jack kerouac, said to have started the whole be generation business. >> jack kerouac never wanted to beat generation is related 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. >> to be generation was a generation of attitude and pleasure in life and tenderness. >> i believe in order and piety. >> here is the progenitor, really, of the counterculture disowning his own babies and try to make sense of a decade of 60s that he didn't feel married to. >> families kind of a dionysia movement. 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. we've got 1000 and literally thousands of people to come up and watch people, it makes haight-ashbury a terribly unpleasant place to be. >> news got out about the haight-ashbury. it became overrun. >> we are now entering what is known as the largest hippie colony in the world. the fountainhead of the hippie subculture. t