Today in History | San Francisco's Human Be-In Launches "Summer of Love" (1967)

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Poster advertising the 'Human Be-In' designed by Michael Bowen using the photograph of artist Casey Sonnabend.

In 1967, the burgeoning counterculture movement took center stage in San Francisco as a number of figures who would become its icons gathered for a "happening" in Golden Gate Park. Announced as a "Human Be-In" in the San Francisco Oracle newspaper, the event featured speakers Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg, as well as performances by The Grateful Dead, among many others. Attended by tens of thousands of people, the event helped to launch 1967's "Summer of Love," which was what?

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