♪ ♪ there are colonies of hippies springing up in most american cities. >> it's all related, the psychedelics, the war, the protesting. >> i'm planning on having a good time as long as i have. >> smoke pot with your kids, then you'll understand why the kids are happy. >> it's a giant love-in. >> people should be uninhib itted in their sexual express. >> they're fascists. they don't like happies. >> we do have to maintain law, order and decency. >> we're thinking about a peaceful planet, nothing es.

>> they're trying to find a new way for humanity. ♪ ♪

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 stand still. >> the baseline culture was materialism, and also the feeling that the culture itself didn't honor the human spirit and didn't honor creativity. >> the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called b generation. and a novel titled "on the road" became a best seller. >> when the book comes out, it became a revolution, defined a new generation of what being beat means, and defined it as a spiritual revolution. if we're living in an age of conformity, if everybody is working for the corporation, that you're losing a sense of

self. >> i was traveling west one time at the junction of the state line of colorado. i saw in the clouds, a great image of god, with four fingers pointed straight at me. come on, boy, go moan for man, go moan, go groan. go roll your bones alone. [ applause ] >> he became like a godfather for the counterculture. >> 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. coffey houses, the neighborhood bars of bohemia, where the strongest potion is coffey. >> beat nicks, they had these coffey houses they would go in and play chess and read poetry.

those same coffey houses became a proving ground for folk singers. >> all young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. >> folk music gives me a lot more than the popular music. popular songs should be sung because we don't do anything about say the bomb, you know. >> there's got to be an alternative to whatever ways of life are offered, democrat, republican. i would like to offer some kind of alternative somehow, you know? >> folk revival had a big part of politics. you can't get left politics out of woody guthrie or pete seeger. so the greenwich village movement was there to celebrate people's culture. >> if you like the music, you were really signing on for their ways of looking at the world, too. and then eventually one guy emerges as being special.

♪ a bullet from the back of a bush ♪ >> during that time in the '60s, as that cultural revolution was slowly bubbling and kids were starting to question authority, question what was happening in their country, they're looking for answers. >> bob dillon thought folk music was poetry. 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 ♪ >> up until the time of bob dillon, there were the songwriters and the singers. he started writing his own music. >> he says, i'm going to comment on the world. i'm going to comment on the nature of this human experience.

he 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. royal canyon becomes the epicenter of the rock revolution. >> the music scene was not happening in new york anymore. it was now l.a. everybody moved to laurel canyon. >> actors, musicians, artists, and so it was a kind of whole community, very open. if you were driving over laurel canyon and you saw somebody hitchhiking, you would pull over, hey, brother, get in. >> laurel canyon was an interesting place to live in those days. i lived on lookout mountain with

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

>> the los angeles county sheriff's office has begun foot patrol on the sunset strip to cope with the growing influx of youngsters. >> the notion of teenagers who had a culture of their own, that weren't listening to their parent's music, opens up this giant space for rebellions, large and small. >> at least 10% of the students have used and are using marijuana. also, probably very significant thing is acceptance is gaining steadily and the usage is really increasing very rapidly. >> in l.a., we were all smoking god's herb. whereas up in san francisco, it seemed like they were experimenting more with mind expansion, you know. ♪

>> he took writing classes at stanford and he wrote "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" and this makes him a celebrity. >> while i was at stanford, i was given the opportunity to go to the stanford hospital and take part in the lsd experiments. >> he volunteered to do tests for lsd, a government-sponsored test. >> lsd was isolated in a pharmaceutical company in switzerland. >> are you happy? >> yes. >> is that a beautiful experience would you say? >> i would say yes. >> some people think it's when he discovers lsd that the counterculture in california is born, because more and more people then want to try to experience what he experienced. and he becomes a promoter of it.

>> he created a drug commune an hour from san francisco. and in his best, he was doing that. everybody would have this communal lsd trip together. tom wolf would write "the electric blade" after it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. they thought they were doing me a favor. >> they were having the world's fair in new york, so a bunch of us were going to do. but the bunch of us were too big to fit in the station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. >> he was going to put the buzz in bright colors and go in what he called unsettling america, blowing people's minds. >> the whole idea of blowing people's minds, you have to present something that is so different, there's a crack comes

open where something new can come in. the reaction to all these people was wonderful. what it was in 1964, there was no other thing like this happening. >> it's part of a cultural revolution going on, making the squares pay notice to this underground 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 we could, playing music, putting on costumes, doing all kinds of acts and stuff like that. and he sat on the couch, we would get a tall budweiser, he was obviously not an enthusiastic guy. those beats, they had done their thing, you know? i really felt like from those guys to the psychedelic generation, the torch had been

passed. >> he was very messiahic and wanted to get as many people to try lsd. >> so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. 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 complain ♪ >> lsd was not an illegal drug. when he held these acid tests, they would have two vats. one was punch, one was punch with lsd. >> the acid test was like a party. the scene is 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

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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 found an apartment on clayton street, right in the center of what would become the haight-ashbury. >> the psychedelic shop spreads the gospel based on brotherhood, love and lsd. >> for all the people out there hungry for meaningful spiritual life, that's why there's so much interest in the haight-ashbury. it offers hope. >> we lived right down the street from the psychedelic

shop. people were were wearing beads, playing music on the street. it was just an incredible environment in the beginning. that's 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 psychedelic experience. you couldn't understand the posters, you couldn't understand the fashions, you couldn't understand anything if you hadn't gone high. >> the diggers scrounge for food and money. those who arrive in pan handle park. diggers, their aim is a society where everything is shared, everything is free. >> the diggers were one of the first groups into social consciousness about what was needed to take care of this huge group of people that were coming into the haight-ashbury. >> their free shop looks more

like a play ground. here they make clothes for other hippies who can come and take what they want without paying anything for it. >> everything in the stool was free. tools, clothing, televisions. 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 power, we're not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. that's not what we want. nobody want tols get hurt, nobody wants to hurt anybody. we would all like to payable to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life and think about moving the whole human race ahead a 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, make music and do art and love each other. >> these people are hippies. they represent a new form of

social rebellion. it's hard to figure out what positive things they're in favor of. >> 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 led to a monstrous war in vietnam for example. >> 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't we make that work? >> the haight-ashbury community has created a council for summer of love. >> the council is calling for creative love happenings for every weekend throughout the summer. we ask all to come here in love and all who live here to greet all men with love. >> they at their best are trying

for a kind of group st. hood, 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's 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's so offensive about long hair? >> it looks sloppy. [ applause ] it doesn't differentiate the boys from the girls enough. >> we didn't call ourselves hippies. the hippies are a fabrication. they were an attempt to diminish young adults and infantalize us, and it serves to exclude the people that were thoughtful about the world, ready to dedicate their lives to making a question and to question the paradigm of materialism. >> look around. nothing works.

the only thing a kid is presented with is when you grow up, you can join the army, go to war, get a gig as an engineer, become a vegetable, drive to work in your own car. it looks absurd. people in their metal boxes just going from job to job, frustrated, uptight. what joy is there in life? life is and should be ecstasy. >> the counterculture had the arrogance to tell everybody else what they were doing is wrong. and nobody likes that. >> it's estimated that anywhere from 10 to 200,000 youngsters they pour in. many feel that they may use the street as a setting stage for riots. >> 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 you such as that. >> they're fascists 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 some way, there are revolutions between generations. >> the war of youth culture against the establishment is in full swing on every front. >> about four policemen came in and said everybody get out, the store is closed. they wouldn't give a reason or identify under what premise they were doing this. when we asked them, they pushed people physically out of the store. >> the mayor, this is very insidious. he wants to stop human growth. >> the hippie leaders say all will be well. flower power will prevail. they say it will be a summer of love. a 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. ♪

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in this country and elsewhere an intense preoccupation with the pursuit of measure. call it he doe nichl, call it what you will, you can't not notice it. a change in morality. ♪ >> turn on, tune in, drop out. >> i've spent some time in new york and i've spent some time in london and i'm here to tell you, it's happening all over. >> in my large city, there were other haight-ashburies. see, we're on the map, we're big and far more interesting than what you all have to offer. ♪

>> how do you answer the questions of parents who are concerned about the use of lsd and marijuana for their children? >> 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 glory 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. ♪ >> monterey pop, it was the absolute ultimate love-in. ♪ ♪ just looking out at the rain

>> the best festival i've played pretty much ever is monterey pop festival. ♪ >> monterey hit like lightning. popular music was changing and become something different and it 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 for so long ♪ ♪ oh, yeah >> you realize, this is janice joplin before she was known. before she had ever tone her first album. before she ever done her first single.

♪ >> it's just music at its freshest. it's music that is just being born. and the audience is like -- ♪ ♪ oh, honey, tell me what love is like ♪ [ cheers and applause ]

>> 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. culture was changing. >> the hippie movement was swaying the main stream. >> this is where the youngsters come to buy their clothes. it's the young adults and the men who are 40, 50, even 60 years old. >> in the states, poverty is going middle class and spreading like prohibition liquor. as more and more get zonked out of their minds, like it or not, we're living in the stoned age. >> the counterculture came in with hard punches to the main

stream culture. >> people have already changed their minds about contraception, abortion, premarital sex. >> the 1960s were absolutely a sexual revolution. because of the pill, women could be sexual, they didn't have to get pregnant. societal forces come together. >> here, if you love somebody and people here love everybody, if you want to make move to somebody, then you should. there's no reason why you shouldn't. >> free love was all well and good. 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 and people weren't judgmental. >> the main stream young people were telling their parents, you've been prohibiting by sexual freedom and the puritan work ethic is bunk.

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the topic tonight is the hippies. we have with us mr. jack keurac over here, who is said to have started the whole beat generation business. >> he 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 -- to the hippies? what do they have in common? was this an evolution? >> just the older ones. i'm 46 years old. these kids are 18. the beat generation was a generation of beatitude and pleasure in life and tenderness. i believe in order and piety. >> he's kind of disowning his own babies and trying to make

sense of a decade, the '60s. >> a movement which i did not intend. this was pure, in my heart. >> 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 thousands of people coming up to haight-ashbury to watch people. it makes it an unpleasant place to be in. >> news got out about the haight-ashbury. it became overrun. >> we're now entering what is known as the largest hippie colony in the world. fountainhead of the hippie subculture. the nickname is hash buries, and marijuana, of course, with lsd, is being used. >> literally people made the

trip to san francisco to be a part of something. by the time they got there, that trip was over. >> this is the latest stage in the evolution of the hippie movement. the hippies from 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 reporters that badger them in san francisco. >> communes started. this is really what the hippie movement was all about. an idea of sharing everything, clothes and food and everything. people would just help themselves. >> we lived communally because it was the cheapest way to live. a lot of people began to clarify and simplify their lives. >> what will follow this dispersal to the countryside is hard to predict. they may be coming here to build the foundations of a new society in this nation. or they may be becoming like the woolly ma'am mouth, to find

their own extinction. ♪ that's where i meet my love, down where the sun never shines ♪ ♪ down in the woods >> i was working for "the new york times" in the catskills. there was just a couple of us going up there. as we went north of the city, we began to run into traffic jams. what the hell is going on? a cop 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. ♪ >> i think woodstock was an opportunity for people to realize they weren't alone. a lot of people in their hometown or in their family felt isolated, realized they weren't. >> the townspeople quite frankly were terrified at the prospect of the hippie arrival.

>> i was apprehensive. there's a population under 100 people here. i started hearing the figures of 200,000, 300,000, finally 500,000. we had a sea of people there. >> 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? we went into new york to buy 1500 pounds of oats and 130,000 paper plates and dixie cups and served 200,000 people. >> by now there are tens of

millions who feel themselves to be anner resistible river of change. and you get something incandescent. ♪ freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ singing freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ ♪ freedom, freedom, freedom freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ >> we would have love-ins in l.a. 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.

>> we must be in heaven, man! >> a rock music festival that drew hundreds of thousands to a dairy farm in white lake, new york over the weekend came to an end today. admitted think there was marijuana and rock music, but there was also no rioting. what did not happen at that dairy farm is possibly more significant than what did happen. >> these kids were no wide-eyed anarchists looking for trouble. >> merchants were stunned by their politeness. 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 phenomena, 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.

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ultima only a few months later, and there couldn't have been two more different concerts. >> we had had the hell's angels be security at a number of free in the park concerts 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 hell's angels. while we were on stage, a hell's angel knocks him down. that was just the beginning. >> i would like to imagine that

the hell's angels just smashed marty in the face. i would like to thank you for that. >> you're talking to my people. let me tell you what's happening. >> no! ♪ ♪ one pill makes you larger, one makes you small ♪ ♪ and the ones that mother uses don't do anything at all ♪ >> who's doing all the beating? >> hell's angels. >> they're beating on musicians? >> marty got beat up. >> when we left, it was dark and

the rolling stones were on, and we were on a helicopter. paul looked out and said wow, looks like somebody is getting killed down there. he was right, they were. ♪ >> 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 murdered. involvement of a mystical hippie clan which despised the

straight, affluent society. young girls supposedly under the spell of the bearded man, who allegedly masterminded the seven murders. >> sunshine this morning. >> charles manson cleverly masqueraded behind the image of being a hippie, goes up to haight-ashbury. their lifestyle was sex, orgies and lsd trips. >> with blood, the killer scrolled on the refrigerator door, death to pigs. >> prior to these murders, no one associated hippies with violence and murder. people would pick up a hitchhiking hippie, but after the manson murders, you saw a hippie hitchhiking and the image of manson would enter and they would drive right by. >> by the time of charles manson, and watching and seeing

what happened there, it symbolizes the drained idealism of the spiritual quest of the beats and early hippies. >> today, the magic is gone. aimless and disorganized, the hippies have fallen prey to their own spirit. free love and free publicity have -- >> it's not the same place. >> the love-ins brought more and more people. people who were just bums, trying to get into a good thing, you know, free food, free everything. so they all just came in, you know. and a lot of really rotten people. so now you've really got a bad thing. it used to be you could set your stuff down, nobody would touch it. and now it got so you couldn't put your things inside of a building. somebody would take everything you had. >> one day i woke up very hungry, very tired and disgusted

and decided to get a job and get serious. >> joe's job is making jewelry. he's been taking a six-month course to learn how. >> it was hard in the beginning. getting up at 8:00 in the morning. >> joe bought the suit. there have been generation gaps before, but today is probably the widest yet. can the joes of america conform without society making concessions in return? >> i would say there was a common element in the counterculture of people trying to invent a new world. but people mature. their point of view gets more nuanced. the cost start to come due. children come into the world. >> that idea of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, it's a youth dream, and then youth dies. >> our main stream culture took what it needed from the hippies. >> the actual movement of the '60s was the movement towards something more authentic. >> in the '60s, 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 water mark. we played music all day long. we worked, we did not have jobs. it was the most care-free period of my life. dylan says, i wish, i wish, i wish in vein that we could sit in that room again, $1,000 at the drop of a hat, i would give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.

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