The Hippie Temptation (1967)
CBS TV news special hosted by Harry Reasoner explores the way-out world of the Hippies and the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic 1960s LSD scene. Footage of LSDs users experiencing bummer trips. The Diggers, the Oracle and cool street and Golden Gate Park scenes with hippies tripping out. The Grateful Dead are interviewed and are shown performing "Dancin' in the Streets" on a flatbed truck in Golden Gate Park. The Hippie Temptation!
- Date of release
- 1967-08-21
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- TV Movie, Documentary
- Director
- Warren Wallace
Casting
- Harry Reasoner — Uptight Narrator
- Jerry Garcia — Dirty Hippie
- Peter Coyote — Digger
- Bob Weir
- Dr. David Smith — Haight Ashbury Free Clinic Doctor
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