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Yeah, yeah! Channel four's Bay Area 2000, Brought to you by Lexus. Who knew dropping Alexis could be so exhilarating? San Francisco In the sixties, A generation in Search of Utopia, A turbulent era shaped by protest, flower power and music with a message from free love. Free

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speech San Francisco tried to change the world. Good evening. I'm Suzanne Shaw. Tonight we continue our unprecedented journey back in time to a place you only thought you knew. We've assembled an outstanding team of historians and storytellers to bring you the glory, the tragedy and the

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promise of one of the greatest cities in the world. With never before seen photographs, an amazing archival footage, Channel four brings you the next chapter in the saga of this extraordinary place we call home. Now Crime Channel four proudly presents San Francisco in the sixties. Never

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had so few had so much for many of us. That was the America of 1960. Promote me walking the talk. Mhm Anybody. Let's do that. Save me by my little hand and go back. Yeah, Our recipe for success was simple. All you needed was money and

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lots of it. And what better place was to to spend your hard earned loot than in California. 1960 more people were living here than in any other state in the union. Our insatiable appetite for all things chrome and chiffon was fueled by the fat little allowances

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of millions of baby boomers. Adolescence you're gonna want to buy your The early sixties were a time when anything seemed possible when technological wonders were as far away as the supermarket. What happened? I'm a super action mother. A new Gleaves happened, Tommy. New Super Action bleed.

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Our homes were filled with the new and improved. Even our food was freshly fabricated. Straight from the lab, we had such high tech adjustables as SpaghettiOs. It's the greatest invention since the napkin. Mhm. You can indulge your sweet tooth without getting fat like nothing else that

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ever was, Or eat your breakfast in a glass. At the end of an error, the world was suddenly filled with miracles, none more splendid than disposable diapers. Progress, my little chickadee East progress. Yeah, if you wanted to avoid the whole mess altogether, you could have sex

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and not worry about getting pregnant. Once the first birth control pills came out in 1960. Suddenly you could add without knowing how to count as computers took over the drudgery of daily life and along with it, the jobs of millions of Americans. But so what? If

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you didn't have a job, you could pay for all those goodies without using money. All you needed was a sliver of plastic that was blanketing the country by 1965 a *** and span, bright and shining future was at our fingertips. We were Americans, after all, in

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the prime of our adolescence. And yet deep in our guts, we knew something wasn't quite right. With the whole deal, we would be made to pay for all this good fortune. Somehow, someday we knew it, but we didn't know how. Wait, there was that great dream

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of Camelot and ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country and the Peace Corps and the war on poverty. Those were very important when you're young and American and idealistic, and Americans really began to believe and take

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pride and be proud and want to do for your country. And then when he was killed in the way he was murdered. Um, it was a very heavy blow. And I remember that. Well, it couldn't happen. I don't believe it. Great. Yeah. It seemed the technology

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could do just about anything except saving us from ourselves. All the gadgets and gizmos in the world couldn't keep our hearts from breaking. Couldn't keep our hopes for the future alive. That would be up to us. Yeah. Yeah. Berkeley leads the way when we return to

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San Francisco in the sixties K R O N s Bay Area 2000, San Francisco in the sixties Brought to you by compact, better answers and by Northern California Toyota dealers. See your Northern California Toyota dealer today. We now return to Cron's Bay Area 2000, San Francisco

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In the sixties. Mm. It was just plain ugly. Much of what we saw the South in the early sixties. Most of us here in the Bay area were eager to call it uncivilized, unseemly, unfair and none of our business. Uh huh. All right. Mhm. Good

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news on. We may not have had crosses burning on our front lawns here in the Bay area, but there were plenty of other obstacles to full integration. Willie Brown, then an attorney just starting out, remembers what it was like trying to rent a home outside of

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the all black neighborhoods of San Francisco. The place isn't available or deposits already been taken on it. Uh, price would be hiked to a level twice, three times what it would be, uh, to your white counterpart. Make an application or the standards they would that would

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be so high that you couldn't meet them. That is to say, your income had to be at a certain level or your track history of having lived in different places had to be at a certain level. There were all kinds of legitimate quote unquote reasons for

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not permitting you to rent the facility. As an attorney in business for himself, Willie Brown never had to face the job. Discrimination rampant in the Bay Area at the time. White collar positions, sales and service jobs all were closed to blacks in the early sixties, when

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the thousands of Bay Area natives who had worked for civil rights in the south returned home. Many saw for the first time that we weren't immune to the scourge of racism and they decided to do something about it. Yeah, The tactics they chose were familiar to

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any civil rights workers. Their targets were employers of all kinds. Auto row, the Oakland Tribune Mills drive in the Sheraton Palace Hotel. All were picketed. The picket lines were filled with young people, college students like Jerry Rubin, who by then had left his native Cincinnati and

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enrolled at U C. Berkeley. If ever so briefly, I started going to classes, and I guess what I experienced was another symbolic thing that happened to millions of people in the sixties is that life outside was more interesting than life inside the classroom, dropped into life

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and out of school, Which is the way I saw it. On Tuesday, Jerry Rubin would go on to make a career of being a drop in. But some of his favorite demonstrations were among his very first shop ends at Lucky Stores on Telegraph Avenue, which kind

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of legitimized your right to be a nuisance. They're going to the store. You load your caught up with lots of food. You go to the checkout counter, you put all the food down. The checkout person writes it all up and you look and you say I

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have no money. Now if enough people do that, the real people that are buying you can't get anything done. And so it was totally effective and sort of legal, because I guess that could happen to a person where they go in and they find out they

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left their money at home. You know, once we were all saying, Well, we left our money at home. But if you hire more blacks, we remember to bring our money next time. So how did Jerry Rubin find out about the shop ends? Like every other student

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at Berkeley? All he had to do was talk to the organizers who set up shop out in Berkeley's main plaza every day of class. It wasn't long before businesses like the Oakland Tribune, who were sick and tired of being picketed, began putting pressure on the university

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to do something about it and do something they did. They banned on campus recruitment for so called illegal activities like the civil rights demonstrations. The students were outraged, and many defied the ban. Administrators threatened suspension, but the students set up their tables on Sproul Plaza once

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again This time, the police were called in to make arrests. Jack Weinberg was the first and last student the police approached. That day. I went limp. They dragged me. There was a police car sitting right there. They put me into the police car. It was right

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at right at the time that the clock was striking noon, all the classes were letting out. Thousands of people were flowing through the plaza. You couldn't have moved a police car under the best of circumstances. But again, the civil rights activists knew what to do and

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that people sat down around the police car instantly and it was so spontaneous. I've heard references at least a dozen different people who are certain that they were the first person to do. And I think I don't think anybody's making that up. I think a lot

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of people did it without any clue from anybody else. The spontaneous act of a handful of students gave birth to the free speech movement. Jack Weinberg spent 32 hours trapped inside that police car, and in that time the movement took shape around him. If P. T.

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Barnum and organized, you would have said it couldn't be done. I mean, it was just like talk about theater. I mean, we had theater on our side in the sixties. I mean, here you have 10 people surrounding a car with Jack Weinberg inside the car, the

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policeman around the car protecting the car, and then people getting on top of the car and giving speeches about the imprisonment inside. I mean, talk about perfect, absolute theater, you know, and and that that event probably radicalized Berkeley as much as anything else. Eventually, university officials,

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led by UC President Clark Kerr, dropped the criminal charges against Jack Weinberg. But the battle over freedom of speech on campus had just begun. And with each passing day, the list of student grievances against the university grew. Suddenly. A squabble over a single issue had become

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a student rebellion. We shall, um one day there were dozens of student groups were part of the free speech movement, but there was only one real leader, a 21 year old junior named Mario Savio. There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious

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makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stuff. And you've got

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to indicate to the people who run into the people alone and that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all. Yeah, we're going once again to march up to the second floor of Sproul Hall. Mario stuttered, you know, and then he goes

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to the microphone and give us unbelievable, beautiful, heartfelt talk. You know everyone in that audience and I really shouldn't call it an audience because it was You can't have an audience when everyone's participating, but everyone thought Mario is talking directly to me. They all felt a

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personal relationship with Mario. Even when he studied at the microphone, everyone would hang on to the stutter. If this is a firm and if the Board of Regions are the board of directors and if President Kerr, in fact is the manager and I'll tell you something,

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the faculty are a bunch of employees and where the raw materials, but where a bunch of raw materials that don't mean to be have any process upon us. I don't mean to be made into any products. Don't mean I don't mean to end up being brought

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by some clients of the university B that the government be the industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone or human beings. As the full dragged on, the movement grew and with it opposition both on campus and off time in favor of expelling the students who

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are disrupting the activities of the university. I think this sort of thing could be could have been eliminated, prevented if the in October the students had been expelled from the university. Beatniks, radicals and filthy speech advocates have brought shame on a great university, so much so

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that applications applications for enrollment have dropped 21% and there's evidence they will continue to drop even more. I mean the chances going to understand that the Board of Regents just understand it running, reading of the whole thing. There's all have to understand that until until well,

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until we govern ourselves where that is appropriate until students and faculty together govern this university where that's appropriate, which is everywhere. Until that happens, they're going to have trouble. Yeah, the trouble continued for more than two months until a few days before Christmas break. Please listen.

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Bettina Absecon, a member of the Communist Party and a leader in the free speech movement, remembers the day she saw the light at the end of the tunnel. One of the most moving scenes that I remember from that moment was the faculty Senate met in Wheeler

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Auditorium and there was a debate that went on for hours and we were standing the students by the thousands. We were outside and they were piping out the debate. We were listening to the discussion, and then the vote came and we heard the vote, and it

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was I think it was 824 to 115. I still remember the numbers. I think that was the vote in favor of accepting the demands of the free speech movement and urging the regions to do so. And then the doors opened and we formed a path for

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them to pass through as the faculty came down and many of them were weeping, okay? And we were cheering, mhm. And what I think about that when I reflect back on and I look at it, is that c They had as a faculty for a lot

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of ways of looking at that. But they had experienced the repression of the McCarthy period. For many of them, that had been their lives. And, uh, that moment was the renewal of hope, the end of the despair and the renewal of hope. And it was a

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very, very beautiful beautiful. The students celebrated their victory the following day on Sproul Plaza. The surprising restraint and naive hopefulness they talked about the future, a time when all differences would be resolved and life will get back to normal. It was a kind of hopefulness that

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would soon be lost to their generation forever. Saturday night at the Fillmore when we return to San Francisco in the sixties. Yeah, we now return to San Francisco in the sixties. Brought to you by Lexus. Who knew driving Alexis could feel so exhilarating? This was the

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number one hit song of 1962. I left my to me in San Francisco. Well, high on a hill. Tony Bennett wasn't your cup of tea. You didn't have a lot of other choices back then. Mm. There were the jazz clubs in North Beach in the Fillmore

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father. And then there was an old fashioned kind of music that suddenly sounded new and fresh way out. Here they have a name. Rain and wind and fire. The Rain is tests the fires, Joe and they call the wind Mariah. Yeah, we had the Kingston Trio

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and the Lime lighters and just dozens of folkie poppy sounding groups that were singing these traditional folk songs. That was they were performing music from that genre for a brand new audience that had never heard folk songs aside from maybe in a nursery school class. So

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it was a very exciting new sound to them. Yeah, I remember the first time I heard of Bob Dylan record. I thought people were joking and they played this record, and I laughed. I thought it was a joke. I thought they were putting me on. Who

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the heck is that guy is ridiculous. What, are you kidding? My God, the man is really saying something is always saying it. But he's saying it off tune, you know, but But even this exciting new sound wasn't enough to make the North Beach scene a happening

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proposition for long. 1964 Whole new form of entertainment began taking its place. It all started one night at the Condor Club with an 18 year old cocktail waitress named Carol Doda. Mhm, mhm, mhm. The reaction from the audience It was packed. They were lined up around,

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you know, around the corner. It's like it's like they've never seen bare breasts before in their lives. You know, the shows that people usually seen were strip shows where they would be covered up with pasty the nipples. So the nipples were a big deal when they're

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on the greatest thing since sliced bread. I guess Carol Doda was an overnight sensation, and it wasn't long before the other North Beach clubs followed her suit. But Carol kept topping her competitors with a series of silicone injections. But even Carol Doda was no competition for

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the next group to burst onto the city's entertainment pages. Making on get on out okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, you got me going just like you. The Beatles took us by storm in 1964 on their first tour of America. They made a total of three

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Bay Area concert appearances and they're following here was as rabid as it was anywhere. Mm oh, what good do you think this would do? 13 year old girls might have been on the front line, but there were plenty of other fans back in the trenches. Rich

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Bando, Nian, Doug Carraway were among them. The males were We're were cool and imitators. The females were admirers. The night of August 29th, 1966 Candlestick Park was packed with kids like Rich and Doug kids who would be stunned when they heard the news months later that

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this had been the Beatles final concert together anywhere. While the Beatles were making headlines around the world, a new revolution in music was quietly taking place right here in the Bay Area. Some would say that the San Francisco music scene really got its start on a

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cold, foggy day in Golden Gate Park when members of San Francisco's activist street theater, The Mind Troop, were arrested for using obscene language in a play. Their public relations man at the time was a novice to the theatrical world, a native New Yorker who knew little

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about the local music scene and who suddenly found himself throwing a fundraising concert at the Troops south of market Law. A couple of weeks before the event, a gentleman called and said that he represents the family dog and they would donate their services. And I said,

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That's great and you're welcome to come up and on the night of you and I listed them as part of the performing artist to appear in alphabetical order. And when they came to the loft, I asked Chat where his dogs were. But they were an organization

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that produced rock and roll concerts. I thought it was a dog act. That's how little I knew about rock and roll and certainly how little I knew about the local scene. Despite his inexperience, Graham was able to assemble an All Star cast for a series of

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mime troupe benefits, and from that time onwards, he was hooked on rock and roll. Grand soon found a long term home for his new love at a small dance hall called the Fillmore. His concerts there were an art form unto themselves, from the free apples at

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the front door to the light shows and posters see the umbilical cord was rock and roll and the lyrics of rock and Roll and the sound of it. It made a lot of white people do what the majority that never did before. Move publicly, Uh, publicly.

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Mhm. And most of us just don't do that. When you got me a job in a bank job, it's not. See, cause my first of all the what's the total environment as soon as you go there is like going to a different kind of school that

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you're there to get your consciousness expanded, you're going to learn the words latitude with a capital capital l You know, if the kids wanted to come and see 10 years after first, they have to hear Buddy Rich, no. And all of us to this to this

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they are very grateful for that Bill Graham, for having that kind of tenacity to bear to do something like that. Yeah, well, I'll start feeling how strong my love is for you. Get in here today. It was magic from the mean troop through those early years.

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And for the next 56 years, that unit of time was it for me. It will never be equal. Uh, huh? Never. Because it was all no blueprints. Uncharted waters. Mhm, Joe. That stuff that I have a battle. Lines are drawn. When we return to San Francisco

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in the sixties. You're watching Cron's Bay Area 2000, San Francisco in the sixties, right? It seemed very far away in 1965 a place most of us hadn't even heard of and couldn't point to in a matter. But soon this little country would be as familiar to

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us as our own backyard. It will be dividing our families, our politics, our entire nation. 1965. Our first combat troops landed there. Vietnam. Very do it. Yeah, Okay. Mhm. Within days of that first landing in Vietnam, the anti war movement

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mobilized at home first with a series of teachings on the nation's campuses. Once again, Berkeley was at the center of it all. Berkeley was seen as the vanguard of the protest movement. It had all the elements, first of all, good weather, a lot of leisure time.

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You know, a lot of New Yorkers board by California, and so we're looking for something to do that's very important in my case, a Midwesterner. But we all used to make a joke that the New Yorkers are organizing everything. We've been in these discussions in the

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kitchen steering committee for the past week. The first decision to be made is what exactly has said in the leaflet to Soldiers. It wasn't long before the antiwar organizers at Berkeley realized that just teaching people didn't make for national headlines conflict and confrontation with the stuff

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of media stories. And that's just what they were shooting for, starting with a series of events in the summer of 65 something happened here. What it is ain't exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there mhm, telling me I've got to work because I

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would stop Children. What's that sound? Everybody look what's born mhm. The person plan This battle lines seem wrong. Nobody's right If everybody's wrong. Young people speak in their minds. Are getting so much resistance on behind find we stop. Hey, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going

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down. It was such an emotionally charged issue, but just the sight of somebody with a sign that said Win the war or end the war would start almost started a riot as a matter of fact, it would start a riot at a certain point, right? If

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you didn't know about the Vietnam War, you had to be from Mars. Really? You had to be from outer space. And if you didn't have any strong feelings if you weren't American and you didn't have strong feelings about the Vietnam War, I don't know what kind

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of a person you were. I think it's un American. If they were in North Vietnam, they'd be shot. Why don't you go home? On January 14th, 1967 we issued an invitation to the entire world in the form of the first ever human being. Mm, yeah, yeah,

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mhm. And when you touch down, you'll find that it's stranger than no. Yeah, that's a where a guy somewhere. Just be that for a few residents of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district, these were already familiar sights and sounds. But most of the country they were a

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revelation. It was only a matter of months before 100,000 seekers answered our invitation, turning our lovely little cultural renaissance into a national obsession. For the guests who arrived early, there were lots of party favors served up at our cosmic celebration. Street artists entertained for free drugs

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were cheap, and you need adventure as far as the film or to enjoy the best music the city had to offer. The Grateful Dead and other local bands played for nothing, sometimes in the Panhandle, sometimes right smack in the middle of Haight Street. Mhm. And there

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was plenty else that was free and easy. I was standing on a street corner one day, leaning against a lamp post with my friend Danny Rifkin was he was the manager of the Grateful Dead. We were standing on the street in this girl, walked by, was

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about 6 ft tall, wearing a fringe jacket and cowboy boots with long hair. She looked a lot like Emmy Lou Harris, and I caught her eye as she passed, and she just caught my eye. And as she passed, she just kept looking over her shoulder. And

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I just said, Bye, Danny, And that that was the beginning of about a week long love affair. So I don't know sex in the hate just it just stopped being a problem. Most of the kids who arrived here in the summer of 67 came with only

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the change in their pockets. But that, too, ceased to be a problem, at least for the early arrivals. But by the end of the summer, there were too many kids, and too few newspapers to sell paradise have begun to look a little ragged and the tourists

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over a little more than animals in a zoo. You will note that many of the natives bear a resemblance out of the mountain boys and also a bit of shyness, the favorite pastimes of the hippies. Besides taking drugs, our demonstrations and partying seminars and groups of

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discussion, they take many trips, and the trip of the hippies is generally an unusual one. On October 6, 1967 the Summer of Love officially came to a close with the death of hippie parade. By then, the overcrowding in the Haight has taken its toll on everyone,

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and love and brotherhood and personal freedom had turned out to be fragile Flowers. Indeed, the Black Panthers take on white America when we return to San Francisco in the sixties. K. R. O. N s Bay Area 2000, San Francisco in the sixties, brought to you by

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compact, better answers and by Northern California Toyota dealers. See your Northern California Toyota dealer today and now. The conclusion of San Francisco in the sixties brought to you by Lexus, who knew driving Alexis could feel so exhilarating forever by clear and objective standards. Safe and counties

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are using regulations. The law attests to deny the right to vote. Then they will be struck down. That white person that you see calling himself a liberal is the most dangerous thing in the entire Western Hemisphere. He's the most deceitful. He's like a fox, and Fox

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is almost is always more dangerous in the forest than the wolf. You can see the wolf coming. You know what he's up to. But the fox will fool you. He comes at you with his mouth shaped in such a way that even though you see his

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teeth, you think he's smiling and take him for a friend. Martin Luther King, Poor boy is is under the influence of the foxes, I should say, under the control of the Foxes and has been used by the foxes to lead the poor sheep right to the

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slaughter. Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965 at a time when growing numbers of black shared his militant point of view. His death set fire to the black community, a fire fueled by the individual frustrations of young blacks who saw no end in sight to the struggle

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for equal rights among American college student named Bobby Seale. I had a one man riot with two blocks. Nobody else, right? Every time I see a big limousine, a nice, big, pretty car drive by with white people in it, and I was probably wrong with Mr

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With my After I took some bricks and threw rocks and bricks at them, I busted three or four windows, walked all the way down to a hamburger joint, and I saw a white guy and they said, All they kill that damn *** and Malcolm X and

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I walked in and grab somebody's Hamburg off their plate and squashed it in his face. Okay, I'd say one of the key emotions was anger. In the early sixties, there were tremendous amounts of police brutality, kids being shot and killed. Those were the incidents that led

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to the urban rebellions or riots. It was an abuse of power. Anyone to get angry, watching that But I think for young black people, the anger was much more much more transforming and that they were saying, Well, I'm going to do something about it. 1966 Ronald

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Reagan was elected governor of California. Within a year. This was the scene at the California State Capitol heavily armed, whether their weapons are loaded or not. Nobody seems to know the Black Panther Party for self Defense calls upon the American people in general and the black

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people in particular, to take careful note of the racist California Legislature, which is now considering legislation aimed at keeping the black people disarmed and powerless. At the very same time, racist police agencies throughout the country are intensifying the terror, brutality, murder and repression of black people.

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Mhm, mhm. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, together with a small group of friends who would eventually include ex convict Eldridge Cleaver and his wife, Kathleen, took their guns and law books and tape recorders from the Capitol building into the streets of Oakland, where they hope to

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defend black from police brutality. They call themselves the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and identified themselves with a uniform as distinctive as any armies sport leather jackets, black slacks, black shiny shoes, black socks, black gloves, blue shirts and black Berets. The Black parade, the Black

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parade really come from human. And I one night watching an old movie about the French underground resistance to the Nazis who happened to wear black Berets. So we stuck the Black Beret on Stop. This organization is rolling to keep the organization rolling. The Panthers needed cash,

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cash that was in short supply among their constituency. Bobby Seale recalls one of Huey Newton's more successful moneymaking schemes. Picked up uses. Let's go to the China Bookstore in San Francisco, he says. You noticed the news. Have been talking about mousey tongue and the little red

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book. You never read the thing right? The Little Red Book says Yeah, he says. I think we can get a hold of them for pretty cheap if we got to where we find we bought them in quantity getting 20 cents apiece. So I think we bought

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about 100 of these books. We took the books, came back, got a little Bobby, put out uniforms and everything on put our pistols on, took our rifles where they've got some little bags and satchels to hang on outside and got him in front of saving his

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gate. University of California, right there where telegraph runs into whatever that trigger, say this gate and in a matter of hours time, get your red book, Get your red book $1 each member. We saw every last one of those books. We jumped back in the car,

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went back within about three or 400 more books. We bought them out. In fact, they said they had another shipment coming in the next two or three days or something like that. I said, Wow, we want them all and order some more. Revolution has come side

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to pick up you got. The Panthers were idolized by blacks and almost universally feared by White. As time passed, the party rhetoric became more and more threatening as the party itself was threatened, starting with the arrest and trial of Huey Newton, who was accused of killing

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a policeman in the 1967 shootout. If you want war that there be war, this is what we're saying. Is that clear? In other words, if he is convicted and sentenced to death, Oakland will he run? This whole country is going to run this What we're telling

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you, we're gonna do everything we can to see to it that the whole world erupts. Is that clear? Huey Newton was convicted and sent to prison. And while the whole world didn't erupt, his trial certainly put the Black Panther Party on the map. New recruits were

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pouring in and the membership rolls would swell to overflowing following a tragic event in 1968. King's death was not only the death of a person, but it was the death of a concept. The concept was that you can change society through peaceful means. No one believed

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that anymore when he was killed. So you had an organization in place, a black movement saying We believe in self defense. We'll meet violence with violence. We'll take them head on. Taking them head off proved to be more than the party could handle. Within days of

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King's assassination, Eldridge Cleaver was wounded in a shootout with police and another party member, 17 year old Bobby Hutton, was killed. That could have been my son lying there, and I'm going to do as much as I can. I'm going to start right now to inform

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white people of what they don't know, the reverend said. The white man can't cool it because he's never dug it. Despite the support of white celebrities, dozens of Panther leaders would find themselves on trial in jail, in exile or buried 6 ft under by 1970. But

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by then, some of their most powerful weapons the ideals of black pride and self determination had already become standard issue in the civil rights arsenal. Hope and call the best. You don't think I'll go crazy every time I hear them saying that there's no way today

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that trouble coming every day. Never had we seen so much violence in such gruesome details. Could this really be progress? Would this war ever end with blacks and whites ever live together in peace with the violence ever stop? If the fifties were the silent years, the

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sixties were the years that gave us back our voices, our ability to question mhm even when one of our oldest and fond ist fairytale wishes came true that we were wracked by doubts and fears. Okay, here, sit on the porch. Roger, nail. I'm at the foot

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of the ladder. Step off. I was in the film or with a friend of mine. We're having this argument, and he was saying, It's a movie, you know? They rigged it, man. They got it in Utah someplace. And I'll never forget because I said to him,

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Hey, man, it would cost as much money, you know, to fake it as to do it. And he looked at me. He said they got the money. Yeah, For many of us, the sixties spawned years of disillusionment. We had big plans for the world for the

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history books, but it turned out to be a longer, harder fight than we could ever have imagined. It would take years, even a lifetime for some of us to recover from the failed dreams of the sixties. Mm hmm. It's mhm. Yeah. Mm. Yeah, Yeah. Mm. Okay.

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Mhm. Mhm. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Mhm, baby. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah, Yeah, yeah. Mm. Mhm. Yeah! Yes, yeah. Mhm. Yes. Mhm. Next month on Channel four's Bay Area 2000. It was a decade of transition. In the 19 seventies, we went from hippies to yuppies.

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