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The majority of the Houston homicide department were personal friends of ours and as a result I had information and details that were not reported in the news, and still haven't been to this day - none of which I wish to speak about even now.
Just days after the horrific murders, four hundred thousand 60's hippies all gathered together for Woodstock in Bethel, NY - a bacchanal of sex, drugs, and rock and roll in a mud soaked field.
Closing out the 60's, and hoping to recreate Woodstock, hundreds of thousands gathered together at Altamont Speedway in Northern CA where a man was stabbed to death, and many others died from drug related causes.
Those of us who lived through the 60's either embraced the whole free-love thinking or accepted parts of it, but eschewed the sloppy living of the average "hippie."
I was one who embraced only parts, mainly because I look awful with straight hair parted in the middle and I was in no way going to go around without makeup or roll around in mud. Not happening!
Fast forward 48 years to the constant accusations of sexual assault in the news. It doesn't take a genius to do a bit of math and come to the conclusion that we're witnessing the outcome of the "peace, love, and freedom" movement of the sixties. Flower power, indeed.
The offspring of the sixties and their children are reaping the rewards of kicking God and morality to the curb. The sixties spawned the original "me first" and "if it feels good, do it" generation and now their children are aghast when terrible sexual crimes are committed.
If only the death of Charlie Manson could also be the final death knell of a horrible decade.
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