♪ ♪ ♪ 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. >> the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called b generation. ♪ a novel titled "on the road" became a best-seller. >> when kerouac's book came out, it became a revolution, 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 golden desert of even fall, the great image of god with four fingers pointed straight at me. come on, boy, go thou across the grown, go moan for man. go moan, go groan, go groan alone, go roll your bones alone. [ applause ] >> jack kerouac became like a godfather for 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 coffee, and the coffee house poet is the speciality 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. >> all young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. ♪ >> folk music gives me a lot more than the popular music of our own time does. popular songs should be sung because we don't do anything about say the bomb, you know. the whole situation come to an end. >> there's got to 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 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 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 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 sort of in this white-hot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before. ♪ only a pawn in their game [ cheers and applause ] >> after the revolution of bob dylan, the music world moves west. ♪ got to go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do with whoever you wanna do ♪ >> 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'd just automatically pull over. hey, brother, get in, you know? where are you going? >> laurel canyon was an incredibly interesting place to live in those days. i lived on lookout mountain with joanie mitchell. crosby was close, stephen was close. >> now it was all these artists singing this truth, and their truth was this idyllic sense of freedom. >> there was a thriving community of kids that were discovering their new life and couldn't wait to play the new song they had written. >> it was a lot of freedom. there was a lot of drugs. this was a lot of beautiful women. there was a lot of good rock and roll being made. it was a fabulous time. ♪ ♪ (cell phone rings) where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won't call an exterminator... can i call you back, mom? he says it's personal this time... if you're a mom, you call at the worst time. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. where are you? it's very loud there. are you taking a zumba class? ♪ these are students at a suburban high school in los angeles. they reflect the sudden sensuality and affluence which dominate life in southern california. the latest fad is the sunset strip. during the past year, it has become a playground for southern california's mobile, restless teenagers. it is the place to go. >> people would meet at clubs on the sunset strip and they would go to the trip or they would go to the whisky a 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. ♪ ♪ 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, you know, 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 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. >> kesey had volunteered to do tests for lsd, a government-sponsored test. >> lsd was isolated in a pharmaceutical company in switzerland. >> are you happy? >> yes. >> 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 wolf would write "the electric kool-aid acid test" about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. i'd wonder what 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 going to go. but the bunch of us were too big to fit in his station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. ♪ >> kesey, he was going to put the bus in dayglow, bright colors and then go with what he called unsettling america, blowing people's minds. >> the whole idea of blowing people's minds was you have to present something that is so ♪ >> 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, we would get 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 was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would start to let you see a larger truth and thought he wanted to get as many people to try lsd as they can. >> so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. the band of course was known as the warlocks. as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead. ♪ st. stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes ♪ ♪ 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 want to try to experience what kesey experienced, and he kind of became the grand poobah of the carnival in san francisco in the 1960s. >> there's nothing a grown-up or sophisticated in taking an lsd trip at all. they're just being complete fools. we need to be ready for whatever weather may come our way. my name's scott strenfel and i'm a meteorologist at pg&e. we make sure that our crews as well as our customers are prepared to how weather may impact their energy. so every single day we're monitoring the weather, and when storm events arise our forecast get crews out ahead of the storm to minimize any outages. during storm season we want our customers to be ready and stay safe. learn how you can be prepared at pge.com/beprepared. together, we're building a better california. 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 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 about a year ago. it spreads the gospel based on brotherhood, love and lsd. >> for all the people out there that are confused and hungry for some kind of meaningful spiritual life, that's why all these people are down here. 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 growing their hair long, they were wearing beads, playing music on the street. it was just an incredible environment at that point, 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 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 power, we're not thinking of any of those kinds of struggles. we're not thinking of 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 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, to 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'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. [ 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 infantalize 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 had questioned the paradigm of materialism. >> look around you. 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, your own, big, metal box. and it just looks absurd, 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 feel that black power or other political activist groups may use haight street as a stage setting for riots. >> haight-ashbury cannot handle 100,000. of course, 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 like the things we do and they try to harass us and bother us. >> in some ways, their revolutions are war between generations. the hippies' rallying cry is never trust anyone over 30. >> the war of the 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 around. they pushed people physically out of the store. >> the mayor, this is very insidious, what he's up to. 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. hey how's it going, hotcakes? 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>> 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 zonked 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 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. 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 to 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 changing. and the rules were really that there were no rules. ♪ 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 perry 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 nickname is hashburies, 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 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 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 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 ♪ 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 anarcists 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. ♪ ♪ ♪ geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. as long as you love me, it's alright bend me shape me, any way you want me... shape the best sleep of your life. sleep number beds with sleepiq technology adjust any way you want it. the bed that moves you. only at a sleep number store. when you're on hold, your business is on hold. that's why comcast business doesn't leave you there. when you call, a small business expert will answer you in about 30 seconds. no annoying hold music. just a real person, real fast. whenever you need them. great, that's what i said. so your business can get back to business. sounds like my ride's ready. don't get stuck on hold. reach an expert fast. comcast business. built for business. 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. 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 my people. 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. eventually, he gets them to commit 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. >> something 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 dirty and 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 doing 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 a grim observance in syria after five years of civil war as factions make demands after another round of peace talks. we go inside raqqah, syria, to see what life is like. and the presidential election as protesters continue to show off at donald trump's rallies. 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we're not thinking of anything else. >> they're trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 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. >> the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called b generation. ♪ a novel titled "on the road" became a best-seller. >> when kerouac's book came out, it became a revolution, 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 golden desert of even fall, the great image of god with four fingers pointed straight at me. come on, boy, go thou across the grown, go moan for man. go moan, go groan, go groan alone, go roll your bones alone. [ applause ] >> jack kerouac became like a godfather for 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 coffee, and the coffee house poet is the speciality 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. >> all young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. ♪ >> folk music gives me a lot more than the popular music of our own time does. popular songs should be sung because we don't do anything about say the bomb, you know. the whole situation come to an end. >> there's got to 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 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 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 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 sort of in this white-hot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before. ♪ only a pawn in their game >> after the revolution of bob dylan, the music world moves west. ♪ got to go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do with whoever you wanna do ♪ >> 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'd just automatically pull over. hey, brother, get in, you know? where are you going? >> laurel canyon was an incredibly interesting place to live in those days. i lived on lookout mountain with joanie mitchell. crosby was close, stephen was close. >> now it was all these artists singing this truth, and their truth was this idyllic sense of freedom. >> there was a thriving community of kids that were discovering their new life and couldn't wait to play the new song they had written. >> it was a lot of freedom. there was a lot of drugs. this was a lot of beautiful women. there was a lot of good rock and roll being made. it was a fabulous time. new mylanta®. faster than heartburn. ♪ these are students at a suburban high school in los angeles. they reflect the sudden sensuality and affluence which dominate life in southern california. the latest fad is the sunset strip. during the past year, it has become a playground for southern california's mobile, restless teenagers. it is the place to go. >> people would meet at clubs on the sunset strip and they would go to the trip or they would go to the whisky a 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. ♪ ♪ 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, you know, 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 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. >> kesey had volunteered to do tests for lsd, a government-sponsored test. >> lsd was isolated in a pharmaceutical company in switzerland. >> are you happy? >> yes. >> 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 wolf would write "the electric kool-aid acid test" about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. i'd wonder what 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 going to go. but the bunch of us were too big to fit in his station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. ♪ >> kesey, he was going to put the bus in dayglow, bright colors and then go with what he called unsettling america, blowing people's minds. >> the whole idea of blowing people's minds was you have to present something that is so different, there's a crack comes open where something new can come in. and the reaction to 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, we would get 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 was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would start to let you see a larger truth and thought he wanted to get as many people to try lsd as they can. >> so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. the band of course was known as the warlocks. as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead. ♪ st. stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes ♪ ♪ 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 want to try to experience what kesey experienced, and he kind of became the grand poobah of the carnival in san francisco in the 1960s. >> there's nothing a grown-up or sophisticated in taking an lsd trip at all. they're just being complete fools. 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 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 about a year ago. it spreads the gospel based on brotherhood, love and lsd. >> for all the people out there that are confused and hungry for some kind of meaningful spiritual life, that's why all these people are down here. 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 growing their hair long, they were wearing beads, playing music on the street. it was just an incredible environment at that point, 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 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 power, we're not thinking of any of those kinds of struggles. we're not thinking of 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 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, to 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'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. >> 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 certainly serves to exclude the people that were deeply thoughtful about the world, that were ready to dedicate their lives to making change and had questioned the paradigm of materialism. >> look around you. 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, your own, big, metal box. and it just looks absurd, 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 feel that black power or other political activist groups may use haight street as a stage setting for riots. >> haight-ashbury cannot handle 100,000. of course, 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 like the things we do and they try to harass us and bother us. >> in some ways, their revolutions are war between generations. the hippies' rallying cry is never trust anyone over 30. >> the war of the youth culture establishment is on full swing on about 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 around. they pushed people physically out of the store. >> the mayor, this is very insidious, what he's up to. 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. ♪ 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 when you touch down you'll find that it's ♪ >> 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 ♪ >> everything was love and peace >> 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 zonked 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 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. 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. 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. ♪ 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 nickname is hashburies, 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 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 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 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? 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>> 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. >> something 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 dirty and 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 doing 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." ♪ ♪ afghanistan's president declares a national day of mourning after isis claims responsible. >> for one of kabul's deadliest attacks in months. munich pays homage to the victims of friday's shooting while they try to figure out why the gunman carried it out. plus -- >> join me in welcoming the next vice president. >> hillary clinton unveils her running mate, and senator tim kaine is already going on the offensive against donald trump. hello, i'm ivan watson, and this is
a man posing as a soldier preying on a woman in search of love. beware this valentine's day when "can you be mine?" goes too far. good evening. thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. we begin with a dangerous storm taking aim at the northeast right now with millions in its path. this is the scene in boston, as the system intensifies with weather alerts as we come on the air from virginia to maine. heavy snow already causing dangerous driving. up to two feet of snow could fall in some spots. overnight, blizzard conditions with wind gusts topping 60 miles per hour. the storm setting up a nasty monday morning commute, with school already cancelled in boston. rob marciano is in massachusetts tonight. >> reporter: tonight, that new winter blast slamming the northeast. 50 million in the path of the growing storm. some in new england bracing for more blizzard conditions. plows working overtime. snow-covered streets making travel treacherous. already, school cancelled in boston tomorrow. and the mayor there telling residents to prep for up to a foot of snow, pleading with drivers to stay off the roads. >> there's more snow coming, so we want you to take this one serious. >> reporter: airports snarled, too. more than 1,400 flights delayed. and 800 more cancelled. waiting on the tarmac now for about two hours to get de-iced. you can see the sleet and freezing rain accumulating here and in new hampshire, the frantic search for a 15-year-old boy. missing after ice on lake winnipesaukee gave way as he was snowmobiling with his father. who is now hospitalized with hypothermia. >> the >> reporter: heavy know snow still coming down on people. >> i was ready two weeks ago to never see another snowflake again. >> and rob joins us now live just outside of boston. where will the system strike? >> it's just getting going, and it's looking to intensify over the next 12 hours quite rapidly. look at the radar, what a mess it is. the advisories from maine all the way through washington, d.c. be with high wind warnings there. and the precip will come to an end, by tomorrow morning. that's when the winds start to crank up. blowing snow and wind gusts. philly, d.c., over 40 miles an hour. and the snow could be two feet through maine and other spots. this is a heavy, wet snow. with the winds, you can bet there will be power outages across new england. tom? >> rob, thank you. next tonight to politics. a critical week at the white house jump started by north korea firing off a ballistic missile off into the sea of japan. confirmed as the president was hosting japan's prime minister in mar-a-lago. the leads responding with a sift joint statement, calling the test launch intolerable. the president assuring that the u.s. has japan's back, 100%. here's david wright. >> reporter: shoulder to shoulder, the president and the prime minister. the bond between them sealed by a north korean ballistic missile. >> i just want everybody to understand and fully know that the united states of america stands behind japan, its great ally, 100%. >> reporter: it's pyongyang's first missile test since president trump took office, launched into the sea of japan just as trump sat down to dinner with his japanese counterpart. the midrange missile posed no threat to the u.s. but it was a crucial test of trump's commitment to the u.s./japan security alliance, a post-world war ii treaty trump railed against on the campaign trail. >> and, you know, you have the maniac in north korea. you know, they maybe have to do something. right now, if he acts badly toward japan, we end up in a world war. >> reporter: back then, candidate trump accused japan of taking advantage of u.s. protection while stealing american jobs. >> and they are not even paying us. how stupid are we, folks? how stupid, how stupid are we? how stupid are we? >> reporter: not anymore. not after last night. here at home, the administration is now turning its attention back to the targeted travel ban, intent on rescuing the policy one way or another. even if that means writing a new, more limited order. >> we will perhaps do that. we'll see. monday or tuesday. >> reporter: the administration doesn't want the courts to have the last word. >> we can pursue further executive actions. all options are on the table. we have equal branches of government in this country. the judiciary is not supreme. >> reporter: stephen miller, the senior aide most responsible for the initial policy, made the rounds on the sunday shows, and made no secret of his impatience with the judges who have blocked the executive order. >> this is a judicial usurpation of power. it is a violation of judges' proper role in litigating disputes. >> reporter: on twitter, the president praised miller's performance. "congratulations on representing me," he tweeted. "great job!" >> he is asking for broad, unchecked power. will he get it? these are the defendants. they're three judges from the ninth circuit court who heard the case for trump's travel ban, and said, not in our house. >> reporter: "saturday night live" had fun imagining trump taking the ninth circuit to "the people's court." >> first of all, mr. trump, you understand this is a tv court, right? >> that's okay. i am a tv president. >> reporter: melissa mccarthy was back as press secretary sean spicer. this time, hawking ivanka trump's products from the briefing room podium. >> at $39.99, it's unbelievably affordable. >> david, president trump is less than a month into his presidency, and he's already trying to knock out potential 2020 rivals? >> reporter: this is a tweet he isn't out early this morning. trump tweets, i know mark cuban well, he backed me big-time, but i didn't want to take all his calls. he's not smart enough to run for president. of course, cuban hasn't said whether or not he will run. >> david, thank you. meantime, the president saying the recent crackdown of illegal immigrants by i.c.e. is keeping a campaign promise. rounding up hundreds in deportation raids across the country. raising questions about who is being targeted, and whether these enforcement actions are really tied to the president. here's ron claiborne. >> reporter: in new york city, protesters marching through the cold and ice. demonstrating against that surge in immigration raids. are you worried about the raids? >> i'm worried about them, yes. >> reporter: agents rounding up hundreds in the past few days, the administration saying they're concentrating on violent criminals. the president saying gang members, drug dealers and others are being removed. also swept up in the latest raids, people with no criminal records. >> that action will probably end up saving american lives. or saving the well-being and physical safety of american residents. >> reporter: late today, i.c.e. tweeting, "i.c.e. targets convicted criminals and others who are illegally present in the united states." in 2014, president obama announced that they would concentrate on criminals. >> felons, not families. criminals, not children. >> reporter: but 41% not accused of committing any crime. it remains to be seen if the new surge in raids will mean more deportations of those illegal immigrants. inside immigrant communities, some already feel under siege. people are worried about the deportations? >> yes. also, people are feeling sad. >> reporter: immigration officials say these raids were planned before trump took office. but it seems they're using them to send a message of a new, harsher attitude toward illegal immigrants. tom? >> ron, thank you. the white house also fielding new questions tonight after stephen miller doubled down on claims of voter fraud in new hampshire in that interview with george stephanopoulos on "this week." >> reporter: tonight, the trump team doubling down on more claims of voter fraud. >> voter fraud is a serious problem in this country. >> reporter: president trump's senior white house policy adviser, stephen miller, saying that trump nearly lost in new hampshire due to illegal voters. >> i can tell you, this issue of busing voters into new hampshire is widely known, very real, and very serious. >> hold on a second. you just claimed that there was illegal voting in new hampshire. people bused in from massachusetts. do you have any evidence to back that up? >> go to new hampshire, talk to anybody that has worked in politics for a long time. everybody is aware of the problem in new hampshire. >> reporter: miller offered no evidence. >> do you have any evidence? >> if this interests you, we can talk about it more in the future. >> reporter: after that exchange, a veteran gop operative firing back on twitter. john weaver tweeting, i know new hampshire as well as anyone. no voter fraud. buses easy to track. force them to prove it. they can't. and from a former chairman of the new hampshire republican party, miller makes false claim. there are no bused-in voters. in fact, members of president trump's team and family were registered in two states. that includes steve bannon and daughter tiffany. tom? >> gloria, thank you. next to chicago, where two little girls are in critical condition after two shooting incidents. one just 11 years old, the other, 12. here's alex perez. >> shots fired. >> reporter: tonight, police on the hunt after the two innocent children were shot saturday evening. >> we have a person shot. we need ems. >> reporter: a 12-year-old girl was on a playground near her school when people say she was shot in her head. >> people hearing the shots, kid shot in a purple van. >> reporter: minutes later, and just a few miles away, an 11-year-old, sitting in the backseat of a minivan when investigators say shots rang out. she, too, hit in the head. the chicago sun-times reporting she was in the backseat with her brother, and didn't have time to duck. her grandmother, pleading with the offenders to turn themselves in. >> my grandbaby did not deserve this. that is my only grandchild. she's fighting for her life at 11 years old. that shouldn't be. >> reporter: in 2016, chicago had more than 3,500 shootings, and 762 murders. the most murders in chicago in 20 years. and in 2017, at least 385 shootings in the city. chicago police are investigating both shootings. at this point, no arrests have been made. tom? >> alex, thank you. next to california, where powerful flash floods are forcing first responders into action. this was the frightening scene, a car swept away in a matter of moments. triggering an urgent response. marci gonzalez with more. >> reporter: terrifying moments for the father and child trapped inside this car. >> vehicle trapped in water. with the driver inside. >> reporter: the two, driving down a southern california street saturday, swept away by flash flooding. >> there's going to be a male and a small child trapped inside the vehicle. >> reporter: the powerful rushing water pushing the car into a wall, then pulling it downstream. >> he rolled the window, we could hear him scream, "help me, help me!" >> reporter: the car, finally coming to a stop. and with muddy water rising around them, the driver and child make their way to the roof. you see emergency responders hand them life vests before leading them across a ladder to safety. >> they looked very traumatized. >> reporter: a harrowing experience, too, for 81-year-old roger mcmurtry, swept away in six-feet-deep fast-moving floodwater near sacramento. desperately hanging on to a branch until the california national guard rushes in. this rescuer lowered into the surging water. mcmurtry, struggling to keep his head above the surface as the rescuer secures him. then gives the signal. the two holding on tight as they're lifted into the helicopter above. >> if we weren't there, within a matter of minutes, the worst could have happened. >> reporter: marci gonzalez, abc news, los angeles. >> marci, thank you. and still ahead on "world news tonight" this sunday, a man stranded after tumbling 130 feet down the face of a cliff. how rescuers were able to hoist him to safety. and, you may remember this '80s classic. ♪ we are the children ♪ we are the ones >> the jazz legend being remembered tonight. plus, a valentine's day scam that is truly heartbreaking. stay with us. fun in art class. come close, come close. i like that. 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♪ >> 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 him 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 in a pharmaceutical company in basil, switzerland. >> are you happy? >> yes. >> 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 wolf would write "the electric kool-aid acid test" about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. the number of times i'd go, what the hell 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 going to go. but the bunch of us were too big to fit in his station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. >> kesey, he was going to put the bus in dayglow, bright colors and then go with what he called unsettling america, blowing people's minds. >> the whole idea of blowing people's minds was you have to present something that is so different, there's a crack comes open where something new can come in. and the reaction to 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, we would get 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 was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would allow you to see a larger truth and he wanted to get as many people to try lsd as they can. >> so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. the band of course was known as the warlocks. as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead. ♪ st. stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes ♪ ♪ 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 want to try to experience what kesey experienced, and he kind of became the grand poobah of the carnival in san francisco in the 1960s. >> there's nothing a grown-up or sophisticated in taking an lsd trip at all. they're just being complete fools. testinhuh?sting! is this thing on? 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[ 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 infantalize 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 had questioned the paradigm of materialism. >> look around you. 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, your own, big, metal box. and it just looks absurd, 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 feel that black power or other political activist groups may use haight street as a stage setting for riots. >> haight-ashbury cannot handle 100,000. of course, 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 like the things we do, and they try to harass us and bother us. >> in some ways, their revolutions are war between generations. the hippies' rallying cry is never trust anyone over 30. >> the war of the youth culture against the establishment is on full swing on about 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 around. they pushed people physically out of the store. >> the mayor, this is very insidious, what he's up to. 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. by switching to geic. huh. we should take a closer look at geico... you know, geico insures way more than cars. boats, motorcycles... even rvs! geico insures rvs? what's an rv? uh, the thing we've been stuck on for five years! wait, i'm not a real moose?? we've been over this, jeff... we're stickers! i'm not a real moose? give him some space. deep breaths, jeff. what's a sticker?!? take a closer look at geico. great savings. and a whole lot more. 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>> 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 nickname is hashburies, 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 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 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 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. >> bursts of 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 bulgar 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. >> 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 anarchists 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 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. ♪ "the birds and the bees" by dean martin ♪ let me tell you 'bout... ♪ ♪ the birds the bees and the flowers and the trees ♪ ♪ and the moon up above and a thing called love. ♪ ♪ let me tell you 'bout the stars in the sk♪, a girl and a guy and the way they could kiss ♪ ♪ on a night like this. ♪ ♪ when i look into your big brown eyes ♪ ♪ it's so very plain to s♪e ♪ that it's time you learned about the facts of life ♪ ♪ startin' from a to z. ♪ ♪ let me tell you bout the the birds and the bees ♪ life's as big as you make it. introducing the all-new seven seater volkswagen atlas ♪and a thing called love. 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 pill 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. >> morning. >> 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. eventually he gets them to commit 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. >> something 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 dirty and 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 doing 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 vain 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." lives could be like that." ♪ -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com here's the beatles! >> nothing but a bunch of british elvis presleys. >> it's not true, it's not true! >> when the beatles arrived, from then on a thousand different things arose. ♪ glad all over >> is it a sex thing or -- >> yes, it's sexual. ♪ >> there was the desire to get power in order to use it for good. ♪ how does it feel >> pop musicians in today's generation, they can rule the world.
>> they're fascists. they don't like hippies. and they don't like the things we do. >> we do have to maintain law, order and decency on the streets. >> what we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. we're not thinking of anything else. >> they're trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 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. >> the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called the beat generation. ♪ a novel titled "on the road" became a best-seller. >> when kerouac's book came out, it became a revolution, 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 golden desert of even fall, the great image of god with four fingers pointed straight at me. come on, boy, go thou across the grown, go moan for man. go moan, go groan, go groan alone, go roll your bones alone. [ applause ] >> jack kerouac became like a godfather for 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 coffee house poet is the speciality 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. >> all young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. ♪ >> folk music gives me a lot more than the popular music of our own time does. popular songs should be sung because we don't do anything about say the bomb, you know. the whole situation come to an end. >> there's got to 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 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 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 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 sort of in this white-hot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before. ♪ only a pawn in their game [ cheers and applause ] >> after the revolution of bob dylan, the music world moves west. ♪ got to go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do with whoever you wanna do ♪ >> 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'd just automatically pull over. hey, brother, get in, you know? where are you going? >> laurel canyon was an incredibly interesting place to live in those days. i lived on lookout mountain with joanie mitchell. crosby was close, stephen was close. >> now it was all these artists singing this truth, and their truth was this idyllic sense of freedom. >> there was a thriving community of kids that were discovering their new life and couldn't wait to play the new song they had written. >> it was a lot of freedom. there was a lot of drugs. this was a lot of beautiful women. there was a lot of good rock and roll being made. it was a fabulous time. ♪ ♪ these are students at a suburban high school in los angeles. they reflect the sudden sensuality and affluence which dominate life in southern california. the latest fad is the sunset strip. during the past year, it has become a playground for southern california's mobile, restless teenagers. it is the place to go. >> people would meet at clubs on the sunset strip and they would go to the trip or they would go to the whisky a 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. ♪ ♪ 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, you know, 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 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. >> kesey had volunteered to do tests for lsd, a government-sponsored test. >> lsd was isolated in a pharmaceutical company in switzerland. >> are you happy? >> yes. >> 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 wolf would write "the electric kool-aid acid test" about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. i'd wonder what 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 going to go. but the bunch of us were too big to fit in his station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. ♪ >> kesey, he was going to put the bus in dayglow, bright colors and then go with what he called unsettling america, blowing people's minds. >> the whole idea of blowing people's minds was you have to present something that is so different, there's a crack comes open where something new can come in. and the reaction to 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, we would get 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 was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would start to let you see a larger truth and thought he wanted to get as many people to try lsd as they can. >> so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. the band of course was known as the warlocks. as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead. ♪ st. stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes ♪ ♪ 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 want to try to experience what kesey experienced, and he kind of became the grand poobah of the carnival in san francisco in the 1960s. >> there's nothing a grown-up or sophisticated in taking an lsd trip at all. they're just being complete fools. ♪ i'm jimmy, this is my definition of fresh since 1983. ♪ 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 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 about a year ago. it spreads the gospel based on brotherhood, love and lsd. >> for all the people out there that are confused and hungry for some kind of meaningful spiritual life, that's why all these people are down here. 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 growing their hair long, they were wearing beads, playing music on the street. it was just an incredible environment at that point, 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 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 power, we're not thinking of any of those kinds of struggles. we're not thinking of 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 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, to 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'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. [ 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 infantalize 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 had questioned the paradigm of materialism. >> look around you. 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, your own, big, metal box. and it just looks absurd, 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 feel that black power or other political activist groups may use haight street as a stage setting for riots. >> haight-ashbury cannot handle 100,000. of course, 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 like the things we do and they try to harass us and bother us. >> in some ways, their revolutions are war between generations. the hippies' rallying cry is never trust anyone over 30. >> the war of the youth culture establishment is on full swing on about 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 around. they pushed people physically out of the store. >> the mayor, this is very insidious, what he's up to. 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. ♪ 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 when you touch down you'll find that it's ♪ >> 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 zonked 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 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. 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 changing. and the rules were really that there were no rules. ♪ my name is jeff sheldon, and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize i've got a hundred orders i have to ship out. shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everything's pretty much done. it's so much easier so now, we're ready, bring on t. shipstation. the number one ch of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get two months free. ♪ 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 nickname is hashburies, 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 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 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 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 anarchists 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. >> something 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 dirty and 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 doing 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." ♪ ♪ ♪ israel launches air strikes after the downing of an israeli fighter jet. we are live in jerusalem this hour. also ahead, a british aid agency oxfam denies it tried to cover up a sex scandal after allegations that some of its workers sent to haiti after the 2010 earthquake paid for prostitutes. and an olympic style charm offensive between north and south korea. are they sidelining the united states? 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a peaceful planet. we're not thinking of anything else. >> they're trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. ♪ ♪ ♪ 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. >> the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called beat generation. ♪ a novel titled "on the road" became a best-seller. >> when kerouac's book comes out, it became a revolution, 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 golden desert of even fall, the 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. [ applause ] >> 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. coffey houses, the neighborhood bars of bohemia, where the strongest potion is coffee, and the coffee house poet is the speciality 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. >> all young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. ♪ standing down in new york town one day ♪ >> folk music gives me a lot more than the popular music of our own time does. my outlook is that popular songs should be sung because we don't do anything about say the bomb, you know. the whole situation come to an end. >> there's got to 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 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 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 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 sort of in this white-hot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before. ♪ only a pawn in their game [ cheers and applause ] >> after the revolution of bob dylan, the music world moves west. ♪ got to go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do with whoever you wanna do ♪ >> 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'd just automatically pull over. hey, brother, get in, you know? where are you going? >> laurel canyon was an incredibly interesting place to live in those days. i lived on lookout mountain with joanie mitchell. crosby was close, stephen was close. >> now it was all these artists singing this truth, and their truth was this idyllic sense of freedom. >> there was a thriving community of kids that were discovering their new life and couldn't wait to play the new song they had written. >> it was a lot of freedom. there was a lot of drugs. this was a lot of beautiful women. there was a lot of good rock and roll being made. it was a fabulous time. ♪ so, you guys have recently started dating... -yes -yes cool. i want to show you guys three chevy suv's. the first one is called the trax, great for when you move in together. -ahhh! and this is the chevy equinox, perfect for when you two have your first kid. give me some time... okay. this is the traverse... for when you have your five kids, two dogs and one cat. whoa! five? uhhh... it's the chevy memorial day sales event! get an additional $750 on these select models. that's on top of most other offers! find new roads at your local chevy dealer. ♪ ♪ take me down to the river bed ♪ these are students at a suburban high school in los angeles. they reflect the sudden sensuality and affluence which dominate life in southern california. the latest fad is the sunset strip. during the past year, it has become a playground for southern california's mobile, restless teenagers. it is the place to go. >> people would meet down at clubs on the sunset strip and they would go to the trip or they would go to the whisky a gogo. 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. ♪ >> i ♪ i, i got a light i got a light on you, babe ♪ ♪ i, i got a light 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, you know, 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 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. >> kesey had volunteered to do tests for lsd, a government-sponsored test. >> lsd was isolated in a pharmaceutical company in switzerland. >> do you feel happy? >> yes. >> 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 wolf would write "the electric kool-aid acid test" about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. i'd wonder what 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 going to go. but the bunch of us were too big to fit in his station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. ♪ >> kesey, he was going to put the bus in dayglow, bright colors and then go with what he called unsettling america, blowing people's minds. >> the whole idea of blowing people's minds was you have to present something that is so different, there's a crack comes open where something new can come in. and the reaction to 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, we would get 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 was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would allow you to see a larger truth. and he thought he wanted to get as many people to try lsd as they can. >> so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. the band, of course, was known as the warlocks. as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead. ♪ st. stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes ♪ ♪ 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, california is born because more and more people want to try to experience what kesey experienced, and he kind of became the grand poobah of the carnival in san francisco in the 1960s. >> there's nothing a grown-up or sophisticated in taking an lsd trip at all. they're just being complete fools. i'm a small business, but i have... big dreams... and big plans. so how do i make the efforts of 8 employees... feel like 50? 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certainly not to kill each other but here to celebrate life, to make music, to 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'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. [ 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 infantalize 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 had questioned the paradigm of materialism. >> look around you. 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, your own, big, metal box. and it just looks absurd, 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 feel that black power or other political activist groups may use haight street as a stage setting for riots. >> haight-ashbury cannot handle 100,000. of course, 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 like the things we do and they try to harass us and bother us. >> in some ways, their revolutions are war between generations. the hippies' rallying cry is never trust anyone over 30. >> the war of the youth culture establishment is on full swing on about 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 around. they pushed people physically out of the store. >> the mayor, this is very insidious, what he's up to. 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. ♪ ♪ 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 when you touch down you'll find that it's ♪ >> 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 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 into american life. like it or not, we're living in the stoned age. >> at its 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. 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 changing. and the rules were really that there were no rules. so, you guys have recently started dating... -yes -yes cool. i want to show you guys three chevy suv's. the first one is called the trax, great for when you move in together. -ahhh! and this is the chevy equinox, perfect for when you two have your first kid. give me some time... okay. this is the traverse... for when you have your five kids, two dogs and one cat. whoa! five? uhhh... it's the chevy memorial day sales event! get an additional $750 on these select models. that's on top of most other offers! find new roads at your local chevy dealer. ♪ 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 nickname is hashburies, 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 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 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 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. >> something 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 dirty and 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 doing 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 high watermark. 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." ♪ ♪ everybody plays games. you know that. you know that better than anybody. >> the on again/off again sunl mitt between the president and leader of north korea is back on again -- maybe. plus this -- quick question from cnn why did your company pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to president trump's lawyer? 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♪ >> ken kesey took classes of and he writes the great novel "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. >> kesey had volunteered to do tests for lsd, a government-sponsored test. >> lsd was isolated in a pharmaceutical company in switzerland. >> are you happy? >> yes. >> 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 wolf would write "the electric kool-aid acid test" about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. i'd wonder what 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 going to go. but the bunch of us were too big to fit in his station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. ♪ >> kesey, he was going to put the bus in dayglow, bright colors and then go with what he called unsettling america, blowing people's minds. >> the whole idea of blowing people's minds was you have to present something that is so different, there's a crack comes open where something new can come in. and the reaction to 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 was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would start to let you see a larger truth and thought he wanted to get as many people to try lsd as they can. >> so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. the band of course was known as the warlocks. as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead. ♪ st. stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes ♪ ♪ 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 want to try to experience what kesey experienced, and he kind of became the grand poobah of the carnival of san francisco in the 1960s. >> there's nothing a grown-up or sophisticated in taking an lsd trip at all. they're just being complete fools. these days we're all stressed. i hear you, sister. stress can affect our minds. i call this dish, "stress." stress can also affect our bodies. so, i'm partnering with cigna to remind you that your emotional and physical health are more connected than you think. go in for your annual check-up. and be open with your doctor about anything you feel. physically, and emotionally. body and mind. cigna. together, all the way. that's better. 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[ 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 infantalize 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 had questioned the paradigm of materialism. >> look around you. 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, your own, big, metal box. and it just looks absurd, 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 feel that black power or other political activist groups may use haight street as a stage 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 like the things we do and they try to harass us and bother us. >> in some ways, their revolutions are war between generations. the hippies' rallying cry is never trust anyone over 30. >> the war of the youth culture against the establishment is on full swing on about 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 around. they pushed people physically out of the store. >> the mayor, this is very insidious, what he's up to. 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. the continent or couny that your ancestors are from, but ancestrydna showed me the specific places they called home. 20 million members have connected to a deeper family story. order your kit at ancestry.com. >>got it. ran out of ink and i have a big meeting today >>and 2 boxes of twizzlers... yeah, uh...for the team... >>the team? 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>> 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 zonked 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 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. 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. 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[ 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 wide-eyed anarchists looking for trouble. they were very polite. >> residents and resorts freely emptied their cup burboards 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. hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, i'm a car thief... what?! i'm here to steal your car because, well, that's my job. what? what?? what?! 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>> 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. >> something 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 dirty and 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 doing 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." ♪ ♪ the most cultural event in the history of america. freaks. >> they seem to get off on this high-energy event. >> you can bet your bottom, we got 'em, baby. >> unless you've been living in a sealed cave, you've probably noticed that america's latest craze is disco dancing. >> this is punk rock and its purpose is to promote violence, sex and destruction in that order.
>> they're trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 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. >> the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called b generation. ♪ a novel titled "on the road" became a best-seller. >> when kerouac's book comes out, it became a revolution, 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 golden desert of even fall, the great image of god with four fingers pointed straight at me. come on, boy, go thou across the grown, go moan for man. go moan, go groan, go groan alone, go roll your bones alone. [ applause ] >> 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 coffee house poet is the speciality 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. >> all young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. ♪ >> folk music gives me a lot more than the popular music of our own time does. popular songs should be sung because we don't do anything about say the bomb, you know. the whole situation come to an end. >> there's got to 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 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 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 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 sort of in this white-hot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before. ♪ only a pawn in their game [ cheers and applause ] >> after the revolution of bob dylan, the music world moves west. ♪ got to go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do with whoever you wanna do ♪ >> 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'd just automatically pull over. hey, brother, get in, you know? where are you going? >> laurel canyon was an incredibly interesting place to live in those days. i lived on lookout mountain with joanie mitchell. crosby was close, stephen was close. >> now it was all these artists singing this truth, and their truth was this idyllic sense of freedom. >> there was a thriving community of kids that were discovering their new life and couldn't wait to play the new song they had written. >> it was a lot of freedom. there was a lot of drugs. this was a lot of beautiful women. there was a lot of good rock and roll being made. it was a fabulous time. ♪ ♪ ♪ let me take you, baby down to the riverbed ♪ these are students at a suburban high school in los angeles. they reflect the sudden sensuality and affluence which dominate life in southern california. the latest fad is the sunset strip. during the past year, it has become a playground for southern california's mobile, restless teenagers. it is the place to go. >> people would meet at clubs on the sunset strip and they would go to the trip or they would go to the whisky a 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. ♪ ♪ i, i got a light i got a light on you, babe ♪ ♪ i, i got a light ♪ 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, you know, 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 i was 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 in a pharmaceutical company in switzerland. >> do you feel happy? >> yes. >> 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 wolf would write "the electric kool-aid acid test" about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. i'd wonder what 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 going to go. but the bunch of us were too big to fit in his station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. ♪ >> kesey, he was going to put the bus in dayglow, bright colors and then go with what he called unsettling america, blowing people's minds. >> the whole idea of blowing people's minds was you have to present something that is so different, there's a crack comes open where something new can come in. and the reaction to 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? 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certainly not to kill each other but here to celebrate life, to make music, to 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'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. [ 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 infantalize 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 had questioned the paradigm of materialism. >> look around you. 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, your own, big, metal box. and it just looks absurd, 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 feel that black power or other political activist groups may use haight street as a stage 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 like the things we do and they try to harass us and bother us. >> in some ways, their revolutions are war between generations. the hippies' rallying cry is never trust anyone over 30. >> the war of the youth culture against the establishment is on full swing on about 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 around. they pushed people physically out of the store. >> the mayor, this is very insidious, what he's up to. 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. ♪ 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 when you touch down you'll find that it's ♪ >> 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 zonked 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 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. 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 changing. and the rules were really that there were no rules. ♪ ♪ the topic tonight is the hippies. we have with us mr. jack kerouac 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 dionysian 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 nickname is hashburies, 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 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 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 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 twines >> 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 wide-eyed anarchists looking for trouble. they were very polite. >> residents and resorts freely 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. second pet. ame of your rocknar. incorrect. your call is important to us. we'll be with you shortly. hello, this is daniel in billing. oh, hey, yes! hello, daniel! can you hold please? no, please! main menu. calling customer service is the worst. so t-mobile just made it better. no bots, no bounci, no bs. i love you guys. we get that a lot. 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. >> something 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 dirty and 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 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 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." ♪ ♪ the president has not risen to the mantle of the office, so says mitt romney. he's making his presence known in an blistering op-ed before taking his senate seat. today the first bipartisan meeting since the government shutdown began. is a deal possible to end the shutdown costing 800,000 government workers their paychecks? 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and they don't like the things we do. >> we do have to maintain law, order and decency on the streets. >> what we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. we're not thinking of anything else. >> they're trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. ♪ ♪ ♪ 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. >> the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called beat generation. ♪ a novel titled "on the road" became a best-seller. >> when kerouac's book came out, it became a revolution, 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 golden desert of even fall, the great image of god with four fingers pointed straight at me. come on, boy, go thou across the grown, go moan for man. go moan, go groan, go groan alone, go roll your bones alone. [ applause ] >> jack kerouac became like a godfather for 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 coffee, and the coffee house poet is the speciality 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. >> all young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. ♪ >> folk music gives me a lot more than the popular music of our own time does. popular songs should be sung because we don't do anything about say the bomb, you know. the whole situation come to an end. >> there's got to 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 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 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 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 sort of in this white-hot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before. ♪ only a pawn in their game [ cheers and applause ] >> after the revolution of bob dylan, the music world moves west. ♪ got to go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do with whoever you wanna do ♪ >> 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'd just automatically pull over. hey, brother, get in, you know? where are you going? >> laurel canyon was an incredibly interesting place to live in those days. i lived on lookout mountain with joanie mitchell. crosby was close, stephen was close. >> now it was all these artists singing this truth, and their truth was this idyllic sense of freedom. >> there was a thriving community of kids that were discovering their new life and couldn't wait to play the new song they had written. >> it was a lot of freedom. there was a lot of drugs. this was a lot of beautiful women. there was a lot of good rock and roll being made. it was a fabulous time. ♪ ♪ we live like no one's watching, ♪ laugh like there's no tomorrow... ♪ ...and welcome you... ...to do the same. ♪ the united states virgin islands. hey joy! hello thomas. hey. what's the worst part about paying for things you don't want? the-- paying! exactly. and what's the best part about getting things you do want for free? free stuff. precisely. that's why verizon decided everyone in the family should get the unlimited they want without paying for the things they don't, and why it now comes with six months of free apple music. i like music. hey, look at that. i like popcorn. 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♪ >> 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 i was 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 in a pharmaceutical company in switzerland. >> are you happy? >> yes. >> 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 wolf would write "the electric kool-aid acid test" about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. i'd wonder what 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 going to go. but the bunch of us were too big to fit in his station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. ♪ >> kesey, he was going to put the bus in dayglow, bright colors and then go with what he called unsettling america, blowing people's minds. >> the whole idea of blowing people's minds was you have to present something that is so different, there's a crack comes open where something new can come in. and the reaction to 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 was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would start to let you see a larger truth and thought he wanted to get as many people to try lsd as they can. >> so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test. the band of course was known as the warlocks. as time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead. ♪ st. stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes ♪ ♪ 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 want to try to experience what kesey experienced, and he kind of became the grand poobah of the carnival of san francisco in the 1960s. >> there's nothing a grown-up or sophisticated in taking an lsd trip at all. they're just being complete fools. with less of the sugar you don't. 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certainly not to kill each other but here to celebrate life, to make music, to 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'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. [ 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 infantalize 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 had questioned the paradigm of materialism. >> look around you. 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, your own, big, metal box. and it just looks absurd, 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 feel that black power or other political activist groups may use haight street as a stage setting for riots. >> haight-ashbury cannot handle 100,000. of course, 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 like the things we do and they try to harass us and bother us. >> in some ways, their revolutions are war between generations. the hippies' rallying cry is never trust anyone over 30. >> the war of the youth culture against the establishment is on full swing on about 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 around. they pushed people physically out of the store. >> the mayor, this is very insidious, what he's up to. 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. ♪ from the groundbreaking director of "forrest gump" comes "welcome to marwen". 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>> 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 nickname is hashburies, 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 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 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 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 wide-eyed anarchists 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. our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition... for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-six vitamins and minerals. ensure. now up to 30 grams of protein for strength and energy! back pain can't win. now introducing aleve back and muscle pain. only aleve targets tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve back & muscle. all day strong. all day long. 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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 kantner 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 publicity. 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 common 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. eventually, he gets them to commit mass murder for him. >> with blood, the killer scrawled on a refrigerator door the words "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 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. >> no, it isn't. the love-ins brought more and more people. and then people who were really just bums and 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 dirty and tired and disgusted. so i 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 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 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 vain 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." ♪ here's the beatles! >> nothing but a bunch of british elvis presleys. >> it's not true, it's not true! >> when the beatles arrived, from then on a thousand different things arose. ♪ glad all over >> is it a sex thing or -- >> yes, it's sexual. ♪ >> there is a desire to get power in order to use it for good. ♪ how does it feel >> pop musicians in today's generation, they can rule the world.
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[ applause ] >> 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 coffee house poet is the speciality 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. >> all young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. ♪ ♪ standing down in york town one day ♪ >> folk music 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 anything about say the bomb, you know? the whole situation come to an end. >> there's got to 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 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 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 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 sort of in this white-hot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before. ♪ only a pawn in their game ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> after the revolution of bob dylan, the music world moves west. ♪ got to go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do with whoever you wanna do ♪ >> 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'd just automatically pull over. hey, brother, get in, you know? where are you going? >> laurel canyon was an incredibly interesting place to live in those days. i lived on lookout mountain with joanie mitchell. crosby was close, stephen was close. >> now it was all these artists who were singing the truth, and their truth was this idyllic sense of freedom. >> there was a thriving community of kids that were discovering their new life and couldn't wait to play the new song they had written. >> it was a lot of freedom. there was a lot of drugs. this was a lot of beautiful women. there was a lot of good rock and roll being made. it was a fabulous time. ♪ ♪ hey buddy! what do you wanna i be when you grow up?" i would like to be a turbotax live cpa. don't you want to be something else? yeah robochild, you could be anything! i want to help people get their best possible refund. let's just break it down, okay? all turbotax live cpas are human beings with real emotions... you're never going to be emotionally complex enough for that job. i am sad. hahahaha. hahahaha. still perfecting emotion. turbotax live now with cpa's on demand. sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses your movement and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. plus, 24-month financing on all smart beds. only for a limited time. the iphone xr is a marvel in technology. yeah this edge to edge screen is unbelievable. am i nuts or does everything look better on an iphone? both. and with our unlimited plan, people can choose the best in entertainment. hbo, cinemax, showtime... starz, vrv, amazon music, or pandora.... now people can get what they want. 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♪ >> 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 in a pharmaceutical company in basel, switzerland. >> do you feel happy? >> yes. >> 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 wolf 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 a brownie and wondered what the hell 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 going to go. but the bunch of us were too big to fit in his station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. ♪ >> kesey, he was going to put the bus in dayglow, bright colors and then go with what he called unsettling america, blowing people's minds. >> the whole idea of blowing people's minds was you have to present something that is so different, there's a crack comes open where something new can come in. and the reaction to 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? 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certainly not to kill each other but here to celebrate life, to make music, to 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'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? 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[ 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 infantalize 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 had questioned the paradigm of materialism. >> look around you. 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 working as an engineer, become a vegetable, drive to work in your own car, your own, big, metal box. and it just looks absurd, 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 feel that black power or other political activist groups may use haight street as a stage 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 like the things we do and they try to harass us and bother us. >> in some ways, their revolutions are war between generations. the hippies' rallying cry is never trust anyone over 30. >> the war of the youth culture against the establishment is in full swing on about 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 around. they pushed people physically out of the store. >> the mayor, this is very insidious, what he's up to. 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. ♪ with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that they're always going to take care of us. it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. we're the tenney's and we're usaa members for life. call usaa to start saving on insurance today. and we're usaa members for life. hey buddy! what do you wanna i be when you grow up?" i would like to be a turbotax live cpa. don't you want to be something else? yeah robochild, you could be anything! i want to help people get their best possible refund. let's just break it down, okay? all turbotax live cpas are human beings with real emotions... you're never going to be emotionally complex enough for that job. i am sad. hahahaha. hahahaha. still perfecting emotion. turbotax live now with cpa's on demand. when it comes to reducing the evsugar in your family's diet,m. coke, dr pepper and pepsi hear you. we're working together to do just that. bringing you more great tasting beverages with less sugar or no sugar at all. smaller portion sizes, clear calorie labels and reminders to think balance. because we know mom wants what's best. more beverage choices, smaller portions, less sugar. balanceus.org the iphone xr is a marvel in technology. yeah this edge to edge screen is unbelievable. am i nuts or does everything look better on an iphone? both. and with our unlimited plan, people can choose the best in entertainment. hbo, cinemax, showtime... starz, vrv, amazon music, or pandora.... now people can get what they want. 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♪ ♪ the topic tonight is the hippies. we have with us mr. jack kerouac 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, the '60s, to which he didn't feel parry to. >> a dionysian 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 mates haight-ashbury a terribly 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 nickname is hashburies, 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 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 started. 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 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 twines >> 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 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. >> 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. ♪ i feel most times we're high and low ♪ ♪ high and low ♪ if i had my way enhance your moments. san pellegrino. tastefully italian. san pellegrino. that rocking chair would look grahh, new house, eh?e. well, you should definitely see how geico could help you save on homeowners insurance. nice tip. i'll give you two bucks for the chair. two?! that's a victorian antique! all right, how much for the recliner, then? wait wait... how did that get out here? that is definitely not for sale! is this a yard sale? if it's in the yard then it's... for sale. oh, here we go. geico. it's easy to switch and save on homeowners and renters insurance. the iphone xr is a marvel in technology. yeah this edge to edge screen is unbelievable. am i nuts or does everything look better on an iphone? both. and with our unlimited plan, people can choose the best in entertainment. hbo, cinemax, showtime... starz, vrv, amazon music, or pandora.... now people can get what they want. 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