CBS news anchor, Walter Cronkite, and veteran war reporter John Laurence (who is still living, by the way), both expressed positive opinions about the three day festival. Laurence's comments were quite favourable about the people who attended.
It was not because either man respected the hippies, but because both realized that they could not, themselves, claim to be men of honour if they did not publicly oppose the nation's pathological pursuit, in Vietnam, of an atrocity of immense proportions.
At that point, the Vietnam war was over. I believe Woodstock marked the end of it.
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