Yes, I know that, I was there. I too have read all the books.
The point is that back then we were all - even in San Francisco - “conservatives”, by modern standards.
The government wasn't, the institutions weren't, not the media, not the courts, they were making such bold radical jumps to the left that we will never recover, the accomplishments and victories of the hard left in the 1960s, cannot be duplicated today, and not since the 1980s or late 70s.
If the JFK inspired 1965 immigration act had not been passed, then this country would be very far to the right, today. We would have rolled back much of what was done to us in the 1960s.