rational way out will be to negotiate not as victims but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could. after walter cronkite, johnson s popularity sinks. to most ordinary citizens, it has become obvious the war is not being won. opposition to the war was rising. it wasn t just beatniks and young kids. we are fighting a war. and i am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. martin luther king came out against the vietnam war. his own followers said you shouldn t be focusing on that. you should be focusing on our issue. he said, they re intertwined. you can t separate them. president kennedy said on one occasion, mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
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
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
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
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.