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♪ ♪ america in the early '60s, 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. >> the baseline culture was

materialism and also the feeling that the culture itself didn't honor the human spirit and didn't honor creativity. >> in the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called the beat generation. a novel titled "on the road" became a bestseller. >> when kerouac's book comes out, it became a revolution. it defined a new generation of what being beat means. and it defined it as a spiritual revolution. that if we're living in an age of conformity, if everybody's trying to work 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 huge and massed above the theory golden desert of even fall, a great

image of god with four fingers 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. >> jack kerouac 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. coffee houses, the neighborhood bars of bohemia. where the strongest potion is coffee, and the coffeehouse poet is the specialty of the house. >> to find a place where the eyes can rest -- >> beatniks, they had these coffeehouses they would go in and play chess and read poetry, and those same coffeehouses became kind of a proving ground for folk singers. >> and all the young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. ♪ standing down in new york town one day ♪ >> 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 do anything about say the bombs, you know, the whole situation comes to an end. >> there's gotta be an alternative to whatever ways of life are offered to them, you know. i mean democrat, republican, and i would like to offer some kind of alternative, somehow, you know? >> folk revival scene had a big part of politics. you can't get left politics out of woody guthrie or pete seger. and so the greenwich village movement was there to celebrate people's culture. >> if you like the music, you really were 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 took medgar evers' blood ♪ >> 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 dylan thought that folk music was poetry. he took beat energy and mixed it with folk culture, and it's more a 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 dylan, there were the songwriters and there were the singers. dylan 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 dylan was in this sort of white-hot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before. ♪ on a pawn in their game ♪ >> after the revolution of

bob dylan, the music world moves west. ♪ go where you want to go and do what you want to do ♪ ♪ wherever you want to do it ♪ >> laurel 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 kind of a whole community, very open. if you're driving over laurel canyon and you saw somebody hitchhiking, you just automatically pull over -- hey brother get in, you know, where you going? >> laurel canyon was an incredibly interesting place to live in those days. i lived on lookout mountain with joni mitchell. crosby was close, stephen was close. >> 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

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they would go to the trip or they would go to the whiskey a go go. it was a real happening. >> they 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. ♪ ♪ i got a light on you, babe ♪ >> 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 parents' music, kind of opens up this giant space for rebellions large and small. >> at least 10% of the students have used and are using marijuana. also probably a very significant

thing is that acceptance is gaining steadily, and the usage is really increasing very rapidly. >> in l.a., we were all kind of smoking god's herb, whereas up in san francisco it seemed like they were experimenting more with mind expansion, you know. >> 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. >> kesey had volunteered to do tests for lsd, a government sponsored test. >> lsd was isolated by stolan hofmann in a sandos pharmacy company of basel, switzerland. >> do you feel happy? >> yes.

>> 'cause you have tears in your eyes. >> oh. >> is that a beautiful experience, would you say? >> i would say yes. >> some people think it's when kesey discovers lsd that the counterculture in california is born, because more and more people then want to try to 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 acid test" about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. the number of times i would get up and i don't know what had

happened. they thought they were doing me a favor. >> they were having the world's fair in new york so a bunch of us were gonna go. but the bunch of us were too big to fit in a station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. >> kesey, he was gonna put the bus in day glow bright colors and then go what he called 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's a crack comes open where something new can come in. and the reaction of all these people was wonderful, because 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 underground of america. >> when we got to 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. >> 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. >> 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. ♪ country garden in the wind and the rain ♪ ♪ wherever he goes, the people all complain ♪

>> 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. >> the acid tests were 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 music. they looked up at me and i said, yeah. ♪ >> the drug culture really took hold, and that's where artists whether it was the grateful dead or jefferson airplane were able to embrace it and put it in their music. >> the counterculture in california is born because more and more people then want to try to experience what kesey experienced, and he became kind

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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. >> the psychedelic shop on haight street started just over a year ago. it spreads the gospel of a dreamy new utopia based on brotherhood and love and lsd. >> to all the people out there that are confused and hungry for some kind of spiritual meaning to life, that's why all these people are down here, that's why there's 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, and people were growing their hair long, they're wearing beads, they're 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.

>> 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. >> 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 their manifesto, and 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 haight-ashbury. >> their free shop looks more like a playground at first sight. here they make sheets and clothes for other hippies who can come and take what they want without paying anything 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 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. >> 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 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 try and make that work? >> the haight-ashbury community has created a council for a summer of love in san francisco. >> 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. >> 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. >> what's so offensive about long hair? >> it looks sloppy. [ laughter ] [ 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 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 kid is presented with is when you grow up, look, 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, just it looks absurd. you know, people in their metal

boxes like this going all over from job to job, frustrated, uptight. what joy is there in life? life should be -- 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 10,000 to 200,000 youngsters may pour into haight-ashbury this summer. many people are apprehensive, they fear that black power or other political activist groups may use haight street as a staged setting for riots. >> haight-ashbury cannot handle 100,000 because there isn't room. >> 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. >> they're fascists as far as i'm concerned, and they don't like hippies, and they don't

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>> 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 waiting to touch down ♪ ♪ you'll find that it's -- >> turn on, tune in, drop out. >> i spent some time in new 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 are 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 ♪ ♪ oh ♪ >> the best festival that i've played pretty much ever is monterey pop festival.

s. ♪ out at the rain ♪ >> monterey hit like lightening. 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. s. and i want to love you ♪ ♪ i want to love you for so long ♪ >> you realize this was janis joplin before she was known, before she'd ever done her first album, before she'd ever done her first single. ♪ on the rain em ♪ ♪ sun came along ♪ >> its just music at its freshest. it's music that is just being born, and the audience is

like -- ♪ ♪ honey, this can't be ♪ ♪ ♪ oh, baby, baby, baby ♪ ♪ no, no ♪ ♪ no, no, no, yeah ♪ ♪ i want to know why ♪ ♪ baby, tell me why -- honey, why love ♪ ♪ was like a ball and chain ♪ >> 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 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 it's best, the counterculture came in with hard punches to the mainstream 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, but they didn't have to get pregnant. everything sort of coalesces, sort of the perfect storm of societal forces come 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. >> free love was all well and good, and there's 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 changing, and the rules were really that there were no rules.

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was this an evolution from one to the other? >> just the older ones. see 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. >> here's the progenitor really of the counterculture kind of disowning his own babies and try to make sense of a decade, the '60s, that he didn't feel parry to. >> apparently, some kind of dionysian movement in 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 out to haight-ashbury to watch people. it makes haight-ashbury a terribly unpleasant place

to be in. >> the 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 nickname is hashbury's. and marijuana of course with lsd is being used. >> 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. >> 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 that badger them in san francisco. >> communes have started, and this is 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. >> 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 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 wooly mammoth, to find their own extinction. ♪ down where the woodbine twine ♪ ♪ that's where i meet my love ♪ ♪ down where the sun don't shine ♪ ♪ down in the woods where the woodbina 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 found a state cop and 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. >> 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 a hundred 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 gonna do to feed these people? we went into new york to buy 1,500 pounds of bulgur wheat, 1,500 pounds of rolled oats, and 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 ♪ ♪ freedom, freedom ♪ ♪ ♪ singing freedom, freedom ♪ ♪ freedom, freedom ♪

♪ freedom, freedom ♪ ♪ freedom, freedom ♪ ♪ freedom, freedom ♪ >> we 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 was so many of us that felt the same. >> 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 wide-eyed

anarchists looking for trouble. they remained polite. >> residents and resorts freely emptied their cupboards for the kids. merchants were stunned by their politeness. 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. >> 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. e free. free monsters, free bosses, any footlong for free! this guy loves a great offer. so let's see some hustle!

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is this going to be woodstock west? >> well, it's gonna be san francisco. >> woodstock was followed by altamont, you know, only a few months later, and there couldn't have been two more different concerts. >> the jefferson airplane. jefferson airplane. >> we had had the hell's 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 hell's angels .

>> what happened was a lot of speed and alcohol. that's a deadly combination for bikers. >> please be kind. >> marty said the f word to one of the hell's angels. while we were on stage, the hell's angel knocks him down. that was just the beginning. >> i'd like to mention that the hell's angels just smashed marty balin in the face and knocked him out for a bit. i'd like to thank you for that. >> keep talking to me i'm gonna talk to you. >> i'm not talking to you, man. 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. ♪ one pill makes you larger and one pill makes you larger ♪ ♪ and the ones that mother gives

you don't do anything at all ♪ >> oh, that's what the story is here? >> yeah. oh bummer. >> really, it's scary. >> who's doing all the beating? >> hell's angels. >> hell's angels are doing 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 kantner looked down, he said, wow, it looks like somebody's getting killed down there. well, 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 brutally murdered in a glare of hollywood publicity. involvement of a mystical hippie plan, which despise the straight affluent society. young girls supposedly under the spell of a bearded svengali, who allegedly masterminded the seven murders. >> morning. sun shining this morning. >> it is. >> charles manson cleverly masqueraded behind the common image of being a hippie, goes up in 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. >> with blood, the killer had scrawled on the 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'd drive right by. >> 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. >> 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. >> something happened to haight-ashbury since last year. we hear it's not the same place. >> well, no it isn't. the love-ins brought more and more people, and then people who are really just bums, just

trying to get into a good thing, you know, free food, free everything, and so they all just came in, 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, 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. >> well, one day i woke up very hungry, you know, very dirty and tired, and disgusted, so i decided to, you know, get a job and settle down, and get serious. >> joe's job is making jewelry. he's been taking a six-month course to learn how. >> it's hard in the beginning. getting up at 8:00 every morning, and doing all those changes. >> 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 joes of america bridge the gap and conform without society making concessions in return? >> i'd 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 'n roll, it's a youth dream and youth dies. >> yet our mainstream culture took what it needed from the hippies. >> the actual movement of the '60s was a 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 was 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 sit 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. ♪ rock is probably the most important cultural event in the history of america, and outswarmed a whole new