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Summer of Love
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Chapter 1 Chapter 1: (2:49)
"Teaser" introduction for Summer of Love on American Experience.

Chapter 2 Chapter 2: (7:53)
Disillusioned members of the Baby Boom generation embrace a utopian vision.

Chapter 3 Chapter 3: (4:25)
A mind altering new drug becomes popular with San Francisco's hippies.

Chapter 4 Chapter 4: (7:34)
National news reports put the hippie movement in the national spotlight. Young people travel to San Francisco from across the country.

Chapter 5 Chapter 5: (7:35)
San Francisco residents and local authorities react to the growing number of hippies in the city.

Chapter 6 Chapter 6: (9:17)
San Francisco hippies create the Council for the Summer of Love in response to concerns about a massive influx of young people to the city.

Chapter 7 Chapter 7: (9:46)
Young teenage runaways struggle with drugs, disease and life on the streets of San Francisco.

Chapter 8 Chapter 8: (3:28)
On October 6, 1967, a group of hippies close the curtain on the Summer of Love with "The Death of the Hippie."

Chapter 9 Chapter 9: (2:51)
End credits.

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Summer of Love American Experience