[Clink]

"The Manson murders sounded the death knell for hippies and all they symbolically represented,"

Uh, no it didn't. They are still around today making up a very large percentage of college faculties.

[1951Boomer]

“They are still around today making up a very large percentage of college faculties.”

True, but somewhat diluted, one would hope, by being in their 60s and knocked upside the head with the realities of life.