Woodstock Music and Art Fair
Date taken: 15th August, 1969
Location: White Lake, New York, USASource: Mark Goff
Historical Context
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair ran from the 15-18th August 1969 and was attended by 400,000 people.
It is regarded as an iconic moment in music history and the event that best encapsulates the counterculture generation of the 1960s.
Historical Events
- 1969-08-15 Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in New York State on Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm
- 1969-08-16 Second day of the Woodstock rock festival in NY
- 1969-08-18 Woodstock Music & Art Fair closes with Jimi Hendrix / Band of Gypsys as the final act
- 1970-01-07 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
The Woodstock festival took place in 1969. this was a very memorable age when the tiny lines between "straight" society and the so-called counter-culture were at their deepest, over Vietnam, civil rights, feminism and drug use among other revolution in values.
However the question remains:
Where did the peace and love go?
Well, in order to answer to this question, first we have to analyze how the hippy movement was developed and who was behind it.
have you ever heard about The Laurel Canyon as being part of a huge undercover operation run by The Military-Industrial Complex the goal of which was to infiltrate, and subsequently neutralize the “hippie movement”? Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory, right? The CIA, MK-ULTRA, and murder.Well, Laurel Canyon, in California sets the scene for one of the greatest and not so known conspiracy theories of recent times.
Regardless of this conspiracy we always have to make this question: "Cui Bono?" Who Benefits? The hippy movement was very beneficial for Lyndon Bullshit Johnson & Richard Murderous Nixon because their administrations were using the hippies as a model of the worst values that any human could have and the members of the conservative society didn't want to be labeled as hippies therefore these people would not involve in the movements against Vietnam's war. wasn't it ingenious of the government to create a group of crazy people that nobody wanted to be related to? Is it naive to think that the hippy movement was really organic? Who knows, maybe the real hippies are still wondering what happened with the peace, love and rock & roll, all these beautiful things of the past that have been replaced with the modern MSM garbage that is worthless but everybody loves. Lol.
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