For a variety of reasons, including frequent public lewdness by anti-war activists and their treatment of Vietnam combat veterans, the anti-war and hippie movements were extraordinarily unpopular ...

The Vietnam War ignited a full-blown counterculture revolution, especially among Baby Boomers who were coming of age at the time. At the center of it all, as you may know, were the hippies.

The hippie movement came to an end in the mid-1970s, around the same time the Vietnam War ended, but hippie ideology lives on through some. “People started smoking pot, people started taking ...

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"Don't tell anybody you are a Vietnam vet." So Maurer grew his hair long and put on bell bottom pants to look like a hippie. He blended in to avoid the "shame" people made him feel. Yet he had ...

As the Vietnam war wound down, so did the trappings of this brief cultural era. In 1970, hippies gather at St Stephen’s in Coconut Grove. Hippies gather in the Grove in the 1970s. In 1969 ...

The hippie subculture was originally created by youths as a response to frustrations surrounding American culture, consumerism and involvement in the Vietnam War. Drawing inspiration from anti-war ...

To the hippies, each of society’s ills was symptom, not disease. The soul death of the cubicle farm; the heat death of the planet; slaughter in Vietnam; slaughter in the factory farms – these ...

The 460,000 hippies who tore down the fences on Max Yasgur ... crisis and engulfed America in the immoral and unnecessary Vietnam war. “The prevailing mode when you have this highly educated ...

Hippies had finally reached Miami ... for an Easter “love-in,” where 3,000 converged to protest the war in Vietnam and listen to the Grateful Dead. The Miami Pop Festival in 1968 was touted ...