The Hippie Temptation

The Hippie Temptation

50 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Aug. 21, 1967

CBS TV news special hosted by Harry Reasoner explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic 1960s LSD scene. Footage of LSDs users experiencing bummer trips. The Diggers, the Oracle and cool street and Golden Gate Park scenes with hippies tripping out. The Grateful Dead are interviewed and are shown performing "Dancin' in the Streets" on a flatbed truck in Golden Gate Park. The Hippie Temptation!

The Hippie Temptation

50 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Aug. 21, 1967

The Hippie Temptation
CBS TV news special hosted by Harry Reasoner explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic 1960s LSD scene. Footage of LSDs users experiencing bummer trips. The Diggers, the Oracle and cool street and Golden Gate Park scenes with hippies tripping out. The Grateful Dead are interviewed and are shown performing "Dancin' in the Streets" on a flatbed truck in Golden Gate Park. The Hippie Temptation!
Producers CBS News Productions
Original title The Hippie Temptation
Directors
Writers

Cast

Harry Reasoner

as Uptight Narrator

Jerry Garcia

as Dirty Hippie

Peter Coyote

as Digger

Dr. David Smith

as Haight Ashbury Free Clinic Doctor