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Two days before the scheduled start of the concert, 50,000 kids had already arrived in
Woodstock. Drugs immediately began to circulate. Many people brought their babies
and, as Roberts says, even they were drugged. Roberts writes that at a nearby lake,
"the tots swam naked, smoked grass, and got into the music."
A poll conducted at the festival by the New York Times showed that 99 percent of those
attending were using marijuana. Local sheriff deputies, totally overwhelmed, reported
that no arrests were being made for drug use. The New York Times of August 17
quoted one deputy," If we did (make arrests), there isn't enough space in Sullivan or the
next three counties to put them in."
The use of marijuana was not the worst. Following the design of the original MK-Ultra
project, the mass distribution of LSD came next, much of it in LSD-laced Coca Cola, as
Kesey's Pranksters had done five years earlier. Roberts jokingly relates the following, "a
particularly abrasive cop ....had been handed an LSD-spiked Coke while directing
traffic. Long after all automobiles in the area had congealed to a standstill, the hardhat
was still out on the road waving them on. Finally they led him away."
For the next three days, the nearly half a million young people that arrived were
subjected to continual drugs and rock music. Because of torrential rains, they were
forced to wallow in knee-deep mud. There were no shelters, and no way to get out.
Cars were parked over eight miles away. Rosenman writes that the key to the
"Woodstock experiment" was "keeping our performers performing around the clock...to
keep the kids transfixed..."
Within the first 24 hours, over 300 kids reported to medical authorities, violently ill. The
diagnosis: they were having "bad" LSD trips. Thousands more would follow. On August
17, the New York Times reported: "Tonight, a festival announcer warned from the
stage, that 'badly manufactured acid' (a term for LSD) was being circulated. He said:
'You aren't taking poison acid. The acid's not poison. It's just badly manufactured acid.
You are not going to die.... So if you think you've taken poison, you haven't. But if you're
worried, just take half a tablet.'"
The advice, to nearly 500,000 people, "just take half a tablet" was given by none other
than MK-Ultra agent Wavy Gravy.
With a growing medical emergency on hand, a call went out to New York City for
emergency medical personnel. Over 50 doctors and nurses were flown in. By the end of
Woodstock, a total of 5,000 medical cases were reported.
Altamont: the Making Of a Snuff Film
The last major rock "festival" of the 1960s was held at Altamont racetrack, outside San
Francisco. The featured performers were the Rolling Stones, who now reigned supreme
in the rock world, since the Beatles had broken up. The suggestion for the concert
came from MK-Ultra agent Ken Kesey.
This time, the audience was whipped into a frenzy, in open praise of the Devil. The
result was a literal Satanic orgy. At its conclusion, four people were dead and dozens
beaten and injured. Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones, played the part
of Lucifer. The performance marked the beginning of the "heavy-metal" concerts of
today.
Over 400,000 people attended the Altamont concert with far less preparation than even
Woodstock. Food, and even water, were nearly unavailable. But plenty of drugs were to
be found. Like Woodstock, the concert would become the vehicle for the mass