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In the beginning of the movement, people tried to ignore the hippies. Adults thought that hippies were attention-deprived teens and if they ignored them long enough, they would go away. California's Bishop James Pike said "There is something about the temper and quality of these people, a gentleness, a quietness, an interest, something good."

The point that hippies tried to put across was a very positive one. They wanted peace and for people to be happy, but the measures they took to reach that goal and added to the way of life they were living, was very negative. It was a time when the very way of American life was threatened and very few saw it coming.

It was common for hippies to put a nickel in a parking meter, then set up blankets and lie down in the space for a half hour. This was very weird to people, so most just did not take them seriously. Television shows like "Laugh In" made fun of them. Movies made fun of them also. One called the "Presidents Analyst" was dedicated to "the life, liberty, and pursuit of happenings," and was based on the Hippies weird lifestyle.

People all over the America were mad at how strange these people were and at the same time were laughing at how funny they were. Even though the Hippies seemed harmless and was something to laugh at, in reality they were devastating the American family and were tearing the Nation in two.

While the adults of the time were conservative, hard-working, and caring mainly about money, the Hippies didn't care about any of that. They cared about four things; drugs, sex, music, and peace, all in that order. Many did not work unless it was completely necessary, they never went to church nor did they care for saving their virginity until after they were married. Premarital sex was more common in the sixties than any other time in history and that number never saw a decline. They were anything but conservative and their families rejected them for it.

The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, and many more bands came from the 60's era. Most of these bands played "rock and roll" but not what people would think of when they think rock and roll today. Rock and Roll in the sixties saw a new type of guitar effect, distortion. Distortion to most adults of the time was very unattractive, evil, and loud when compared to big bands of the forties and fifties.

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Hippies putting flowers into the barrels of U.S. soldiers weaponry.

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Hippies putting flowers into the barrels of U.S. soldiers weaponry.

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The late Sixties and early Seventies were a curious mixture of cultures and this clearly came across in America at a time when the Vietnam War was at its height. The hippy movement preached love not war. Many young men and women claimed that they wanted to ‘drop out’ of society. All of this clashed with any concept that involved doing the ‘right thing’ for your nation. The world’s media also played into this. US television could bring into the homes of all US citizens what the war was actually like. The Vietnam War was the first to actually receive such broadcasts and they clearly had a marked influence on the American population as a whole. It is said that two images in particular did a great deal to turn US opinion with regards to was in Vietnam. The first was film of children running away from their village having been burned by napalm and the second was the summary execution of a Vietcong suspect by a South Vietnamese police chief on the streets of Saigon in 1968. These images were published internationally and could do nothing to help the US government’s cause, especially when it became known that the napalm attack was a mistake against the wrong village. It seemed to the protesters to summarise exactly why America should not be in South Vietnam

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the hippie movement began in the early 1960's.

It began with The Merry Pranksters in 1964, when they

drove across the country in a psychedelically colored

school bus giving many "Acid Tests". Ken Kesey, leader

of the Merry Pranksters, believed that if a sufficient

percentage of the population experienced LSD, revolutionary

social and political changes would occur. This would start the

hippie movement.

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on August 15 1967, the gates opened at a small dairy farm in New York, and thousands of people came pouring in. It was the beginning of woodstock, 3 days of peace, music, love, and drugs