Foundational Podcast

The late 1960’s were culture changing in America and Great Britain. February 7,1964, Pan Am flight 101 landed at JFK International Airport in New York City and was welcomed by four thousand screaming fans. The modern day British invasion of America had landed, as the Beatles disembarked, a new era of music was launched. 1964 also saw the rise of the LSD culture. Professor Timothy Leary was the father of LSD, after he was fired from Harvard University. Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters began traveling across the USA in the psychedelic bus “Further” bringing their “electric Kool-Aid to the youth of America.” The Hippie culture was “turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.” American youth were protesting the Vietnam War by “making love, not war.” The Beatles released the psychedelic album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. That summer between 75,000 and 100,000 Hippies gathered at the “Summer of Love” in the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco. Another counter culture movement invaded this mind ex