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San Francisco : Top 10 Sixties Figures

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1. Janis Joplin

This troubled singer from Texas became the queen of the San Francisco sound, until her death by heroin overdose.
2. Ken Kesey

A powerful, revolutionary writer, his Magic Bus and Trips Festival set the tone for the entire Hippie Movement.
3. Jerry Garcia

Patriarch of the San Francisco sound, his Grateful Dead band continued to tour until his death in 1995.
4. Mario Savio

The UC Berkeley student launched the Free Speech Movement on the campus in the late 1960s.
5. Owsley Stanley

The most famous source of pure LSD in the 1960s.
6. Grace Slick

The other queen of San Francisco’s influential bands, in this case Jefferson Airplane.
7. Huey Newton

Oakland’s founder of the Black Panthers, a group committed to violent change if necessary.
8. Patty Hearst

The newspaper heiress, kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, apparently converted and took part in an armed robbery.
9. Jim Jones

The leader of a Fillmore District religious group who moved en masse to South America ended his days and those of some 900 followers in 1978, in a mass suicide by cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
10. Charles Manson

This commune leader and his followers murdered actress Sharon Tate in 1969.