Charles Manson was seen as the poster-boy for hippiedom, amongst my peers.
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Which has about as much truth to it as, say, the My Lai incident being the norm for US soldiers.
But that’s how it was viewed out in much of mid-america. The Manson family butchery, Art Linkletter’s daughter dying from an LSD trip, the Weather Underground... the whole hippie mess being an ugly, nightmarish mix of anti-Americanism and cultural degradation.