The last episode of the CNN's series, THE SIXTIES, premiered tonight, August 14, 2014. It was entitled SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK 'N ROLL.Here's what I got out of it...
Ken BABBS "Stagnant materialism"; Peter Cohen "Coyote"; ON THE ROAD; Douglas Brinkley; WORK FOR THE CORPORATION; "Go roll your bones alone." Kerouac; "You're square."; coffee houses; beatniks; folk singers; Joan Baez; folk revival; Greenwich Village Movement; Dylan 1963 Medger Evers; "Took Beat energy and linked it to folk culture."; "Bob Dylan was in this white hot moment."; THE SCENE MOVES WEST; "Everybody moved to Laurel Canyon."; Lookout Mountain, Graham Nash; FIRST AD: Jos. A. Bank...; San Fran, Kesey, Stanford; LSD patient is asked, "Is it a beautiful experience?" He replies,"YES!"; Kesey in La Honda; BABBS UNSETTLING AMERICA "Blowing peoples' minds"; "Making the Squares pay notice of the Underground."; Kerouac drinking a tall boy Bud; "Torch had been passed."; Kesey messianic; THE ACID TEST; the Warlocks/ THE GRATEFUL DEAD; Tom Wolfe; the third time Garcia is seen; Counterculture in California is born.; Reagan,"Just being complete fools."; SECOND AD: St. Croix Virgin Islands, Microsoft, Quicken Loans, Transamerica, CNN promos: Harry Reasoner of CBS News; "It offers some kind of hope."; "It's like you were in one big happy family."; "You couldn't understand if you hadn't gotten high."; DIGGERS FREE STORE; 5th time they show Garcia and they let him talk,"NOBODY WANTS TO HURT ANYBODY."; "Here to celebrate LIFE!"; "They had a monster war."; Grace Slick; SUMMER OF LOVE; Group sainthood; Harry Reasoner,"This is not a new idea and it has never worked."; "HIPPIE" is a fabrication: "Question the paradigm of materialism."; "You own this big metal box."; "What joy is there in life?";  ECSTASY; fascist cops; WAR BETWEEN GENERATIONS; "Never trust anybody over 30."; "He wants to stop human growth!"; "If it's necessary to bring in the National Guard, I'll bring in whatever force is necessary."; THIRD AD: Infiniti, NOVEMBER MAN, Citi Bank, CNN Sixties Promo, Talking diabetes meter; BKG Boxing, CNN promo; "intense preoccupation with pursuit of pleasure"; 8 MILES HIGH; Ginsberg & Leary; Leary,"TURN ON WITH YOUR CHILDREN WHEN YOU ARE READY."; super peaceful family atmosphere; express themselves creatively, Dylan, Kesey, Leary, Garcia, GIANT LOVE-IN; Joplin at Monterey Pop singing ARITON'S BIG MAMA THORNTON'S "Ball & Chain"; "MONTEREY HIT LIKE LIGHTNING!"; "Get on board! We're leaving town!"; Mama Cass watching Janis perform at Monterey.; Michelle Phillips, 9:35 P.M. EDT; Love & peace and Monterey Police Chief bought flowers for the police force and said,"Don't arrest anybody."; GRASS!!! Mo' & mo' gettin' ZONKED; LIVING IN THE STONED AGE; "...changed their mind about premarital sex..."; "If you want to make love to somebody you should."; "THE PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC IS BUNK."; The ruling theme was, NO RULES.; NEXT AD: golong.com, AARP, U.S. Virgin Islands, Quicken Loans, (ed. note: something dot com) Beautyrest, CNN promos; William F. Buckley; "Kerouac never wanted to be a prophet but fame destroys people in America."; Kerouac, "I believe in order and piety."; treat hippies like they were animals; "largest hippie colony in the world"; HASH-BERRY; hippies try to get away to communes; BABBS sez, "People could just help themselves."; Bethel, N.Y.; WOODSTOCK; "Woodstock was an opportunity for people to find out they were not alone."; MAX YASGER; "Word got out and everybody and his brother came out..."; IRRESISTIBLE RIVER OF CHANGE; FREEDOM by Ritchie Havens; Cocker, Baez, Hendrix; LIKE A MEETING OF ALL THE TRIBES.; WAVY GRAVY; Cronkite; Frank Reynolds; Woodstock merchants were stunned by the politeness.; QUESTLOVE,"Woodstock marked the end of it."; NEXT AD: CNN SIXTIES, Plaza Ford, Verizon FIOS, CNN; Michael Lang; ALTAMONT; Graham Nash; HELLS ANGELS; Grace Slick, "There was a lot of speed and alcohol. That's a deadly combo for bikers."; Garcia; Manson; mystical hippie clan; SVENGALI; Vincent Bugliosi, "...lifestyle was mass orgies and LSD trips..."; "After the Manson murders, nobody picked up hippie hitchhikers."; drained idealism; really rotten people in the HAIGHT; "There have been generation gaps before..."; Kesey and his kids; BABBS,"Mercy is better..."; "Most carefree period of my life.", said Peter Cohen "Coyote". http://robertoreg.blogspot.com