1 00:00:01,500 --> 00:00:03,133 ANNOUNCER: This program contains content 2 00:00:03,166 --> 00:00:05,133 which may not be suitable for all audiences. 3 00:00:05,166 --> 00:00:08,500 Viewer discretion is advised. 4 00:00:10,500 --> 00:00:14,333 (crowd murmuring) 5 00:00:21,133 --> 00:00:22,800 It looks like we're going to get a little bit of rain, 6 00:00:22,833 --> 00:00:23,833 so you better cover up. 7 00:00:23,866 --> 00:00:26,633 (wind rumbling) 8 00:00:29,766 --> 00:00:34,100 Everybody who's in the back, please move back! 9 00:00:34,133 --> 00:00:35,566 Please move back. 10 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,400 We have to get away from these towers. 11 00:00:38,433 --> 00:00:39,933 (wind blowing) 12 00:00:39,966 --> 00:00:41,900 Put the mic stands down on the floor. 13 00:00:41,933 --> 00:00:43,000 Cover all the equipment. 14 00:00:43,033 --> 00:00:46,133 JOEL ROSENMAN: We were all in our mid-20s. 15 00:00:46,166 --> 00:00:49,233 We had created something that was much bigger 16 00:00:49,266 --> 00:00:51,000 than we had anticipated. 17 00:00:51,033 --> 00:00:52,600 I see it. 18 00:00:52,633 --> 00:00:53,866 (over speakers): All of you up on the towers, 19 00:00:53,900 --> 00:00:56,100 please come down. 20 00:00:56,133 --> 00:00:58,666 You're making it very, very dangerous. 21 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:01,433 (wind blowing) 22 00:01:01,466 --> 00:01:03,700 All right, everybody, just sit down, wrap yourself up. 23 00:01:03,733 --> 00:01:06,300 We're going to have to ride it out. 24 00:01:06,333 --> 00:01:09,400 JOHN MORRIS: Everything that could possibly go wrong was happening. 25 00:01:11,066 --> 00:01:14,733 I mean, it was all hell breaking loose. 26 00:01:14,766 --> 00:01:17,800 MORRIS (over speaker): Hold on to your neighbor, man. 27 00:01:17,833 --> 00:01:19,966 And let's think hard to get rid of it, please. 28 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:21,033 (shouting): No rain! 29 00:01:21,066 --> 00:01:22,200 No rain! 30 00:01:22,233 --> 00:01:23,166   No rain! 31 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,533 (crowd chanting "No rain!") 32 00:01:27,566 --> 00:01:28,766 SUSAN REYNOLDS: When you think about it, 33 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,633 it could have been an absolute disaster. 34 00:01:31,666 --> 00:01:36,900 (thunder rumbling, rain pouring) 35 00:01:36,933 --> 00:01:38,666 BARON WOLMAN: And I just kept thinking, 36 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:42,833 "Which direction is this thing going to go?" 37 00:01:42,866 --> 00:01:45,433 MAN (over speaker): Try to keep yourself comfortable. 38 00:01:45,466 --> 00:01:47,200 It's gonna blow through. 39 00:01:47,233 --> 00:01:51,133 ♪ 40 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:21,566 ("Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman playing) 41 00:02:24,466 --> 00:02:28,933 ♪ Call out the instigator 42 00:02:28,966 --> 00:02:34,233 ♪ Because there's something in the air ♪ 43 00:02:34,266 --> 00:02:39,533 ♪ We got to get together sooner or later ♪ 44 00:02:39,566 --> 00:02:44,000 ♪ Because the revolution's here ♪ 45 00:02:44,033 --> 00:02:45,933 ♪ And you know it's right 46 00:02:45,966 --> 00:02:48,300 REYNOLDS: We did not plan ahead, 47 00:02:48,333 --> 00:02:50,566 we did not plan where we were going to stay, 48 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,300 we didn't think about food. 49 00:02:53,333 --> 00:02:55,400 It was just, like, "Hey, this sounds like fun. 50 00:02:55,433 --> 00:02:56,900 Let's get in the car and go." 51 00:02:56,933 --> 00:03:02,533 ♪ We have got to get it together ♪ WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 52 00:02:56,933 --> 00:03:02,533 ♪ We have got to get it together ♪ 53 00:03:03,466 --> 00:03:07,266 ♪ We have got to get it together now ♪ 54 00:03:07,300 --> 00:03:08,466 PETER BEREN: We would pack 55 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:10,600 as many hitchhikers as we could in the car, 56 00:03:10,633 --> 00:03:12,933 sitting on top of each other. 57 00:03:12,966 --> 00:03:14,933 And as we got closer, 58 00:03:14,966 --> 00:03:18,033 there would be people walking on foot like pilgrims. 59 00:03:19,433 --> 00:03:21,766 It looked like a pilgrimage. 60 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,733 LAUREEN STAROBIN: We were looking for answers. 61 00:03:25,766 --> 00:03:27,933 We were looking for other people 62 00:03:27,966 --> 00:03:29,900 that felt the same way as we did. 63 00:03:29,933 --> 00:03:32,533 ♪ ...and houses 64 00:03:32,566 --> 00:03:36,633 ♪ Because there's something in the air ♪ 65 00:03:36,666 --> 00:03:39,666 JON JABOOLIAN: No matter where you looked, you saw people. 66 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:42,966 It was like a field with people growing in it. 67 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,833 I had never, never seen that many people in my life 68 00:03:45,866 --> 00:03:47,500 in one place at one time. 69 00:03:47,533 --> 00:03:49,466 ♪ And you know it's right 70 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:51,166 ♪ 71 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,366 PAUL GEORGE: My feeling was, "This is what we've been talking about, 72 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,800 "this is what we've been aiming for, 73 00:03:55,833 --> 00:03:58,000 this kind of freedom." 74 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,000 STAROBIN: If 400,000 people could get together 75 00:04:04,033 --> 00:04:09,066 and have absolutely no violence, absolutely no conflict, 76 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:12,400 I felt like, if we could bring all that love 77 00:04:12,433 --> 00:04:14,600 back into society, 78 00:04:14,633 --> 00:04:17,233 we could change the world. 79 00:04:17,266 --> 00:04:21,533 ♪ We have got to get it together ♪ 80 00:04:21,566 --> 00:04:23,166 (cheering) 81 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:28,400 ♪ We have got to get it together now ♪ 82 00:04:32,233 --> 00:04:35,900 ("I'll Take Manhattan" by Bobby Hackett playing) 83 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,200 (horns honking) 84 00:04:41,233 --> 00:04:42,900 JOHN ROBERTS: I grew up in New York City, 85 00:04:42,933 --> 00:04:46,033 and I came from a wealthy family. 86 00:04:46,066 --> 00:04:48,066 My mother died when I was young, 87 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:50,933 so when I was 21, 88 00:04:50,966 --> 00:04:54,333 I inherited about a quarter of a million dollars. 89 00:04:54,366 --> 00:04:58,400 That was quite a bit of money in those days. 90 00:04:58,433 --> 00:05:03,733 I had a-a job down on Wall Street doing research. 91 00:05:03,766 --> 00:05:05,233 ROSENMAN: When I met John, 92 00:05:05,266 --> 00:05:08,166 I had just gotten out of law school 93 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,000 and was playing with a band down in the Village 94 00:05:11,033 --> 00:05:13,366 and at the clubs on Second and Third Avenue, 95 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:17,200 but I was starting to get a little frayed at the edges. 96 00:05:17,233 --> 00:05:20,466 Neither one of us, I think, was really on a career path 97 00:05:20,500 --> 00:05:23,633 that we knew was the right one. 98 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:27,400 ROBERTS: Joel and I met playing golf. 99 00:05:27,433 --> 00:05:30,000 We hit it off. 100 00:05:30,033 --> 00:05:32,666 And, uh, we thought we'd go into business together, 101 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:35,933 investing this money that I had. 102 00:05:35,966 --> 00:05:38,066 AD ANNOUNCER: The denture cleanser you've hoped for 103 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:39,433 is here at last. 104 00:05:39,466 --> 00:05:43,200 Start using new effervescent Polident tablets today. 105 00:05:43,233 --> 00:05:46,300 JOEL MAKOWER: John's grandfather founded the Block Drug Company, 106 00:05:46,333 --> 00:05:49,566 the maker of Poligrip and Polident. 107 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,233 That fortune was the source of the seed money 108 00:05:53,266 --> 00:05:55,866 for a recording studio in Midtown Manhattan, 109 00:05:55,900 --> 00:05:58,400 Media Sound, which for John and Joel, 110 00:05:58,433 --> 00:06:01,266 actually turned into their first successful venture. 111 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:04,733 It was because of Media Sound that John and Joel WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 112 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:04,733 It was because of Media Sound that John and Joel 113 00:06:04,766 --> 00:06:08,033 met Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld. 114 00:06:08,066 --> 00:06:10,033 MAN: How much do those matches sell for? 115 00:06:10,066 --> 00:06:11,866 65 cents for the roll. 116 00:06:11,900 --> 00:06:15,100 MAKOWER: Michael had a head shop in Miami, in Coconut Grove, 117 00:06:15,133 --> 00:06:16,900 the center of the hippie culture down there. 118 00:06:16,933 --> 00:06:18,033 Right there, is that a pipe? 119 00:06:18,066 --> 00:06:21,133 Yeah, it's a Turkish water pipe. 120 00:06:21,166 --> 00:06:23,266 With two hoses. 121 00:06:23,300 --> 00:06:26,866 MAKOWER: In 1968 he moved to Woodstock, New York, 122 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:29,800 about 100 miles north of New York City, 123 00:06:29,833 --> 00:06:32,000 and was introduced to Artie Kornfeld, 124 00:06:32,033 --> 00:06:35,433 who was a vice president at Capitol Records. 125 00:06:35,466 --> 00:06:39,133 ROBERTS: They called us in early 1969, 126 00:06:39,166 --> 00:06:41,866 and said, "We're very interested in building a recording studio 127 00:06:41,900 --> 00:06:43,466 "in Woodstock, New York. 128 00:06:43,500 --> 00:06:46,466 "We know that you and Joel were involved in-in building one 129 00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:47,700 "in New York City. 130 00:06:47,733 --> 00:06:49,300 Would you meet with us?" 131 00:06:49,333 --> 00:06:50,433 We said, "Sure!" 132 00:06:50,466 --> 00:06:52,733 ROSENMAN: When we met them, 133 00:06:52,766 --> 00:06:54,133 they were quite different from us, 134 00:06:54,166 --> 00:06:57,266 meaning a lot of fringe, a lot of buckskin, 135 00:06:57,300 --> 00:06:59,600 and a great deal of hair. 136 00:06:59,633 --> 00:07:01,566 John and I were making an effort 137 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,066 to look like businessmen at the time. 138 00:07:03,100 --> 00:07:05,900 (laughing): So we, we couldn't have represented 139 00:07:05,933 --> 00:07:08,600 more distant ends of the spectrum. 140 00:07:08,633 --> 00:07:11,400 ROBERTS: What Artie said was, basically, 141 00:07:11,433 --> 00:07:13,766 Woodstock was a center for artists, 142 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,166 and that a recording studio there 143 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,700 would have a natural constituency, 144 00:07:18,733 --> 00:07:22,333 and it would be a success. 145 00:07:22,366 --> 00:07:25,333 ROSENMAN: As we were looking through the proposal 146 00:07:25,366 --> 00:07:26,566 that they'd given us, 147 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,433 we noticed an idea for an opening-day party, 148 00:07:29,466 --> 00:07:32,233 where musicians who lived in the area-- 149 00:07:32,266 --> 00:07:35,766 Tim Hardin, John Sebastian, Bob Dylan-- 150 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:37,566 would perform. 151 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:42,633 I said, "The idea of having a concert with those stars, 152 00:07:42,666 --> 00:07:44,933 "I mean, why don't we skip the studio idea 153 00:07:44,966 --> 00:07:46,833 "and just do a big concert? 154 00:07:46,866 --> 00:07:49,900 We could make a fortune." 155 00:07:49,933 --> 00:07:54,600 So in late January 1969, the four of us shook hands 156 00:07:54,633 --> 00:07:58,866 and started brainstorming what Woodstock could be. 157 00:08:02,833 --> 00:08:05,533 REPORTER: To the hippie youth of today, 158 00:08:05,566 --> 00:08:07,666 this is part of their real world. 159 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:10,800 This is the atmosphere at the Monterey Pop Festival. 160 00:08:10,833 --> 00:08:13,933 The music is frantic, the sounds are wild, 161 00:08:13,966 --> 00:08:15,033 and the mind is free. 162 00:08:15,066 --> 00:08:17,300 BOB HITE: ♪ I rolled and I tumbled 163 00:08:17,333 --> 00:08:19,900 ♪ I cried the whole night long 164 00:08:19,933 --> 00:08:24,666 BOB SPITZ: Outdoor rock festivals were a pretty new concept at the time. 165 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:29,533 They had begun in 1967 with Monterey Pop. 166 00:08:29,566 --> 00:08:32,566 And by 1968, '69, 167 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,833 there had been a few festivals scattered around the country. 168 00:08:37,133 --> 00:08:38,700 Michael Lang was the only one of the four 169 00:08:38,733 --> 00:08:41,566 that had any experience in the concert business. 170 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,766 In 1968 he had helped produce a festival in Miami 171 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:47,633 that was a huge disaster. 172 00:08:47,666 --> 00:08:52,033 It was held at a racetrack, had very little atmosphere, 173 00:08:52,066 --> 00:08:55,166 it rained, there were a lot of lawsuits afterwards; 174 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,800 the festival never really came off. 175 00:08:57,833 --> 00:09:02,533 But Michael knew that this is what he wanted to do. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 176 00:08:57,833 --> 00:09:02,533 But Michael knew that this is what he wanted to do. 177 00:09:02,566 --> 00:09:05,233 And he had this idea of taking the festival 178 00:09:05,266 --> 00:09:06,533 out of the racetrack 179 00:09:06,566 --> 00:09:10,600 and putting it in a bucolic place. 180 00:09:10,633 --> 00:09:12,200 LANG: I had been thinking about doing 181 00:09:12,233 --> 00:09:14,966 a series of concerts in Woodstock. 182 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,400 And I always thought if you could dream it up, 183 00:09:16,433 --> 00:09:17,800 you could put it together. 184 00:09:17,833 --> 00:09:21,900 And this was a chance to make, you know, a dream come true. 185 00:09:23,933 --> 00:09:29,100 ROSENMAN: Michael and Artie had optioned a property in Woodstock, 186 00:09:29,133 --> 00:09:32,100 but it was far too small-- it was just ten acres. 187 00:09:32,133 --> 00:09:35,033 So that didn't work out. 188 00:09:35,066 --> 00:09:38,766 A property in Saugerties didn't work out. 189 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,566 And then John and I found a piece of property 190 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,666 that was in Wallkill that was being turned 191 00:09:44,700 --> 00:09:47,033 into an industrial park. 192 00:09:48,233 --> 00:09:50,833 It-it didn't knock you out visually, 193 00:09:50,866 --> 00:09:54,766 but it was available. 194 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,633 MAKOWER: Michael hated it. 195 00:09:56,666 --> 00:09:59,266 It was everything he didn't want-- 196 00:09:59,300 --> 00:10:02,766 just a flat, barren piece of land 197 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,533 that had no trees, no soul. 198 00:10:06,566 --> 00:10:08,033 LANG: You know how some pastoral scenes 199 00:10:08,066 --> 00:10:09,400 are beautiful and calming 200 00:10:09,433 --> 00:10:12,033 and make you feel comfortable, at peace? 201 00:10:12,066 --> 00:10:14,466 This was completely the opposite. 202 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:16,533 But we needed to get going, we needed a site, 203 00:10:16,566 --> 00:10:18,800 and I felt that we could transform it 204 00:10:18,833 --> 00:10:22,966 into something more spiritual and special. 205 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,466 ("Embryonic Journey" by Jefferson Airplane playing) 206 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:26,600 SPITZ: The town signed off on the festival 207 00:10:26,633 --> 00:10:30,066 as a, kind of a music and arts fair 208 00:10:30,100 --> 00:10:33,200 where kids would walk around and look at art 209 00:10:33,233 --> 00:10:36,666 and hear some music in the background. 210 00:10:36,700 --> 00:10:38,266 And "An Aquarian Exposition," 211 00:10:38,300 --> 00:10:40,466 which is what they called Woodstock, 212 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:43,600 had some kind of mystical feel to it. 213 00:10:47,566 --> 00:10:50,966 ROSENMAN: Michael suggested that, like Monterey, 214 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,433 we should have a crafts village and an art exhibition 215 00:10:54,466 --> 00:10:56,066 alongside the music. 216 00:10:56,100 --> 00:10:57,433 We all loved it. 217 00:10:57,466 --> 00:11:02,333 It was such a natural add-on to what we were thinking about. 218 00:11:02,366 --> 00:11:06,566 We wanted to make it like visiting another world, 219 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:09,566 like visiting the world you were dreaming about 220 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,866 if you were a young person. 221 00:11:11,900 --> 00:11:14,833 This shining place that you could go to 222 00:11:14,866 --> 00:11:17,366 and feel that you weren't a misfit, 223 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,300 or that you weren't on the wrong side of a debate, 224 00:11:21,333 --> 00:11:22,666 or that you weren't 225 00:11:22,700 --> 00:11:25,766 under the suspicious eye of the authorities. 226 00:11:27,166 --> 00:11:29,866 MAKOWER: For the generation that was coming of age 227 00:11:29,900 --> 00:11:31,366 in the late '60s, 228 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,933 everything was up for grabs. 229 00:11:33,966 --> 00:11:38,333 Young people were rejecting the status quo, 230 00:11:38,366 --> 00:11:40,333 whether it was your parents or whether it was your community 231 00:11:40,366 --> 00:11:43,500 or-or the business establishment. 232 00:11:43,533 --> 00:11:46,400 This counterculture, as it was called, 233 00:11:46,433 --> 00:11:49,366 influenced music, it influenced art, 234 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,200 and it certainly influenced the way people dressed. 235 00:11:52,233 --> 00:11:56,166 But clearly, politics was at the center of the counterculture, 236 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:59,333 because the one thing that affected everybody 237 00:11:59,366 --> 00:12:01,733 was the war in Vietnam. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 238 00:11:59,366 --> 00:12:01,733 was the war in Vietnam. 239 00:12:01,766 --> 00:12:04,433 Last week's casualty figures in the Vietnam War, 240 00:12:04,466 --> 00:12:09,133 released today, showed 299 Americans killed, 355... 241 00:12:09,166 --> 00:12:12,766 GEORGE: I remember watching the news in, you know, 1968 242 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,900 and asking my father, "Why are we fighting in Vietnam?" 243 00:12:15,933 --> 00:12:19,966 And his answer was always, "Because they're communists." 244 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,900 I didn't find that satisfactory. 245 00:12:22,933 --> 00:12:26,033 (artillery fires) 246 00:12:26,066 --> 00:12:29,300 My father had been in World War II in Europe, 247 00:12:29,333 --> 00:12:31,466 in the Signal Corps. 248 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:33,666 He always made clear that he thought the Army 249 00:12:33,700 --> 00:12:34,900 was a great experience, 250 00:12:34,933 --> 00:12:37,100 and everybody should do it. 251 00:12:37,133 --> 00:12:38,933 He just had a very positive view 252 00:12:38,966 --> 00:12:41,233 of serving one's country that way. 253 00:12:41,266 --> 00:12:44,800 And he did support the war in Vietnam. 254 00:12:44,833 --> 00:12:47,800 ("The Pusher" by Steppenwolf playing) 255 00:12:47,833 --> 00:12:53,900 (gun firing, people talking on radio) 256 00:12:55,466 --> 00:12:57,900 REYNOLDS: The men of World War II just assumed that their sons 257 00:12:57,933 --> 00:12:58,966 would also be soldiers. 258 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,900 That's how you became a man. 259 00:13:00,933 --> 00:13:03,800 You grew up, you served your country. 260 00:13:03,833 --> 00:13:05,233 So my older brother Jim 261 00:13:05,266 --> 00:13:08,200 signed up for the Naval Reserves. 262 00:13:08,233 --> 00:13:10,833 I remember the day that he went to Vietnam 263 00:13:10,866 --> 00:13:14,033 and being terrified. 264 00:13:15,866 --> 00:13:20,066 MICHAEL LINDSEY: When I was 18, I had to register for the draft. 265 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:23,600 I was in college, so I got a deferment. 266 00:13:23,633 --> 00:13:27,866 But there was always that thing in the back of your mind. 267 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:32,100 You knew that they were just one step behind you. 268 00:13:32,133 --> 00:13:34,066 If you were in college, you-you'd better hope 269 00:13:34,100 --> 00:13:35,633 that you had all your money straightened out 270 00:13:35,666 --> 00:13:37,300 and grades were good and everything else, 271 00:13:37,333 --> 00:13:40,900 because if you dropped out, you were going to Vietnam. 272 00:13:40,933 --> 00:13:43,366 ("The Pusher" continues) 273 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,866 BEREN: When I was 20 years old, 274 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:49,200 I was faced with a draft physical. 275 00:13:49,233 --> 00:13:51,900 I'm putting down that I'm a bedwetter, 276 00:13:51,933 --> 00:13:54,566 that I'm a homosexual, that I'm a communist. 277 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:59,133 I think there were 14 things in all that I had written down. 278 00:14:00,766 --> 00:14:03,866 So they escorted me over to the psychiatrist. 279 00:14:03,900 --> 00:14:07,466 He just said, "Kid, I'm gonna give you one year 280 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:09,433 to straighten yourself out," 281 00:14:09,466 --> 00:14:13,933 and he gave me a deferment for 12 months. 282 00:14:13,966 --> 00:14:15,700 ("The Pusher" continues) 283 00:14:15,733 --> 00:14:19,933 RICK DILLS: There's no way to describe how terrifying it was 284 00:14:19,966 --> 00:14:22,300 to be a 17-year-old, 285 00:14:22,333 --> 00:14:26,233 knowing that the Vietnam War was your fate. 286 00:14:26,266 --> 00:14:28,800 I wasn't alone in any way 287 00:14:28,833 --> 00:14:32,600 in transitioning from being personally afraid of the war 288 00:14:32,633 --> 00:14:36,000 to being politically opposed to it. 289 00:14:36,033 --> 00:14:38,566 CROWD (chanting): You kill people! 290 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,700 You kill people! You kill people! 291 00:14:41,733 --> 00:14:43,500 (chanting continues) 292 00:14:43,533 --> 00:14:45,366 (shouting, clapping) 293 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,866 BEREN: I participated in a couple of marches on Washington, 294 00:14:48,900 --> 00:14:51,500 anti-war rallies. 295 00:14:51,533 --> 00:14:53,366 The war was insane. 296 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,133 You know, an insane conflict that, um... 297 00:14:56,166 --> 00:14:57,500 made everybody crazy, 298 00:14:57,533 --> 00:14:58,833 whether you were fighting the war 299 00:14:58,866 --> 00:15:00,700 or fighting against it. 300 00:15:00,733 --> 00:15:03,600 CROWD (chanting): Hell, no, we won't go! WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 301 00:15:00,733 --> 00:15:03,600 CROWD (chanting): Hell, no, we won't go! 302 00:15:03,633 --> 00:15:05,566 ("Volunteers" by Jefferson Airplane playing) 303 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,433 ♪ Look what's happening out in the streets ♪ 304 00:15:07,466 --> 00:15:09,700 ♪ Got a revolution ♪ Got to revolution 305 00:15:09,733 --> 00:15:11,900 ♪ Hey, I'm dancing down the street ♪ 306 00:15:11,933 --> 00:15:14,366 ♪ Got a revolution ♪ Got to revolution 307 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:15,966 ♪ Oh, ain't it amazing, all the people that I meet? ♪ 308 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:16,966 ♪ Got a revolution 309 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,766 (shouting) 310 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:22,200 REPORTER: This is a CBS News Special Report... 311 00:15:22,233 --> 00:15:24,733 BEREN: And then, on top of everything else, 312 00:15:24,766 --> 00:15:27,633 Martin Luther King was assassinated. 313 00:15:27,666 --> 00:15:29,466 The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. 314 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:32,200 was shot to death by an assassin late today 315 00:15:32,233 --> 00:15:35,266 as he stood on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. 316 00:15:37,366 --> 00:15:39,533 LINDSEY: When Martin Luther King was killed, 317 00:15:39,566 --> 00:15:41,900 I knew a lot of people who just felt, 318 00:15:41,933 --> 00:15:44,633 "We have to do things differently, 319 00:15:44,666 --> 00:15:47,500 "because the way the establishment have done things 320 00:15:47,533 --> 00:15:49,433 has led to this." 321 00:15:49,466 --> 00:15:52,033 ♪ 322 00:15:52,066 --> 00:15:54,766 GEORGE: By the time I got to be 16, 323 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,166 I was really questioning the way society is structured. 324 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,366 I objected to racism. 325 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:05,966 I objected to inequality, consumerism, and poverty. 326 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,133 I objected to the war in Vietnam. 327 00:16:09,166 --> 00:16:12,966 ROBERT KENNEDY: One thing is clear in this year of 1968, 328 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,533 and that is that the American people 329 00:16:15,566 --> 00:16:18,366 want no more Vietnams. 330 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,433 (audience applauds) 331 00:16:20,466 --> 00:16:23,166 LINDSEY: Of course, we had hope for Bobby Kennedy. 332 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:27,700 He seemed to be one of us in a lot of ways. 333 00:16:27,733 --> 00:16:31,666 We really felt that he was finally going to be able 334 00:16:31,700 --> 00:16:34,533 to change things. 335 00:16:34,566 --> 00:16:36,500 REYNOLDS: I mean, he was out there espousing peace, 336 00:16:36,533 --> 00:16:39,000 and, you know, fighting against poverty and racism, 337 00:16:39,033 --> 00:16:41,466 and all the things that we believed in 338 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:43,700 and wanted so deeply. 339 00:16:43,733 --> 00:16:45,033 He was our voice. 340 00:16:49,566 --> 00:16:54,900 BEREN: In June of 1968, I was leaving a bar in my hometown. 341 00:16:54,933 --> 00:16:56,800 I turned on the radio. 342 00:16:56,833 --> 00:16:59,666 REPORTER: The senator is lying with his eyes closed, 343 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:01,000 absolutely unmoving, 344 00:17:01,033 --> 00:17:02,733 blood underneath his head. 345 00:17:02,766 --> 00:17:06,000 BEREN: I heard the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 346 00:17:06,033 --> 00:17:09,666 as it unfolded in real time. 347 00:17:09,700 --> 00:17:13,400 And it just completely undid me. 348 00:17:13,433 --> 00:17:16,433 FRANK MANKIEWICZ: Senator Robert Francis Kennedy 349 00:17:16,466 --> 00:17:23,366 died at 1:44 a.m. today, 350 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,133 June 6, 1968. 351 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,033 STAROBIN: The shock of it was... 352 00:17:32,066 --> 00:17:36,433 It was just devastating, absolutely devastating. 353 00:17:36,466 --> 00:17:40,200 Martin Luther King and then Bobby Kennedy. 354 00:17:40,233 --> 00:17:43,133 You know, all these peacemakers. 355 00:17:45,366 --> 00:17:47,133 JABOOLIAN: It was, like, "Oh, this is what we do. 356 00:17:47,166 --> 00:17:48,566 "This is what we do. 357 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:52,400 "You know, as soon as somebody tries to speak out, 358 00:17:52,433 --> 00:17:54,833 "and they're too forceful, 359 00:17:54,866 --> 00:17:56,733 "this big machine, whatever the hell it is, 360 00:17:56,766 --> 00:17:59,433 is gonna shut them up." 361 00:17:59,466 --> 00:18:02,833 The only thing that we took solace in WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 362 00:17:59,466 --> 00:18:02,833 The only thing that we took solace in 363 00:18:02,866 --> 00:18:04,600 was music, 364 00:18:04,633 --> 00:18:07,100 and there was a lot of politically conscious music 365 00:18:07,133 --> 00:18:08,566 we were listening to. 366 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,866 You know, like Buffalo Springfield. 367 00:18:11,900 --> 00:18:15,533 ♪ There's something happening here ♪ 368 00:18:15,566 --> 00:18:20,466 ♪ What it is ain't exactly clear ♪ 369 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:25,433 ♪ There's a man with a gun over there ♪ 370 00:18:25,466 --> 00:18:29,566 ♪ Telling me I got to beware 371 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,533 ♪ I think it's time we stop 372 00:18:31,566 --> 00:18:33,266 ♪ Children, what's that sound 373 00:18:33,300 --> 00:18:36,200 ♪ Everybody look what's going down ♪ 374 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:40,900 STAROBIN: When I was so disillusioned with everybody's else's thinking, 375 00:18:40,933 --> 00:18:43,500 I could escape into my music. 376 00:18:43,533 --> 00:18:45,633 It was such a comfort to me. 377 00:18:45,666 --> 00:18:49,566 You know, I hadn't met a lot of people at that time 378 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:51,066 that felt like I did. 379 00:18:51,100 --> 00:18:55,700 But when I listened to music, those people were there. 380 00:18:55,733 --> 00:18:59,566 ♪ Young people speaking their minds ♪ 381 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:02,600 ♪ Getting so much resistance from behind ♪ 382 00:19:02,633 --> 00:19:04,666 REYNOLDS: We couldn't wait for Saturdays, 383 00:19:04,700 --> 00:19:05,933 when we could go buy the latest record 384 00:19:05,966 --> 00:19:08,100 and then come home and literally lay on the floor 385 00:19:08,133 --> 00:19:10,533 and play it over and over and over. 386 00:19:10,566 --> 00:19:12,533 My father hated the music. 387 00:19:12,566 --> 00:19:16,200 (laughing): He was always clapping his hands over his ears and just... 388 00:19:16,233 --> 00:19:18,033 Would say, "Damn hippies!" 389 00:19:18,066 --> 00:19:22,133 ♪ Come gather 'round, people, wherever you roam ♪ 390 00:19:22,166 --> 00:19:25,533 ♪ And admit that the waters around you have grown ♪ 391 00:19:25,566 --> 00:19:26,966 ♪ And accept it that soon... 392 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,133 LINDSEY: Dylan's song "The Times They Are A-Changin'" 393 00:19:29,166 --> 00:19:32,366 basically said to our parents' generation, 394 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,100 "Get out of the new way if you can't lend a hand." 395 00:19:35,133 --> 00:19:37,833 ♪ You better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone 396 00:19:37,866 --> 00:19:42,233 ♪ For the times they are a-changin' ♪ 397 00:19:42,266 --> 00:19:44,466 LINDSEY: Music had our ideas. 398 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:48,633 For my generation, that was the thing. 399 00:19:48,666 --> 00:19:50,933 Especially our political views. 400 00:19:50,966 --> 00:19:53,966 ♪ It ain't me, it ain't me 401 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,233   ♪ I ain't no military son 402 00:19:57,266 --> 00:20:00,466 ♪ It ain't me, it ain't me 403 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:02,333 ♪ I ain't no fortunate one 404 00:20:02,366 --> 00:20:04,000 (song ending) 405 00:20:04,033 --> 00:20:06,966 DONALD GOLDMACHER: Music was terribly important to us. 406 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,133 I came to the San Francisco Bay Area in June '67, 407 00:20:11,166 --> 00:20:13,966 and there was music everywhere. 408 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,966 There were free concerts going on in Golden Gate Park 409 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,133 with all of these bands. 410 00:20:19,166 --> 00:20:22,066 I got to see Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, 411 00:20:22,100 --> 00:20:25,666 and the Dead, free. 412 00:20:25,700 --> 00:20:27,566 It really was amazing. 413 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,100 (playing in background) 414 00:20:30,133 --> 00:20:33,566 BEREN: Music and lyrics became our tribal drum. 415 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:37,266 So we had a, kind of a secret communication going 416 00:20:37,300 --> 00:20:39,433 in the river of music that flowed through us. 417 00:20:39,466 --> 00:20:40,800 ("Dear Mr. Fantasy" playing) 418 00:20:40,833 --> 00:20:45,000 You know, it was a... wild liberation. 419 00:20:45,033 --> 00:20:48,800 It was Dionysian. 420 00:20:48,833 --> 00:20:50,333 And drugs played a big part in that. 421 00:20:50,366 --> 00:20:54,666 STEVE WINWOOD: ♪ Something to make us all happy ♪ 422 00:20:54,700 --> 00:20:59,633 GEORGE: We smoked a lot of pot and did a fair amount of acid. 423 00:20:59,666 --> 00:21:03,133 You know, the society that we're rebelling against, WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 424 00:20:59,666 --> 00:21:03,133 You know, the society that we're rebelling against, 425 00:21:03,166 --> 00:21:05,300 they don't want us smoking pot. 426 00:21:05,333 --> 00:21:08,933 (laughing): Must be a good reason to smoke pot. 427 00:21:08,966 --> 00:21:12,533 KATHERINE DAYE: The more that we as a generation 428 00:21:12,566 --> 00:21:16,400 saw that what had been rammed down our throats 429 00:21:16,433 --> 00:21:21,133 was false-- it was false, it was a lie-- 430 00:21:21,166 --> 00:21:24,600 the more it freed us up to experiment. 431 00:21:24,633 --> 00:21:25,966 ("Dear Mr. Fantasy" continues) 432 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,233 I mean, we had free love. 433 00:21:28,266 --> 00:21:30,966 (song continues) 434 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,900 The pill allowed us to just go to a party 435 00:21:33,933 --> 00:21:36,800 and be with somebody. 436 00:21:36,833 --> 00:21:41,933 We just reveled in having that much freedom 437 00:21:41,966 --> 00:21:45,133 and that much ability to piss off your old man. 438 00:21:45,166 --> 00:21:48,200 RONALD REAGAN: Movies were shown on two screens 439 00:21:48,233 --> 00:21:50,033 at the opposite ends of the gymnasium. 440 00:21:50,066 --> 00:21:52,000 They consisted of color sequences 441 00:21:52,033 --> 00:21:54,133 that gave the appearance of different-colored liquids 442 00:21:54,166 --> 00:21:55,900 spreading across the screen. 443 00:21:55,933 --> 00:21:58,766 Sexual misconduct was blatant. 444 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:00,533 The smell of marijuana was prevalent 445 00:22:00,566 --> 00:22:02,900 all over the entire building. 446 00:22:02,933 --> 00:22:05,600 ("Dear Mr. Fantasy" continues) 447 00:22:05,633 --> 00:22:09,500 LINDSEY: By 1969 it really did feel like we were finally winning 448 00:22:09,533 --> 00:22:14,800 some kind of culture war against the establishment. 449 00:22:14,833 --> 00:22:16,633 You know, this is how we lived, 450 00:22:16,666 --> 00:22:19,766 and if you didn't like it, too bad. 451 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,900 We were seeing that America 452 00:22:21,933 --> 00:22:23,866 wasn't what we were taught it was, 453 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:27,366 and when you stop looking at it that way 454 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,266 and you start trying to figure it out for yourself, 455 00:22:30,300 --> 00:22:34,533 then, uh... it changes your life forever. 456 00:22:41,466 --> 00:22:47,233 ("Grazing in the Grass" by Willie Mitchell playing) 457 00:22:51,066 --> 00:22:52,900 MAKOWER: Once they got the permits they needed 458 00:22:52,933 --> 00:22:54,400 from the town of Wallkill, 459 00:22:54,433 --> 00:22:56,800 the first thing that John and Joel and Michael and Artie did 460 00:22:56,833 --> 00:23:00,133 was to assemble a core team to help produce the festival. 461 00:23:00,166 --> 00:23:02,733 There was Stan Goldstein 462 00:23:02,766 --> 00:23:05,233 who had worked with Michael on Miami Pop. 463 00:23:05,266 --> 00:23:08,766 There was John Morris, who had experience booking acts; 464 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,366 Chip Monck, whose role was stage design and lighting; 465 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:17,033 Bill Hanley, one of the pioneers of event production sound. 466 00:23:17,066 --> 00:23:19,600 These were guys who knew how to put together an event. 467 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,066 Stan called his friend Mel Lawrence 468 00:23:23,100 --> 00:23:26,533 to be the director of operations. 469 00:23:26,566 --> 00:23:29,466 LAWRENCE: My mission was to, um, plan 470 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:33,500 for all of the functions of the festival 471 00:23:33,533 --> 00:23:37,000 aside from the actual show. 472 00:23:37,033 --> 00:23:41,766 Everything from fences to food to transportation 473 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:46,900 to fire access, lines of communication, 474 00:23:46,933 --> 00:23:53,300 security, water, sewerage-- you know this, that. 475 00:23:53,333 --> 00:23:57,566 I made a checklist that blew everybody's minds. 476 00:24:00,333 --> 00:24:03,566 GOLDSTEIN: One specific thing was toilets. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 477 00:24:00,333 --> 00:24:03,566 GOLDSTEIN: One specific thing was toilets. 478 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,800 We knew we'd have to have a lot of them. 479 00:24:05,833 --> 00:24:08,000 No one knew how many. 480 00:24:08,033 --> 00:24:14,066 So I began going to events with a stopwatch and clipboard. 481 00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:15,533 Madison Square Garden, 482 00:24:15,566 --> 00:24:17,633 baseball stadiums-- 483 00:24:17,666 --> 00:24:19,633 anyplace that there were a lot of people. 484 00:24:19,666 --> 00:24:22,166 And I timed them, going in and coming out 485 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,866 and going in and coming out. 486 00:24:24,900 --> 00:24:27,066 And I took all the information I gathered, 487 00:24:27,100 --> 00:24:31,300 multiplied by the size of the crowd we thought we might have, 488 00:24:31,333 --> 00:24:35,333 and came up with outrageous numbers of johns. 489 00:24:35,366 --> 00:24:37,766 Tens of thousands, just... 490 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,633 Impossible numbers. 491 00:24:40,666 --> 00:24:45,300 So we lined up as many as we could get. 492 00:24:45,333 --> 00:24:48,133 ("Grazing in the Grass" continues) 493 00:24:48,166 --> 00:24:50,466 MORRIS: I was in charge of the booking, 494 00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:53,800 and Creedence was the first band that we booked. 495 00:24:53,833 --> 00:24:56,133 And then we got Jefferson Airplane, 496 00:24:56,166 --> 00:24:59,133 Joe Cocker, and Ten Years After. 497 00:24:59,166 --> 00:25:02,633 We didn't get the Stones or Dylan or the Doors, 498 00:25:02,666 --> 00:25:05,300 but we booked a lot of the acts we wanted to, 499 00:25:05,333 --> 00:25:08,133 including the Who and Jimi Hendrix. 500 00:25:08,166 --> 00:25:12,933 ("Carry On" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young playing) 501 00:25:12,966 --> 00:25:17,133 DAVID CROSBY: We had just started planning our first tour 502 00:25:17,166 --> 00:25:19,800 as Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young 503 00:25:19,833 --> 00:25:22,133 when we heard that Hendrix was going to play it, 504 00:25:22,166 --> 00:25:25,933 and the Who, and Sly, and Airplane, the Band, 505 00:25:25,966 --> 00:25:27,133 the Grateful Dead-- 506 00:25:27,166 --> 00:25:29,833 you know, everybody that we thought was cool. 507 00:25:29,866 --> 00:25:34,966 ("Carry On" continues) 508 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,900 SPITZ: They needed to get the word out about the festival. 509 00:25:36,933 --> 00:25:39,866 They had a channel to do that, 510 00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:42,500 through the alternative press. 511 00:25:42,533 --> 00:25:44,466 There was the "Berkeley Barb" 512 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:47,600 and the "Rat" and the "Village Voice," 513 00:25:47,633 --> 00:25:49,533 and word about the festival poured out, 514 00:25:49,566 --> 00:25:51,200 not just to New York, where they thought 515 00:25:51,233 --> 00:25:52,466 they would draw the most people from, 516 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:56,066 but all across the United States. 517 00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:58,600 Woodstock was on everybody's lips. 518 00:25:58,633 --> 00:26:02,033 ♪ Carry on 519 00:26:02,066 --> 00:26:06,066 ♪ Love is coming 520 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:11,033 ♪ Love is coming to us all 521 00:26:11,066 --> 00:26:15,100 DAYE: Tom and I subscribed to "Rolling Stone" magazine, 522 00:26:15,133 --> 00:26:18,300 and long about, oh, early May, 523 00:26:18,333 --> 00:26:22,533 I started seeing these ads for a three-day festival 524 00:26:22,566 --> 00:26:26,000 with all these bands that we loved. 525 00:26:26,033 --> 00:26:28,800 And I said, "Tom! You wanna go to this?" 526 00:26:28,833 --> 00:26:30,933 RADIO ANNOUNCER: For tickets and information, 527 00:26:30,966 --> 00:26:34,666 write to Woodstock Music and Art Fair... 528 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:37,300 GOLDMACHER: We heard it on the radio. 529 00:26:37,333 --> 00:26:39,966 They were describing this happening-to-be 530 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,300 and that people were coming 531 00:26:42,333 --> 00:26:44,333 from all corners of the United States, 532 00:26:44,366 --> 00:26:47,066 and apparently abroad, as well. 533 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,866 BRUNO ELIARD (speaking French): WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 534 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,233 (speaking German): 535 00:27:36,266 --> 00:27:38,300 SUSIE KAUFMAN: I was hanging out at the fountain 536 00:27:38,333 --> 00:27:41,600 in, in Washington Square, with my guys, 537 00:27:41,633 --> 00:27:43,600 who were all musicians, 538 00:27:43,633 --> 00:27:44,633 and then all of the sudden, 539 00:27:44,666 --> 00:27:46,833 tickets were being made available. 540 00:27:46,866 --> 00:27:51,866 You could buy one day, two days, or three. 541 00:27:51,900 --> 00:27:53,633 And jeez, three days! 542 00:27:53,666 --> 00:27:55,833 "Wow! That means staying there over... 543 00:27:55,866 --> 00:27:58,366 "Wow, what an adventure that would be! 544 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,633 We gotta do this!" 545 00:28:00,666 --> 00:28:04,766 ♪ 546 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,733 SPITZ: It was early June, 547 00:28:06,766 --> 00:28:09,733 so they started to build at the Wallkill site. 548 00:28:09,766 --> 00:28:12,266 They brought in electricity, 549 00:28:12,300 --> 00:28:15,533 they started to lay the groundwork for a stage, 550 00:28:15,566 --> 00:28:19,966 and they hired a couple of hundred kids to help out. 551 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:25,033 And these kids, they didn't look like anybody else in this town. 552 00:28:25,066 --> 00:28:27,233 ROSENMAN: They were a little suspicious about us, 553 00:28:27,266 --> 00:28:29,466 but we just forged ahead. 554 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:32,566 All that did was, I guess, sound the rallying cry 555 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,966 for what called itself 556 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,066 the Concerned Citizens Committee of Wallkill. 557 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:41,666 ROBERTS: They didn't like the looks of the people 558 00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:43,200 who were working on the site. 559 00:28:43,233 --> 00:28:46,200 They didn't like long hair, rock music, 560 00:28:46,233 --> 00:28:48,900 and all that that implied to them. 561 00:28:48,933 --> 00:28:51,733 We really tried to practice good community relations, 562 00:28:51,766 --> 00:28:55,166 but the Concerned Citizens had the wind up. 563 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,233 SPITZ: Wallkill was a pretty conservative place. 564 00:28:59,266 --> 00:29:02,766 The way they saw it, these were kids who smoked dope, 565 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,366 who had casual sex... 566 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,966 They didn't want these hippies in their town. 567 00:29:09,466 --> 00:29:13,000 ROSENMAN: John and I were having dinner in New York City 568 00:29:13,033 --> 00:29:15,900 when the town of Wallkill passed an ordinance 569 00:29:15,933 --> 00:29:17,600 saying, "You can't have a gathering 570 00:29:17,633 --> 00:29:19,866 of more than 5,000 people." 571 00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:21,500 Essentially, it just legislated 572 00:29:21,533 --> 00:29:24,466 the possibility of a festival on this property 573 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:26,900 out of existence. 574 00:29:26,933 --> 00:29:29,766 But we had already sold so many tickets 575 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,866 and hired so many bands, 576 00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:35,666 we couldn't turn back at that point. 577 00:29:35,700 --> 00:29:37,200 ROBERTS: It was like being on a rollercoaster 578 00:29:37,233 --> 00:29:38,833 that had just crested the rise, 579 00:29:38,866 --> 00:29:42,266 you know, before that first enormous plunge. 580 00:29:42,300 --> 00:29:48,400 I contemplated the abyss of a total wipeout and thought, 581 00:29:48,433 --> 00:29:51,000 "Let's not declare bankruptcy-- let's throw this festival." 582 00:29:51,033 --> 00:29:55,933 ♪ I'm going up the country, baby, don't you wanna go? ♪ 583 00:29:58,333 --> 00:30:02,100 ♪ I'm going up the country, baby, don't you wanna go? ♪ WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 584 00:29:58,333 --> 00:30:02,100 ♪ I'm going up the country, baby, don't you wanna go? ♪ 585 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:05,300 ♪ I'm going to someplace... 586 00:30:05,333 --> 00:30:10,033 MAKOWER: It was the first week of July, about five weeks out, 587 00:30:10,066 --> 00:30:14,166 so there was a mad scramble to find a new site. 588 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,033 They drove around upstate New York 589 00:30:16,066 --> 00:30:18,500 talking to local people, real estate brokers-- 590 00:30:18,533 --> 00:30:21,066 anyone who would listen. 591 00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:22,566 LAWRENCE: Michael and I, 592 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,466 we must have looked for a week or maybe ten days, 593 00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:30,133 renting helicopters and going here and going there. 594 00:30:30,166 --> 00:30:32,666 And then we meet Max Yasgur. 595 00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:35,466 SPITZ: Max was a farmer. 596 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:37,833 And he was very successful. 597 00:30:37,866 --> 00:30:41,500 His dairy supplied almost everybody in that area 598 00:30:41,533 --> 00:30:43,166 with milk. 599 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,233 Everybody knew Max Yasgur. 600 00:30:46,266 --> 00:30:50,200 JOHN CONWAY: Yasgur was a, you know, he was a law-and-order Republican, 601 00:30:50,233 --> 00:30:51,833 but, you know, he also believed 602 00:30:51,866 --> 00:30:54,466 in personal freedom and freedom of expression, 603 00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:57,700 and that's what he hung his hat on. 604 00:30:57,733 --> 00:31:00,866 LANG: We went to see Max, and we just hit it off. 605 00:31:00,900 --> 00:31:03,466 I think he liked the fact that we were doing something 606 00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:05,633 in the face of a lot of adversity 607 00:31:05,666 --> 00:31:07,800 and that we believed in. 608 00:31:07,833 --> 00:31:11,133 LAWRENCE: Max takes us to the top of this hill, 609 00:31:11,166 --> 00:31:12,600 and there it is! 610 00:31:12,633 --> 00:31:15,233 A natural amphitheater. 611 00:31:15,266 --> 00:31:19,333 Michael and I looked at each other: "This is it!" 612 00:31:19,366 --> 00:31:22,833 SPITZ: This was exactly what they were looking for, 613 00:31:22,866 --> 00:31:26,966 and they made a deal with Max right there on the spot. 614 00:31:30,566 --> 00:31:36,266 ♪ 615 00:31:39,566 --> 00:31:41,800 ROBERTS: Joel and I went up to get some kind of a-a handle 616 00:31:41,833 --> 00:31:43,800 on the town politics. 617 00:31:43,833 --> 00:31:46,000 (chuckles): We sure didn't want to get into the same problem there 618 00:31:46,033 --> 00:31:48,966 as we had in Wallkill. 619 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,833 ROSENMAN: We were asked to fill out our attendance expectations 620 00:31:53,866 --> 00:31:56,033 on the permit application. 621 00:31:56,066 --> 00:31:58,366 We used Monterey Pop's record, 622 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,000 28,000 people a day, or something like that, 623 00:32:02,033 --> 00:32:05,066 as the baseline. 624 00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:06,666 We multiplied it times two, 625 00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:08,800 and said, you know, "In our wildest dreams, 626 00:32:08,833 --> 00:32:10,200 this is what we're hoping for." 627 00:32:10,233 --> 00:32:14,533 And within a couple of days, we got our permits. 628 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:19,433 MIRIAM YASGUR: A sign was erected near our house, 629 00:32:19,466 --> 00:32:21,100 and it said something like, 630 00:32:21,133 --> 00:32:24,133 "Don't buy Yasgur's milk, he loves the hippies." 631 00:32:24,166 --> 00:32:27,166 And I thought to myself, "You don't know Max, 632 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,100 because we're going to have a festival." 633 00:32:30,133 --> 00:32:32,600 RADIO ANNOUNCER: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, 634 00:32:32,633 --> 00:32:35,266 the three-day Aquarian Exposition, 635 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:37,333 will be held at White Lake, 636 00:32:37,366 --> 00:32:40,066 in the town of Bethel, Sullivan County, New York. 637 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:43,400 And on Friday, August 15, you will hear and see: 638 00:32:43,433 --> 00:32:45,600 Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, 639 00:32:45,633 --> 00:32:50,066 Tim Hardin, Richie Havens, the Incredible String Band... 640 00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:53,633 ("Wasn't Born to Follow" by the Byrds playing) 641 00:32:53,666 --> 00:32:56,100 ROBERTS: Everyone felt excited 642 00:32:56,133 --> 00:32:57,733 about the possibilities of the new site, 643 00:32:57,766 --> 00:33:00,633 but there was a lot to be done. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 644 00:33:02,033 --> 00:33:03,866 ROSENMAN: We had to start all over again 645 00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:08,233 to construct what we had built in several months in Wallkill 646 00:33:08,266 --> 00:33:10,600 in less than four weeks. 647 00:33:10,633 --> 00:33:12,066 ROBERTS: The half a million at the old site 648 00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:14,233 was all down the drain, right? 649 00:33:14,266 --> 00:33:17,400 And we have to put another $800,000 into this one. 650 00:33:17,433 --> 00:33:20,400 Building a stage, getting the lights and the sound system up, 651 00:33:20,433 --> 00:33:21,533 fences. 652 00:33:21,566 --> 00:33:22,766 Food concessions. 653 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,966 Portable toilets-- I mean, it was extraordinary. 654 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,966 And Joel and I had never done any of this before. 655 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,033 ROSENMAN: But because of ticket sales, 656 00:33:33,066 --> 00:33:36,733 we actually felt that we were gonna turn a profit. 657 00:33:36,766 --> 00:33:39,366 SPITZ: They knew by this time that there were going to be 658 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,333 more than just 50,000 people. 659 00:33:42,366 --> 00:33:45,833 Ticket sales looked like it was going to be closer to 100,000. 660 00:33:45,866 --> 00:33:48,633 And with 100,000 stoned-out kids, 661 00:33:48,666 --> 00:33:52,566 they knew that there could be some difficulties. 662 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:57,066 REPORTER: There's been some trouble at a few of the pop festivals. 663 00:33:57,100 --> 00:33:59,366 What do you think brings that about? 664 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,400 Why will it happen at one place and not another? 665 00:34:01,433 --> 00:34:03,466 PAUL BUTTERFIELD: You know, I, I really don't know. 666 00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:06,166 Like, in Miami, they broke down the fence, 667 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,100 and they had a lot of fights. 668 00:34:09,133 --> 00:34:10,433 REPORTER: Do you think it has anything 669 00:34:10,466 --> 00:34:12,100 to do with the size of the audience? 670 00:34:12,133 --> 00:34:14,066 I think it has to do a little bit to do with the size. 671 00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:17,733 It has more to do with the way the festival is organized. 672 00:34:17,766 --> 00:34:20,900 WES POMEROY: To see what was really happening, 673 00:34:20,933 --> 00:34:22,966 we sent people to almost all the major rock festivals 674 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,633 that summer. 675 00:34:24,666 --> 00:34:26,800 They went to Atlanta, 676 00:34:26,833 --> 00:34:29,666 they went to Denver, 677 00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:32,533 and they went to Newport. 678 00:34:32,566 --> 00:34:35,033 And every one, there were problems. 679 00:34:35,066 --> 00:34:37,966 They had tear gas used in Denver, 680 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,700 they had violence in Los Angeles County. 681 00:34:40,733 --> 00:34:43,633 So back in New York, they kept insisting 682 00:34:43,666 --> 00:34:47,966 that they needed to have security people for safety. 683 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,266 I told John that all the cops in the world 684 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:51,933 weren't going to prevent violence. 685 00:34:51,966 --> 00:34:55,766 It had to depend upon building the kind of expectation 686 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,433 and the feeling of this event we're gonna have 687 00:34:58,466 --> 00:35:02,200 so that people didn't want to hurt each other. 688 00:35:02,233 --> 00:35:05,766 GOLDSTEIN: We also knew that there would be a lot of drugs around 689 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,366 and there would be a lot of people 690 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,600 who couldn't handle whatever it was 691 00:35:09,633 --> 00:35:11,666 that they were going to take, 692 00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:15,333 and that that had to be dealt with as well. 693 00:35:15,366 --> 00:35:16,833 (gong rings) 694 00:35:16,866 --> 00:35:17,833 Hi, there. 695 00:35:17,866 --> 00:35:19,400 Uh, my name is Hugh Romney, 696 00:35:19,433 --> 00:35:21,166 and I'm going through a series of changes 697 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:25,500 in this fur room at the Electric Circus store. 698 00:35:25,533 --> 00:35:27,833 What is essentially on the front of my brain 699 00:35:27,866 --> 00:35:30,000 is this Hog Farm poster, 700 00:35:30,033 --> 00:35:32,366 which we're gonna be moving all around the country-- 701 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,366 "we" being a-a commune. 702 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:39,600 ROSENMAN: Stanley Goldstein suggested that we look to this... 703 00:35:39,633 --> 00:35:43,733 (laughing): This commune called the Hog Farm, 704 00:35:43,766 --> 00:35:45,366 and that we should bring 705 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,333 as many of these folks to the festival as we can, 706 00:35:48,366 --> 00:35:51,900 and have them handle our security. 707 00:35:51,933 --> 00:35:56,000 So he went and met with a fellow named Hugh Romney, 708 00:35:56,033 --> 00:35:58,466 also known as Wavy Gravy. 709 00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:00,366 WAVY GRAVY: We'd been driving around the country, 710 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:01,766 putting on these shows. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 711 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:01,766 putting on these shows. 712 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,800 We had a certain skill 713 00:36:03,833 --> 00:36:05,833 with working with large crowds. 714 00:36:05,866 --> 00:36:08,433 We were a happening. 715 00:36:08,466 --> 00:36:10,433 (guitar playing, bell clanging) 716 00:36:10,466 --> 00:36:14,166 So Stan Goldstein showed up and says, "How would you guys 717 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,433 like to do this music festival in New York state?" 718 00:36:17,466 --> 00:36:19,400 And we said, "Well, 719 00:36:19,433 --> 00:36:21,400 "it sounds like a good time, 720 00:36:21,433 --> 00:36:24,000 but we're gonna be in New Mexico." 721 00:36:24,033 --> 00:36:27,300 And he says, "That's all right, 722 00:36:27,333 --> 00:36:29,866 we'll fly you in in an Astrojet." 723 00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:35,900 And indeed, 85 of us boarded this American Airlines Astrojet 724 00:36:35,933 --> 00:36:37,866 going to Woodstock. 725 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:40,900 TOM LAW: We all arrived at the Albuquerque airport 726 00:36:40,933 --> 00:36:43,433 and loaded up a couple of sets of teepee poles 727 00:36:43,466 --> 00:36:47,866 and flew off to New York. 728 00:36:47,900 --> 00:36:52,033 WAVY GRAVY (laughing): The stewardesses locked themself in a little room, 729 00:36:52,066 --> 00:36:54,166 and we just took over the plane. 730 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,166 ("Apricot Brandy" by Rhinoceros playing) 731 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,900 We got to New York City, piled off the aircraft, 732 00:37:01,933 --> 00:37:05,200 and there was the press. 733 00:37:05,233 --> 00:37:08,533 What is the Hog Farm going to be doing in Woodstock? 734 00:37:08,566 --> 00:37:13,133 Well, the Hog Farm is a many-sided, multi... 735 00:37:13,166 --> 00:37:14,900 We're a kind of a family, 736 00:37:14,933 --> 00:37:16,433 a huge expanded family. 737 00:37:16,466 --> 00:37:18,100 And we could do any number of things, 738 00:37:18,133 --> 00:37:20,200 because each one of us is gonna do a different thing. 739 00:37:20,233 --> 00:37:22,333 But mostly we're just gonna try and be groovy, 740 00:37:22,366 --> 00:37:24,633 and spread that grooviness through everybody. 741 00:37:24,666 --> 00:37:27,100 Well, the Hog Farm has been hassled by security people, 742 00:37:27,133 --> 00:37:28,566 and they're calling you security people, 743 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,366 so how do you feel about the, you know, the name? 744 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:32,766 Well, I feel secure. 745 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,433 I don't know what "security people" means. 746 00:37:34,466 --> 00:37:36,700 I never was called a security person before. 747 00:37:36,733 --> 00:37:38,000 It's, like, you're the first person 748 00:37:38,033 --> 00:37:40,200 that's ever called me that-- how do you feel? 749 00:37:40,233 --> 00:37:41,166 (laughs) 750 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:42,633 Well, I feel.. 751 00:37:42,666 --> 00:37:43,866 Do you feel secure? 752 00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:45,166 (all laughing) 753 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:46,633 ROBERTS: There was a picture 754 00:37:46,666 --> 00:37:48,766 in the "Post" the next day. 755 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,933 My father called and said, "Nice cops you've hired." 756 00:37:51,966 --> 00:37:54,333 He thought that I was really out of my mind, 757 00:37:54,366 --> 00:37:56,566 to be involved in this thing. 758 00:37:58,633 --> 00:38:02,300 ("Sally and George Theme" by Alec Puro playing) 759 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,066 (kids shouting) 760 00:38:17,633 --> 00:38:21,366 MARION VASSMER: We're a small town, we'll never have all those people here. 761 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,366 They'll never... they'll never be here, you know. 762 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,433 I didn't believe it. 763 00:38:25,466 --> 00:38:28,366 ("Sally and George Theme" continues) 764 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,000 ARTHUR VASSMER: That's all you heard on the radio. 765 00:38:30,033 --> 00:38:33,833 "Woodstock, town of Bethel, Woodstock," you know? 766 00:38:33,866 --> 00:38:35,266 And ha-ha, we're all laughing, you know? 767 00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:36,866 And a guy come to me, he says, "Look out, 768 00:38:36,900 --> 00:38:38,333 this might be something bigger than you thought." 769 00:38:38,366 --> 00:38:40,066 I've been here all my life, you know? 770 00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:42,400 They're talking about hundreds of thousands of people, 771 00:38:42,433 --> 00:38:43,733 and so on and so forth. 772 00:38:43,766 --> 00:38:45,600 We never saw that in this town. 773 00:38:45,633 --> 00:38:48,233 ("Sally and George Theme" continues) 774 00:38:56,366 --> 00:38:58,533 DEBRA CONWAY: There was a certain backlash, 775 00:38:58,566 --> 00:39:02,066 but mostly, you know, it was kind of a daily little buzz WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 776 00:38:58,566 --> 00:39:02,066 but mostly, you know, it was kind of a daily little buzz 777 00:39:02,100 --> 00:39:04,333 from the locals. 778 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,866 LOUIS RATNER: We started to hear rumors 779 00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:10,133 that this thing was more or less out of hand 780 00:39:10,166 --> 00:39:11,433 because no one knew 781 00:39:11,466 --> 00:39:14,066 the amount of tickets that were sold. 782 00:39:14,100 --> 00:39:18,066 One time they said 25,000, and then it was, 783 00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:19,900 all of a sudden, it's 50,000, 784 00:39:19,933 --> 00:39:22,000 then they don't know, 785 00:39:22,033 --> 00:39:24,000 and it got to a point where, uh, 786 00:39:24,033 --> 00:39:26,233 you started to get a little worried about it. 787 00:39:26,266 --> 00:39:28,966 ("Sally and George Theme" ends) 788 00:39:32,166 --> 00:39:38,200 ♪ 789 00:39:46,233 --> 00:39:48,500 MORRIS: It was early August, 790 00:39:48,533 --> 00:39:50,766 and we were about a week out 791 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,533 from the beginning of the festival, 792 00:39:53,566 --> 00:39:56,666 when, all of a sudden, people started showing up. 793 00:39:56,700 --> 00:40:01,966 (people talking in background) 794 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,666 ♪ 795 00:40:03,700 --> 00:40:05,066 MIRIAM YASGUR: About a week before, 796 00:40:05,100 --> 00:40:06,966 they started showing up in small groups 797 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,433 and camping and so on, 798 00:40:08,466 --> 00:40:11,400 and the thing that Max and I were trying to figure out is, 799 00:40:11,433 --> 00:40:14,200 they hadn't gotten the fence around the field. 800 00:40:15,966 --> 00:40:18,366 And we thought, "Boy, they'd better rush and do that 801 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,100 if they want to sell tickets to this thing." 802 00:40:21,133 --> 00:40:27,533 ♪ 803 00:40:31,866 --> 00:40:33,266 ROSENMAN: In the last week, 804 00:40:33,300 --> 00:40:36,466 if you saw what was going on, you were immediately aware 805 00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:39,733 that it couldn't possibly be finished in time. 806 00:40:39,766 --> 00:40:40,866 On Monday, 807 00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:43,833 everything was in a state of preparation 808 00:40:43,866 --> 00:40:46,166 roughly on target for a festival 809 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,800 to be thrown some time in November 810 00:40:47,833 --> 00:40:51,933 and not for one that was supposed to begin in four days. 811 00:40:53,266 --> 00:40:55,266 Let's clear the road, please! 812 00:40:56,566 --> 00:40:59,066 BEREN: We showed up three days before the festival opened, 813 00:40:59,100 --> 00:41:02,800 because that's what we were supposed to do as food handlers. 814 00:41:02,833 --> 00:41:04,866 It was thrown together at the last minute, 815 00:41:04,900 --> 00:41:08,800 so we had to build our own food stands before we manned them. 816 00:41:08,833 --> 00:41:10,600 ROBERTS: We have spoken 817 00:41:10,633 --> 00:41:13,766 to a lot of different food concession people, 818 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,133 and all of them, the legitimate guys, 819 00:41:16,166 --> 00:41:18,866 went by the wayside when we lost Wallkill. 820 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:23,633 What was left was an outfit called Food for Love. 821 00:41:23,666 --> 00:41:26,566 There were three of them-- three guys. 822 00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:27,966 I think one of them 823 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,433 had some kind of food catering experience. 824 00:41:29,466 --> 00:41:32,066 I don't think the other two did. 825 00:41:33,566 --> 00:41:37,033 But we didn't have any alternative. 826 00:41:38,766 --> 00:41:40,500 ROSENMAN: I think it was Tuesday, 827 00:41:40,533 --> 00:41:42,366 the construction foreman tells us, 828 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,133 "We just don't have enough time to finish everything. 829 00:41:45,166 --> 00:41:47,433 "So which would you like to have us finish, 830 00:41:47,466 --> 00:41:51,933 "the gates and the fences, or the stage? 831 00:41:51,966 --> 00:41:55,766 We don't have enough men and material to do both." 832 00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:00,600 I remember thinking, "If we don't have gates and fences, 833 00:42:00,633 --> 00:42:03,366 "then we're not gonna collect tickets. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 834 00:42:00,633 --> 00:42:03,366 "then we're not gonna collect tickets. 835 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,433 "We'll be bankrupt. 836 00:42:06,466 --> 00:42:09,233 "And if we don't have a stage, we'll be in jail. 837 00:42:09,266 --> 00:42:12,933 (laughing): "Because there will be 100,000 kids running around 838 00:42:12,966 --> 00:42:14,566 "with nothing to do. 839 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,500 For three days." 840 00:42:16,533 --> 00:42:18,000 So that was the answer. 841 00:42:18,033 --> 00:42:20,333 The answer was, "Build the stage." 842 00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:24,833 (welding torch buzzing) 843 00:42:24,866 --> 00:42:26,633 TICIA AGRI: I'd go there in the middle of the night, 844 00:42:26,666 --> 00:42:29,466 and people were building the stage. 845 00:42:29,500 --> 00:42:31,833 It was going 24 hours. 846 00:42:32,966 --> 00:42:34,733 MONCK: There was obviously so much to do, 847 00:42:34,766 --> 00:42:38,333 and so little time in which to do it, 848 00:42:38,366 --> 00:42:41,933 we had all come to-to realize that all of our individual jobs 849 00:42:41,966 --> 00:42:44,733 were going to be left somewhat undone. 850 00:42:44,766 --> 00:42:46,400 So we all kind of banded together 851 00:42:46,433 --> 00:42:50,333 into one sort of SWAT team trying to run around and finish. 852 00:42:57,433 --> 00:42:59,533 ("You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" by the Byrds playing) 853 00:42:59,566 --> 00:43:03,233 GEORGE: I quit my job at the restaurant in Ocean City with no notice. 854 00:43:03,266 --> 00:43:04,866 (laughs) 855 00:43:04,900 --> 00:43:08,066 I just told them that I wouldn't be in anymore. 856 00:43:08,100 --> 00:43:09,566 And they said, "Why?" 857 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,433 And I said, "Well, I'm going to Woodstock." 858 00:43:11,466 --> 00:43:13,700 ("You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" continues) 859 00:43:13,733 --> 00:43:16,266 DAYE: We didn't get on the road till around noon, 860 00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:19,733 and by the time we got to within, 861 00:43:19,766 --> 00:43:23,900 I don't know, miles of Bethel, 862 00:43:23,933 --> 00:43:28,466 the traffic was just, you know, crawling. 863 00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:31,433 The folks on the-the road, the people who lived there, 864 00:43:31,466 --> 00:43:34,900 one would think that they would throw things at us. 865 00:43:34,933 --> 00:43:36,200 No! 866 00:43:36,233 --> 00:43:37,933 They just welcomed us. 867 00:43:37,966 --> 00:43:42,333 ♪ The morning came, the morning went ♪ 868 00:43:42,366 --> 00:43:46,833 KAUFMAN: Never before in my life 869 00:43:46,866 --> 00:43:52,566 did I feel so much anticipation. 870 00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:54,533 (laughing): This is going to be so cool! 871 00:43:54,566 --> 00:43:56,666 ♪ My bride's gonna come 872 00:43:56,700 --> 00:44:01,300 ♪ Oh, ho, are we gonna fly 873 00:44:01,333 --> 00:44:04,166 ♪ Down in the easy chair? 874 00:44:07,466 --> 00:44:12,766 (speaking German): 875 00:44:24,333 --> 00:44:29,233 STAROBIN: We were at a dead standstill for hours. 876 00:44:29,266 --> 00:44:31,366 People just got out and sat on their cars 877 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,166 and started talking to each other, 878 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,300 getting to know each other. 879 00:44:35,333 --> 00:44:37,966 You know, starting long conversations 880 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:41,100 about politics and about music. 881 00:44:41,133 --> 00:44:46,033 Before long, we felt like we had hundreds of best friends. 882 00:44:46,066 --> 00:44:47,733 ♪ My bride's gonna come... 883 00:44:47,766 --> 00:44:49,966 ARTHUR VASSMER: We were sitting on the back porch 884 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,133 and my God, the traffic, all of a sudden, it started. 885 00:44:53,166 --> 00:44:54,966 And I'm telling you, it never let up. 886 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:56,933 We just opened the one door. 887 00:44:56,966 --> 00:44:58,266 But you couldn't let them in. 888 00:44:58,300 --> 00:44:59,666 It was impossible. 889 00:44:59,700 --> 00:45:02,466 And we let 40 or 50 people at a time, WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 890 00:44:59,700 --> 00:45:02,466 And we let 40 or 50 people at a time, 891 00:45:02,500 --> 00:45:04,566 they'd get their groceries or whatever they needed, 892 00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:05,800 let them out the back, 893 00:45:05,833 --> 00:45:09,466 and then open up the door, let another 50 in. 894 00:45:09,500 --> 00:45:12,300 And these people, some of them walked four and five, six miles. 895 00:45:12,333 --> 00:45:14,400 "Where's the Woodstock? Where's the Woodstock?" 896 00:45:14,433 --> 00:45:16,666 ♪ All his kings supplied with sleep ♪ 897 00:45:16,700 --> 00:45:17,833 ♪ We'll climb that hill... 898 00:45:17,866 --> 00:45:20,366 REPORTER: This sight is hard to believe. 899 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,033 We're over White Lake, 900 00:45:22,066 --> 00:45:25,433 in the midst of this music festival encampment. 901 00:45:25,466 --> 00:45:27,966 We're up over the trees now, we're coming in over... 902 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,700 JOE TINKELMAN: We were on the state highway, and cars were stopping. 903 00:45:31,733 --> 00:45:35,100 And we realized that this was parking for the concert, 904 00:45:35,133 --> 00:45:37,566 so we got out of the car and started walking, 905 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,933 and we saw people setting up lawn chairs 906 00:45:40,966 --> 00:45:43,400 to watch this spectacle. 907 00:45:43,433 --> 00:45:46,600 (laughing): It looked like this whole part of New York state 908 00:45:46,633 --> 00:45:48,566 was just being turned upside down 909 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,500 by this event. 910 00:45:50,533 --> 00:45:53,566 REPORTER: The traffic is terrible. 911 00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,266 It is backed up from White Lake 912 00:45:55,300 --> 00:45:57,933 right back through on the Quickway past Monticello, 913 00:45:57,966 --> 00:46:02,866 and there's no place to park-- everything is full. 914 00:46:02,900 --> 00:46:05,366 REYNOLDS: They were announcing on the radio 915 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:09,366 that you couldn't get there, and, you know, "Don't go." 916 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,900 (laughing): They were saying, "Don't go, don't go! 917 00:46:11,933 --> 00:46:14,500 "You can't get in, it's already overcrowded, 918 00:46:14,533 --> 00:46:17,500 and they're shutting it down, and turn around and go home." 919 00:46:17,533 --> 00:46:21,600 (laughing): Nobody was turning around. 920 00:46:21,633 --> 00:46:23,500 It sort of increased our desire, 921 00:46:23,533 --> 00:46:25,233 more than anything. 922 00:46:25,266 --> 00:46:28,166 Like, "One way or another, we'll get there." 923 00:46:32,133 --> 00:46:37,366 ("Get Together" by the Youngbloods playing) 924 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:45,466 (people talking in background) 925 00:46:47,333 --> 00:46:51,833 ♪ Love is but a song to sing 926 00:46:51,866 --> 00:46:53,733 ♪ Fear's the way we die 927 00:46:53,766 --> 00:46:56,433 LINDSEY: As you walked in, it hit you. 928 00:46:56,466 --> 00:46:58,866 Suddenly, it just all came into view at once. 929 00:46:58,900 --> 00:47:01,666 ♪ You can make the mountains ring ♪ 930 00:47:01,700 --> 00:47:06,900 LINDSEY: This whole enormous bowl full of people. 931 00:47:06,933 --> 00:47:09,133 It was mind-boggling. 932 00:47:11,900 --> 00:47:15,366 ROSENMAN: Coming over the hill and feeling the energy of that crowd 933 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,033 is something I'll never forget. 934 00:47:18,066 --> 00:47:21,600 There was so much power in it. 935 00:47:21,633 --> 00:47:23,766 ♪ Come on people now 936 00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,166 ♪ Smile on your brother 937 00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,433 ♪ Everybody get together 938 00:47:27,466 --> 00:47:31,066 ♪ Try to love one another right now ♪ 939 00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:33,266 STAROBIN: It was indescribable, 940 00:47:33,300 --> 00:47:37,600 the feeling that came over me of warmth, 941 00:47:37,633 --> 00:47:41,800 and, "Oh, my God, there are this many people in the world 942 00:47:41,833 --> 00:47:43,866 that think like I think." 943 00:47:43,900 --> 00:47:46,600 (laughing): "There are all these people here!" 944 00:47:46,633 --> 00:47:51,600 I never knew there were that many people in the world. 945 00:47:51,633 --> 00:47:54,700 ("Get Together" continues) 946 00:47:54,733 --> 00:47:58,100 REYNOLDS: Once we got there, the fences were just trampled. 947 00:47:58,133 --> 00:48:02,066 We walked up that hill, and we saw, you know, WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 948 00:47:58,133 --> 00:48:02,066 We walked up that hill, and we saw, you know, 949 00:48:02,100 --> 00:48:03,166 all these people-- 950 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:07,166 our age, looked like us, dressed like us. 951 00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,766 You know, us. 952 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,500 I mean, it was just... it was... 953 00:48:12,533 --> 00:48:16,900 It was like, you know, meeting your brothers and sisters. 954 00:48:16,933 --> 00:48:20,500 It was really beautiful. 955 00:48:20,533 --> 00:48:22,900 ♪ Come on people now 956 00:48:22,933 --> 00:48:24,633 ♪ Smile on your brother 957 00:48:24,666 --> 00:48:26,700 ♪ Everybody get together 958 00:48:26,733 --> 00:48:31,300 ♪ Try to love one another right now ♪ 959 00:48:31,333 --> 00:48:33,533 ♪ Right now 960 00:48:33,566 --> 00:48:36,300 ♪ Right now 961 00:48:36,333 --> 00:48:38,366   ("Get Together" ends) 962 00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,333 MORRIS (on speaker): We'll be getting our show on in about five minutes. 963 00:48:41,366 --> 00:48:43,100 Just keep cool and relax. 964 00:48:43,133 --> 00:48:45,100 We'll be with you as soon as we can. 965 00:48:45,133 --> 00:48:47,433 Thank you. 966 00:48:47,466 --> 00:48:50,533 Do you realize that half of these people don't have tickets, 967 00:48:50,566 --> 00:48:52,033 and there are people five miles away 968 00:48:52,066 --> 00:48:53,733 sitting on a highway with tickets 969 00:48:53,766 --> 00:48:55,133 who have driven 2,000 or 3,000 miles? 970 00:48:55,166 --> 00:48:57,633 MAN: Right. Whatever has to be done to make it right, 971 00:48:57,666 --> 00:48:59,300 this is wrong. Yeah, yeah. 972 00:48:59,333 --> 00:49:03,600 ROBERTS: It was obvious we were in deep (no audio). 973 00:49:03,633 --> 00:49:05,300 After having worked that afternoon, 974 00:49:05,333 --> 00:49:08,033 trying to organize people to put the fences up, 975 00:49:08,066 --> 00:49:09,633 and actually pounding in posts myself, 976 00:49:09,666 --> 00:49:12,366 I realized it wasn't going to happen. 977 00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,766 We weren't going to be able to ring 978 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,500 about a mile of perimeter. 979 00:49:17,533 --> 00:49:20,233 MORRIS: What are you going to tell a few hundred thousand people 980 00:49:20,266 --> 00:49:21,766 who are sitting in your field 981 00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:23,366 when you're supposed to be collecting money from them? 982 00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,066 "Go back out and come back in when we get the tickets 983 00:49:25,100 --> 00:49:27,366 and we finish the fences and the rest of it"? 984 00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,466 You are now giving the world's greatest three-day freebie. 985 00:49:30,500 --> 00:49:32,200 Okay, there's only one way to do it. That's what it is. 986 00:49:32,233 --> 00:49:34,000 No, there's a way to do it. There is no way. 987 00:49:34,033 --> 00:49:35,400 MORRIS: Artie came up with, 988 00:49:35,433 --> 00:49:37,133 "Can't we get a whole bunch of girls, 989 00:49:37,166 --> 00:49:38,700 "and put them in diaphanous gowns 990 00:49:38,733 --> 00:49:40,033 "and give them collection baskets, 991 00:49:40,066 --> 00:49:41,600 and send them out into the audience?" 992 00:49:41,633 --> 00:49:47,100 It was the most ludicrous thing I had ever heard in my life. 993 00:49:47,133 --> 00:49:50,100 ROBERTS: As a business venture, it was dead. 994 00:49:50,133 --> 00:49:54,700 And I don't know why, but sort of a curious calm overcame us, 995 00:49:54,733 --> 00:49:57,366 and it seemed like the gates 996 00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:01,166 just weren't really what was important here anymore. 997 00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,066 MORRIS (on speaker): It's a free concert from now on. 998 00:50:03,100 --> 00:50:04,400 (crowd cheering) 999 00:50:04,433 --> 00:50:07,766 That doesn't mean that anything goes. 1000 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:09,066 What that means is, 1001 00:50:09,100 --> 00:50:11,500 we're gonna put the music up here for free. 1002 00:50:11,533 --> 00:50:14,733 What it means is that the people who are backing this thing, 1003 00:50:14,766 --> 00:50:16,033 who put up the money for it, 1004 00:50:16,066 --> 00:50:17,500 are gonna take a bit of a bath. 1005 00:50:17,533 --> 00:50:18,600 A big bath. 1006 00:50:18,633 --> 00:50:20,066 That's no hype. 1007 00:50:20,100 --> 00:50:22,933 That's truth-- they're gonna get hurt. 1008 00:50:22,966 --> 00:50:24,633 But what it means is that these people 1009 00:50:24,666 --> 00:50:27,400 have it in their heads 1010 00:50:27,433 --> 00:50:30,700 that your welfare is a hell of a lot more important-- 1011 00:50:30,733 --> 00:50:33,366 and the music is-- than a dollar. 1012 00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:38,300 (crowd cheering and applauding) 1013 00:50:38,333 --> 00:50:40,566 BEREN: The roar that went up from that crowd 1014 00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:41,933 was incredible. 1015 00:50:43,866 --> 00:50:46,000 Despite its roots 1016 00:50:46,033 --> 00:50:47,933 in trying to be a capitalist enterprise, 1017 00:50:47,966 --> 00:50:49,533 the concert was liberated. 1018 00:50:49,566 --> 00:50:50,933 (coins clinking, people talking in background) 1019 00:50:50,966 --> 00:50:52,166 You don't even have to bother 1020 00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:53,633 bringing your tickets or anything, 1021 00:50:53,666 --> 00:50:56,033 because they aren't going to collect them. 1022 00:50:56,066 --> 00:50:57,733 There's no way they can. 1023 00:50:57,766 --> 00:50:59,766 They got a fence that's, like, half up, 1024 00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,100 and there are people just sitting in that field. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1025 00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,100 and there are people just sitting in that field. 1026 00:51:02,133 --> 00:51:03,533 It's really beautiful. 1027 00:51:03,566 --> 00:51:05,300 MAN (on speaker): We're still waiting 1028 00:51:05,333 --> 00:51:06,700 for the arrival of group one. 1029 00:51:06,733 --> 00:51:08,733 Now, please bear with us. 1030 00:51:08,766 --> 00:51:10,266 Due to the traffic problems, 1031 00:51:10,300 --> 00:51:12,800 we're going to have to start a little later. 1032 00:51:12,833 --> 00:51:15,500 MORRIS: The bands were all in different hotels, 1033 00:51:15,533 --> 00:51:17,500 and if you tried to drive down to the site, 1034 00:51:17,533 --> 00:51:20,666 it would take you six hours to do it. 1035 00:51:20,700 --> 00:51:24,133 It became obvious that we needed helicopters. 1036 00:51:24,166 --> 00:51:26,833 But then Richie Havens showed up, 1037 00:51:26,866 --> 00:51:30,433 and it was, like, "Richie, please go on now." 1038 00:51:30,466 --> 00:51:32,966 And he said, "I'm not scheduled to go on till later." 1039 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,666 I said, "Richie, we don't have anybody else." 1040 00:51:36,700 --> 00:51:39,266 HAVENS: I actually was afraid to go on first, 1041 00:51:39,300 --> 00:51:43,333 basically because I knew the concert was late, 1042 00:51:43,366 --> 00:51:46,066 and I didn't want to get beer cans thrown at me. 1043 00:51:46,100 --> 00:51:47,800 You know, "Don't do this to me. 1044 00:51:47,833 --> 00:51:50,866 Don't put me in front of your problem like this," you know? 1045 00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:53,366 "My bass player isn't even here." 1046 00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:57,233 But I went on, you know, and it was beautiful. 1047 00:51:57,266 --> 00:52:00,900 ♪ Hey, look yonder, tell me what's that you see ♪ 1048 00:52:00,933 --> 00:52:04,966 ♪ Marching to the fields of Concord? ♪ 1049 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:09,233 ♪ Looks like Handsome Johnny with his flintlock in his hand ♪ 1050 00:52:09,266 --> 00:52:12,200 ♪ Marching to the Concord war 1051 00:52:12,233 --> 00:52:15,800 ♪ Hey, marching to the Concord war ♪ 1052 00:52:15,833 --> 00:52:19,866 BEREN: Once the festival started, we opened the food stands. 1053 00:52:19,900 --> 00:52:23,666 And a throng of people came running up the hill. 1054 00:52:23,700 --> 00:52:27,033 There were too many people, too many arms reaching out, 1055 00:52:27,066 --> 00:52:29,333 so we just started handing out hamburgers. 1056 00:52:29,366 --> 00:52:33,600 And people began to shower us with joints. 1057 00:52:33,633 --> 00:52:37,000 I had one in each pocket, one in my ear, 1058 00:52:37,033 --> 00:52:39,700 and I was smoking two at a time. 1059 00:52:39,733 --> 00:52:42,166 I got really high. 1060 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,666 (audience cheering) 1061 00:52:44,700 --> 00:52:47,266 HAVENS: I was onstage for something like two hours 1062 00:52:47,300 --> 00:52:49,500 because nobody else was there to go on. 1063 00:52:49,533 --> 00:52:52,600 (chuckles): I did about four or five encores, 1064 00:52:52,633 --> 00:52:54,400 you know, until I had nothing else to sing. 1065 00:52:54,433 --> 00:52:57,766 And then "Freedom" was created right there on the stage. 1066 00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:00,166 That's how "Freedom" was created, onstage. 1067 00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:03,633 It was the last thing I could think of to sing. 1068 00:53:03,666 --> 00:53:04,700 I made it up. 1069 00:53:04,733 --> 00:53:09,833 (playing opening to "Freedom") 1070 00:53:15,900 --> 00:53:19,733 CAROL GREEN: I remember hearing Richie Havens 1071 00:53:19,766 --> 00:53:20,966 playing "Freedom." 1072 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,766 I was way up on the hill, 1073 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,033 and I heard it, and I was transported. 1074 00:53:27,066 --> 00:53:30,800 HAVENS: ♪ Freedom, freedom 1075 00:53:30,833 --> 00:53:34,133 ♪ Freedom, freedom 1076 00:53:34,166 --> 00:53:36,166 GEORGE: It's a good word to use. 1077 00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,466 And it wasn't just the freedom of being able to smoke a joint, 1078 00:53:39,500 --> 00:53:43,300 it was the freedom of being able to be who you were. 1079 00:53:43,333 --> 00:53:46,366 Not feeling that somebody was going to judge you 1080 00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:48,066 or threaten you. 1081 00:53:48,100 --> 00:53:52,300 So, yeah, freedom on a lot of levels. 1082 00:53:52,333 --> 00:53:56,500 ("Freedom" continues, audience clapping to rhythm) 1083 00:53:57,833 --> 00:54:01,066 AGRI: I left the backstage area, and I went into the crowd, 1084 00:54:01,100 --> 00:54:03,933 and I went up, and I got in the middle of the crowd, WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1085 00:54:01,100 --> 00:54:03,933 and I went up, and I got in the middle of the crowd, 1086 00:54:03,966 --> 00:54:07,533 and that was, like, "Wow, look what we've done. 1087 00:54:07,566 --> 00:54:11,133 We actually pulled it off, and it's happening." 1088 00:54:11,166 --> 00:54:13,033 MORRIS (on speaker): What better way to start 1089 00:54:13,066 --> 00:54:15,000 than with the beautiful Richie Havens? 1090 00:54:15,033 --> 00:54:17,366 MORRIS: The audience reaction was just wonderful. 1091 00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,500 It just brought the spirit right up and you felt, 1092 00:54:20,533 --> 00:54:21,833 "Okay, this is going to work. 1093 00:54:21,866 --> 00:54:23,166 We're going to be okay." 1094 00:54:24,066 --> 00:54:25,366 And then, thank God, 1095 00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:28,166 we got the helicopter rotation working, 1096 00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:30,633 and started to get people in. 1097 00:54:30,666 --> 00:54:34,600 MAN (on speaker): We apologize for the noise of the choppity-choppity, 1098 00:54:34,633 --> 00:54:37,733 but it seems there are a few cars blocking the road, 1099 00:54:37,766 --> 00:54:40,500 so we're flying everybody in. 1100 00:54:40,533 --> 00:54:43,500 SPITZ: Once the artists started arriving, 1101 00:54:43,533 --> 00:54:46,666 the first band to go on was Sweetwater, 1102 00:54:46,700 --> 00:54:49,933 followed by the acoustic acts. 1103 00:54:49,966 --> 00:54:54,700 (Sweetwater playing "What's Wrong") 1104 00:54:59,666 --> 00:55:03,233 (strumming opening to "Joe Hill," crowd cheering) 1105 00:55:06,166 --> 00:55:12,333 ♪ I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night ♪ 1106 00:55:12,366 --> 00:55:16,333 ♪ Alive as you and me 1107 00:55:16,366 --> 00:55:18,533 BARNARD COLLIER: It was after midnight, 1108 00:55:18,566 --> 00:55:21,100 and, in fact, it was starting to rain. 1109 00:55:21,133 --> 00:55:24,533 All through the crowd, there were matches 1110 00:55:24,566 --> 00:55:27,066 and cigarette lighters and candles, 1111 00:55:27,100 --> 00:55:29,366 it looked like fireflies. 1112 00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:31,300 BAEZ: ♪ "I never died," says he 1113 00:55:31,333 --> 00:55:33,600 CHRIS MOORE: The field was illuminated. 1114 00:55:33,633 --> 00:55:37,700 Not as bright as the blue light on Joan Baez on the stage, 1115 00:55:37,733 --> 00:55:41,266 but the immediate impact was the size of that crowd. 1116 00:55:41,300 --> 00:55:43,633 ("Joe Hill" continues) 1117 00:55:43,666 --> 00:55:48,233 MOORE: There was nothing in that field but human beings. 1118 00:55:48,266 --> 00:55:51,600 (song ends, crowd cheers) 1119 00:55:51,633 --> 00:55:54,866 MORRIS: Joan Baez was just wonderful. 1120 00:55:54,900 --> 00:55:58,700 She ended that night in a drizzle. 1121 00:55:58,733 --> 00:56:02,133 I looked out in the field and saw all these people, 1122 00:56:02,166 --> 00:56:05,700 and it was, like, "Let's go to sleep." 1123 00:56:05,733 --> 00:56:07,833 MORRIS (on speaker): Maybe the best thing for everybody to do, 1124 00:56:07,866 --> 00:56:11,266 unless you have a tent or someplace specific to go to, 1125 00:56:11,300 --> 00:56:15,966 is carve yourself out a piece of territory, 1126 00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:20,000 say goodnight to your neighbor, and say thank you to yourself 1127 00:56:20,033 --> 00:56:22,733 for making this the most peaceful, most pleasant day 1128 00:56:22,766 --> 00:56:26,533 anybody's ever had with this kind of music. 1129 00:56:26,566 --> 00:56:28,233 (motorcycle engines revving) 1130 00:56:28,266 --> 00:56:29,800 ROBERTS: Joel and I got on the Hondas. 1131 00:56:29,833 --> 00:56:31,833 And we rode up to a hill 1132 00:56:31,866 --> 00:56:36,766 that was, you know, maybe a mile away from the stage. 1133 00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:38,933 And in the distance, you could see hundreds, 1134 00:56:38,966 --> 00:56:41,400 thousands of little campfires. 1135 00:56:41,433 --> 00:56:42,633 It was like an army at rest 1136 00:56:42,666 --> 00:56:46,666 before an enormous battle the next day. 1137 00:56:46,700 --> 00:56:49,366 It was really beautiful. 1138 00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,800 That moment will stay with me forever. 1139 00:56:51,833 --> 00:56:54,033 ♪ 1140 00:56:59,133 --> 00:57:01,200 (crowd cheering) 1141 00:57:01,233 --> 00:57:03,066 MORRIS (on microphone): I guess the reason we're here is music. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1142 00:57:01,233 --> 00:57:03,066 MORRIS (on microphone): I guess the reason we're here is music. 1143 00:57:03,100 --> 00:57:04,466 So let's have some music. 1144 00:57:04,500 --> 00:57:06,500 Ladies and gentlemen, Quill! 1145 00:57:06,533 --> 00:57:10,366 (playing "Waiting for You") 1146 00:57:12,500 --> 00:57:17,066 (band vocalizing) 1147 00:57:17,100 --> 00:57:18,366 LINDSEY: The first day of the festival, 1148 00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:19,966 there were a lot of people there. 1149 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,133 Maybe 250,000, 300,000 people. 1150 00:57:23,166 --> 00:57:25,466 That was the folk day. 1151 00:57:25,500 --> 00:57:28,100 The second day of the concert was the rock-'n'-roll day. 1152 00:57:28,133 --> 00:57:30,933 That's when everyone showed up. 1153 00:57:30,966 --> 00:57:33,366 They wanted to see the Who, Airplane, 1154 00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:35,666 the Dead, later that night. 1155 00:57:35,700 --> 00:57:41,200 So the crowd grew by about a hundred thousand. 1156 00:57:41,233 --> 00:57:43,033 DILLS: "Holy (no audio), this thing 1157 00:57:43,066 --> 00:57:47,333 is way beyond what we ever could've imagined." 1158 00:57:47,366 --> 00:57:49,800 We just felt like we were going to get crushed up 1159 00:57:49,833 --> 00:57:51,133 against the stage, 1160 00:57:51,166 --> 00:57:52,866 and we didn't really want that. 1161 00:57:52,900 --> 00:57:56,433 So like a lot of people, we just decided to go out exploring, 1162 00:57:56,466 --> 00:58:00,633 walking around to see what was going on. 1163 00:58:00,666 --> 00:58:02,633 BEREN: On the periphery of the crowd 1164 00:58:02,666 --> 00:58:05,766 was a two-lane highway of people, 1165 00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:09,266 and it never stopped moving for the entire festival. 1166 00:58:09,300 --> 00:58:11,333 People were going to the food stands, 1167 00:58:11,366 --> 00:58:13,133 they were coming from the bathroom. 1168 00:58:13,166 --> 00:58:16,000 They were going God knows where. 1169 00:58:17,833 --> 00:58:19,400 GEORGE: If you just started wandering, 1170 00:58:19,433 --> 00:58:21,866 you'd come across all kinds of stuff. 1171 00:58:21,900 --> 00:58:24,033 ("Buzzin' Fly" by Tim Buckley playing) 1172 00:58:24,066 --> 00:58:26,800 A lot of it was like just walking the boardwalk 1173 00:58:26,833 --> 00:58:28,066 and seeing the sights 1174 00:58:28,100 --> 00:58:30,033 and taking in the scene. 1175 00:58:30,066 --> 00:58:32,333 ("Buzzin' Fly" continues) 1176 00:58:40,633 --> 00:58:44,366 DILLS: Walking around, I remember thinking, 1177 00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,400 "Holy (no audio), there are a lot of breasts here." 1178 00:58:47,433 --> 00:58:50,433 Most of the nudity I'd seen previously 1179 00:58:50,466 --> 00:58:53,333 was in "Playboy," 1180 00:58:53,366 --> 00:58:56,633 and small bits on a hot date, 1181 00:58:56,666 --> 00:58:58,900 but, you know, really not much. 1182 00:58:58,933 --> 00:59:01,700 And there were a lot of people, girls and guys, 1183 00:59:01,733 --> 00:59:06,833 who were very, very open with their lack of clothing. 1184 00:59:06,866 --> 00:59:11,166 Especially down by the water. 1185 00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:15,800 STAROBIN: The good thing about skinny dipping is, we all went in. 1186 00:59:15,833 --> 00:59:18,800 Fat, skinny, it didn't matter. 1187 00:59:18,833 --> 00:59:21,333 Nobody looked, nobody cared. 1188 00:59:21,366 --> 00:59:26,700 It was just plain fun. 1189 00:59:26,733 --> 00:59:30,300 SCHOENBERGER (speaking German): 1190 00:59:51,266 --> 00:59:52,666 GEORGE: I was 17. 1191 00:59:52,700 --> 00:59:54,766 Normally, my jaw would be on the floor, staring, 1192 00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:57,933 but when everything, to a certain extent, 1193 00:59:57,966 --> 00:59:59,533 is beyond belief to begin with, 1194 00:59:59,566 --> 01:00:02,600 nothing surprises you. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1195 00:59:59,566 --> 01:00:02,600 nothing surprises you. 1196 01:00:02,633 --> 01:00:05,933 BUCKLEY: ♪ And sometimes, honey, in the mornin' ♪ 1197 01:00:05,966 --> 01:00:09,133 GEORGE: There was kind of a, a path in the, in the woods 1198 01:00:09,166 --> 01:00:12,166 where people had all kinds of different shops set up. 1199 01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:16,366 They were selling, you know, musical stuff, 1200 01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:19,300 things like beads and crafts that they had made. 1201 01:00:19,333 --> 01:00:24,600 Hand-tie-dyed clothing, blown-glass pipes, 1202 01:00:24,633 --> 01:00:27,100 and stuff like that. 1203 01:00:27,133 --> 01:00:31,133 Kind of head shops in the woods, that sort of thing. 1204 01:00:31,166 --> 01:00:33,933 There was one table set up where they were just selling pot. 1205 01:00:33,966 --> 01:00:35,466 (chuckles) 1206 01:00:35,500 --> 01:00:37,400 We were well supplied. 1207 01:00:37,433 --> 01:00:39,066 ("Buzzin' Fly" continues) 1208 01:00:39,100 --> 01:00:41,766 STAROBIN: Saturday was kind of a day 1209 01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,933 where, you know, we walked, like, a couple of miles, 1210 01:00:44,966 --> 01:00:47,066 checking things out. 1211 01:00:47,100 --> 01:00:48,333 There was so much happening, 1212 01:00:48,366 --> 01:00:52,300 (chuckling): that that was almost as interesting 1213 01:00:52,333 --> 01:00:54,500 as seeing the music. 1214 01:00:54,533 --> 01:00:56,533 ♪ 1215 01:00:56,566 --> 01:00:59,333 JABOOLIAN: Just to the other side, it was a wooded area. 1216 01:00:59,366 --> 01:01:02,900 Well, that's where the Hog Farm was set up. 1217 01:01:02,933 --> 01:01:05,466 This was commune life. 1218 01:01:05,500 --> 01:01:07,400 You know, I-I had heard about it, 1219 01:01:07,433 --> 01:01:10,866 but I had never seen it in action. 1220 01:01:10,900 --> 01:01:15,266 JAHANARA ROMNEY: We'd been living in a group for years by then, 1221 01:01:15,300 --> 01:01:19,133 and it was quite an amazing experiment. 1222 01:01:19,166 --> 01:01:21,966 You know, the understanding that the people around me 1223 01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:26,733 are all part of the same spirit. 1224 01:01:26,766 --> 01:01:28,766 HENRY DILTZ: There was, like, a couple hundred of them 1225 01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:31,900 with all these kids running around. 1226 01:01:31,933 --> 01:01:34,833 They had teepees and yurts, you know, 1227 01:01:34,866 --> 01:01:40,600 and all these various little, you know, dwellings. 1228 01:01:40,633 --> 01:01:45,066 DAYE: A whole bunch of them came on all these exotic buses 1229 01:01:45,100 --> 01:01:46,966 that they had painted up. 1230 01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:49,700 It was magical. 1231 01:01:49,733 --> 01:01:53,233 (music playing in distance) 1232 01:01:53,266 --> 01:01:55,866 JABOOLIAN: And the Hog Farm had built a small stage. 1233 01:01:55,900 --> 01:01:58,266 And there was music there as well. 1234 01:01:58,300 --> 01:02:01,200 I didn't realize that at first. 1235 01:02:01,233 --> 01:02:05,466 GEORGE: There was always some kind of musical jam going on over there. 1236 01:02:05,500 --> 01:02:07,533 (playing blues tune) 1237 01:02:07,566 --> 01:02:10,100 Away from the, the actual concert, 1238 01:02:10,133 --> 01:02:13,600 the Hog Farm was kind of a center of gravity 1239 01:02:13,633 --> 01:02:16,800 for the festival. 1240 01:02:16,833 --> 01:02:19,033 ROSENMAN: The Hog Farm turned out to be 1241 01:02:19,066 --> 01:02:22,100 an interesting choice for security. 1242 01:02:22,133 --> 01:02:25,966 They didn't call themselves a police force; 1243 01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:28,766 they called themselves a please force. 1244 01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:32,133 They substituted, "Hey, you, do this," 1245 01:02:32,166 --> 01:02:34,133 with, "Would you please do this?" 1246 01:02:34,166 --> 01:02:36,500 Or, "Would it be all right with you if..." and so forth. 1247 01:02:36,533 --> 01:02:39,700 Keep back, keep back now, let them through. 1248 01:02:39,733 --> 01:02:43,166 Everything's got room to flow here. 1249 01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:45,900 (plays "Que Sera Sera" on kazoo) 1250 01:02:45,933 --> 01:02:50,900 WAVY GRAVY: The please chiefs were myself and-and Tom Law. 1251 01:02:50,933 --> 01:02:52,566 We turned it into fun. 1252 01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:55,900 Oh, yes. (hums through kazoo) 1253 01:02:55,933 --> 01:02:59,100 ROBERTS: They gave a nice flavor to the festival. 1254 01:02:59,133 --> 01:03:01,366 We paid them $18,000. 1255 01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:03,000 I remember that. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1256 01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:03,000 I remember that. 1257 01:03:03,033 --> 01:03:04,900 ROSENMAN: I don't remember paying them anything. 1258 01:03:04,933 --> 01:03:06,733 I thought we just chartered the jet. 1259 01:03:06,766 --> 01:03:08,266 ROBERTS: Maybe that's what that cost. 1260 01:03:08,300 --> 01:03:10,166 Maybe that's where the 18 grand went. 1261 01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:11,933 ROSENMAN: They did it just because they wanted to be there, 1262 01:03:11,966 --> 01:03:14,000 and because they felt that they could be useful. 1263 01:03:14,033 --> 01:03:15,733 They were really nice people. 1264 01:03:15,766 --> 01:03:19,300 COUNTRY JOE MCDONALD: ♪ One, two, three, what are we fighting for? ♪ 1265 01:03:19,333 --> 01:03:21,766 ♪ Don't ask me, I don't give a damn ♪ 1266 01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:23,966 ♪ The next stop is Viet Nam 1267 01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:27,100 STAROBIN: In the afternoon, I kind of wandered back to the concert. 1268 01:03:27,133 --> 01:03:30,233 I was determined I was not going to miss 1269 01:03:30,266 --> 01:03:33,666 all these incredible people. 1270 01:03:33,700 --> 01:03:36,200 McDONALD: ♪ Now come on, mothers, throughout the land ♪ 1271 01:03:36,233 --> 01:03:38,400 ♪ Pack your boys off to Viet Nam ♪ 1272 01:03:38,433 --> 01:03:41,400 DEBRA CONWAY: My boyfriend was draft age. 1273 01:03:41,433 --> 01:03:44,933 And, you know, we had this future planned out, 1274 01:03:44,966 --> 01:03:49,700 and it certainly didn't include him coming home in a body bag. 1275 01:03:49,733 --> 01:03:52,033 And so, you know, when Country Joe McDonald got up 1276 01:03:52,066 --> 01:03:53,833 on Saturday afternoon, 1277 01:03:53,866 --> 01:03:56,133 we were right there with him. 1278 01:03:56,166 --> 01:04:00,566 ♪ And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates ♪ 1279 01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:03,366 ♪ Well, I ain't no time to wonder why ♪ 1280 01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:05,433 ♪ Whoopee, we're all goin' to die! ♪ 1281 01:04:05,466 --> 01:04:07,933 All right! (crowd cheering) 1282 01:04:09,566 --> 01:04:11,500 REYNOLDS: We were 400,000 kids on a hillside 1283 01:04:11,533 --> 01:04:14,133 who all were vehemently against the war. 1284 01:04:14,166 --> 01:04:16,633 And, you know, for me, it was like, "These are our people!" 1285 01:04:16,666 --> 01:04:17,700 (chuckles) 1286 01:04:17,733 --> 01:04:20,166 "We found our people!" 1287 01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:22,500 (cheering continues) 1288 01:04:25,033 --> 01:04:27,233 REPORTER: Are you enjoying the festival? 1289 01:04:27,266 --> 01:04:29,800 Yeah, it's out of sight-- it's beautiful. 1290 01:04:29,833 --> 01:04:33,233 Why did you come to the festival? 1291 01:04:33,266 --> 01:04:35,833 To see the best music in the world, man. 1292 01:04:35,866 --> 01:04:41,166 ("Soul Sacrifice" by Santana playing) 1293 01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:44,233 MOORE: The only bored moment I had that weekend 1294 01:04:44,266 --> 01:04:46,666 was when Santana was about to appear, 1295 01:04:46,700 --> 01:04:49,033 and I didn't know who Santana was. 1296 01:04:49,066 --> 01:04:52,866 And Santana woke me up. 1297 01:04:52,900 --> 01:04:56,800 ("Soul Sacrifice" continues) 1298 01:04:56,833 --> 01:05:00,466 JABOOLIAN: You got... you got drawn into this music. 1299 01:05:00,500 --> 01:05:03,000 The song was "Soul Sacrifice," 1300 01:05:03,033 --> 01:05:05,566 which most of us had never heard before. 1301 01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:10,700 ("Soul Sacrifice" continues, Santana plays guitar solo) 1302 01:05:15,733 --> 01:05:19,300 BEREN: Listening to it, I felt like we had gone from civilization 1303 01:05:19,333 --> 01:05:22,933 to someplace where there was no rules. 1304 01:05:22,966 --> 01:05:28,200 And some people took the freedom to extreme places. 1305 01:05:28,233 --> 01:05:30,333 ("Soul Sacrifice" continues) 1306 01:05:30,366 --> 01:05:32,966 GOLDMACHER: People were there to have a good time 1307 01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:34,733 and they were doing it. 1308 01:05:34,766 --> 01:05:36,833 Now, it meant a lot of drugs. 1309 01:05:36,866 --> 01:05:42,400 It was mostly marijuana, hashish, and LSD. 1310 01:05:42,433 --> 01:05:44,500 ("Soul Sacrifice" continues) 1311 01:05:44,533 --> 01:05:46,966 COLLIER: One girl told me that just standing still, 1312 01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:48,500 she was getting stoned. 1313 01:05:48,533 --> 01:05:53,400 And my guess was that within a thousand feet of the stage, 1314 01:05:53,433 --> 01:05:55,866 everybody was stoned. 1315 01:05:58,500 --> 01:06:00,966 ("Soul Sacrifice" fades) 1316 01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:05,066 GOLDSTEIN: There were a lot of people who took a lot of drugs WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1317 01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:05,066 GOLDSTEIN: There were a lot of people who took a lot of drugs 1318 01:06:05,100 --> 01:06:07,933 in very strenuous circumstances 1319 01:06:07,966 --> 01:06:12,033 and were incapable of dealing with that. 1320 01:06:12,066 --> 01:06:16,166 The freak-out tents were oases. 1321 01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:20,433 GOLDMACHER: Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm were taking care of bad trips. 1322 01:06:20,466 --> 01:06:25,100 Freak-out tents had been set up where people could lie down, 1323 01:06:25,133 --> 01:06:26,800 and folks from the Hog Farm were in there, you know, 1324 01:06:26,833 --> 01:06:28,866 just holding people's hands 1325 01:06:28,900 --> 01:06:32,100 and just really being able to guide them through it. 1326 01:06:33,666 --> 01:06:35,800 WAVY GRAVY: We're telling them, "You know, it's, 1327 01:06:35,833 --> 01:06:38,100 "it's going to be cool, man, it's going to wear off. 1328 01:06:38,133 --> 01:06:40,966 You took a little acid, and it's gonna wear off." 1329 01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:44,066 And then when somebody was near normal to rock 'n' roll, 1330 01:06:44,100 --> 01:06:45,300 we said, "Hold it. 1331 01:06:45,333 --> 01:06:48,533 "Now, you see that brother coming through the door? 1332 01:06:48,566 --> 01:06:50,366 "That was you three hours ago. 1333 01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,733 Now you go and help them out." 1334 01:06:52,766 --> 01:06:57,666 And that's the way the scene regenerated itself. 1335 01:06:57,700 --> 01:07:00,166 ♪ 1336 01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:03,300 SPITZ: They always knew that there were going to be medical problems, 1337 01:07:03,333 --> 01:07:07,533 and they had prepared themselves as best they could. 1338 01:07:07,566 --> 01:07:10,800 But like everything else at the festival, 1339 01:07:10,833 --> 01:07:14,566 they were woefully understaffed, 1340 01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:18,200 and an emergency situation was developing. 1341 01:07:18,233 --> 01:07:20,666 MAN (on speaker): We need a doctor or a medic, please, 1342 01:07:20,700 --> 01:07:22,533 over on this side of the stage, please, 1343 01:07:22,566 --> 01:07:24,500 at your earliest convenience. 1344 01:07:24,533 --> 01:07:28,700 GOLDMACHER: One of our people came rushing up to me and said, 1345 01:07:28,733 --> 01:07:31,200 "We're out of medical supplies." 1346 01:07:31,233 --> 01:07:34,466 And I said, "You've got to be kidding." 1347 01:07:34,500 --> 01:07:38,100 All the panoply of medical situations you could encounter 1348 01:07:38,133 --> 01:07:41,033 will happen during the course of 72 hours. 1349 01:07:41,066 --> 01:07:45,266 It's just what happens in a city of 400,000 people. 1350 01:07:45,300 --> 01:07:48,300 This is a medical disaster in the making. 1351 01:07:48,333 --> 01:07:50,966 (siren blaring) 1352 01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:54,000 GOLDSTEIN: Leaving aside for the moment 1353 01:07:54,033 --> 01:07:57,533 those people who were diabetics who needed insulin and so forth, 1354 01:07:57,566 --> 01:07:59,733 the casualties were mounting. 1355 01:07:59,766 --> 01:08:05,366 ♪ 1356 01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:07,866 MORRIS: We got a call from the governor's chief of staff 1357 01:08:07,900 --> 01:08:09,933 telling us that Rockefeller was considering 1358 01:08:09,966 --> 01:08:13,533 sending in the National Guard. 1359 01:08:13,566 --> 01:08:15,200 SPITZ: Nelson Rockefeller's office-- 1360 01:08:15,233 --> 01:08:17,100 he was the governor at the time-- 1361 01:08:17,133 --> 01:08:19,466 was in pretty constant communication 1362 01:08:19,500 --> 01:08:21,300 with the festival people, 1363 01:08:21,333 --> 01:08:23,500 and Rockefeller was always threatening 1364 01:08:23,533 --> 01:08:27,100 to send in the troops. 1365 01:08:27,133 --> 01:08:28,766 MORRIS: They said it was a danger to the community, 1366 01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:30,466 it was a danger to public health, 1367 01:08:30,500 --> 01:08:32,666 it was a danger to any damn thing they could think of. 1368 01:08:32,700 --> 01:08:34,033 They wanted to get rid of it. 1369 01:08:34,066 --> 01:08:35,400 And they were stupid enough to believe 1370 01:08:35,433 --> 01:08:37,166 they could mobilize the National Guard 1371 01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:38,433 and move these kids out. 1372 01:08:38,466 --> 01:08:40,033 And I kept saying, 1373 01:08:40,066 --> 01:08:41,833 "There's only one way to do this, 1374 01:08:41,866 --> 01:08:44,233 and that's play it through." 1375 01:08:44,266 --> 01:08:45,900 In the end, there was an assistant to the governor 1376 01:08:45,933 --> 01:08:47,633 who got it, 1377 01:08:47,666 --> 01:08:50,866 and he said, "What can we do?" 1378 01:08:53,333 --> 01:08:57,966 ERSKINE MILLER: Why are there Army helicopters flying overhead? 1379 01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:01,600 You know, it looked like what I saw on the news every night WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1380 01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:01,600 You know, it looked like what I saw on the news every night 1381 01:09:01,633 --> 01:09:06,600 in, you know, the pictures from Vietnam. 1382 01:09:06,633 --> 01:09:10,266 DILLS: Seeing that they were military helicopters 1383 01:09:10,300 --> 01:09:12,133 was very disconcerting. 1384 01:09:12,166 --> 01:09:15,100 We didn't know really why they were flying in. 1385 01:09:15,133 --> 01:09:18,033 You know, is this the start of a militarization 1386 01:09:18,066 --> 01:09:21,500 to close this thing down? 1387 01:09:21,533 --> 01:09:23,566 MORRIS: I was standing onstage, 1388 01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:26,266 and I could see these Hueys coming in. 1389 01:09:26,300 --> 01:09:29,100 There were three or four of them in a row. 1390 01:09:29,133 --> 01:09:31,766 And all I said was, "Ladies and gentlemen, 1391 01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:33,933 the United States Army." 1392 01:09:33,966 --> 01:09:36,633 MORRIS (on speaker): The United States Army has lent us some medical teams. 1393 01:09:36,666 --> 01:09:42,700 There are 45 doctors who are here without pay 1394 01:09:42,733 --> 01:09:45,400 because they dig what this is into. 1395 01:09:45,433 --> 01:09:46,566 They are with us, man. 1396 01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:48,666 They are not against us, they are with us. 1397 01:09:48,700 --> 01:09:51,366 They're here to give us all a hand and help us. 1398 01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:54,933 ♪ 1399 01:09:54,966 --> 01:09:58,133 MORRIS: That sound system was the only source of communication 1400 01:09:58,166 --> 01:09:59,433 we had with the audience. 1401 01:09:59,466 --> 01:10:00,666 MAN (on speaker): Elliot from Harvard, 1402 01:10:00,700 --> 01:10:01,700 the hitchhikers you picked up 1403 01:10:01,733 --> 01:10:03,133 need the pills from your car. 1404 01:10:03,166 --> 01:10:06,000 Please go to the information station right away. 1405 01:10:06,033 --> 01:10:07,433 MORRIS: What started happening was, 1406 01:10:07,466 --> 01:10:10,033 people would bring messages to backstage. 1407 01:10:10,066 --> 01:10:11,266 And we did as many of them as we could 1408 01:10:11,300 --> 01:10:12,500 in between performances. 1409 01:10:12,533 --> 01:10:13,966 MAN (on speaker): Sidney McGee, 1410 01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:16,133 please come immediately to backstage right. 1411 01:10:16,166 --> 01:10:18,500 I understand your wife is having a baby. 1412 01:10:18,533 --> 01:10:19,866 Congratulations. 1413 01:10:19,900 --> 01:10:21,933 Wheat Germ, 1414 01:10:21,966 --> 01:10:24,466 Holly has your bag with your medicine. 1415 01:10:24,500 --> 01:10:25,833 Please meet at the information booth 1416 01:10:25,866 --> 01:10:27,366 as soon as you can, please. 1417 01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:30,900 MORRIS: The information booth became a center. 1418 01:10:30,933 --> 01:10:32,733 And we just said to people, 1419 01:10:32,766 --> 01:10:36,566 "If you're looking for somebody, you got to go up there." 1420 01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:39,833 JABOOLIAN: Everybody would put messages on it. 1421 01:10:39,866 --> 01:10:41,300 So if you're looking for somebody, 1422 01:10:41,333 --> 01:10:42,833 or you're trying to get a ride home, 1423 01:10:42,866 --> 01:10:44,266 or, or whatever, 1424 01:10:44,300 --> 01:10:46,966 you could stick stuff up on there. 1425 01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:49,433 MAN 2 (on speaker): Larry Alexander, Cousin Al is sick. 1426 01:10:49,466 --> 01:10:51,700 Meet near the information center. 1427 01:10:51,733 --> 01:10:53,666 ROBERTS: We took a lot of phone calls 1428 01:10:53,700 --> 01:10:55,033 from worried parents, 1429 01:10:55,066 --> 01:10:57,233 wondering what was happening up there. 1430 01:10:57,266 --> 01:10:58,866 And, you know, if it was, like, "Call home," 1431 01:10:58,900 --> 01:11:00,600 we'd relay it to the stage. 1432 01:11:00,633 --> 01:11:01,966 MAN 1 (on speaker): Helen Savage, 1433 01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:03,233 please call your father 1434 01:11:03,266 --> 01:11:06,100 at the Motel Glory in Woodridge. 1435 01:11:06,133 --> 01:11:10,233 DILLS: I definitely wondered if my parents were watching 1436 01:11:10,266 --> 01:11:12,200 and what they thought. 1437 01:11:12,233 --> 01:11:15,500 Because after Friday, I'd had no contact 1438 01:11:15,533 --> 01:11:17,966 with anybody from the outside world. 1439 01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:19,466 MAN (on speaker): The "Daily News," 1440 01:11:19,500 --> 01:11:22,233 in rather large headlines, 1441 01:11:22,266 --> 01:11:25,566 "Traffic Uptight at Hippiefest." 1442 01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:26,800 GEORGE: The stage announcements 1443 01:11:26,833 --> 01:11:29,433 really became our news radio. 1444 01:11:29,466 --> 01:11:30,933 How we found out 1445 01:11:30,966 --> 01:11:33,200 what the outside world was paying attention to. 1446 01:11:33,233 --> 01:11:36,400 And they would've thought it was an utter disaster, 1447 01:11:36,433 --> 01:11:39,633 from what they were seeing in the news and stuff. 1448 01:11:39,666 --> 01:11:44,566 ♪ 1449 01:11:58,666 --> 01:12:02,100 ROSENMAN: The world expects this to explode. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1450 01:11:58,666 --> 01:12:02,100 ROSENMAN: The world expects this to explode. 1451 01:12:02,133 --> 01:12:05,333 And I remember thinking to myself, "This is perfect." 1452 01:12:05,366 --> 01:12:07,200 Because there's nothing kids like better than to disappoint 1453 01:12:07,233 --> 01:12:09,900 what the world thinks they're going to do. 1454 01:12:09,933 --> 01:12:13,600 MAN (on speaker): Ladies and gentlemen, Keef Hartley. 1455 01:12:13,633 --> 01:12:20,200 ("Spanish Fly" by Keef Hartley Band playing) 1456 01:12:23,900 --> 01:12:26,666 ("Spanish Fly" continues) 1457 01:12:26,700 --> 01:12:29,366 REYNOLDS: Late afternoon, the sun came out, and it was hot. 1458 01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:32,833 And we walked around a bit, because we got hungry. 1459 01:12:32,866 --> 01:12:36,366 And we quickly discovered there was no food. 1460 01:12:36,400 --> 01:12:39,100 All the booths were out of food. 1461 01:12:39,133 --> 01:12:41,000 There was nothing. 1462 01:12:41,033 --> 01:12:43,666 BEREN: We ran out of food. 1463 01:12:43,700 --> 01:12:47,966 Delivery trucks could not get through the traffic jams, 1464 01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:49,333 so there was no more food. 1465 01:12:49,366 --> 01:12:53,533 No soda, no burgers, no hot dogs, no nothing. 1466 01:12:53,566 --> 01:12:57,033 And then word spread very fast. 1467 01:12:57,066 --> 01:12:59,866 SPITZ: Sure, there was a sanitation crisis, 1468 01:12:59,900 --> 01:13:01,433 and there was a medical crisis, 1469 01:13:01,466 --> 01:13:03,466 but when the food started to go, 1470 01:13:03,500 --> 01:13:05,300 the producers knew that this could turn 1471 01:13:05,333 --> 01:13:08,566 into an even more immense problem. 1472 01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:12,033 But something really incredible happened. 1473 01:13:12,066 --> 01:13:14,366 The people of White Lake and Bethel 1474 01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:16,466 literally went in their pantries. 1475 01:13:16,500 --> 01:13:18,166 Anything that was in the refrigerator, 1476 01:13:18,200 --> 01:13:19,633 anything that was in the freezer, 1477 01:13:19,666 --> 01:13:21,933 anything that was in the house, 1478 01:13:21,966 --> 01:13:23,233 they contributed. 1479 01:13:23,266 --> 01:13:26,900 MAN: We got word over WVOS 1480 01:13:26,933 --> 01:13:29,033 that a lot of kids didn't have anything to eat. 1481 01:13:29,066 --> 01:13:30,733 Stuff was taken over to the school, 1482 01:13:30,766 --> 01:13:33,533 and they flew it to the, to the site. 1483 01:13:33,566 --> 01:13:36,300 I have a 19-year-old myself, 1484 01:13:36,333 --> 01:13:40,833 I felt that we got to give them a, a fair shake here. 1485 01:13:40,866 --> 01:13:44,533 Kids are hungry, you got to feed them. 1486 01:13:44,566 --> 01:13:48,766 JOHN CONWAY: Those helicopters were going over constantly. 1487 01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:51,566 And also a lot of the neighbors were involved 1488 01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:53,066 in efforts to make sandwiches 1489 01:13:53,100 --> 01:13:57,066 and get them to the, to the helicopters. 1490 01:13:57,100 --> 01:13:59,033 GORDON WINARICK: It was on the radio, "Bring whatever you can." 1491 01:13:59,066 --> 01:14:01,100 And I decided, we'll just send eggs, 1492 01:14:01,133 --> 01:14:03,166 because it's an egg area. 1493 01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:04,600 I tapped people for donations. 1494 01:14:04,633 --> 01:14:06,866 I said, "Look, give me cases of eggs." 1495 01:14:06,900 --> 01:14:10,666 So we hard-boiled hundreds of thousands of eggs. 1496 01:14:10,700 --> 01:14:12,400 LENI BINDER: We would never have said, 1497 01:14:12,433 --> 01:14:13,866 "We don't want any part of you, leave. 1498 01:14:13,900 --> 01:14:16,100 I don't care if you're hungry or starving." 1499 01:14:16,133 --> 01:14:19,733 That was not our communities. 1500 01:14:19,766 --> 01:14:21,766 Maybe we were hicks, but we did go, 1501 01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:25,000 as the Bible says, welcome the stranger. 1502 01:14:25,033 --> 01:14:26,400 They were hungry. 1503 01:14:26,433 --> 01:14:28,000 We fed them. 1504 01:14:29,300 --> 01:14:30,633 ROMNEY: Helicopters came in 1505 01:14:30,666 --> 01:14:33,466 with anything people wanted to donate. 1506 01:14:33,500 --> 01:14:35,833 Like little bags of picnic supplies 1507 01:14:35,866 --> 01:14:39,466 or green beans-- even a tiny can of olives. 1508 01:14:39,500 --> 01:14:41,366 (chuckling): You know, I just, "Yes! 1509 01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:43,066 "Bring it on! 1510 01:14:43,100 --> 01:14:48,233 We can take it and make it into food for the masses." 1511 01:14:48,266 --> 01:14:51,466 DAYE: The Hog Farm had set up this huge kitchen, 1512 01:14:51,500 --> 01:14:54,300 and they were boiling brown rice 1513 01:14:54,333 --> 01:14:55,900 and frying up vegetables, 1514 01:14:55,933 --> 01:14:58,466 and it was fabulous. 1515 01:14:58,500 --> 01:15:05,366 ♪ WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1516 01:14:58,500 --> 01:15:05,366 ♪ 1517 01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:09,100 JABOOLIAN: I found out about the Hog Farm serving food 1518 01:15:09,133 --> 01:15:11,366 from the guy that sat next to me. 1519 01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:14,066 He says, "Yeah, man, they got free food up there. 1520 01:15:14,100 --> 01:15:16,300 You just, just go up there and get in line." 1521 01:15:16,333 --> 01:15:18,300 ♪ 1522 01:15:18,333 --> 01:15:22,933 DILLS: I and one of my friends offer to help, 1523 01:15:22,966 --> 01:15:26,066 and they just put us on a pot, 1524 01:15:26,100 --> 01:15:28,766 and we, we scooped it for people. 1525 01:15:30,233 --> 01:15:32,366 It was kind of cool to feel like, "Wow, 1526 01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:35,833 "I'm helpless here, as are most of these people, 1527 01:15:35,866 --> 01:15:38,866 "but there are people who are taking care of us, 1528 01:15:38,900 --> 01:15:43,500 and in a sense, we're taking care of each other." 1529 01:15:43,533 --> 01:15:46,200 BILL WARD: People were good to one another. 1530 01:15:46,233 --> 01:15:49,166 I would see, I would see people 1531 01:15:49,200 --> 01:15:50,666 passing around a Coke or something; 1532 01:15:50,700 --> 01:15:53,000 other people were sharing their food. 1533 01:15:53,033 --> 01:15:54,633 ♪ 1534 01:15:54,666 --> 01:15:56,666 STAROBIN: Everybody around us had something, 1535 01:15:56,700 --> 01:15:59,133 and we just passed everything around. 1536 01:15:59,166 --> 01:16:00,766 It was like the loaves and the fishes, 1537 01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:02,966 it really was. 1538 01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:07,366 GEORGE: This was actually kind of a functioning city 1539 01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:09,633 out in the middle of nowhere, 1540 01:16:09,666 --> 01:16:11,633 and we realized that it was functioning 1541 01:16:11,666 --> 01:16:15,866 because of people pulling together. 1542 01:16:15,900 --> 01:16:19,933 It just had this feeling that, "This was ours. 1543 01:16:19,966 --> 01:16:21,600 "This was the new city. 1544 01:16:21,633 --> 01:16:25,200 This was the alternative city, and it worked." 1545 01:16:25,233 --> 01:16:27,966 ♪ 1546 01:16:31,466 --> 01:16:39,266 ("Woodstock Boogie" by Canned Heat playing) 1547 01:16:39,300 --> 01:16:42,100 MORRIS: Saturday afternoon, the show was good. 1548 01:16:42,133 --> 01:16:45,166 But Saturday night, we really came up to speed 1549 01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:46,966 when the sun went down. 1550 01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:50,900 ♪ Well, the little red rooster told the little brown hen ♪ 1551 01:16:50,933 --> 01:16:53,533 ♪ "Meet you at the barn about a half past ten" ♪ 1552 01:16:53,566 --> 01:16:55,733 ♪ Sing a last little boogie... ♪ 1553 01:16:55,766 --> 01:16:59,500 MORRIS: I guess we got to a point where we felt more comfortable, 1554 01:16:59,533 --> 01:17:02,466 and maybe we were proving 1555 01:17:02,500 --> 01:17:04,000 to the press and the outside world 1556 01:17:04,033 --> 01:17:05,833 that we knew what we were doing, 1557 01:17:05,866 --> 01:17:07,133 and that this was special, 1558 01:17:07,166 --> 01:17:08,833 that there was some kind of magic here. 1559 01:17:08,866 --> 01:17:11,533 And I would say that probably gave us the second wind. 1560 01:17:11,566 --> 01:17:13,166 ("Woodstock Boogie" continues) 1561 01:17:13,200 --> 01:17:15,133 GEORGE: I was sort of in a daze. 1562 01:17:15,166 --> 01:17:17,633 You'd been listening, watching music 1563 01:17:17,666 --> 01:17:19,466 starting in the afternoon 1564 01:17:19,500 --> 01:17:21,800 and going pretty much all through the night. 1565 01:17:21,833 --> 01:17:24,633 There's no way you couldn't get oversaturated 1566 01:17:24,666 --> 01:17:26,700 with the stimulus. 1567 01:17:26,733 --> 01:17:28,200 ♪ I want to take you higher 1568 01:17:28,233 --> 01:17:29,800 CROWD: ♪ Higher 1569 01:17:29,833 --> 01:17:30,966 ♪ I want to take you higher 1570 01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:32,300 GEORGE: For me, 1571 01:17:32,333 --> 01:17:35,066 the most memorable performance that night 1572 01:17:35,100 --> 01:17:36,466 was Sly and the Family Stone. 1573 01:17:36,500 --> 01:17:38,133 SLY: ♪ I want to take you higher 1574 01:17:38,166 --> 01:17:40,600 GEORGE: The music, yes, but the, the crowd 1575 01:17:40,633 --> 01:17:45,333 and just feeling this incredible electricity. 1576 01:17:45,366 --> 01:17:47,333 I mean, it was the middle of the night, 1577 01:17:47,366 --> 01:17:50,333 and everybody was up dancing. 1578 01:17:50,366 --> 01:17:53,066 It was just a pulsing hillside 1579 01:17:53,100 --> 01:17:55,966 of hundreds of thousands of people. 1580 01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:59,033 ("I Want to Take You Higher" continues) 1581 01:17:59,066 --> 01:18:00,666 ♪ I want to take you higher 1582 01:18:00,700 --> 01:18:02,233 ♪ Higher WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1583 01:18:00,700 --> 01:18:02,233 ♪ Higher 1584 01:18:02,266 --> 01:18:03,866 ♪ I want to take you higher 1585 01:18:03,900 --> 01:18:05,566 ♪ Higher 1586 01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:08,533 ("My Generation" by the Who playing) 1587 01:18:08,566 --> 01:18:10,266 DILTZ: I was in front of the stage, 1588 01:18:10,300 --> 01:18:12,433 shooting it, you know, taking pictures. 1589 01:18:12,466 --> 01:18:14,200 Roger Daltrey, up there, 1590 01:18:14,233 --> 01:18:17,866 with fringe on his cape flying around. 1591 01:18:17,900 --> 01:18:19,600 And he'd twirl that microphone around, 1592 01:18:19,633 --> 01:18:21,333 and, you know, he would just miss the floor, 1593 01:18:21,366 --> 01:18:23,066 and then it would come arcing through the air, 1594 01:18:23,100 --> 01:18:24,600 and he'd grab it just in time, 1595 01:18:24,633 --> 01:18:26,066 you know, to get into, 1596 01:18:26,100 --> 01:18:29,300 "Talkin' 'bout my generation." 1597 01:18:29,333 --> 01:18:30,933 And then there was Townshend leaping in the air, 1598 01:18:30,966 --> 01:18:33,800 and doing his splits, and landing on stage. 1599 01:18:33,833 --> 01:18:36,166 DALTREY: ♪ And don't try to dig what, what, what we all say ♪ 1600 01:18:36,200 --> 01:18:38,166 ♪ Talking 'bout my generation 1601 01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:40,600 GREEN: "Talkin' 'bout my generation," 1602 01:18:40,633 --> 01:18:43,533 and that was my generation. 1603 01:18:43,566 --> 01:18:45,033 When they sang that song, 1604 01:18:45,066 --> 01:18:47,633 they, you know, elicited this clarion call, 1605 01:18:47,666 --> 01:18:49,166 and we went, "Rock and roll!" 1606 01:18:49,200 --> 01:18:52,933 ♪ This is my generation, baby 1607 01:18:52,966 --> 01:18:54,433 ("My Generation" concludes) 1608 01:18:54,466 --> 01:18:57,333 (crowd cheers and applauds) 1609 01:18:57,366 --> 01:19:01,933 DILTZ: The Who was absolutely fantastic, 1610 01:19:01,966 --> 01:19:04,333 and they were still playing as the dawn came up. 1611 01:19:04,366 --> 01:19:08,000 ("Naked Eye" playing) 1612 01:19:16,133 --> 01:19:21,300 ("Naked Eye" fades) 1613 01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:26,533 All right, friends, you have seen the heavy groups. 1614 01:19:26,566 --> 01:19:29,733 Now you will see morning maniac music. 1615 01:19:29,766 --> 01:19:31,733 Believe me, yeah. 1616 01:19:31,766 --> 01:19:33,900 It's the new dawn. 1617 01:19:33,933 --> 01:19:35,933 ("The Other Side of Life" by Jefferson Airplane playing) 1618 01:19:35,966 --> 01:19:39,666 The regular guys and Nicky Hopkins. 1619 01:19:39,700 --> 01:19:43,800 ("The Other Side of Life" continues) 1620 01:19:43,833 --> 01:19:45,533 PAUL KANTNER: I could barely remember our performance, 1621 01:19:45,566 --> 01:19:47,966 because it was 6:30 in the morning. 1622 01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:51,033 We just went out and played as best we could. 1623 01:19:51,066 --> 01:19:53,333 We were pretty burned, though, by the time we got onstage. 1624 01:19:53,366 --> 01:19:54,833 Good morning, people! 1625 01:19:54,866 --> 01:19:57,400 KANTNER: And we could see there was a lot of people just asleep. 1626 01:19:57,433 --> 01:20:00,166 And the fires were starting to go out, 1627 01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:02,766 and people were crashing. 1628 01:20:05,100 --> 01:20:07,333 LAWRENCE: I was walking around, and everybody was sleeping. 1629 01:20:07,366 --> 01:20:12,933 I mean, people were horizontal all over the place, you know? 1630 01:20:12,966 --> 01:20:14,966 It looked like after a big party. 1631 01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:17,366 ("Sunday Morning" by the Velvet Underground playing) 1632 01:20:17,400 --> 01:20:22,033 ♪ Sunday morning 1633 01:20:22,066 --> 01:20:26,633 ♪ Brings the dawn in 1634 01:20:26,666 --> 01:20:31,066 ♪ It's just a restless feeling 1635 01:20:31,100 --> 01:20:36,166 ♪ By my side 1636 01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:41,700 ♪ Watch out, the world's behind you ♪ 1637 01:20:41,733 --> 01:20:43,166 WAVY GRAVY (on speaker): Good morning. 1638 01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:46,000 What we have in mind is breakfast in bed 1639 01:20:46,033 --> 01:20:49,733 for 400,000. 1640 01:20:49,766 --> 01:20:54,066 Now, it's not going to be steak and eggs or anything, 1641 01:20:54,100 --> 01:20:57,633 but it's gonna be good food, and we're gonna get it to you. 1642 01:20:57,666 --> 01:20:59,900 We're all feeding each other. 1643 01:20:59,933 --> 01:21:02,200 (crowd cheering) WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1644 01:20:59,933 --> 01:21:02,200 (crowd cheering) 1645 01:21:02,233 --> 01:21:06,133 We must be in heaven, man! 1646 01:21:06,166 --> 01:21:08,066 ROMNEY: What we served was plain raw oats 1647 01:21:08,100 --> 01:21:10,866 with honey and powdered milk mixed up, 1648 01:21:10,900 --> 01:21:13,133 'cause it wasn't any time to toast oats. 1649 01:21:13,166 --> 01:21:14,866 (chuckling): And, you know, it was just, 1650 01:21:14,900 --> 01:21:18,400 we threw nuts and seeds and raisins in it. 1651 01:21:18,433 --> 01:21:21,233 And I think we had ten serving stations, 1652 01:21:21,266 --> 01:21:24,033 and the lines of people in front of each of the serving stations 1653 01:21:24,066 --> 01:21:26,000 were as long as you could see. 1654 01:21:26,033 --> 01:21:29,166 ("Sunday Morning" continues) 1655 01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:31,900 The Yasgurs supplied us with milk and yogurt. 1656 01:21:31,933 --> 01:21:35,333 And it was just like a gift from an angel. 1657 01:21:35,366 --> 01:21:38,700 ♪ Sunday morning 1658 01:21:38,733 --> 01:21:41,666 ♪ Sunday morning 1659 01:21:41,700 --> 01:21:43,800   ("Sunday Morning" fades) 1660 01:21:43,833 --> 01:21:46,900 MORRIS (on speaker): We have a gentleman with us. 1661 01:21:46,933 --> 01:21:48,733 It's the gentleman upon whose farm we are, 1662 01:21:48,766 --> 01:21:50,366 Mr. Max Yasgur. 1663 01:21:50,400 --> 01:21:53,500 (crowd cheers and applauds) 1664 01:21:53,533 --> 01:21:57,400 MORRIS: In the early afternoon, Max came down to the stage, 1665 01:21:57,433 --> 01:21:58,866 and he said, "I'd like to speak to the crowd." 1666 01:21:58,900 --> 01:22:00,433 And I said, 1667 01:22:00,466 --> 01:22:04,000 "I think the crowd would very much like to meet you." 1668 01:22:04,033 --> 01:22:05,833 MAX YASGUR: Is this on? 1669 01:22:12,300 --> 01:22:14,966 I'm a farmer, I don't know... 1670 01:22:15,000 --> 01:22:19,666 (crowd cheering and applauding) 1671 01:22:19,700 --> 01:22:23,366 I don't know how to speak to 20 people at one time, 1672 01:22:23,400 --> 01:22:25,766 let alone a crowd like this. 1673 01:22:27,766 --> 01:22:32,633 But I think you people have proven something to the world. 1674 01:22:32,666 --> 01:22:34,733 Not only to town of Bethel, 1675 01:22:34,766 --> 01:22:36,566 or Sullivan County, or New York state, 1676 01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:38,966 you've proven something to the world. 1677 01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:43,366 The important thing that you've proven to the world 1678 01:22:43,400 --> 01:22:46,566 is that a half a million kids-- and I call you kids, 1679 01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:49,500 because I have children that are older than you are-- 1680 01:22:49,533 --> 01:22:52,700 a half a million young people can get together 1681 01:22:52,733 --> 01:22:56,000 and have three days of fun and music, 1682 01:22:56,033 --> 01:22:58,433 and have nothing but fun and music. 1683 01:22:58,466 --> 01:23:00,566 And I God bless you for it. 1684 01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:02,133 (crowd cheering and applauding) 1685 01:23:03,966 --> 01:23:05,933 DILLS: It was an affirmation, you know, 1686 01:23:05,966 --> 01:23:07,900 that instead of being angry, 1687 01:23:07,933 --> 01:23:11,400 that he was that positive about us. 1688 01:23:11,433 --> 01:23:15,333 And I'm sure that his fields were just destroyed. 1689 01:23:15,366 --> 01:23:19,000 But if a conservative upstate New York farmer 1690 01:23:19,033 --> 01:23:20,933 could feel that way, 1691 01:23:20,966 --> 01:23:22,800 well, that was pretty cool. 1692 01:23:22,833 --> 01:23:27,533 In that moment, I realized, being in the middle of it, 1693 01:23:27,566 --> 01:23:29,800 that not only was Woodstock bigger 1694 01:23:29,833 --> 01:23:31,833 than we ever could have imagined, 1695 01:23:31,866 --> 01:23:36,633 but it was symbolically even bigger. 1696 01:23:39,133 --> 01:23:41,866 (crowd cheering, clapping rhythmically) 1697 01:23:41,900 --> 01:23:44,633 MAN (on speaker): Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Joe Cocker. 1698 01:23:44,666 --> 01:23:46,100 Let's go for Sunday! 1699 01:23:46,133 --> 01:23:48,000 Yes, yes, well, good afternoon. 1700 01:23:48,033 --> 01:23:52,800 And this title just about puts this all into focus. 1701 01:23:52,833 --> 01:23:55,433 It's called "With a Little Help From My Friends." 1702 01:23:55,466 --> 01:23:58,433 ("With a Little Help From My Friends" playing) 1703 01:23:58,466 --> 01:24:05,033 ♪ What would you do if I sang out of tune ♪ WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1704 01:23:58,466 --> 01:24:05,033 ♪ What would you do if I sang out of tune ♪ 1705 01:24:05,066 --> 01:24:10,933 ♪ Would you stand up and walk out on me ♪ 1706 01:24:10,966 --> 01:24:16,133 ♪ Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song ♪ 1707 01:24:18,300 --> 01:24:22,200 ♪ I will try not to sing out of key ♪ 1708 01:24:22,233 --> 01:24:25,266 ♪ Oh, baby, I get by 1709 01:24:25,300 --> 01:24:29,933 ELIARD (speaking French): 1710 01:24:42,266 --> 01:24:45,733 DILLS: I really liked what Joe Cocker was singing about, 1711 01:24:45,766 --> 01:24:50,233 because in one sense, I had 450,000 friends. 1712 01:24:50,266 --> 01:24:55,500 ("With a Little Help From My Friends" continues) 1713 01:24:57,666 --> 01:24:59,700 COCKER: When we got into "Little Help," 1714 01:24:59,733 --> 01:25:03,900 I just felt that we'd really caught a massive consciousness 1715 01:25:03,933 --> 01:25:06,133 in the crowd. 1716 01:25:06,166 --> 01:25:07,933 It was a powerful feeling. 1717 01:25:07,966 --> 01:25:09,333 (crowd cheering and applauding) 1718 01:25:09,366 --> 01:25:12,533 MAN (on speaker): That's Joe Cocker! 1719 01:25:12,566 --> 01:25:17,033 COCKER: And then somebody yelled at me, "Joe, look over your shoulder." 1720 01:25:18,766 --> 01:25:20,733 MORRIS: It was hot as could be. 1721 01:25:20,766 --> 01:25:24,166 And you look up in the sky behind the audience, 1722 01:25:24,200 --> 01:25:26,400 and you can see these black clouds 1723 01:25:26,433 --> 01:25:28,300 like Armageddon coming at you. 1724 01:25:28,333 --> 01:25:29,766 It looks like we're going to get a bit of rain, 1725 01:25:29,800 --> 01:25:32,566 so you better cover up. 1726 01:25:32,600 --> 01:25:36,300 All of you up in the towers, please come down. 1727 01:25:36,333 --> 01:25:38,033 You're making it very, very dangerous. 1728 01:25:38,066 --> 01:25:40,033 COLLIER: Hanging on these big light stands 1729 01:25:40,066 --> 01:25:41,800 were a bunch of kids who had used them 1730 01:25:41,833 --> 01:25:43,700 to get a better perch to watch the show from. 1731 01:25:43,733 --> 01:25:48,933 People screamed, "Come down, get down from there!" 1732 01:25:48,966 --> 01:25:51,700 MORRIS (on speaker): All right, everybody, just sit down, wrap yourself up. 1733 01:25:51,733 --> 01:25:55,133 We're gonna have to ride it out. 1734 01:25:55,166 --> 01:25:59,600 Jody, get off the stage. 1735 01:25:59,633 --> 01:26:01,700 Get off the stage. 1736 01:26:01,733 --> 01:26:04,200 (wind gusting) 1737 01:26:04,233 --> 01:26:08,600 MORRIS: I mean, all hell started breaking loose. 1738 01:26:08,633 --> 01:26:10,700 And then, Barry Melton of Country Joe and the Fish 1739 01:26:10,733 --> 01:26:12,333 grabbed a mic. 1740 01:26:12,366 --> 01:26:15,166 No rain, no rain, no rain! 1741 01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:20,633 MELTON AND CROWD: No rain, no rain, no rain, no rain! 1742 01:26:20,666 --> 01:26:27,666 No rain, no rain, no rain, no rain, no rain! 1743 01:26:27,700 --> 01:26:29,266 (thunder rumbles) 1744 01:26:29,300 --> 01:26:30,900 LAW: And then it hit. 1745 01:26:30,933 --> 01:26:35,400 It hit like a major, you know, country storm. 1746 01:26:35,433 --> 01:26:38,866 It was not a tornado, but it had that kind of feel to it. 1747 01:26:38,900 --> 01:26:40,266 (thunder rumbling) 1748 01:26:40,300 --> 01:26:42,366 Everyone scrambled to cover equipment. 1749 01:26:42,400 --> 01:26:47,033 I mean, there was a billion volts of equipment. 1750 01:26:47,066 --> 01:26:49,033 You wouldn't believe the amount of electrical energy 1751 01:26:49,066 --> 01:26:52,000 on the stage and in those towers. 1752 01:26:52,033 --> 01:26:54,866 ROSENMAN: During the storm, I learned 1753 01:26:54,900 --> 01:26:58,800 that 50,000-volt cables had become unearthed. 1754 01:26:58,833 --> 01:27:02,633 Then we could have a mass electrocution. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1755 01:26:58,833 --> 01:27:02,633 Then we could have a mass electrocution. 1756 01:27:02,666 --> 01:27:05,200 Fortunately, that didn't happen. 1757 01:27:05,233 --> 01:27:09,866 (rain pattering, thunder rumbling) 1758 01:27:09,900 --> 01:27:13,966 VIC WELLS: There were a lot of people who had plastic and blankets. 1759 01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:15,733 Of course, the blankets got soaked. 1760 01:27:15,766 --> 01:27:18,400 You know, you either just covered up, 1761 01:27:18,433 --> 01:27:23,500 or you just held your head up and enjoyed it. 1762 01:27:23,533 --> 01:27:26,966 ♪ 1763 01:27:34,766 --> 01:27:37,833 STAROBIN: The outside world thought it was a disaster area. 1764 01:27:37,866 --> 01:27:41,266 Well, that's not what we thought. 1765 01:27:41,300 --> 01:27:45,866 And so people started playing in the mud like children. 1766 01:27:45,900 --> 01:27:48,733 It was like they were six years old, 1767 01:27:48,766 --> 01:27:52,933 going down a waterslide in their front yard. 1768 01:27:52,966 --> 01:27:57,800 ♪ 1769 01:28:06,966 --> 01:28:10,866 JAMES SALZER: After the rain, the crowd really thinned out. 1770 01:28:10,900 --> 01:28:16,566 I guess a lot of people just wanted to get back home. 1771 01:28:16,600 --> 01:28:18,600 ♪ 1772 01:28:18,633 --> 01:28:20,966 DEBRA CONWAY: I had to go to work the next day. 1773 01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:23,200 So, you know, like a lot of people, 1774 01:28:23,233 --> 01:28:25,466 we hiked back to where the car was 1775 01:28:25,500 --> 01:28:28,033 and went home. 1776 01:28:30,666 --> 01:28:33,466 SPITZ: For everybody at the festival, 1777 01:28:33,500 --> 01:28:36,966 battling the elements was a constant struggle. 1778 01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:40,066 They were plagued by weather from the get-go. 1779 01:28:40,100 --> 01:28:43,833 Then after the Sunday storm, the site was a mess. 1780 01:28:43,866 --> 01:28:46,433 But the festival went on. 1781 01:28:46,466 --> 01:28:47,733 (Country Joe and the Fish playing "Rock and Soul Music") 1782 01:28:47,766 --> 01:28:49,100 Marijuana! 1783 01:28:49,133 --> 01:28:51,633 SPITZ: Country Joe and the Fish was first up. 1784 01:28:51,666 --> 01:28:55,533 ("Rock and Soul Music" continues and fades) 1785 01:28:57,833 --> 01:29:00,800 There were a lot of great performances that night. 1786 01:29:00,833 --> 01:29:03,400 But I think the one that really stood out for most people 1787 01:29:03,433 --> 01:29:05,266 was Crosby, Stills, and Nash, 1788 01:29:05,300 --> 01:29:07,366 because it was their first time 1789 01:29:07,400 --> 01:29:08,800 they had ever performed together. 1790 01:29:08,833 --> 01:29:10,366 MAN (on speaker): ...Stills, and Nash. 1791 01:29:10,400 --> 01:29:11,933 (playing "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes") 1792 01:29:11,966 --> 01:29:14,366 CROSBY: I remember being terrified. 1793 01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:17,400 Nobody had seen us get up and sing harmony together. 1794 01:29:17,433 --> 01:29:19,133 Nobody had seen it, this was it. 1795 01:29:19,166 --> 01:29:21,666 This was the first time. 1796 01:29:21,700 --> 01:29:24,566 ♪ It's getting to the point 1797 01:29:24,600 --> 01:29:29,333 ♪ Where I'm no fun anymore 1798 01:29:29,366 --> 01:29:35,933 DAYE: There were moments where the music was so mesmerizing, 1799 01:29:35,966 --> 01:29:38,666 so internalized, 1800 01:29:38,700 --> 01:29:43,100 that I became the music I was listening to. 1801 01:29:43,133 --> 01:29:45,333 I remember sitting in the mud 1802 01:29:45,366 --> 01:29:47,600 listening to Crosby, Stills, and Nash, 1803 01:29:47,633 --> 01:29:50,366 looking at the sheer beauty of the night sky, 1804 01:29:50,400 --> 01:29:54,966 wrapped in a blanket of music. 1805 01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:58,666 It was the feeling of oneness with it all. 1806 01:29:58,700 --> 01:30:01,100 ("Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" ends) WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1807 01:30:02,733 --> 01:30:09,366 ("Star-Spangled Banner" by Jimi Hendrix playing) 1808 01:30:16,366 --> 01:30:18,966 WAVY GRAVY: The last morning of the festival, 1809 01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:22,566 I'm wandering through people rising up out of the mud. 1810 01:30:22,600 --> 01:30:25,633 And this amazing music, suddenly... 1811 01:30:25,666 --> 01:30:27,833   (makes explosion sound) 1812 01:30:27,866 --> 01:30:30,933 It was Jimi Hendrix just filling my ears 1813 01:30:30,966 --> 01:30:35,133 with the wonder of the national anthem. 1814 01:30:35,166 --> 01:30:42,333 ("Star-Spangled Banner" continues) 1815 01:30:42,366 --> 01:30:44,700 (playing improvisational riff) 1816 01:30:44,733 --> 01:30:49,466 COLLIER: I was backstage writing up some notes, 1817 01:30:49,500 --> 01:30:54,966 when suddenly, into my head stabbed this sound. 1818 01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:58,100 (continuing riff) 1819 01:30:58,133 --> 01:31:02,600 It sounded exactly like rockets, missiles, 1820 01:31:02,633 --> 01:31:04,366 and bombs bursting in air. 1821 01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:06,533 (Hendrix continuing riff) 1822 01:31:06,566 --> 01:31:10,866 I'd never heard anything like that in my life. 1823 01:31:10,900 --> 01:31:16,633 (Hendrix resumes melody of "The Star-Spangled Banner") 1824 01:31:16,666 --> 01:31:19,066 LAW: We're at the most peaceful gathering 1825 01:31:19,100 --> 01:31:22,000 that was probably happening on the planet at the time. 1826 01:31:22,033 --> 01:31:25,200 And he hooked us up with Vietnam. 1827 01:31:25,233 --> 01:31:30,100 It was the devastation and the brutality and the insanity. 1828 01:31:30,133 --> 01:31:33,933 (riff continuing) 1829 01:31:33,966 --> 01:31:36,400 That was a quintessential piece of art. 1830 01:31:36,433 --> 01:31:39,966 (playing pedal effects and whammy bar) 1831 01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:44,100 ("Star-Spangled Banner" melody resumes) 1832 01:31:50,500 --> 01:31:53,166 (holding chord, chord feeding back) 1833 01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:55,766 GREEN: There was an essence that is indescribable. 1834 01:31:55,800 --> 01:31:57,766 You can feel it in your body, 1835 01:31:57,800 --> 01:32:00,433 you can feel it right here in your heart, 1836 01:32:00,466 --> 01:32:02,533 when you know that this is life. 1837 01:32:02,566 --> 01:32:05,566 This is the essence of life. 1838 01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:09,133 He had it, and he gave it to us. 1839 01:32:09,166 --> 01:32:11,900 (modulating tone with whammy bar) 1840 01:32:11,933 --> 01:32:19,166 (playing pedal effects) 1841 01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:20,766 (song pausing) 1842 01:32:20,800 --> 01:32:22,800 (concluding "Star-Spangled Banner") 1843 01:32:22,833 --> 01:32:25,000 DILTZ: Everybody was so still. 1844 01:32:25,033 --> 01:32:29,666 Most of the crowd had left. 1845 01:32:29,700 --> 01:32:31,033 I was onstage. 1846 01:32:31,066 --> 01:32:33,166 I was shooting right next to him. 1847 01:32:33,200 --> 01:32:35,866 Just, God, it was just a moment, you know, 1848 01:32:35,900 --> 01:32:37,633 that was just wonderful. 1849 01:32:37,666 --> 01:32:39,166 It's his guitar ringing out. 1850 01:32:39,200 --> 01:32:44,833 (Hendrix playing riff, pedal effects) 1851 01:32:44,866 --> 01:32:47,466 And then suddenly, it was all over. 1852 01:32:47,500 --> 01:32:50,166 ("Star-Spangled Banner" fades) 1853 01:32:56,300 --> 01:33:01,333 MORRIS: The site looked like Civil War pictures of battlefields. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1854 01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:07,266 I was terrified I might find somebody dead. 1855 01:33:07,300 --> 01:33:11,233 And so I walked all of the site. 1856 01:33:11,266 --> 01:33:15,233 And it stank, it really stank. 1857 01:33:15,266 --> 01:33:18,233 There were just a few people wandering around. 1858 01:33:18,266 --> 01:33:19,700 Nobody injured, nobody dead. 1859 01:33:19,733 --> 01:33:22,400 A great relief. 1860 01:33:22,433 --> 01:33:26,133 And then we started the cleanup. 1861 01:33:26,166 --> 01:33:28,700 DILTZ: What was left behind was this incredible sea 1862 01:33:28,733 --> 01:33:33,266 of soggy, wet sleeping bags and cardboard boxes 1863 01:33:33,300 --> 01:33:34,633 and tents that were all, you know, 1864 01:33:34,666 --> 01:33:36,466 knocked down and trampled on. 1865 01:33:36,500 --> 01:33:40,766 All this flotsam and jetsam. 1866 01:33:40,800 --> 01:33:42,066 ("Highway Anxiety" by William Taylor playing) 1867 01:33:42,100 --> 01:33:43,800 GEORGE: We stayed for a while, 1868 01:33:43,833 --> 01:33:46,066 helping clean up trash. 1869 01:33:46,100 --> 01:33:52,066 There were a lot of people out there helping clean up. 1870 01:33:52,100 --> 01:33:54,900 ("Highway Anxiety" continues) 1871 01:33:54,933 --> 01:33:58,600 STAROBIN: We so did not want to leave. 1872 01:33:58,633 --> 01:34:02,133 We kind of sensed that, you know, 1873 01:34:02,166 --> 01:34:04,900 we could change the world for three days, 1874 01:34:04,933 --> 01:34:07,600 but the rest of the world wasn't with us, 1875 01:34:07,633 --> 01:34:11,466 and we knew that it was going to be a real culture shock 1876 01:34:11,500 --> 01:34:14,300 coming back into society. 1877 01:34:14,333 --> 01:34:20,200 REPORTER: More than 350,000 people came looking for peace and music. 1878 01:34:20,233 --> 01:34:23,366 Many said they learned a lot about themselves 1879 01:34:23,400 --> 01:34:26,233 and learned a lot about getting along together 1880 01:34:26,266 --> 01:34:27,933 and priorities. 1881 01:34:27,966 --> 01:34:31,666 And for most, that alone makes it all worthwhile. 1882 01:34:31,700 --> 01:34:34,200 ("Highway Anxiety" continues) 1883 01:34:34,233 --> 01:34:39,400 WAVY GRAVY: We realized that we were part of this amazing event 1884 01:34:39,433 --> 01:34:43,600 that nothing like it ever was before. 1885 01:34:43,633 --> 01:34:48,500 LAW: The festival became a symbol of intelligence and humanity 1886 01:34:48,533 --> 01:34:53,700 and cooperation and love and affection. 1887 01:34:53,733 --> 01:34:57,966 It was the start of a phenomenal change 1888 01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:01,600 in a lot of people's lives. 1889 01:35:01,633 --> 01:35:04,966 MAX YASGUR: When I realized, Friday night and Saturday morning, 1890 01:35:05,000 --> 01:35:09,000 that we were getting up close to the half-a-million mark, 1891 01:35:09,033 --> 01:35:12,400 and there was a sea of people here, 1892 01:35:12,433 --> 01:35:14,766 I became quite apprehensive. 1893 01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:16,300 Uh... 1894 01:35:16,333 --> 01:35:19,066 Thoughts flashed through my mind 1895 01:35:19,100 --> 01:35:23,233 of some other problems that they have had throughout the country. 1896 01:35:23,266 --> 01:35:25,166 And these kids, 1897 01:35:25,200 --> 01:35:28,600 these young people made me feel guilty today, 1898 01:35:28,633 --> 01:35:30,200 because there were no problems. 1899 01:35:30,233 --> 01:35:34,366 They proved to me, and they proved to the whole world, 1900 01:35:34,400 --> 01:35:35,800 that they didn't come up for any problems. 1901 01:35:35,833 --> 01:35:37,366 They came up 1902 01:35:37,400 --> 01:35:38,766 for exactly what they said they were coming up for, 1903 01:35:38,800 --> 01:35:41,800 for three days of music and peace. 1904 01:35:41,833 --> 01:35:48,100 DAYE: It was a mark in cosmic time. 1905 01:35:48,133 --> 01:35:50,966 I have no doubt about that. 1906 01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:53,366 I'm not saying it never happened before 1907 01:35:53,400 --> 01:35:55,833 or that it couldn't happen in the future. 1908 01:35:55,866 --> 01:36:01,366 But that, that stopped the clocks for three days. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=MPEGTS:187507, LOCAL:00:00:00.000 1909 01:36:04,300 --> 01:36:08,566 SCHOENBERGER (speaking German): 1910 01:36:22,366 --> 01:36:26,500 GEORGE: I felt like I had finally gotten to fully experience 1911 01:36:26,533 --> 01:36:30,133 what I was hoping the counterculture meant. 1912 01:36:32,333 --> 01:36:34,633 Woodstock was a very powerful confirmation 1913 01:36:34,666 --> 01:36:37,433 that, "Yeah, this is what you're looking for, 1914 01:36:37,466 --> 01:36:41,633 and that you're headed in the right direction." 1915 01:36:41,666 --> 01:36:44,700 ("Highway Anxiety" continues) 1916 01:36:44,733 --> 01:36:46,800 STAROBIN: Everyone looking after one another, 1917 01:36:46,833 --> 01:36:49,500 everybody caring about one another. 1918 01:36:49,533 --> 01:36:52,800 I mean, once I experienced that, 1919 01:36:52,833 --> 01:36:57,033 I made it the basis for the whole rest of my life. 1920 01:36:57,066 --> 01:37:00,933 ("Highway Anxiety" continues) 1921 01:37:00,966 --> 01:37:03,633 ELIARD (speaking French): 1922 01:37:16,433 --> 01:37:19,633 ROSENMAN: At Woodstock, we tried to let the audience know, 1923 01:37:19,666 --> 01:37:22,100 in every way that we could, 1924 01:37:22,133 --> 01:37:24,833 that we believed in them. 1925 01:37:24,866 --> 01:37:28,800 That inside them was a loving nature, 1926 01:37:28,833 --> 01:37:34,200 a decency, and a fineness of spirit. 1927 01:37:34,233 --> 01:37:35,566 You can forget it sometimes, 1928 01:37:35,600 --> 01:37:41,166 but very few of us want to be other than that. 1929 01:37:41,200 --> 01:37:42,300 You just need the opportunity. 1930 01:37:42,333 --> 01:37:47,966 (cheering and applauding) 1931 01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:50,433 ("Highway Anxiety" continues) 1932 01:37:50,466 --> 01:38:00,566 (song ends) 1933 01:38:02,333 --> 01:38:06,333 ♪ 1934 01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:18,033 ♪ 1935 01:38:23,666 --> 01:38:25,300 ANNOUNCER: "American Experience: 1936 01:38:25,333 --> 01:38:28,300 "Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation" 1937 01:38:28,333 --> 01:38:30,033 is available on DVD. 1938 01:38:30,066 --> 01:38:34,600 To order, visit ShopPBS or call 1-800-PLAY-PBS. 1939 01:38:34,633 --> 01:38:36,766 "American Experience" is also available 1940 01:38:36,800 --> 01:38:39,533 on Amazon Prime Video. 1941 01:38:39,566 --> 01:38:43,766 ♪ 1942 01:38:53,433 --> 01:38:55,466 ♪