The Movie: Easy Rider (1969)
What Is It?: Dennis
Hopper and Peter Fonda explore the American South on their motorcycles and
conclude that this probably wasn’t a smart thing for a couple of
long-haired hippies smuggling cocaine in their gas tanks to do. A New Orleans
acid trip is the centerpiece of the film, and its haunting authenticity
suggests the cast and crew really did their homework on this scene.
Why Today?: On
this day in 1938, Dr. Albert Hofmann first synthesizes LSD.
