In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people from across the country flocked to San Francisco*s Haight-Ashbury district to join in the hippie experience, only to discover that what they had e for was already disappearing. By 1968 the celebration of free love and music had descended into a maelstrom of drug abuse, broken dreams, and violence. American Experience offers a plex portrait of the peak of the 1960s counter-culture movement.