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[www.DrDave.org] [Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc]
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The Haight Ashbury Free Clinics
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Dr. David Smith &
The Hippie Temptation
Harry Reasoner
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Dr Dave's Web Site
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Harry Reasoner and Warren Wallace visit The Haight Ashbury District and present to us the truth about the "Hippie Movement." If you were, are, or would like to be a Hippie, this video is must viewing. Learn the scientific truth about LSD, the hazards of LSD Flashbacks, scientific conclusions such as chromosome damage and destruction caused by "trips." An interview with the Grateful Dead. Canned Heat plays a ballroom. The Dead plays a concert in the park "Dancing In The Street." Our country in degeneration. CBS News 1967, reddish and white color. 50 min.
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Grateful Dead.
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Jerry 1967 |
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Jerry Garcia: Uh, what we're thinkin'
about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinkin' about anything else. We're not
thinkin' about any kind of power, we're not thinkin' about any of those kind of
struggles. We're not thinkin about revolution or war or any of that. That's not
what we want. Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would
all like to be able to live an uncluttered life. A simple life, a good life, you
know, and like think about moving the whole human race ahead a step or a few
steps. (Interjection by band members: "or half a step or anything. More
positive".) At least not going around in circles like it is now. |
The Free Medical Clinic on
Clayton & Haight Streets
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Examination Room 1
Still there 35 years later.
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(Scene changes to Haight Ashbury Free Medical
Clinic on Clayton Street in the Haight Ashbury)
Harry Reasoner: A number of doctors who are concerned over the
health of the young people who are flocking into Haight Ashbury, have started a
Free Clinic, where anyone can come to get medical attention. (music of a finger
piano, people in a waiting room). The doctors, supported by a staff of hippies,
work for nothing. They wanna learn and they want to help. There are a lot of
hippies who need help. |
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Dr David Smith 1967
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Harry Reasoner: There must be a special motive relating to a
larger view of society, to bring doctors already overworked to serve extra hours
in this Clinic. The Clinic was created by the director of the Alcohol and Drug
Abuse Screening Unit of San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. David Smith. And we
asked him about this.
Dr. David Smith: Most of the people that volunteer for our Clinic are either
young people like myself, who have some special interest in the area, or are
older people who have teenage kids of their own. And we find that an
individual's attitude towards ahh, 'well let 'em die, that's their bag' changes
dramatically when their own child goes to the Haight Ashbury. And that many of
our doctors, and we've had a marvelous response from the medical community, and
many of the doctors are older doctors that have teenage daughters and then they
want to help, honestly want to help. But they also state that they want to learn
more about what's making the young people in the Haight Ashbury run away from
middle class homes. The kids in the Haight Ashbury are not poverty stricken.
They don't have poverty-stricken backgrounds. Many of them have gone to school,
come from good homes, and, for some reason, they run away from home and go to
the Haight Ashbury. I think that one thing people don't realize is that the
Haight Ashbury is a symptom, not a cause. And that the kids that are attracted
to the Haight Ashbury because of some depravation, primarily intellectual
deprivation, ahh, in their former mode of life. And I think that this is why the
middle class is so intensely involved in the Haight Ashbury, because it is a
product of the middle class. It's not a peripheral movement. It is a direct
reaction against the forces that control the United States. And it's not an
anarchist movement. The hippies are not interested in, ah, any philosophy,
including communism. They just want to live their own life. Many people say that
this is a communist inspired movement. They're reacting against any structured
philosophy. Whether it be, a university or communism or whatever. They just
wanna live the way they wanna live without structural bindings.
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Haight Street the Summer of Love
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Phil and The Dead plays a concert in
the park "Dancing In The Street."
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Hells Angels
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Harry Reasoner
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The HIPPIE TEMPTATION was produced under
the supervision and control of CBS News, 1967. |
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[www.DrDave.org]
[Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc]
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