Insanity reigned in those days ... most of the riot-makers and hippies were from spoiled, upper-middle-class backgrounds. "Poor and downtrodden" they were not.
indeed but what caused it....I was there...aged 12 but I recall that summer so well
it was the big one
Woodstock, Apollo landing, later Altamont, urban unrest...as usual and so forth..The Mets and Tom Seaver