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food was distributed by the Diggers, free LSD supplied by Owsley Stanley, and free love transpired on dubious
free mattresses at free Haight crash pads.
A chill settled over San Francisco when Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on April 8, 1968, followed
by the fatal shooting of Robert Kennedy on June 5. Radicals worldwide called for revolution, and Oakland's
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense took up arms. Meanwhile, recreational drug-taking was turning into a
thankless career for many and a distinct itch in the nether regions spread through Haight squats. By the time Ows-
ley Stanley was released from jail in 1970, the party seemed to be over - but many idealists headed 'back to the
land' north of SF, founding California's organic farm movement.
