A report on Beat Generation, Michael McClure and Counterculture of the 1960s

McClure during the video taping of "Add-Verse", 2004

Underwater atomic test "Baker", Bikini Atoll, Pacific Ocean, 1946

A section devoted to the beat generation at a bookstore in Stockholm, Sweden

Free Speech activist Mario Savio on the steps of Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 1966

King's "I Have a Dream" speech, given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington

Three radical icons of the sixties. Encounter between Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Cuba, in 1960

Yellow Power activist Richard Aoki at a Black Panther Party rally.

Herbert Marcuse, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, was an influential libertarian socialist thinker on the radical student movements of the era and philosopher of the New Left

Eugene McCarthy, anti-war candidate for the Democratic nomination for the US presidency in 1968

A sign pointing to an old fallout shelter in New York City

The cover of an early Whole Earth Catalog shows the Earth as seen by astronauts traveling back from the Moon

Frisbee and alternative 1960s disc sports icon Ken Westerfield

A small part of the crowd of 400,000, after the rain, Woodstock, United States, August 1969

The Jimi Hendrix Experience performs for the Dutch television show Fenklup in March 1967

The Doors performing for Danish television in 1968

Recording "Give Peace a Chance". Left to right: Rosemary Leary (face not visible), Tommy Smothers (with back to camera), John Lennon, Timothy Leary, Yoko Ono, Judy Marcioni and Paul Williams, June 1, 1969.

The plaque honoring the victims of the August 1970 Sterling Hall bombing, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

A small segment of the "Wall" at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial listing the names of the nearly 60,000 American war dead

Jerry Rubin, University at Buffalo, March 10, 1970

He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and was immortalized as Pat McLear in Kerouac's Big Sur.

- Michael McClure

In the 1960s, elements of the expanding Beat movement were incorporated into the hippie and larger counterculture movements.

- Beat Generation

On January 14, 1967, McClure read at the Human Be-In event in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and later became an important member of the 1960s hippie counterculture.

- Michael McClure

Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, Ginsberg and Gary Snyder read on October 7, 1955, before 100 people (including Kerouac, up from Mexico City).

- Beat Generation

The Pranksters created a direct link between the 1950s Beat Generation and the 1960s psychedelic scene; the bus was driven by Beat icon Neal Cassady, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg was on board for a time, and they dropped in on Cassady's friend, Beat author Jack Kerouac—though Kerouac declined to participate in the Prankster scene.

- Counterculture of the 1960s

Michael McClure (born 1932) (poet)

- Counterculture of the 1960s

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Janis Joplin

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American singer and musician.

Joplin in 1960 as a graduating senior in high school

Joplin (seated) with Big Brother and the Holding Company, c. 1966–1967 photograph Bob Seidemann

Joplin performs with Tom Jones on This Is Tom Jones in late 1969

Newspaper review of Joplin's 1969 concert at Vets Memorial Auditorium in Columbus, Ohio includes the fact that before it started she walked to the lobby and watched audience members arrive.

Janis Joplin performing at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island in July 1968

Joplin photographed by Jim Marshall in 1969, one year before her death

Joplin cultivated a rebellious manner and styled herself partly after her female blues heroines and partly after the Beat poets.

The album featured a cover design by counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb.

It was there that she first performed "Mercedes Benz", a song (partially inspired by a Michael McClure poem) that she had composed with fellow musician and friend Bob Neuwirth a very short time earlier.

Promotional photograph of Morrison during The Smothers Brothers Show in December 1968

Jim Morrison

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American singer, poet and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band the Doors.

Morrison, age 19, was arrested in Tallahassee for drunken behavior at a football game

A promotional photo of the Doors in late 1966

Morrison performing with the Doors in 1967

Jim Morrison performing in Copenhagen in September 1968

Los Angeles motel room where Morrison lived between 1968 and 1970; currently covered in graffiti from his fans.

A mug shot of Morrison, taken on September 20, 1970

Morrison and his father on the bridge of the USS Bon Homme Richard in January 1964

Jim Morrison Memorial in Germany (Berlin-Baumschulenweg)

Morrison's grave still without a gravestone at Père Lachaise in Paris, June 1978

Morrison's grave at Père Lachaise in Paris, with the marble bust, June 1981

Morrison's grave with headstone and Greek inscription ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΔΑΙΜΟΝΑ ΕΑΥΤΟΥ, August 2008

Morrison's apartment building in Le Marais, Paris

Since his death, his fame has endured as one of popular culture's top rebellious and oft-displayed icons, representing the generation gap and youth counterculture.

Beat Generation writers such as Jack Kerouac and libertine writers such as the Marquis de Sade also had a strong influence on Morrison's outlook and manner of expression; Morrison was eager to experience the life described in Kerouac's On the Road.

Morrison befriended Beat poet Michael McClure, who wrote the afterword for Jerry Hopkins' biography of Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive.