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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 >> 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 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 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 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. ♪ >> monterey pop, it was the absolute ultimate love-in. ♪ ♪ down by the window, just

looking out at the rain ♪ ♪ mm-mmm, oh >> the best festival that i've played pretty much ever is monterey pop festival. ♪ just looking out at the rain >> monterey hit like lightning. popular music was changing and had 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. ♪ ♪ and i want to love you, i want to love you for so long ♪ ♪ oh, yeah >> you realize, this is janis joplin before she was known, before she had ever done her first album, before she had ever done her first single.

♪ looking out at the rain ♪ sun came along, honey >> it's just music at its freshest. it's music that is just being born. and the audience is like -- ♪ and i said, oh, whoa, whoa, well honey ♪ ♪ this can't be, b-b-b-babe, but now, no, no, no, yeah ♪ ♪ why, oh, why, people, tell me why love, honey, why love ♪ ♪ was like, was like a ball and a chain ♪ [ 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, it was swaying the mainstream. >> 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. >> in the middle class, pot is going middle class and spreading like prohibition liquor. as more and more citizens get sgonked out of their minds, the drug cult enters the bloodstream into american life. 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 take charge of their own bodies. they could be sexual. they didn't have to get pregnant. everything sort of coalesces. the perfect storm of societal forces come together. >> here, if you love somebody, and people here love everybody, if you want to make love somebody, then you should. there's no reason why you shouldn't. >> free love was all well and good, and there was a lot of accidental sex. [ laughter ] 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. >> 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

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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. >> 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? >> well, they're just -- >> what do they have in common? was this an evolution from one to the other? >> they're 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. >> here's the progenator of the

counterculture kind of disowning his own babies and trying to make sense of a decade he didn't feel pairy to. >> 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 hundreds and literally 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. the fountainhead of the hippie subculture. the nick neighboricnickname is

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 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 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 disperse yaflt 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 becoming like the woolly mammoth, to find their own extinction. ♪ down where the wood vines

twine, that's where i meet my love ♪ ♪ down where the sun never shines, down in the woods ♪ ♪ where the wood vine twine >> i was working for "the new york times" in the catskills. and there were just a couple of us going up there. as we went north of the city, we began to run into traffic jams. i finally said to a cop, 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. ♪ >> i think woodstock was an opportunity for people to realize they weren't alone. a lot of people who 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.

this little hamlet has a population of under 100 people. when 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 powwow about what are we going to do to feed these people? we went into new york to buy 1,500 pounds of wheat, rolled oats, 130,000 paper plates, 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 incandescent. ♪ freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ singing freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ ♪ freedom, freedom, freedom >> we had had 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 who felt the same.

[ cheers and applause ] >> 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. 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. >> these long-haired, mostly white kids in their blue jeans and sandals were no an arcists looking for trouble. they were very polite. >> they emptied their shelves for kids. 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. unfortunately, woodstock just marked the end of it.

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 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. ♪ >> 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, 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, knocked him out a bit. i'd like to thank you for that. >> you're talking to me, i'm going to talk to you. >> i'm not talking to you. i'm talking to the people who hit my lead singer in the head. >> you're talking to me. i'll tell you what's happening. you are what's happening. >> no! ♪ ♪ one pill makes you larger, one 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. >> really, man. it's scary. > who's doing all the beating? >> hells angels. >> hells angels are doing beating on musicians? >> marty got beaten up. ♪ go ask alice, i think she'll know ♪ >> when we left, it was dark and

the rolling stones were on, and we were on a helicopter. paul looked down, he said, "wow, it looks like somebody's getting killed down there." he was right. they were. ♪ ♪ remember what the door mouse 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. >> all of the elements are present for one of the most sensational murder trials in american history. seven people brutally murdered in a glare of hollywood history. the involvement of a mystical hippie clan, which despises

straight, affluent society. young girls supposedly under the spell of a bearded svengali who allegedly masterminded the seven murders. >> good morning. >> why? >> the sun's shining this morning. >> it is? >> yeah. >> charles manson cleverly masqueraded behind the image of being a hippie, goes up to haight-ashbury district, surrounds himself with a bunch of young followers. their lifestyle was sex, orgies and lsd trips. allegedly, he gets them to mass murder for him. >> with blood, the killer scrawled on a refrigerator door "death to pigs." >> you see, prior to these murders, nobody associated hippies with violence and murder. people would pick up a hitch-hiking hippie. there was no big deal. but after the manson murders, you saw a hippie with long hair hitch-hiking 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 symbolized 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 free spirit. free love, free drugs and too much free publicity have gradually corrupted them. >> somebody happened to haight-ashbury since last year. we hear it's not the same place. >> it's not. the love-ins brought more and more people. then 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 beside the road, nobody would touch it. and now it got so you couldn't even put your things inside a building. somebody would come along and take everything you had. >> one day i woke up very hungry, very tired and disgusted and decided to get a job, settle

down 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 every morning and all those changes. >> joe bought the suit, uncomfortable though it looked. will he be equally uncomfortable in his own life? there have been generation gaps before, but today's is probably the widest yet. can the joes of america bridge the gap and 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 costs start to come due. children come into the world. >> that idea of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, it's a youth dream, then youth dies. >> yet, our mainstream 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 highwater 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 has this great line in the early song, he says, "i wish, i wish, i wish in vein that we could sit simply in that room again. $1,000 at the drop of a hat. i'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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