you see, prior to these murders, no one associated hippies with violence and murder. people would pick up a hitchhiking hippie. there was no big deal. but after the manson murders, you saw a hippie with long hair hitchhiking, 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 seeing what happened there, it symbolizes the drained idealism of the spiritual quest of the beats and early hippies. today is 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 people who are really just bums, trying to get into a good thing, free food and free everything. they all just came in and a lot of really rotten people.
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 the elements are present for one of the most sensational murder trials in american history. seven people brutally murdered in the glare of hollywood publicity. the involvement of a mystical hippie clan which despised the straight affluent society. young girls reportedly under the spell of a bearded svengali. who allegedly masterminded the seven murders. good morning.the sun s shining this morning. it is.hining this morning. charles manson cleverly masqueraded behind the common image of being a hippie, goes up to haight ashbury district, surrounds himself with a young bunch of followers. their lifestyle was sex, orgies and lsd trips. eventually he gets them to commit mass murder for him. with blood, the killer had scrawled on a refrigerator door the words death to pigs.
talented founder member, ali shaheed muhammad. the first time i became aware of hip hop, i was about eight years old, and across the street from where i lived was a schoolyard, and during the summer time the djs would set up their equipment in the schoolyard and have these parties. i was too young to attend these parties, but outside my fire escape i had such a great view. fast forward a couple more years, then we have rapper s delight. here s wonder mike, hank and master gee the sugar hill gang. # the hippie to the hip hip hop a you don t stop. # we re rockin out, baby, i to the boogedy bang bang. # now what you hear is not a test, i m rappin to the beat. # and me, the groove, i and my friends are gonna try to move your feet. that whole idea about sampling, scratching, that came