1967 - The Summer of Love | Free Documentary History

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

This documentary is driven by the soundtrack of the time, which kept the troops company in Vietnam, powered the Anti-War and Civil Rights movements, and opened the hearts and minds of baby boomers who had matured into teens. This special celebrates 1967 as a famous year full of music and change.

[@jrussellcase]

One thing about this time period: It was driven by the music.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@jrussellcase quite amazing I must say. And such iconic songs. They’ve stood the test of time

[@fayejacobs1043]

@@jrussellcase perhaps the drugs too😏

[@danielgiraud1118]

Hey Chuck ! Ton documentaire est très mal fait. C'est brouillon, on ne voit rien, les images passent beaucoup trop vite, on ne peut pas apprécier. C'est raté. Je ne te félicite pas. Dommage... *** Hey Chuck ! Yer documentary is very poorly done. It's messy, ye cannie see anything, the images go by way too quickly, ye cannie appreciate it. Yewh blew it !. I'm nae a-congratulatin' thee. Too bad...

[@pikespeak8669]

USA PULLED OUT OF VIETNAM 🇻🇳 THE NORTH COMMUNIST CAME SOUTH POOR PEOPLE STILL CONTROLLED BY NORTH. SO MANY MEN WOMEN DIED😭. The only time no soldier's been send to War with President Trump. Look bushes made war's.

[@reneroos2323]

Thank you for taking me back in time. It was an amazing time to be young and alive.

[@missrayelyn3045]

My uncle was drafted, and in Vietnam in '67. I was 10, and I remember watching the news trying to see if I could spot him. I remember being scared until he came home. I can't imagine how scared my grandparents must've been. That was a time when there was a dark cloud hanging around.

[@ThomasCranmer1959]

My uncle was drafted. He was never the same. Became an alcoholic and died of heart trouble in his 40s.

[@missrayelyn3045]

@ThomasCranmer1959 my uncle wasn't the same either. He is still alive, but that war took away a part of his personality that never came back. To this day, he's afraid of the dark.

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

My wife's brother was a Marine and spent a good amount of time at the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam. Her sister's boyfriend served on an aircraft carrier. She remembers the worry they all went through. She has a cousin who was a Green Beret and had grim experiences in Vietnam...

[@tundrawomansays694]

I don’t know why we still think we can send people to war and have them return unchanged as a result of their experiences. That’s not realistic at all.

[@cherylmarcuri5506]

My uncle also served in Nam that year. I wonder if your dad knew my uncle?

[@bold58]

I can remember my mother in the summer of 67 at the kitchen counter with sun shining through the window on her bleach blonde hair and her transistor radio on the counter next to her playing the songs of 67 . The Association , the Turtles, The Beatles etc. She seemed so happy then.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Love your anecdote. You transport the reader to that space. Thank you

[@shootfirst2097]

I remember walking with my sister to school in '65 and hearing "Satisfaction" and "Get Off My Cloud" playing on her transistor radio. Also being at an outdoor teen dance at the city park's tennis courts and hearing "Ferry Cross the Mersey." I think it was even a live band.

[@patriciamasci6172]

Those were "happier" times then - Moms like yours & mine are harder to find today....sadly.

[@victorianidetch]

I am sure she was, I was 6 and having a wonderful summer. My parents, brothers and sisters were all still alive and young.

[@thirdsamuel6643]

I came home from the Navy and bought a brand new Mercury comet cyclone in 1966,great music and good times.

[@catl1783]

pretty awesome doc. I can remember my father disinheriting my brother for fleeing to Canada to avoid the draft. I loved Jim Morrisson, Janis Joplin, jimi Hendrix. Todays music can't touch any of this, culturally, historically and just pure sound! So delicious, textural, and deep....sadly missing today

[@ChongQingLaowai50]

No comparison with the music then and now.

[@alirioforero9778]

Good for your brother

[@mikewithers299]

What a time to be alive and witness history changing. I was 5 years old then. The music of that time will never fade away for me.

[@yaraviera4444]

I was born in 1982..an before it was a little dispute about presidential election I believe in Dominican 🇩🇴 republic. Then I came to USA 🇺🇸 by 9 years of age..an started learning about the history of USA in high school..but this a history they don't teach in high school..or college unless you don't read about it

[@pikespeak8669]

@yaraviera4444 50 yr's ado teacher's don't teach real history. America bad sociolist great (wrong). We thought or son's The real history.

[@KaryannFontaineikary4]

I was 17 in 1967. Loved the music, lost older friends to the war. The Viet Nan War was heartbreaking. The body bags of our men on the news. Hated the War and respected our Vets. Many men who came home, turned to drugs to cope, some could not cope at all. The draft was feared. Our generation had a better way than the rigid establishment who reviled us. Love, communication, understanding.

[@FredCarpenter-b3t]

It didn't last long before it was hijacked by the matrix.

[@DannyHood-j]

If you were 5 years in 1967 means you over 60 years old. Which means you’re OLD. Who am I to say OLD? I’m behind you at 58.

[@glassman56garner76]

I was 5 years old living in San Francisco in 1967. As I grew older, I studied that era a great deal. What a decade it was.

[@alexiasherman3358]

I graduated HS in '67. Both fabulous and sad times with the best music ever. Would not want to be any other age than I was then and am now.

[@jimmyflanagan5938]

Graduated HS 1967 west high Torrance California. What a time to me a teenager in L A

[@ClassicMoments-bg1bb]

You describe ’67 very accurately. Great music during a sad era.

[@stevenr8606]

👍🏻 HS GRAD '74 🎉😊

[@shootfirst2097]

I could rather stay in my late teens and early 20s. Best times of MY life.

[@ronsanchez6992]

Live long and prosper, fellow boomer, I too am class of 67.... They were the best of times.... They were the worst of times😊😢

[@JollyRoger1969]

Really enjoyed the soundtrack of this documentary, I'm a 90s kid but always felt a spiritual connection to this time. Can appreciate how people wanted change, thinking and do things differently.

[@JRNarian]

As a 90s kid as well, I remember the 60s and 70s making a comeback during that time :)

[@martinavila6821]

1967 ,i turned 13 in January. Enjoyed my youth. Remember listening the world news with Walter Cronkite, and what was happening at that time. The music and the bands that played them were great. What Me Worry ,i was too busy being a kid

[@mikenuyen4441]

i remember all this stuff. 10 years old in 67. I got the best time to be alive in America.

[@lastofthev8interceptors411]

I was nine, living in an innocent South Pacific paradise, New Zealand.We were second tier boomers, the first gen had to fight our oldies in the sixties to gain their freedom, by the time the seventies rolled around parents had given up, leaving a stroppy bunch of long haired rebels to pretty much do as we pleased!

[@blossom1643]

Second tier Boomers! Love it ! Never heard it put like that ! We Did live in The Best Era for music! Nothin else comes Close!✌️🇺🇸

[@TerryFlynn-sd1ho]

I turned 10 in Nov 67 but already playing both guitar and drums, had 45s of Beatles, Stones, Yardbirds etc.lived in 'Littleton 'Denver at the time but made a living playing music for decades so I guess The Summer of 67 rubbed off on me .Peace ❤

[@ConnieM777]

I was 11. You can’t imagine how magical that year was, you had to live it.

[@RoadWarrior-lo9vt]

I was born in July '67. The heart of the summer of love. I hate to say.. I don't remember much of the summer of love. I think I cried alot! 🥴

[@ChongQingLaowai50]

God I can remember the very first vinyl i bought in the 60's California dreaming the mamas and the papas I was so excited i used to play it all the time.

[@nanabutner]

I remember the “SUMMER OF LOVE” very well! We had the whole world at our feet and yes--we could do anything! I took part in “PROTEST MARCHES” and so many other things. “WE ALSO LOST SO MANY GOOD THINGS AS WELL”!

[@WonderWoman88-e2k]

While on a cruise I met a lovely lady and her husband - around their latte 70’s or early 80’s. We would often attend the same afternoon event and sit together. Once when her husband left for a few minutes, she shared that she would drive from Seattle to San Francisco every Friday after work and drive back on Sunday! She said it was the time of her life in the 1960’s! She never missed a weekend and sometimes would not get any sleep- she would arrive in Seattle and go straight to work on Monday! San Francisco was the place to be!!! The Vietnam Memorial in Washington is solemnly deeply moving. All Honor, Gratitude and Respect to all Veterans.

[@fayejacobs1043]

Excellent Doc, this was definetly my mom's era. I just sent her this Doc to watch. My mom graduated high school in '67, i will have to talk to her about her version of "Summer of Love"Man what a time to have been alive!!!

[@danielgiraud1118]

Hey Chuck ! Yer documentary is very poorly done. It's messy, ye cannie see anything, the images go by way too quickly, ye cannie appreciate it. Yewh blew it !. I'm nae a-congratulatin' thee. Too bad...

[@marymacdonald2379]

I am your Mom's age. I spent the summer of 1967 in L.A. marijuana from Mexico (not so strong as weed today) was everywhere. Concerts were affordable even for an 18year old with a summer job. Way lower crime and teenagers could get jobs easily.

[@danielgiraud1118]

@@marymacdonald2379 : Sae, the same age we art.

[@kimberlybamford1072]

I was 5 years old in 1968. And I can remember my momma buying us 45 records it started my love for music and still does to this days. My parents are passed on now but I can still remember momma in the kitchen with the radio on. 😊

[@Peeky_blinder3.14]

I was born on the first day of fall 1967 ! I was listening to the music before I was born! My Mom born with polio loved music and danced to everything!!

[@ThomasCranmer1959]

Rock music of the 60s was incredible. The Hammond organ has a unique sound.

[@robertshapiro3733]

And according to Al Kooper, Dylan’s organist on the album “Highway 61 Revisited”, a most difficult instrument to play. He was unable to even find its power button. But as the songs themselves attest, it brought, for example, the song “Like a Rolling Stone” to immeasurable heights.

[@danielgiraud1118]

@@robertshapiro3733 : Stevie Winwood, Jimmy Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Booker T. Jones jouaient aussi sur des orgues Hammond.

[@timanctil8225]

I sold a first series Hammond at a garage sale in the eighties for $40...oops! My memory got a little clearer, it wasn't a Hammond, it was a Moog... but either way, oops!

[@anitakephart3851]

My baby sis was born in '67. She is already gone. I still can't believe it. I can't quite get over it. Wish she was here. I used to sing all these songs to her in my 65 Ford Falcon and it still is one of my favorite memories of back then . I was 10 yrs older and felt like I was supposed to look after here. It was a time that is hard to get younger people of today to get to understand. I guess you just had to be there. What a time, what a time, what a time...

[@elusinheart]

sorry for your loss, i bet she was wonderful.

[@deboramccallum3987]

Best times ever from a ten year olds eyes. We used to have slumber parties and pretend we were Motown singer's. I'll never forget it.

[@dianeruiz0721]

I was 7 in 67 but remember it well. The music on the radio was great!! I remember seeing the Vietnam War coverage on the news. My immediate family didn’t have any one out there fighting. My Dad fought in the Korean War. Everything was great but then only I was too young to realize it

[@shalonfreeman9068]

Born in the 80's but I loved coming into this world on the heels of the 60's and 70's. What a time to be alive.

[@timcross2510]

My world war two era uncles were upset that summer because young boys were dead in Nam and the newspapers put golf tournaments, show biz and "anything but dead in the jungle" on the front pages and nightly news. I was 8. Never forgot that.

[@cocoaorange1]

WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, that's 3 wars in 3 decades, it was too much, I was born in August of 1967.

[@davidmc8475]

What are you talking about? It was constantly in the news. NY Times, LA Times, LIFE Magazine. Walter Cronkite consistently reported on the war. Cronkite, Morley Safer reported in the field and there were war correspondents who reported EVERY nights broadcast. News coverage was a main reason why it ended. The Vietcong man executed on camera getting his brains blown out on camera, the nude girl running from a napalm attack, soldiers being carried on stretchers, the tiger cages used on U.S. soldiers. News coverage was a main reason why it ended. The public and particularly students could actually see what was happening unlike Afghanistan or Iraq. Google newspapers vietnam war coverage

[@FredCarpenter-b3t]

"the newspapers put golf tournaments, show biz and "anything but dead in the jungle" on the front pages and nightly news." Typical. The more things change the more they stay the same.

[@robynmasters335]

My mom was 18 and in the process of conceiving me in '67. I was the result of Flower Power.

[@cocoaorange1]

I was born in August 1967.

[@Messycandy_17]

November 1967 😉

[@FredCarpenter-b3t]

In the process of conceiving? Is that what they're calling copulation now? Exactly how were flowers involved? Is it some sort of birds and bees thing?

[@ruthhaywood3473]

This is a great documentary. Will watch again. Thanks 4 the memories

[@MultiFlange1]

As an American teenager living in Belgium in the 60's, I used to love listening to Radio Caroline!

[@reneroos2323]

I was a 16 year old Dutch kid and listened to Radio Caroline and Radio Veronica, the Dutch pirate ship.

[@MultiFlange1]

@@reneroos2323 Oh yeah! Veronica! I listened to that too! Great times...

[@gordlawton]

I turned 17 in 1967. So many things were happening at the time. I wouldn't pick a different time to grow up.

[@humboldthammer]

Consider this . . . never before RIGHT NOW -- not in the entire history of men and women on Earth -- have so many educated people lived so freely and so abundantly. And for just 18 years, since Google bought KZbin and TV went digital in 2006, we have been connected to a shared, worldwide experience with near-instant communication. It is GUARANTEED to wake "THIS" generation up.

[@wunderwrldX]

@@humboldthammerits already in motion. Lots of young people despise the government for essentially taking away 2-3 years of their lives. Almost half the generation did not get to experience a traditional high school graduation.

[@vickiladu6755]

I was 13 in the summer of love. all those songs I knew well and loved so much! Loved soul music and blues and pop, of course. Great te to be on the younger side, not having to worry about being an adult yet, the war, just still being a kid coming of age!

[@jennifervanderdrift3207]

Absolutely brilliant doco about the greatest time to be young, the memories it has rekindled are wonderful. We were lucky to experience this time.

[@cathybassett6432]

Thank you for this fabulous video! I was 15 turned16 in 1967. What a fabulous time to be alive. The most EXCELLENT music. Lucky me lucky us.

[@kimdurig1322]

I turned thirteen that year what an amazing time to live

[@jamesmiller510]

I was 14

[@ginaferracini9375]

I was born in 1967 I remember my mums and sisters dresses amazing loved the music too ..60s 🎶 🌼🧡

[@stevenhanson6057]

Now we’re wearing them!

[@giselematthews7949]

I was only 13 in 67. But i remember it well.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

I was 10 years old. What a time to be alive.

[@shootfirst2097]

@@elizabethmcleod246 Yes, I was ten, too. And my older sisters were music fanatics, so I was DRILLED with this great music constantly. We also had a AM disc jockey down the street who gave my sisters free promo albums and singles.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

@@shootfirst2097 Nice! It was my hip Mom who bought me albums from various artists. Oh course, I listened to the radio all the time to.

[@jeffbreezee]

I was a one year old in 67, but I heard plenty of stories from that year. My dad was Korean War vet, so he was a regular working stiff. He had two younger brothers who served in Vietnam in 67. One in the Air Force and one in the Marines.

[@JRNarian]

I'm a millennial but my parents came of age during this time and I grew up with the music of this era at our house :)

[@chimom7112]

I'm a boomer and I brought my kids up with music from 60s to 80s.

[@ScarlettFire341]

"First we overlook evil, Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil." Fr. Dwight Longenecker “In the Last Days, Good will be called Evil and Evil will be called Good.” Are We There YET ?

[@hollyringo8198]

I think your on to something, a child of 1967, & what an explosive time of creativity, & makes me understand me better, I think the word evil in your analogy is bit harsh, but I can see your leaning but, I believe it’s more of the Ying/Yang thing, the dark took far too many but they weren’t evil, just curious & f’n talented. Make good choices kids.

[@kckazcoll1]

thanks for this perspective, very enjoyable! Love all the music used in this doco, too

[@DBEdwards]

I was 12 years old. It's the great music I remember. The British bands. Lawrence Welk. Ed Sullivan. Life was free then. I had no troubles. Now the world is upside down.

[@swimlaps1]

1967-The young lady next door of us in Detroit had the 1967 orange/red Mustang! What I wanted, at 8..when I grow up. Remember all the styles, music, protests, civil rights movement/riots, war on news, & changes...as this doc shows.

[@CraigPrice-zq5wz]

Still best music of our times. Great 😊 and keep on trucking.

[@jrussellcase]

Tammi Terrell's passing was a huge loss. I was born a year and a half after she passed. She had a helluva voice, and was easy on the eyes.

[@fabrikk60]

Whenever I see Tammi I feel a little emotional, about how sad her early passing was. She seemed like a sweet and beautiful person.

[@Nyqtie]

The music is unmatched❤

[@jerrylubrano5052]

I was 16 in 1967. Absolutely an incredible time to be alive in America except for the war and the Beatles. The so-called Fab Four couldn’t hold a candle of the greatest of them all - The Stones ( they are still touring! Can you believe it? And to sold out crowds)

[@robertmanley2687]

I had a Jimi Hendrix poster with a black light and Hey Joe written in day-glo paint on my bedroom wall in 1967.

[@danilaroche1156]

I loved his music too but keep in mind, he was an occultist. I'd steer clear. Beatles were occultists too.

[@robertmanley2687]

@@danilaroche1156 Purple Haze

[@moniquesilverans3842]

Les années 1966 et 1967 en Europe c'était formidable. Tout était si fou alors qu'en 2024 tout est si sage et monotone. Je suis née en 1947 donc j'ai vécu cette période, c'était une joie et une folie, j'ai adoré. Et maintenant les vieux (comme moi) sont mécontents sur les jeunes mais moi je les trouve trop sages, qu'ils s'amusent plus car la jeunesse n'a qu'un temps.

[@apitheous194]

As a white kid growing up in the late sixties and mid seventies I loved rock and Motown, What a great time for music.

[@ronaldzent6321]

So sad about both Tammy Terrell and Marvin Gaye. Marvin was never the same after she died so young.

[@danilaroche1156]

I met Tammi at a Motown picnic. She was very attractive. She got beat up by the industry and abusive men.

[@juliejackman2649]

My Dad fought in the Vietnam war and I'm very proud of him and all the rest for fighting for freedom. 🇺🇸

[@caroleminke6116]

Was he drafted? ❤️‍🩹

[@kcollinsgallhollcom]

It was a foolish war escalated by LBJ to line his pockets and the pockets of his friends. However the troops are not to blame, were heroes and were treated terribly by our government. Vets shouldn’t be treated that way

[@sharolynwells]

My late husband served in Cambodia during the Vietnam War -- Jan. 1970 to Dec. 1971. I'm fighting for him mow because he was exposed to Agent Orange over there. He died from a dead liver a year ago.i miss him so much.

[@johndoe-od6ge]

@@sharolynwells I'm sorry for your loss !!!

[@ThomasCranmer1959]

​@@kcollinsgallhollcomIt was a foolish war started by.... drum roll..... PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS. JFK.

[@MichaelLeBlanc-p4f]

As a Canadian '67 was a defining moment for an 18 year old. The Nam war was a blessing. By 70 as as a would be 'hippie' inan age when feminis declared peace in the war between the sexes, bras were burned and birth control pills were everywhere, the CND was at par with the US $ and Europe not yet recovered from WWII was dirt cheap. I got to visit France, Spain twice, Morocco (extraordinary adventures everywhere in near pre-tourist Europe) and lasty old England. Cost $850 for 6 months of truly remarkable adventure (Can pay for a moron was $80 per week). Few Americans males - so no competition, but no shortage of Yankee Gal college grads, lots & lots of Aussis and many interesting Brits. In 75 years of life I can truly honestly say God was more than good to me for all of that time. It still makes me smile and the special loves experienced along the way leave me happily-sad for having lived it. Not afraid of dying any time. Fate allowed me the very best even if a poor man then and now.

[@fabrikk60]

"The Nam war was a blessing". WTF??

[@zenlandzipline]

@@fabrikk60maybe he got a lot of poon because all the men went to Vietnam to fight. A lot of lonely girls here. Just guessing, because I can’t think of any reason why war would be a blessing.

[@INgirl812]

I was in 6th grade then. I remember the music, the war, and the fashions. Twiggy was an idol to me.

[@lelandkelley2199]

I was four years old and remember the music and cars and fashion. In highschool I had a 67 mustang

[@WayneAmoss-l7z]

Bs

[@lelandkelley2199]

I didn’t, confused with someone else

[@MrFroglips69]

Groovy baby, totally trippy.

[@victorsuarez3546]

1967: Love -Peace- LSD. 2024: Fentanyl- War- Mistrust. Lets not forget LBJ and Biden. A time to me alive and see changes. A time when America was America that cared for the citizens.When you can trust someone and you had a person as a friend not a cell phone or I-pad. Long live our youth Long live the 60's and the values there once was.

[@timr31908]

Janis Joplin loved Otis Redding.. that makes me love Janis Joplin even more

[@nekomantix598]

My moms dad is a Mexican american Vietnam Veteran and grandmother was the cute girl with a beehive hairstyle and cute skirts and heels, they listened to fats domino and other oldies And my dad’s dad and grandmother were in San Francisco, with flowers in their hair 😊 they even experienced the famous Altamont CA concert lol they are all alive and well today, I’m glad I have been raised to know about what they’ve experienced and their perspectives 🙂

[@j.g.8494]

Unlike most of the commentators below who were still children in 1967, I was in my mid-20s - the best time in one's life to live through such a memorable year. It was the year when The Beatles issued their LP "Sergeant Pepper." June 1967 was memorable for their global satellite broadcast "All You Need is Love". The pop music scene in June 1967 was so special that I remember saying to myself: "This is so good, it can't go on!. The Summer of Love's music theme was Scott Mackenzie's "San Francisco". The hippies were featured in a cover story in Time magazine. There was so much going on in The Summer of Love that it's not easy to describe the whole scene. In the autumn of 1967, there was a general feeling, reported in the media, that humanity was on the verge of attaining the universal brotherhood of man. The dream petered out as the '60s came to a close.

[@Argonaut121]

I turned 13 in the summer of 1967. It was a great time to become a teenager.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

I bet 😀

[@bettierusso5410]

I was just 10 years old in 1967. I was living for a year in Okinawa while my Dad was a Country Music musician and was on tour with his band playing for the troops in the Vietnam War. He was a veteran of WWII on the Beaches of Normandy. I, being an American, always believed the "summer of love" was 1969..Candlestick Park, Height Ashbury in San Fransisco, WOOD STOCK! It was a blast to grow up then. I remember these three years as constant TV of the war, and being spoiled rotten by the lonely American Soldiers who missed their family, especially their little sisters back home when they saw my sister and I. They saw a little girl with blond hair, and big blue eyes, who spoke English. The Hippy movement was earlier in London, then hit America in full color in 1969. I loved the music of the time, and my Dad and Mom didn't ...just like most parents of the time! This brings a lot of memories.

[@kso808]

EXCELLENT documentary on the best year for music IMHO! Thank you for putting this together. You’ve captured the zeitgeist of that pivotal year where music intersected so perfectly with society and politics.***** (5 stars)

[@foto21]

RIP Bob Simon, I really admired his work in journalism.

[@ericrlaz39]

I was born in December '67. Tail end of the summer of love. A truly different world it was

[@nickfairhead2355]

I'm proud of being apart of '67 in London. I made my contribution running a light show, working at the Roundhouse and consuming copious amounts of acid. One of the voices that this doco misses was Bob Dylan's trilogy Highway 61, Bring it all back home and Blonde on blonde. These were the background music of '67.

[@danielpollak6075]

👏👏excellent documentation of the summer of love👏👏well done👍~ty

[@richardspurlock8444]

I was 16. We had the best clothes, hair, cars and music.

[@tentativity4404]

Super documentary! 👍🏻

[@ronaldzent6321]

Twiggy, the first Supermodel. Those eyes!

[@tiffanyroseangeles34]

That was a cool look! I wish I’d been around to see it all Loved Mary Quants designs as well….I wasn’t born until 1961 … like many here. I loved the kohl eyeliner …..

[@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh]

Jean Shrimpton?

[@n9oqu]

she had eyes but mothing else!

[@tommyasprion4394]

I am also proud of our troops that served during Vietnam War- they were standing against evil regime, just as ww2 vets and Korea. Now darkness has descended on our once great nation.

[@sharyllee7094]

I'm proud of them, too. AND, a lot of the evilness of that time, lived in our own Government...

[@scottfagerstrom9312]

I'm proud of them, too, but we were definitely fighting on the wrong side in that war.

[@davidb2206]

I'm a vet. We soldiers got swindled. All the way back to WWII and earlier. (See General Butler's book, "War Is a Racket.") Don't blame the soldiers. We followed orders and thought we were serving our families and country. In your 20's, you haven't read the Constitution that many times and don't think that you may have been sent to an unconstitutional "war." I would never do it again.

[@EvaristoMerced]

1967, Summer of love❤, I'm so happy...I was born in 1967.

[@robertcombs55]

in 1968...I arrived in Vietnam....or Hell as we called it...

[@olhickory6420]

I know it was Hell but thanks for serving.

[@crazy4bruno1]

Thank you for your service

[@EllyWoman777]

Thank you for serving!

[@RoadWarrior-lo9vt]

White Rabbit: One of the most powerful thought provoking outstanding pieces of musical art ever made. It's definitely on a very short list. Shame it's so damn short, no pun intended. ✌🙂

[@yassir1776]

Looks like we're headed for another summer of love

[@eddenoy321]

we need it

[@EllyWoman777]

Never Again There is too much division in this country! Un United Nations of Chaos & Confusion! Woodstock was about ✌️ ❤️ & 🎶

[@ReWilliams-h1s]

I was only 6 years old. Now looking back I realized they things for the best.

[@sleighrider63]

I enjoyed watching this!!

[@suestephan3255]

It was a great time to be a young person, all about the music, transistor radios, record players, going to the near by 5 & 10 to buy the latest 45. I was born 10/50 so I was 17 that summer. I didn’t pay that much attention to the Viet Nam war. My Dad died in ‘57 and I didn’t really watch the news. I was working nights and out with friends walking when not working. I did due to my neighbor who gave me the address of the of the paper that had Marine’s names and I did write to them about 60 letters and they wrote back.

[@suestephan3255]

The magazine was Sea Tiger. Like I said I wrote to about 60 marines in 67-68

[@LisaRichards_123]

People trying to define the 60s that weren’t here for it

[@donaldmarcus9655]

The problem is the society does not listen to people that are old that speak you got to be young and good-looking well they just won't listen to you when I was young I used to love picking my grandfather's brain they're walking is like a PDS but they don't look at that today we're worthlessness taboo

[@robertlear2712]

I was in college in 1967 and I was in a band. I just wanted to do music. I only stayed in college because I didn’t want to be drafted, which I barely escaped.

[@jessiem276]

So you figured someone else could go instead of you??

[@howardquinn5911]

⁠@@jessiem276I was 4F and lucky. My dad and his three brothers went to WWII. Two didn’t come back. The other two did, but it wasn’t easy. Our dad stayed in 20 years. I always wonder what he might say to someone like you. He didn’t talk much about his experience. What’s your story?

[@francisebbecke2727]

For most of us being a hippy was for just a season, but what a season!

[@andyhowat4624]

It became a life style for those who wanted change

[@trevorwakefiel870]

Im British born but my family emigrated to Australia on BOAC in 1969.. Australian Soldiers & NZ soldiers also fought in Vietnam even as a young child and seeing fhe conflict daily on black & white TV. Australians where rallying also in capitals cities to end the Vietnam war and young men called up for 2 years national service ... Alot of young men came back mentally medically ill ruined alot men forever and not to mention deformed children being born due to Vietnam vets in the field sprayed from above with agent orange and caused alot of cancers to some ex Vietnam vet's.

[@davidb2206]

The U.S. had only 5 allies in Vietnam: Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, Philippines. Though we were all wrong with LBJ's unconstitutional "war," may God bless our Oz mates always. My cousin got drafted and is dead from the Agent Orange.

[@SMDsoulnumbers]

Fabulous documentary

[@heidibee501]

The Vietnam war was a warmongers dream. People died so the rich could get richer. Sadly nothing has changed. The name may be different but the game is always the same.

[@davidb2206]

LBJ's wife sold them the helicopters.

[@arthurdalton517]

I am from Santa Cruz and I think that this documentary is great .I think that we in the S F bay and around it were at least 3 to mabey 5 years ahead of the rest of the Country . Monterey pops. Festival was great and According to Grace Slick it was the best one of the 3 it's been said that Janice Joplin was the Artist that everyone came to see.

[@danielgiraud1118]

Hey Chuck ! Yer documentary is very poorly done. It's messy, ye cannie see anything, the images go by way too quickly, ye cannie appreciate it. Yewh blew it !. I'm nae a-congratulatin' thee. Too bad...

[@arthurdalton517]

@@danielgiraud1118 are you from there

[@danielgiraud1118]

@@arthurdalton517 : "Are ye from there" ? From where ? Can ye speak english properly, pliz ?

[@arthurdalton517]

@@danielgiraud1118 are you from the San Francisco bay area or Monterey Bay. I am and I thought it was done very well

[@danielgiraud1118]

@@arthurdalton517 : Et alors Doolin'-Dalton ?

[@Sabotage_Labs]

12:40 Motown changed America and possibly the world! Motown was one of the best things for race relations in America. Black performed like the Supremes were chic. The music had a positive and relatable message. One that transcended race. My god...the talent!!! National treasures like Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. The song writers!!! Just so much talent. It helped to teach America that our differences stop at skin and hair. That there were very little differences and the ones their were....were cultural just like the cultural differences between European countries and ethics groups. Sadly...we apparently have forgotten all of this and are sliding backwards into a very dangerous time. A time that is being repeated when our politicians, especially one political party and movement, uses race as a means to gain political power. We've seen what happens when this tactic is used. It burned down the European continent last century!!! We are walking down a very similar path with blinders on! Its terrifying!

[@ziggyplay]

So many protests, so much passion and affection, so much effort and desire put in... And here we are again, 2024 fighting again for even greater injustices and stupidities.

[@shilohauraable]

My older sister had so many male college friends in Vietnam. And many from our church. I know one of the guys she dated was killed in combat and she cried for months. 😢 My husband was wounded in Nam in 68 and spent 2 years in and out of VA hospitals until he found a private surgeon that fixed his problem on an "emergency" basis so that VA still paid for it. 🙄 He still will not go to VA doctors even tho he has full, free coverage. He now also suffers from Agent Orange poisoning. He's an amazing guy! ❤️ The music of our time was amazing! Notice current groups are covering a lot of them today. And a lot of movies are remakes of our movies & TV shows! We truly effected culture even if we were on the sidelines. A lot for the good &, sorry to say, some for the bad.

[@adrianmedforth3033]

Great documentary

[@timcross2510]

11,000 young Americans died in Viet Nam that year. More than Dday ,911 ,and Pearl Harbor combined.

[@marymacdonald2379]

In 1967, at18 I was having the time of my life living with my friends in Hollywood. The only dark cloud was my 19 year old brother was in Vietnam. I wrote to him and mailed him the newest albums (he was at the air base outside Saigon).

[@humboldthammer]

@@marymacdonald2379 I know a story of two brothers having the time of their lives on the Hollywood Strip. Then, the older brother over-dosed and died.

[@cynthiamckenzie1034]

🤯💔💔😰

[@Msmith-yd7bz]

I was in Saigon 2024 Jan,went to the war museum,no one in their right mind would want to attend that situation first hand if they had any idea of the suffering.The pictures were a reflection,I didn't want to see to much of that.Sorry war sends so many boys into a grinder.Around the same time in China great change erupted also,the cultural revolution,so many left the country to go to other countries to live.There were other factions of opinion in China at the time,but a dominant aspect of government established a type of stability. Its difficult to judge things from the outside and hard to see! When your in the middle,of change.Were all on the same planet taking our next breath,for a time.There are more similarities than differences by far! Surprised I be!

[@davidb2206]

12,520 Americans were killed or missing in the battle for Okinawa alone in 82 days in WWII.

[@Catherine-259-s5u]

My 28 year old brother came home in a body bag in 1967 because of the Vietnam War. He was a medic and his name was John.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@Catherine-259-s5u RIP John

[@Catherine-259-s5u]

@@FreeDocumentaryHistory Thank you for that. ❤️

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@Catherine-259-s5u I think the tragedy of this war was that young men were sent off thousands of miles to a country no one knew anything about. And nobody really knew why. I’m really sorry for the loss of your brother.

[@Yesitisbrett]

I'm sorry for your loss....I actually cry for you and him, what a terrible rotten thing to happen for a guy who was fighting to safe lives....to lose his. I was born in 1967....I know when we lose loved ones, whether it's an hour, a day, a year or 57 years ago, a true feeling heart never really heals...but you fill the void with memories of them with fond thoughts and reminisce turning stones and relish a look they gave, a word they said, the good they brought to your life. They are not gone, but just around the corner in your mind. PEACE TO YOU and prayers 🙏 😢

[@Catherine-259-s5u]

@@Yesitisbrett You’re so sweet! Thank you for your lovely reply! ❤️ I was born in 1959. I was eight when he died. I don’t remember a whole lot of what happened to him until years later when my parents started to open up about what happened. He was just my big brother to me. Still sorely missed after all of these years. My parents have been gone a long time too.

[@smesui1799]

Seems so ancient now. I wonder how many in these videos are still with us ?

[@yaraviera4444]

Thanks for sharing this. Lovely video about what was the 60s like I was born in the 80s.yet I know black community suffered a lot..

[@jessiem276]

Lots of people suffered!

[@peterfreiling6963]

I went to HS at St. Ignatius, a short walk to the Haight Ashbury district, and i remember all of this. I was disappointed that SF did not hold a "Summer of Love" 50th anniversary event in 2017. It was talked about, but not done. Does anybody know why?

[@Shanehutcheson841]

Great Video!!

[@anitakephart3851]

Jackie Wilson was every bit a great dancer as James Brown without all the drama and controversary

[@veggigoddess]

Fun fact! The guy talking about how he was on radio Caroline was in the movie Pirate Radio about that boat

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@veggigoddess yep saw that movie.

[@gogoyubari366]

I remember in 1850 I was In the turkey war. We had little flutes to sing in Orlando with the rice in soy sauce. Can't do that no more with the woodcraft in Alabama.

[@Fawn91193]

🤣🤣🤣

[@kurtalbrethsen3863]

I was turning 12 but aware of all the turmoil, political unrest, the Cold War, all of it and particularly the music.

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

I was only 12 in '67 and living in a small farm-based town got only a glimpse (aka what was allowed) of Hippies, the Counter Culture etc. By the time I was in high school all that had been commercialized and diluted, made "safe" but still with a whiff of forbidden fruit! The nearest mall (an hour's drive away) had The InStore where you could buy black light posters and all manners of Hippie stuff, all commercialized and heady stuff for a small town kid! I pretty much missed really experiencing the Summer of Love and all it represented by a good 5 years or so.... and it's just as well.. 🤣 And in the words of George Harrison, "All things must pass..." even the Summer of Love...

[@lorigoshert6667]

Thanks for this. I've seen a lot of documentaries about this era, but none that have presented the British perspective (aside from a few band-specific docs). I'd never heard of Radio Caroline, for example, and it was interesting to hear the different ways the older generation responded to youth culture. The audio seems to be messed up around the time Janis Joplin is singing, though.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Glad you liked it and we’ll check out the audio - thanks!

[@biglongcadillac]

Quite a good documentary.

[@deejay4922]

Good Historical Doco.

[@westtexas7]

The hatred by the older generation was palpable. They saw us as outlaws and really freaked out over just seeing us. Many restaurants would not let us eat. Some would give us something to go with down the road. No way to explain what a great period in history it was to be young 65-73.