Summer of Love
Season 29 Episode 12 | 52m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
The utopian beginnings of peace and love prevailed, and ended in chaos.
In January 1967, San Francisco youth descended on Golden Gate Park for a Human Be-In. The media flocked to the event, offering a window into the world of Haight-Ashbury and inspiring even more young people to join. Summer of Love is a striking picture of the summer of 1967 — from the utopian beginnings, when peace and love prevailed, to the chaos and drug use that ultimately signaled the end.
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Summer of Love
Season 29 Episode 12 | 52m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
In January 1967, San Francisco youth descended on Golden Gate Park for a Human Be-In. The media flocked to the event, offering a window into the world of Haight-Ashbury and inspiring even more young people to join. Summer of Love is a striking picture of the summer of 1967 — from the utopian beginnings, when peace and love prevailed, to the chaos and drug use that ultimately signaled the end.
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1967, a tour bus on Haight Street claimed to be the only foreign tour in the domestic U.S. (1m 8s)
1967, young people flooded into San Francisco to find what one described as “wonderland.” (2m 24s)
Visions of a utopian society took shape in the Haight-Ashbury district in the mid 1960s. (3m 5s)
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Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Carlisle Companies. Major funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.