.

(applause)
(piano plays)

In the early 1950s,

the nation recognized
in its midst

a social movement called
'Beat Generation'.

On the Road
became a bestseller.

Douglas Brinkley:
When Kerouac's book comes out

it became a revolution,

defined a new generation of
what being 'Beat' means.

And it defined it
as a spiritual revolution.

But if we're living
in an age of conformity,

if everybody is trying
to work for the corporation

then you're losing a sense
of self.

(reading)
"I was traveling West one time

at the junction of the
state line of Colorado...

I saw in the clouds
huge and massed

above the fearing
golden desert of even fall,

the Great Image of God

with his forefinger pointed
straight at me.

'Come on, boy,
go thou across the ground.

Go moan for man.

Go moan, go groan.

Go groan alone.
Go roll your bones alone."

(applause)

Jack Kerouac became
like a godfather

for the counterculture.

Reporter:
The village has a life

and language all its own.

If you dig it, you're hip.

If you don't,
man, you're square.

Coffee houses,

the neighborhood bars of
Bohemia

where the strongest potion
is coffee.

And the coffee house poet

is the specialty
of the house.

Kerouac (reading): "To find a
place where the eyes can rest."

Henry Diltz: Beatniks.

They have these
coffee houses

they would go in and
play chess and read poetry

and those same coffee houses

became, kind of,
a proving ground

for folk singers.

And all the young kids
were running out

to buy guitars and banjos.

Unidentified Male: Folk music,
it gives me a lot more

than the popular music
of our own time does.

My outlook is that

topical songs should be sung
because

we don't anything about,
say, the bomb, you know,

the whole situation
comes to an end.

Joan Baez: There's got
to be an alternative to

whatever ways in life are
offered to them, you know.

I mean Democrat,
Republican.

And I would like to offer
some kind of alternative

somehow, you know.

Brinkley:
The folk revival scene had a

big part on politics.
You can't get left politics

out of Woody Guthrie
or Pete Seeger.

And so the Greenwich Village
Movement

was there to celebrate
people's culture.

If you liked the music
you really were signing for

their ways of looking
at the world, too.

And then eventually

one guy emerges
as being special.

♪ (plays 'Only A Pawn
In Their Game') ♪

♪ A bullet from ♪
the back of a bush

♪ Took Medgar Evers' blood ♪

Joel Peresman: During that time
in the sixties,

as that cultural revolution
was slowly bubbling

and kids were starting to
question authority,

question what was
happening in their country.

They were looking for answers.

Brinkley: Bob Dylan thought
that folk music was poetry.

He took beat energy and
mixed it with folk culture

and it's more
lyrical intensity

than anybody's
put to song before.

♪ And the Negro's name is used
It is plain ♪

♪ For the politician's gain
As he rises to fame ♪

Diltz: Up until
the time of Bob Dylan

there were the songwriters
and there were the singers.

Dylan started writing his
own music.

David Wild: He says,
"I'm going to

comment on the world.

I'm going to comment
on the nature

of this human experience."

Bob Dylan was
in this, sort of,

white hot moment
of saying more

in the popular song than
anyone ever had before.

♪ Only a pawn in that game ♪

(applause)

Wild: After the revolution of
Bob Dylan,

the music world moves West.

♪ ('Go Where You Wanna Go'
by The Mamas and Papas plays) ♪

Wild: Laurel Canyon becomes

the epicenter
of the rock revolution.

Michelle Phillips:
The music scene

was not happening
in New York anymore.

It was now LA.

Everybody moved to
Laurel Canyon.

Diltz: Actors, musicians,
artists,

and so it was, kind of, a
whole community, very open.

If you're driving over
Laurel Canyon

and you saw somebody
hitchhiking,

you would just automatically
pullover,

"Hey, brother, get in,"
you know, "Where you going?"

Graham Nash: Laurel Canyon
was an incredibly

interesting place
to live in those days.

I lived on Lookout Mountain
with Joni Mitchell.

Crosby was close,
Steven was close.

Wild:
Now, it was all these artists

who were singing the truth.

And their truth
was this idyllic,

sort of, sense of freedom.

There was a
thriving community of kids

that were discovering
their new life

and couldn't wait to play you

the new song
that they had written.

Nash:
There was a lot of freedom.

There was a lot of drugs.

There was a lot of
beautiful women.

There was a lot of good
rock and roll being made.

It was a fabulous time.

♪ (rock 'n' roll music plays) ♪

Reporter:
These are students

at a suburban high school
in Los Angeles.

They reflect the sun,
the sensuality and affluence

which dominate life
in Southern California.

The latest fad
is the Sunset Strip.

During the past year,
it has become a playground

for Southern California's
mobile, restless teenagers.

place to go.

Phillips: People would
meet down at clubs

on the Sunset Strip and
they would go to the 'Trip'

or they would go to the
'Whiskey A Go Go'.

It was a real happening.

Wild: We changed from
the culture of grownups

that sort of
looked down on kids

to kids leading.

Connelly: It is the creation
of the teenager.

And the revolution begins.

♪ (rock 'n' roll music plays) ♪

News Reporter:
The Los Angeles

County Sheriff's Office
has begun foot patrol

on the Sunset Strip to cope

with the growing influx
of youngsters.

John Heilemann:
The notion of teenagers

who had a culture
of their own,

that weren't listening
to their parent's music,

kind of, opens up this
giant space for

rebellions, large and small.

Police officer: At least
ten percent of the students

have used and are using
marijuana.

And also a very-- Probably
a very significant thing is

that acceptance is
gaining steadily and

the usage is really

increasing
very, very rapidly.

Diltz: In LA, we were all
kind of, you know,

smoking God's herb.

Whereas up in
San Francisco, it seemed like

they were experimenting more

with mind expansion,
you know?

Brinkley:
Ken Kesey took classes

of writing at
Stanford University

and he writes the great novel

One Flew Over
The Cuckoo's Nest.

And this makes Kesey
a celebrity.

While at Stanford,
I was given the opportunity

to go to the Stanford Hospital

and take part
in the LSD experiments.

Brinkley:
Kesey had volunteered to do

tests for LSD.
A government sponsored test.

Unidentified Male:
LSD was isolated

by Stoll and Hofmann in

Sandoz Pharmaceutical Company
of Basel, Switzerland.

Unidentified Male:
Do you feel happy?

Yes.

Well you must be because
you have tears in your eyes.

(sighs)

Is that a beautiful experience,
would you say?

I would say yes.

Some people think
it's when Kesey

discovers LSD

that the counter culture
in California is born

because more and more people

then want to try experience
what Kesey experienced

and he becomes a
promoter of it.

Kesey created a
drug commune at La Honda

which is an hour
from San Francisco.

Great artists love
smashing traditions

and at his best
Kesey was doing that.

Everybody would have this
communal LSD trip together.

Tom Wolfe would write

The Electric Kool-Aid
about it.

People were constantly
slipping drugs into my food.

The number of times
that I would get up,

"I don't know what the hell
happened to me!"

They thought
they were doing me a favor.

Babbs: They're having
the World's Fair

in New York, so bunch of us
were going to go.

But the bunch of us
were too big to fit

in his station wagon,
so he bought this

converted school bus.

Brinkley: Kesey,
he was going to

paint the bus in
day glow bright colors

and then go what he called
"unsettling America,

blowing people's minds".

Babbs: The whole idea of
blowing peoples' minds

was that you have to
present something to them

that is so different,
there's a crack comes open

where something new
can come in.

And the reaction of all
these people is wonderful

because what it was,
in 1964 there was

no other thing
like this happening.

Brinkley: It's part of a kind of

cultural revolution going on
making the squares

pay notice to this
underground of America.

Babbs:
When we got New York City

which is the home
of the 'Beats'

where Kerouac lived,
and picked him up,

because we were
in his presence

we were just acting
as goofy as we could,

playing music,
putting on costumes,

doing all kinds of acts
and stuff like that.

And then Kerouac
sat on the couch

drinking a big tall Budweiser.

He was obviously not
an enthusiastic guy.

Those Beats,
they had done their thing,

you know, I really felt like
the torch had been passed

from those guys to the
psychedelic generation.

Brinkley: Kesey, in many ways,
was very messianic

and he started feeling
that acid

would allow you to see
a larger truth.

And they started saying

let's get as many people
to try LSD as you can.

Babbs: And so we started
renting halls.

We called the thing
the Acid Test.

And the band of course,
was known as the Warlocks.

As time went on

they changed their name
to the Grateful Dead.

♪ St. Stephen with a rose ♪

♪ In and out
of the garden he goes ♪

♪ Country garden
in the wind and the rain ♪

♪ Wherever he goes
the people all complain ♪

Wolfe: LSD
was not an illegal drug.

When Kesey held
these Acid Tests

as they were known,
they'd have two vats.

One was punch and
one was punch with LSD.

Lisa Law: The Acid Test
was like a party.

The scene is a lot of
light shows

and music and
people dancing.

And when the Dead
were playing

it was a way
to feel that acid in waves.

And I looked down
and I saw

kids in front of me
moving to the music.

They looked up at me
and I said...

"Yeah!"

♪ (rock 'n' roll music
plays) ♪

Peresman: The drug culture
really took hold

and that's where artists,

whether it was Grateful Dead
or Jefferson Airplane,

were able to embrace it
and put it in their music.

Brinkley: The counter culture
in California is born

because more and more people
then want to try

to experience
what Kesey experienced.

And he became
a kind of 'Grand Pubaah'

of the carnival of
San Francisco in the sixties.

There's nothing grown up

or sophisticated in
taking an LSD trip at all.

They are just being
complete fools.

CBS News, without any flowers
in its hair,

is in San Francisco

because this city
has gained the reputation

of being the hippie capital
of the world.

I got accepted in
San Francisco State

and I found an apartment
at Haight and Clayton Street

right in the center of

what would become
the Haight Ashbury.

Reporter:
The psychedelic shop

on Haight Street,
started just over year ago,

it spreads the gospel of
a dreamy new utopia

based on brotherhood
and love and LSD.

To all of people out there
that are confused and hungry

for some kind spiritual
meaning in life.

That's why all these people
are down here.

That's why there is so much
interest in Haight Ashbury

because it offers
some kind of hope.

We moved up and
lived right down the street

from the psychedelic shop.

People were growing
their hair long,

they were wearing beads,
playing music on the street.

It was just
an incredible environment

at that point
at the beginning.

That's when it was just like
one big, giant family.

Coyote: Before you knew it,

it was a congregating place
for artists.

And the dividing line

seemed to be
the psychedelic experience.

You couldn't understand
the posters,

you couldn't understand
the fashions,

you couldn't understand
anything

if you hadn't gotten high.

Reporter: The Diggers group
scrounges food and money

to feed free
those who arrive

in Panhandle Park with
a bowl and an appetite.

"Diggers are people who share,"
says the manifesto

and their aim is a society

where everything is shared,
everything free.

Law: The Diggers were
one of the first groups

that were into
social consciousness

about what was needed
to take care of this

huge group of people

that were coming
in to the Haight Ashbury.

Reporter:
Their free shop looks more

like a playground
at first sight.

Here they make
treats and clothes

for other hippies
who can come and take

what they want without
paying anything for it.

Coyote: Everything
in the store was free,

tools, clothing, televisions

and so we were
inviting people

to imagine a way of life
that would please them

and then,
to make it real by doing it.

What we're thinking about
is a peaceful planet.

We're not thinking about
anything else.

We're not thinking about
any kind of power.

We're not thinking about any of
those kind of struggles.

We're not thinking about
revolution or war

or any of that.

That's not what we want.
Nobody wants to get hurt.

Nobody wants to hurt anybody.

We would all like
to be able to live

an uncluttered life.

A simple life, a good life,
you know,

and, like, think about
moving the whole human race

ahead a step.
Or a few steps.

Diltz: We wanted to learn
more about

the real meaning of life.

Why are we here?

Certainly,
not to kill each other

but here to celebrate life
to make music and do art

and love each other.

Reporter:
These people are hippies.

They represent a new form
of social rebellion.

It is hard to figure out

what positive things
they are in favor of.

Jay Thelin:
The reason we can no longer

identify with the kinds of
activities

that the older generation
are engaged in,

is because those activities
are, for us, meaningless.

They have lead
to a monstrous war

in Vietnam, for example.

Grace Slick:
We did want change from war,

from rigid ideas of what

the sexes ought to be doing.

A change from black people
ought to be here

and white people
ought to be here.

No! Why can we try
and make that work?

The Haight Ashbury community
has created the council

for a Summer of Love
in San Francisco.

Unidentified Male:
The council is calling for

creative love happenings

for every weekend
throughout the summer.

We ask all who come here
to come here in love.

And we ask all who live here,

to greet all men with love.

They, at their best, are trying
for a kind of group sainthood.

And saints running in groups
are likely to be ludicrous.

They depend on hallucination
for their philosophy.

This is not a new idea.
And it has never worked.

Brinkley: There was sort of
a divide of generations,

a lot of mistrust.

Young people didn't trust
old people.

Old people didn't understand
young people.

Man in audience: What's so
offensive about long hair?

It looks sloppy.

(laughter)
(applause)

It doesn't differentiate
the boys from the girls enough.

Coyote:
We didn't ourselves hippies.

The hippies are a
fabrication.

They were an attempt
to diminish

young adults and
infantilize us.

And it certainly serves to
exclude the people

that were deeply thoughtful
about the world,

that were ready to
dedicate their lives

to making change
and question

the paradigm of materialism.

Look around you,
nothing works.

The only thing...
the kids are presented with

when they grow up,
you know,

you can join the army,
you can go to war.

You can get a gig
working as an engineer,

become a vegetable and
drive to work in your own car,

your own big metal box,
you know, it just...

It looks absurd.

You know,
people in their metal boxes,

like, just going
all over from job to job,

frustrated, uptight...

What joy is there in life?

Life should be--
Life is and should be...

ecstasy.

Brinkley: The counter culture
had the arrogance to tell

everybody else what they
were doing is wrong.

And nobody likes that.

Aline Saarinen:
It's estimated that anywhere

from ten to
200,000 youngsters

may pour in to
Haight Ashbury this summer.

Many people are
apprehensive,

they feel that Black Power,

or other political
activist groups,

may use Haight Street as a
stage setting for riots.

Haight Ashbury cannot handle

a 100,000 because
there isn't room.

Coyote: The tension between

the government
and the people

began to be evident.

Thomas Cahill: Nobody should
let their young children

come into San Francisco
unsupervised

to become a part of a group
such as that.

They're fascists as far as
I'm concerned.

And they don't like hippies

and they don't like
the things we do

and they try to harass us,
bother us...

Reporter: In some way,
their revolution

is a war between generations.

The hippies rallying cry is,
"Never trust anyone over 30."

The war of youth culture
against

the establishment is in
full swing on every front.

About four policeman
and a plainclothesman

came in and said,
"Everybody get out,

everybody get out.
The store is closed."

They wouldn't give a reason,
they wouldn't identify,

you know, under what premise
they were doing this.

When we ask them
they started

pushing people around.
They pushed people

physically out of the store.

The Mayor is...

This is, really,
very insidious what he's up to.

He wants to stop
human growth.

Reporter:
The hippie leaders say

all will be well.
Flower-power will prevail.

They say it will be a
summer of love.

The great pilgrimage.

Hopefully, they'll be right.

If it's necessary to bring in
National Guard,

I'll bring in
National Guard.

I'll use whatever force
is necessary.

Reporter:
We now seem to be witnessing,

in this country
and elsewhere,

an intense preoccupation

with the pursuit of
pleasure.

Call it hedonism,
call it self-gratification,

call it what you will.

You cannot avoid
noticing it.

You may not like it,
you may not accept it,

but you cannot ignore it.
A change in morality.

♪ Eight miles high ♪

♪ And when you touch down ♪

♪ You'll find that ♪

Turn on, tune in, drop out.

I spent some time in New York

and I spent some time
in London

and I'm here to tell you
it's happening all over.

Todd Gitlin:
In any large city,

there were other
Haight Ashbury's,

which people could point to.

See we're on the map.

We're big and
we're far more interesting

than what you all
have to offer.

♪ ('Eight Miles High'
by Byrds plays) ♪

Interviewer:
How do you answer

the questions of parents
who are concerned about

the use of LSD and
marijuana for their children?

Timothy Leary:
These are young people

who are hungering
for older people,

for their parents
to listen to them.

These youngsters want to
share with their parents

the grandeur and the glory
that they are encountering

and perhaps, eventually,
when you're spiritually ready,

you'll turn on
with your children

if you think that's
the right thing to do.

Law: Monterey Pop,

it was the absolute
ultimate love-in.

♪ Sittin' down by my window ♪

♪ Just looking out
at the rain ♪

The best festival
that I've played

pretty much ever is
Monterey Pop festival.

♪ Looking out at the rain ♪

D. A. Pennebaker:
Monterey hit like lightning.

Popular music
was changing

and had become
something different,

and there was a whole
new generation of people

that wanted to
march with it.

It said, "Get on board.
We're leaving town."

♪ Here you've gone today ♪

♪ And I want to love you ♪

♪ I want to love you
for so long ♪

♪ Oh, yeah ♪

Phillips: You realize
this is Janis Joplin

before she was known.

Before she'd ever done
her first album.

Before she'd ever done
her first single.

♪ Lookin' out at the rain ♪

♪ Somethin' came along ♪

It's just music
at its freshest.

It's music
that is just being born

and the audience is like.

♪ And I say whoa, whoa ♪

♪ Honey, this can't be ♪

♪ And I say ♪

(screams melody)

(cheering)

♪ Once in a while ♪

♪ Oh, baby, tell me why love ♪

♪ Honey, why love is like ♪

♪Why it's like a ball and ♪

♪ and a chain ♪

(cheering and applause)

Law: Everything was love and
peace and music and

the policeman
who was in charge

brought flowers
out to his men and he said,

"Don't bust anybody."

Monterey was that
hippie dream come true.

Gitlin: Culture was changing,
the hippie movement,

it was swaying the mainstream.

Carlton Cordell: This is
where the youngsters come

to buy their clothes
and not just the youngsters,

it's the young adults
and the men who are 40, 50

and even 60 years old.

Reporter: In the States,
pot is going middle class

and spreading like
prohibition liquor.

As more and more citizens
get zonked out of their minds,

the drug cult enters

the bloodstream
of American life.

Like it or not, we're living
in the 'stoned' age.

At its best,
the counter culture

came in with hard punches
to the mainstream culture.

Jefferson Poland:
People have already

changed their minds
about contraception,

abortion, premarital sex.

Michelle Ashford:
The 1960s were,

absolutely,
a sexual revolution.

Because of the pill,
women could take

charge of their own bodies.
They could be sexual.

They didn't have to
get pregnant.

Everything sort of coalesced
as, sort of, the perfect storm

of societal forces
coming together.

Here, if you love somebody
and people here love everybody,

if you want to make love
to somebody then you should.

There's no reason
why you shouldn't.

Diltz: Free love was all well
and good

and there was
a lot of accidental sex.

But we didn't look at it
as hedonism.

People were just so open
to each other

and life was beautiful,
you know,

and people weren't judgmental.

Brinkley: The mainstream
young people

were telling their parents,
"You've been prohibiting my

sexual freedom and the
puritan work ethic is bunk."

It was clear
the rules were changing.

And the rules were really
that there were no rules.

The topic tonight
is the hippies.

Buckley: We have with us
Mr. Jack Kerouac over here

who is said to have
started the whole

Beat Generation business.

Jack Kerouac
never wanted to be a prophet.

He wanted to be a
great American writer.

But fame destroys people
in America.

To what extent do you believe

that the Beat Generation
is related...

to the hippies?

What do they have in common?

Was this an evolution
from one to another?

Just the older ones.

-Buckley: Yeah.
-I'm 46 years old.

These kids are 18.

The Beat Generation was a
generation of the attitude

and pleasure in life
and tenderness.

I believe in order and piety.

Brinkley:
Here's the progenitor, really

of the counter culture
kind of disowning

his own babies and try to

make sense of a decade,
the sixties,

that he didn't feel parry to.

Apparently some kind of
Dionysian movement

and which I did not intend.

This was pure at my heart.

So...

All sorts of people
have been writing

various articles
about the hippies.

Usually about the hippies as
if they were animals,

something to look at.

Thus we've gotten hundreds,

and literally thousands,
of people coming up to

Haight Ashbury
to watch people.

It makes Haight Ashbury

a terribly unpleasant place
to be in.

Law: The news got out about
the Haight Ashbury.

It became overrun.

Tour guide:
We're now entering

what is known as
the largest hippie colony

in the world.

Fountainhead of the hippie
subculture.

The nickname is 'Hashburys',
and marijuana, of course,

and LSD is being used.

Wild: Literally people
made the trip

to San Francisco to be
a part of something.

But by the time they got there,
that trip was over.

Reporter:
This is the latest stage

in the evolution
of the hippie movement.

The hippies are trying
to get away.

So they go out to a cabin
in the countryside

and start a commune.

Here, they can get away
from the tourists

and the reporters who badger
them in San Francisco.

Babbs: Communes had started
and this was really

what the hippie movement
was all about.

An idea of
sharing everything,

clothes and food
and everything,

people could just help
themselves, you know.

Coyote: We lived communally

because it was
the cheapest way to live.

A lot of people began to

clarify and simplify
their lives.

Reporter:
What will follow

this dispersal
of the hippie movement

to the countryside
is hard to predict.

They may be, as they say

coming here
to build the foundations

for a new society
in this nation.

Or they may be coming
like the woolly mammoth,

to find their
own extinction.

♪ ('Down Where
the Woodbine Twineth' plays) ♪

I was working for the New York
Times in the Catskills,

and it was just a couple of
us going up there.

As we went north of the city,

we began to run
into traffic jams.

I found a cop, I said,
"What the hell is going on?"

He says, "I don't know.

There are thousands of
people here

and they're all going to
some farm."

And it was, of course,
Woodstock.

Wild: I think Woodstock
was an opportunity

for people to realize
they weren't alone.

A lot people,
who in their hometown,

or in their family
felt isolated,

realized they weren't.

Reporter: The towns people,
quite frankly,

were terrified at the prospect
of the hippie arrival.

(cheering)

Law: The word got out.

Everybody and their brother

came from
all over the country.

Reporter:
First, the sudden rain,

then the thirst and hunger

from the shortage of
water and food,

just for the opportunity
to spend

a few days in the country

getting stoned
on their drugs

and grooving on the music.

Law: We got together and
had a little pow-wow about

what are we going to do
to feed these people.

We went in to New York to
buy 1,500 pounds bulgur wheat,

1,500 pounds of rolled oats,

a 130,000 paper plates,
130,000 Dixie cups

and I believe we served
200,000 people.

Gitlin: By now, there are
tens of millions of people

who feel themselves to be

an irresistible river of
change.

And you get something
incandescent.

♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom ♪

♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom
Freedom ♪

♪ ('Freedom' continues) ♪

Diltz: We'd have love-ins
in LA on the weekends,

where everybody gets
dressed up

and goes to the park and
brings an instrument,

but to see hundreds
of thousands of people

like a meeting of
all the tribes

from all over the country.

Boy! We didn't know
there were so many of us

that felt the same.

(song draws to a close)
(cheering)

We must be in heaven, man!

A rock music festival

that drew hundreds of
thousands of young people

to a dairy farm in
White Lake, New York

over the weekend,
came to an end today.

Frank Reynolds:
Admittedly, there was marijuana

as well as music
at the rock festival

but there was also no rioting.

What did not happen
at that dairy farm is

possibly more significant
than what did happen.

Reporter: These long-haired,

mostly white kids in their
blue jeans and sandals

were no wide-eyed anarchists
looking for trouble.

They remained polite.

Reporter 2:
Residents and resorts

freely emptied their cupboards
for the kids.

Merchants were stunned
by their politeness.

John Laurence: And while
such a spectacle

may never happen again,

it has recorded the
growing proportions of this

youthful culture in the mind
of adult America.

Questlove: Whenever you see
a phenomenon,

especially if you're living
in it at the time

you tend to think
that's the arrival.

This is the dawning and
the start of something new.

Unfortunately, Woodstock
just marked the end of it.

Is this
going to be Woodstock West?

Well, it's going to be
San Francisco.

Nash: Woodstock
was followed by Altamont,

you know,
only a few months later

and there couldn't have been
two more different concerts.

-Announcer: Jefferson Airplane!
-(cheering)

Slick: We had had
the Hells Angels

be security
at a number of

free in the park concerts
that we had done

and they were fine.
They were funny.

They were doing what
they were supposed to do.

So, we suggested
using Hells Angels.

♪ But that's the other side of
this life I've been leading ♪

What happened was
a lot of speed and alcohol.

That's a deadly combination
for bikers.

Marty said the F-word
to one of the Hell Angels.

While we were on stage,

the Hells Angel
knocks him down.

That was just the beginning.

Paul Kantner:
I'd like to mention that

the Hells Angels
just smashed Marty Balin

in the face and
knocked him out for a bit.

I'd like to thank you
for that.

Unidentified Male:
You're talking to me?

Kantner:
I'm not talking to you.

I'm talking
to the people that

hit my lead singer
in the head.

You're talking to my people.

Well, let me tell you
what's happening. You--

Unidentified Female: No.

♪ One pill makes you larger ♪

♪ And one pill makes
you small ♪

♪ And the ones that
mother gives you ♪

♪ Don't do anything at all ♪

That's what the story is here?

Bummer!

Really, man, that's scary.

-Who is doing all the beating?
-Hells Angels.

Hells Angels are
beating up musicians?

Marty got beat up.

♪ Go ask Alice ♪

♪ I think she'll know ♪

♪ When logic ♪

Slick: When we left,

it was dark and
the Rolling Stones were on

and we were on a helicopter.

Paul Kantner looked down,
he said,

"Wow, looks like somebody is
getting killed down there."

Well, he was right,
they were.

(shouting)

♪ Remember
what the dormouse said ♪

♪ Feed your head ♪

♪ Feed your head ♪

In California, five members of
a so-called religious cult

including Charles Manson,
the guru or high priest,

have been indicted
in the murder of

Sharon Tate and six others.

Reporter: All the
elements are present

for one of the most
sensational murder trials

in American history.

Seven people
brutally murdered

in the glare of
Hollywood publicity.

The involvement
of a mystical hippie clan

which despised the straight,
affluent society,

young girls supposedly under
the spell of a bearded Svengali

who allegedly masterminded
the seven murders.

-Morning.
-Hi.

Sun is shining this morning.

It is, yeah.

Vincent Bugliosi:
Charles Manson

clearly masqueraded behind
the common image of

being a hippie, goes up to
the Haight Ashbury district,

surrounds himself with a
young bunch of followers.

Their lifestyle was
sex orgies and LSD trips.

Eventually he gets them to
commit mass murder for him.

Reporter:
With blood the killer had

scrawled on the
refrigerator door

the words "Death to pigs".

Bugliosi: You see,
prior to these murders

no one associated hippies
with violence and murder.

People would pick up
a hitchhiking hippie.

There was no big deal.

But after the
Manson murders,

you saw a hippie
with long hair hitchhiking

and the image of Manson

would enter the driver's mind
and they'd drive right by.

Brinkley: By the time of
Charles Manson

and watching Altamont
and seeing what happened there,

it symbolizes
the drained idealism

of the spiritual quest of
the Beats and early hippies.

Reporter:
Today the magic is gone.

Aimless and disorganized,

the hippies have fallen prey
to their own free spirit.

Free love, free drugs
and too much free publicity

have gradually
corrupted them.

Interviewer:
Has something happened

to Haight Ashbury
since last year?

We hear it's not
the same place.

Unidentified Female:
Well, no, it isn't.

The love-ins brought
more and more people

and then people
who are really just bums,

they were trying to
get into a good thing.

You know, free food,
free everything.

And so they all just came
yeah, you know,

and a lot of really
rotten people.

And so now you've
really got a bad thing.

I mean it used to be
you could

set your stuff down
beside the road

and nobody would touch it.

And now it got so
you couldn't even put

your things
inside of a building.

Somebody would come along
and take everything you had.

Joe: Well, one day
I woke up very hungry

and, you know, very dirty
and tired and disgusted.

So I decided to,
you know, get a job

and settle down,
to get serious.

Reporter:
Joe's job is making jewelry.

He's been taking a six month
course to learn how.

Joe:
It's hard to be getting up

at eight every morning
and doing all these changes.

Reporter: Joe bought the suit,
uncomfortable though it looked.

Will he be equally
uncomfortable

in his new life?

There have been
generation gaps before

but today's is probably
the widest yet.

Can the Joe's of America
bridge the gap and conform

without society making
concessions in return?

Coyote: I'd say there was
a common element

in the counter culture of
people trying to invent

a new world.

But people mature,

their point of view gets
more nuanced.

The costs start to come due.

Children come
into the world.

Wild: That idea of sex,
drugs and rock and roll,

it's a youth dream,
and youth dies.

Brinkley:
Yet our mainstream culture

took what it needed
from the hippies.

Wild: The actual movement
of the sixties

was the movement towards
something more authentic.

Law: In the sixties,
we thought of other people

as part of our own family.

We were into caring for
society as a whole.

Babbs: This is what the
revolution is all about,

mercy is better than justice.

The carrot is better
than the stick

and the most
important lesson is

be kind, be kind.

Coyote: To me every day
was a high watermark.

We played music
all day long.

We worked.
We did not have jobs.

It was the most
carefree period of my life.

Dylan has this great line
in an early song

He says, "I wish, I wish,
I wish in vain

That we could sit simply
in that room again

A thousand dollars
at the drop of hat

I'd give it all gladly

if our lives
could be like that."

♪ (theme music) ♪