to learn more visit www.c-span.org/citiestour. we begin with a history of monterey. , man.love y'all monterey is very groovy, man. .his is our generation, man we are all together, man. it is really groovy. monterey international pop festival was a three-day event in 1967, kicking off the summer of love. it was the first big rock 'n roll festival to have been here. monterey was pretty conservative, and there was concern about what they called beatniks. the word hippie was a new word. beyond hippie movement -- the young hippie movement. the summer of love happening in san francisco. no one understood what that was about. boys with long hair, the drug were reallyy concerned about this. the chief of police felt so confident, that the kids would not cause any problems, that he released a number of his policeman to go to cannery road because there was a fire. he sent the policeman to monitor the fire, because he did not feel they were needed at the festival that particular night. festival wasey pop all different genres of music. african

learn about monterey, and other stops, on www.c-span.org /citiestour. >> coming up next, texas tech university professor sarah keyes talks about her current book project on the oregon trail. she provides background on the threats that people faced on the trail and explains how they dealt with death on the journey. we interviewed the professor at the western history association annual conference in portland, oregon, in october. this is about 20 minutes. >> so, it is always a part of my -- >> what led to your work on the oregon trail? >> i am a child of the 1980's, .nd i grew up playing the game how you are trying to survive this trek across the continent.

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video of all of the cities we have visited, go to our c-span city store website, www.c-span.org/citiestourcrat line, hello. caller: hello. thank you so much for taking my call. i wanted to touch on one last subject and then i will move on to my second point if you will please not cut me off. segment, ihe last noticed that most people seem to be against the death penalty. i wonder how many of those people would be for the death penalty when it came to dylann roof or the cop that shot down the teen in chicago? my next point of view would be, if you will please not cut me off, most of the people seem to be on the bandwagon of donald trump. thatupsets me so much is donald trump seems to be creating a dialogue. the dialogue is -- has to do with the border. everybodythinks -- has been offended. everybody has been offended. the thing about it is is unless you lived in the south or in certain areas and when you see your area or you see your .ommunity totally dissipated one of the areas would be african-americans and white communities. what has happened to these communities? they are gone. to thes