don, we'll be watching 10:00 p.m. eastern. that does it for me. thanks for watching. the cnn original series "the the cnn original series "the sixties" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ ♪ >> there are colonies of hippies springing up in most american cities. >> it's related the psychodelics, the war, the protesting. >> i'm planning on having a good time as long as i can. >> spoke pot can your kids. >> people should be inhibited in sexual express. >> you cannot ignore it. >> they don't like hippies and the things we do. >> we do have to maintain law, order and discrepanecembe decen streets. >> they are trying to do what no one else has done before, find a

new way for humanity. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

america in the early '60s was a good time in prosperity but a stagnant time with spiritual growth. things were at a standstill. the baseline culture was material list m and the feeling that the culture itself didn't honor the human spirit and didn't honor creativity. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ >> the early 1950s, the nation recognized in it's midst a social movement called generation. a novel titled "on the rude". >> when the book comes out, it beca became a revolution, defined what being beat means and a spiritual revolution that if we're living in an age of conformity, if everybody is trying to work for the corporation that you're losing a sense of self.

>> i was traveling west at the junction of the state line of colorado, i saw in the clouds huge and above the golden desert of even fall, an image of god with forefinger pointed at me. go down across the ground, go moon, go grown, go grown along, go roll your bones along. [ applause ] >> jack became like a god father for the counter culture. >> 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. copy houses, the neighborhood bars of bohmia and the coffee house poet is the specialty of the house. >> defined a place. >> beat nicks, they had these coffee houses they would go in and play chess and read poetry and those same coffee houses

became a proving ground for folk singers and all young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. >> music gives me a lot more than the popular music of our own time does. my outlook is that songs should be sung because we don't do anything about, say, the band. the whole situation comes to an end. >> there is got to be an alternative to whatever ways of life are offered to them, you know, democrat, republican and i would like to offer some kind of alternative somehow. >> the bible scene had a big part of politics. you can't get left politics out or pete seeger and so the village move the was there to celebrate people's culture. >> if you like the music, you were signing on for their ways to look at the world, too. and then eventually, one guy emerges as being special.

♪ ♪ a bullet from the back of a bush took medgar's ever's blood". >> in the 1960s the cultural revolution was bubbling and kids were questioning authority and what happening in their country. they are looking for answers. >> bob dillon thought it was poetry. he took beat imagery and mixed it with folk culture and it's l lyrical intensity than anybody put before. ♪ ♪ the negros name is used for plain for the politicians gain ♪ >> up until the time of bob dillon, there were songwriters and singers. dillon started writing his own music. he says i am going to comment on the world. i'm going to comment on the nature of this human experience. bob dillon 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 ] >> after the revolution of bob dillon, the music world moves west. ♪ go where you want to go, do what you want to do ♪ ♪ ♪ >> moral canyon becomes the epicenter of the rock revolution. >> the music scene was not happening in new york anymore. it was now la. everybody moved to laurel canyon. >> actors, musicians, artists and so it was kind of a whole community very open. if you're driving over laurel canyon and saw somebody hitchhiking, you pull over, hey, brother, where are you going? >> laurel canyon was an interesting place to live in those days. i lived on lookout mountain.

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>> these are students at a suburban high school in los angeles. they reflect the after flew wednesday in southern california. the latest fad is the sunset strip. during the past year it's a playground for the mobile restless teenagers. it is the place to go. >> people would meet down at clubs on the sunset strip and go to the trip or they would go to the go-go. it was a real happening. >> we changed from a culture of grownups that sort of looked down on kids to kids leading. >> it is the creation of the teenager, and the revolution begins. ♪ ♪

>> the los angeles sheriff's office has begun foot patrol to cope with the growing influx of youngsters. >> the notion of teenagers who had a call tour of their own, not listening to their parents' music opens up a space for rebels large and small. >> people are using marijuana, a significant thing is acceptance is gaining steadily and the usage is really increasing very, very rapidly. >> in la, we were all smoking god's herb where up in san francisco, it seemed like they were experimenting more with mind expansion, you know. ♪ ♪ >> he took classes of writing at stanford university and writes

the great novel and it makes him a celebrity. >> while at stanford, i was given the opportunity to go to the stanford hospital and take part in the lsd experiments. >> keesy volunteered to do tests for lsd and government sponsored tests. >> lsd was isolated by huffman in a pharmaceutical company in switzerland. are you happy? >> yes. >> because you have tears in your eyes. is that a beautiful experience would you say? >> i would say yes. >> some people think it's when keezy discovered lsd the counter culture in california is brown because more and more people then want to try to experience when keezy experienced and he becomes a promoter of it.

♪ ♪ >> keezy created a drug commune an hour from san francisco. great artists love smashing traditions, and at his best keezy was doing that. everybody would have this trip together. tom wolf would write the acid test about it. people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. the number of times i would get up and say what happened to me? they were doing me a favor. the bunch of us were too big to fit in his station wagon so he bought this converted school bus. ♪ ♪ >> keezy was going to put the bus in day glow colors and unsettling america, blowing people's minds. >> the whole idea of blowing people's minds was that you have to present something to them that is so different there is a crack that comes up and something new can come in and

the reaction from people is wonderful. what it was in 1964, there was no other thing like this happening. >> it's part of a kind of cultural revolution going on making the squares pay notice to this under ground of america. ♪ ♪ >> when we got to new york city, which is the home of the beats and picked him up because we were in his presence, we were just acting as goofy as he could putting on costumes and doing acts and stuff like that and then he sat on the couch with a big, tall budweiser and he was obviously not an enthusiastic guy. >> those beats, they had done their thing, you know. i really felt like the torch was passed from those guys to the psychodelic generation. >> keezy in many ways 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 we can. >> so we started running halls. we called the thing an acid test and the band, of course, was known as the war locks. as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead. ♪ ♪ ♪ wherever he goes, the people all complaiplain ♪ >> lsd was not an illegal drug. they had one punch and one punch with lsd. >> the acid test was seen as a lot of light shows and music and people dancing. 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,

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cbs news without any flowers in its hair is in san francisco for the reputation of being the hippy of the world. >> i got accepted into san francisco street and found an apartment in the center of what would become the hate street. >> it started over a year ago. the spreads the gospel of a dream me utopia based on brotherhood, love and lsd. >> to all the people that are confused and hungry for some kind of spiritual mean life, that's why all these people are down here and there is so much interest because it offers so much hope. >> we moved down the street from

the psychodelic shop, wearing hair beads, playing music on the street. it was just an incredible environment at that point in the beginning. that is when it was just like one big, giant family. >> before you knew it, it was a congregating place for artists and the dividing line seemed to be the psychodelic experience. you couldn't understand the posters. you couldn't understand the f fashion. you couldn't understand anything if you hadn't gotten high. >> the diggers, scrounges food and money to feed free and those who arrive and panhandle with a bow and appetite. their aim is a society where everything is shared, everything free. >> 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 into the hate ashburg. >> it looks like a playground.

they make sheets and clothes for hippies that can take what they want without paying for it. >> 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 planning. we're not thinking about anything else. we're not thinking about power. we're not thinking about those struggles. we're not thinking of revolution or war or any of that. 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, good life and think about moving the human race ahead of step or a few steps. >> 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. >> 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. >> the reason we can no longer identify with the kinds of activities the that the older generation are engaged in is because those activities are for us meaningless. they have led to a monstrous war in vietnam, for example. >> we did want change from war, from rigged ideas of what the sessixs ought to be doing. black people ought to be here and white people ought to be here. no, why can't we make that work. >> the hate ash bury community created love for san francisco. >> the counsel is calling for creative love happenings for every weekend throughout the summer. we ask who come here to come here in love and all who live here to greet men with love. >> they at their best are trying for a group st. hood and saints

running in groups are ludicrous. this is not a new idea, and it has never worked. >> it 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. >> what is so offensive about long hair? >> it looks sloppy. [ applause ] [ cheers ] >> it doesn't differentiate the boys from the girls enough. >> we didn't call ourselves hippies. they were a fabrication. 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 questioned the paradigm of materialism. >> look around. nothing works. the only thing the kid is

presented with is when he grew up, he can join the army, go to war, get a gig, working as an engineer, become a vegetable and drive to work in your own car, your own big metal box and it looks absurd. people in metal boxes like this going over from job to job frustrated, uptight. what joy is there in life? life should be -- life is and should be ecstasy. >> the counter culture had the arrogance to tell everybody else what they were doing is wrong, and nobody likes that. >> it's estimated anywhere from 10 to 200,000 youngsters may pour in to hate ash bury this summer. they feel black power or other political activists group may use hate street as a stage setting for riots. >> hate ash bury cannot handle 100,000 because there is not room. >> the the tension between the government and the people began

to be evident. >> nobody should let their young children come into san francisco unsupervised to become a part of a group such as that. >> as far as i'm concerned, they don't like hippies and they don't like the things we do and they try to harass us and bother us. >> in someway, the revolution is war between generations. the 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 policemen and a plain clothes man said everybody get out, everybody get out. the store is closed. they wouldn't give a reason. when we asked, they pushed people around and pushed physically out of the store. >> this is very insidious. he wants to stop human growth. >> the hippies say all will be well. flower power will prevail. they say it will be a summer of love. great pilgrimage.

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an intense preoccupation with the pursuit of pleasure. 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. ♪ ♪ >> 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. >> in any large city, there were other haight-ashburys, 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. ♪ ♪

>> how do you answer the questions for parents that are concerned about the use of lsd in marijuana with children? >> these are young people who are hungry for older people for their parents to listen to them. these youngsters want to share with their parents, the glory the that they are encountering and perhaps eventually when you're spiritually ready, you'll turn on with your children if that's the right thing to do. ♪ ♪ >> monterrey pop, it was the absolute loving. ♪ down by the window, just looking out at the rain ♪ ♪

♪ >> the best that i played pretty much ever was monterrey pop festival. ♪ ♪ >> monterrey hit like lightning. popular music was changing and 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. ♪ ♪ i want to love you, i want to love you for so long ♪ >> you realize, this is janice joplin before she was known, before she had done her first album, before she had done her first single.

♪ ♪ >> it's just music at its freshest. it is music that's just being born and the audience is like -- ♪ ♪ honey, this can't be ♪ ♪ [ cheers ] ♪ why, oh people tell me what love, what love is like a ball and chain ♪ [ applause ]

>> everything was love and peace and music and the policemen who was in charge brought flowers out to his men and said don't bust anybody. >> month ray was the hippy dream come true. >> this is where the youngsters come to buy clothes and not just youngsters, it's the young adults and men who are 40, 50, and 60 years old. >> in the states, pot is going middle class and spreading like prohibition liquor as more and more citizens get zonked out of their minds, it's entering the blood stream of american life. like it or not, we're living in the stoned age. >> the counter culture came in with hard punches. >> people have already changed

their minds about contraception, abortion, premarital sex. >> the 1960s were absolutely a sexual revolution because of the pill, women could take charge of their bodies, they could be sexual and didn't have to get pregnant. it was society forces coming together sgh here, if you love somebody and people here love everybody, if you want to make love to somebody, then you should. there is no reason why you shouldn't. >> free love was all good and there was a lot of accidental sex. [ laughter ] >> but we didn't look at it as heeden nice m. people were so open to each other and life was beautiful and people weren't judge mental. >> the main stream young people were telling their parents, you've been prohibiting my sexual freedom and the pure work ethic is bunk. it was clear, the rules were changing, and the rules were

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♪ ♪ >> the top pick tonight is the hippies. we have with us mr. jack over here who is said to have started the whole beat generation business. >> he never wanted to be a profit. he wanted to be a great american writer but fame destroys people in america. >> what do you believe the beat generation is repeated to the hippies? do they have in common? this an evolution? >> this is the older one. i'm 46 years old. these kids are 18. the beat generation was a generation of the attitude and the pleasure in life and tenderness. i believe in order and piety. >> here is the counter culture disowning his own babies and try to make sense of a decade the '60s that he didn't feel perry

to. >> some kind of ice movement in which i did not intend. this was pure in 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. >> rumors got out. it became over run. >> we're now entering what is known as the largest hippy colony in the world. the fountain of the hippy subculture. the nickname has hashburys and marijuana, of course, but lsd is being used. >> literally, people made the

trip to san francisco to be part of something but by the time they got there, that trip was over. ♪ ♪ >> this is the latest stage in the evolution of the hippy movement. the hippies are trying to get away so they go to a cabin and start a commune. here, they can get away from tourist and reporters and badger them in san francisco. >> communes have started and this is really what the hippy movement was about, an idea of sharing everything, clothes and food and everything. people could help themselves, you know sgh we lived communely because it was the cheapest way to live. a lot of people began to clarify and simple ffy their lives. >> what we'll follow is hard to predict. they may be, as they say, coming here to build a foundation for a new society in this nation, or they may be coming like the wooly mammoth to find their own

extinction. ♪ ♪ ♪ down in the woods ♪ ♪ >> "the new york times", 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 state cop and said what the hell is going on? he said i don't know, there are thousands of people here and they are all going to some farm, and it was, of course, woodstock. ♪ ♪ >> i think woodstock was an opportunity for people to realize they weren't alone. a lot of people in their hometown for family felt isolated realized they weren't. >> the townspeople, quite frankly, were terrified at the

prospect of the hip many py arr >> i started hearing the figures of 200,000, 300, finally 500,000, we had a sea of people. >> the word got out, everybody and their brother came from all over the country. >> 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. ♪ ♪ >> we got together and had a little pow wow about what are we going to do to feed these people? you go into new york to buy 1500 pounds of rolled oats, 130,000 dixie cups and i believe we served 200,000 people. >> by now, there are tens of millions of people who feel themselves to be an irresistible

river of change, and you get something incondescent. ♪ freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ ♪ singing freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ ♪ freedom, freedom >> we had love ins in la where everybody gets dressed up and goes to the park and bring an instrument but hundreds of thousands of people like a meeting of all the tribes from all over the country. we didn't know there were so many of us that felt the same.

[ applause ] >> we must be in heaven, man. >> 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. admittedly, there were marijuana, as well as music at the rock festival but also no rioting. what did not happen at that dairy farm is possibly more significant than what did happen. >> these long haired mostly white kids in blue jeans and sandals were no wide-eyed an archests looking for trouble. >> they freely emptied cub boards for the kids. >> while such a spectacle may never happen again, it has recorded the growing proportions of this youthful culture in the mind of adult america. >> whenever you see a phenomenon, especially if you're living in it at the time, you tend to think that's the arri l

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is this going to be woodstock west? >> well, it's going to be san francisco. >> woodstock was followed by altamont only a few months

later. and there couldn't have been two more different concerts. >> the jefferson airplane, jefferson airplane. >> we have had the hell's angels be security at a number of free in the park series we had done. and they were fine. they were funny. they were doing what they were supposed to do. so we suggested using hell's angels. ♪ >> 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 hells angels while we were on stage. the hells angel knocks him down. that was just the beginning.

>> the hells angels just knocked marty balon in the face. >> you're talking to my people. let me tell you what is happening. you are what is happening. >> 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 ♪ >> oh, that's what the story is here? oh, bummer. >> scary. >> who is doing all the beating? >> hells angels. >> hells angels are doing beating on musicians? >> marty got beat up. ♪ go ask alice, i think she'll know ♪ ♪ when logic >> when we left, it was dark,

and the rolling stones were on. and we were on a helicopter. pa kantner looked out and said wow, it looks like somebody is being killed out there. and he was right. ♪ >> 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. >> 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 reportedly under the spell of a bearded v e ed sveng. >> charles manson masquerading of being a hippie, goes up to haight ashbury, surrounds himself with young followers. eventually he gets them to commit mass murder for him. >> with blood, the killer had scrawled on a refrigerator door the words death to pigs. >> 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 would drive right by. >> by the time of charles manson

and watching altamont and what happened there, it symbolizes the drained idealism of the spiritual quest of the beats and the early hippies. >> today is 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 has gradually corrupted them. >> something happened to haight ashbury since last year. we hear it's not the same place. >> no, it isn't. the love-ins brought more and more people. and people who are really just bums, trying to get into a good thing, free food and free everything. they all just came in and a lot of really rotten people. so now you really have a bad thing. it used to be you could set your stuff down beside the road. nobody would touch it. and now you got so you couldn't even put your things inside the building. somebody would come along and take everything you had. >> one day i woke up very hungry, very dirty and tired and disgusted. so i decided, you know, to get a job, settle down and get serious.

>> joe's job is making jewelry. he has been taking a six-month course to learn how. >> it was hard in the beginning, getting up at 8:00 every morning, doing all those changes. >> joe bought the suit, unkmptable though it looked. will he be uncomfortable in his new life? there have been generation gaps before but today seas the widest yet. can the joes bridge the gap and reform without society making concessions and reform? >> i would say there is a common element in the 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. >> that idea of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, it's a youth dream and youth dice. >> yet our mainstream culture took what it needed from the hippies. >> the actual movement of the 60s was the movement toward something more authentic. >> in the sixties, we thought of other people as part of our own

family. we were into caring for society as a whole. >> 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. >> 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 simply it is simply in that room again, a thousand dollars at the drop of a hat, i'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that. ♪

this is cnn breaking news. >> good evening, everyone. i'm don lemon. breaking news tonight. i'm live in missouri. >> don, it's great to have you on the ground out there. i'm alisyn camerota here in new york. >> we have all the breaking details for you. i want to tell you now about police. we're hearing now that the police officer's name will be released tomorrow. the man who shot michael brown. we're hearing that here from ferguson tonight. i want you to take a look around, though, before we get to the breaking news. look around us. this is not a war zone. these are people who have gathered here peacefully. they want some tough questions