1. Do Now: Primary Source Activity: The Student Movement p. 911

2. The Antiwar Movement

3. Counterculture Communes –Communities in which living quarters, food, and work were shared “Hippies” “Flower Children” –Rejected their parents’ values –Experimented with hallucinogenic drugs to expand their awareness

4. The Summer of Love - 1967 Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco 100,000 teenagers and college students drawn by their peers and the allure of joining a cultural utopia. Free food and free love were available A Free Clinic was established for medical treatment Free Store gave away basic necessities to anyone who needed them.

5. Charles Manson Charles Manson is a convicted serial killer who has become an icon of evil. In the late 1960s, Manson founded a hippie cult group known as "the Family" whom he manipulated into brutally killing others on his behalf.

6. Woodstock Hippies “Make love not war” Peace, Love & Music Dr. Timothy Leary Turn On! Tune In! Drop Out! “Don’t trust anyone over 30” Free Speech Movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Tom Hayden Port Huron Platform

7. Government Opposition Jan 1966 - Senate Foreign Relations Committee –Televised Senators doubts about the war May 1967 - Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara begins to question America’s role in the war

8. Student Protests Student Deferments Students in college were safe from the draft Conscientious Objectors Men belonging to an organized religious body with pacifist views were not drafted Draft Dodgers Men simply refused to report when drafted

9. Woodstock Music festival held on Max Yasgur's farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969 Exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and the "hippie era."

10. Do Now: Protest and Peace Talks p. 899

11. Violence on Campus University & colleges held teach-ins to study the history of the war and to protest its expansion –Columbia Univ., New York City –Kent State Univ., Ohio –Jackson State, Mississippi

12. Columbia University In 1968, Mark Rudd, Columbia Univ. SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) held a rally protesting university complicity with the war. Students seized college buildings. Civil disobedience turned to violence when confrontations with police nightstick beatings and brick throwing started to take place.

13. April 23-27, Columbia Univ. is practically shut down as Columbia SDS launches an unprecedented antiwar demonstration.

14. Kent State 1970 rally protesting the presence of the ROTC on campus. Skirmish between the students and the Ohio National Guard, called in to contain the protestors. This skirmish resulted in the fatal shootings of four people. Even more tragically, only two of these four were active participants in the rally: the other two were an innocent student walking to class and an ROTC cadet

18. Allison Krause 350 feet away shot through the arm and chest Jeff Miller 275 feet away shot through the head Sandy Scheuer 400 feet away shot through the throat Bill Schroeder 400 feet away shot in the back Students Killed at Kent State