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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 continues 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 the 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 the Fillmore religious group who moved en masse to South America and ended his days and those of some 900 followers in 178, in a mass suicide by cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
10
Charles Manson
This commune leader and his followers murdered actress Sharon Tate in 1969.
[source: Top Ten San Francisco ]
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