![]() “It wasn’t trying to be 'radical,'" Coyote says today. And when Coyote looks back at his work with the Diggers, fighting the causes of the Vietnam War was at the heart of it. ![]() The 18-hour long documentary series, which Coyote narrates, examines in detail the history of the conflict, its causes, and its impact on both Americans and the Vietnamese. “There were a lot of people who were putting their lives on the line to make change, and you would think everyone was just going to rock and roll shows and wearing bellbottom pants.”īut at least one project this year focuses on what was “really important” to Coyote in the 1960s: Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War. “I went to the deYoung show, which I narrated, and it was an embarrassment,” Coyote adds. Instead, “all they wanted was the fashions, the rock and roll posters, and the music,” he says. Cable news channels and other organizations have “dragged” Coyote “out of the old hippie diorama to talk,” and they rarely discuss the revolutionary ideas he helped germinate with the radical theater group the Diggers. “Who cares?”Ĭoyote's talked a lot about the '60s this past year - in case you hadn't heard, it's the Summer of Love’s 50th anniversary - and to hear Coyote tell it, the experience has been miserable. “It was crap,” the 75-year-old Coyote says. After 50 years, Peter Coyote still hasn’t changed his opinion on the Summer of Love.
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