Chubby Checker showing a young lady theTwist
Ralph Crane / LIFE
LIFE, p. 270

The Beatles in Liverpool's Cavern Club – 1963
(just prior to their American breakthrough in January of 1964)
Keystone
LIFE, pp. 278-279

The Beatles arrive in America to take it by storm – February 1964
Kurt Gunther/London Features
Time - 75 Years, p. 106.

The Beatles:  Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon – 1964.
Personality Photos
Jennings and Brewster, p. 392

The Rolling Stones – 1965
Top center:  MickJagger; bottom left to right:  Bill Wyman, Brian Jones, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts
Our Times, p. 479

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez (both 22) in a 1963 hootenanny in New York
(both artists picked up early on the social consciousness trend of the 1960s youth)
David Gahr
LIFE, p. 278

The Beatles
David McCullin / Magnum
Peck and Deyle, p. 728.

Members of a hippie commune on Martha's Vineyard
Peter Simon / Stock, Boston
Peck and Deyle, p. 726.

1960s youth in Central Park painting a psychedelic design on his girlfriend's sneakers
Mark Shaw for Life
Time-Life -This Fabulous Century: 1960-1970, p. 57

Steve Schapiro for Life

Participants in a Los Angeles "love-in"
Lee Baker Johnson
Time-Life -This Fabulous Century: 1960-1970, p. 62

Be Your Own Goddess art bus (1967 VW Kombi)
Wikipedia - "Hippie"

Arlo and Jackie Guthrie being serenaded by Judy Collins at their outdoor wedding
David Gahr for Time
Time-Life -This Fabulous Century: 1960-1970, p. 63

For many young 'Boomer' Whites, 1967 was supposed to be a summer of ‘hippy’ love
(But:  128 cities were hit by racial riots)
Lynn Pelham / LIFE
LIFE, p. 304

Recreational drugs were also supposed to be part of the age of youthful bliss.

Timothy Leary - lost his Harvard professorship advocating drug-use for 'religious' purposes
Ben Martin /Time
LIFE, p. 305

Sharing a joint in Tahquitz Canyon, Palm Springs, California.
Wikipedia - "Hippie"

And the idea of 'religion' took on a greatly expanded meaning

For Boomers, this was supposed to be the “dawning of the Age of Aquarius”

Hare Krishna devotees - 1967
Vernon Merritt / LIFE
LIFE, p. 298

This was also supposed to be an age in which the younger generation of Boomers was supposed to
stand against the hypocrisies (even tyranny) of the middle class culture of older American generations
... and set American culture "free"  to be the untarnished model culture for the world

Dustin Hoffman starring in the hit movie "The Graduate" – 1967

  He portrayed a listless youth who was unwilling to be drawn into the plastic world of his parents, who was seduced by a close friend of his parents
(the hypocritical and scheming Mrs. Robinson), and finally found freedom by breaking himself and his girlfriend (Mrs. Robinson's daughter)
free from the clutches of the adult world.

It is now the fashion of Boomer youth and their university mentors (professors and grad students) to blame America
for all the sins of the world.  They regard America as the primary cause ... and primary solution ... to the world's problems
 - and they (the utopianist intellectuals) are confident that they hold all the answers necessary to solve those problems.

Anyone who begs to differ with them simply represents the unenlightened views of dead American traditionalism.

The "Age of Aquarius" indeed has finally arrived.  Get out of the way old world!

The start-up of the Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley campus – October 1, 1964
(student speakers standing on top of a captured police car -
decrying the University's policies on a broad range of issues)
Paul Fusco - Magnum
 The Vietnam Experience: A Nation Divided, p. 69

The Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley campus – late 1964 – early 1965
Elaine Mayes
 The Vietnam Experience: A Nation Divided, p. 67

A faculty member showing support for the FSM
Wayne Miller - Magnum
 The Vietnam Experience: A Nation Divided, p. 68

Popular folk singer Joan Baez demonstrating her support for the FSM
Charles Moore - Black Star
 The Vietnam Experience: A Nation Divided, p. 68

One of the big issues of the day was the military draft – the ticket to the war in Vietnam

A march in Boston in protest against the stepping up of the draft – 1965
Peter Simon
 The Vietnam Experience: A Nation Divided, p. 74

Police clearing out students at an anti-draft sit-in at the Selective Service office
in Ann Arbor, Michigan – October 15, 1965
Andrew Sachs
 The Vietnam Experience: A Nation Divided, p. 74

A sit-in demonstration at the City College of New York – June 1966
in protest against the releasing of student class standings to draft boards
Benedict J. Fernandez
 The Vietnam Experience: A Nation Divided, p. 101

In October of 1967 thousands of American youth converged peacefully on the Pentagon to demonstrate
the proposition that what the world needed was more 'flower power' and less military power.

"A female demonstrator offers a flower to military police on guard at the Pentagon
during an anti-Vietnam demonstration."
By S.Sgt. Albert R. Simpson, Arlington, Virginia, October 21, 1967
National Archives

A Peacenik at the March on the Pentagon – 1967
Marc Riboud/Magnum
Time - 75 Years, p. 92-93.

March on the Pentagon protesting the Vietnam War – 1967
Bernie Boston
Peck and Deyle, p. 722

March on the Pentagon – October 1967
Larry Fink
Jennings and Brewster, p. 406.

The anti-war protest at the Pentagon – October 1967
Wide World
Grauer, NBC News Picture Book of 1968, p. 45

As demonstration spread around the country this demonstration of the youths' concerns about
how the adults were shaping their world became angrier – a foretast of things to come.

"Dirty Fascist" screams an angry University of Wisconsin protester at police – October 1967
UPI
Grauer, NBC News Picture Book of 1968, p. 44

The arrest of Dr. Benjamin Spock and anti-war protesters at a New York Induction Center – December 1967
Fred W. McDarrah
Grauer, NBC News Picture Book of 1968, p. 45

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