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Clip: Season 29 Episode 12 | 1m 8s
Teenie bopper, speed, stoned, turn on. These were just a few of the words that were defined for tourists as they took a bus ride down Haight Street in San Francisco during 1967 — the Summer of Love.
Aired: 07/26/17
Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Consumer Cellular. Major funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
1967, young people flooded into San Francisco to find what one described as “wonderland.”
Visions of a utopian society took shape in the Haight-Ashbury district in the mid 1960s.
As the war ends, America is forever transformed by the violent and bloody conflict.
As patriotism sweeps the nation, the country assembles its first mass conscripted army.
American neutrality erodes as Wilson declares “the world must be made safe for democracy.”
Command and Control, Full Film
A chilling nightmare at a Titan II missile complex in Arkansas in September, 1980.
