Woodstock Festival of Arts and Music in 1969

Woodstock Music and Arts Festival was held on 600 acres of cow pasture leased from a farmer at White Lake in Bethel, Sullivan County, N.Y., in Aug. 1969. The festival, billed as "Thee Days of Peace and Music," started on Friday, Aug. 15 and ended Monday morning, Aug. 18. More than 450,000 persons attended.

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Sat., Aug. 10, 2019

These are some of the few hundred thousand persons who attended the gigantic rock festival at Woodstock, N.Y. on Aug. 14, 1969.
Woodstock Festival of Arts and Music at Bethel, New York, August 1969.
Thousands of rock music fans are packed around the stage in a field near Bethel, New York at the Woodstock Festival, on August 16, 1969. A throng estimated at 500,000 persons covered on the area creating a gigantic jam of traffic and humanity over many miles and giving rise for concern for the health and safety of many of them.

Marty Lederhandler Associated Press
Rock music fans sit on a tree sculpture as one leaps mid-air onto a pile of hay during the Woodstock Music and Art Festival held on a cow pasture at White Lake in Bethel, New York on Aug. 15, 1969.

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Concert-goers sit on the roof of a Volkswagen bus at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair at Bethel, N.Y., in mid-August, 1969. The three-day concert attracted hundreds of thousands of people, and became a landmark cultural event of the late '60s.
An aerial view of the massive crowds that crowded around the stage at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, NY, Aug. 16, 1969.

Marty Lederhandler Associated Press
Workers carry medical supplies that arrived by helicopter on the grounds of the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, N.Y., Aug. 17, 1969. Helicopters were pressed into service when some 300,000 person attending the festival blocked all roads.

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A girl naps on top of her car, while trying to reach the music festival at Woodstock, N.Y., Aug. 16, 1969. (AP Photo)

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A girl helps herself to a free food ration in the camp area at the Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, N.Y. on Aug. 15, 1969.
Rock music fans relax during a break in the entertainment at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 16, 1969.
About 400,000 people attend the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, N.Y., August 16, 1969.
This is an aerial photo of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival held on 600 acres of cow pasture leased from a farmer at White Lake in Bethel, Sullivan County, N.Y., in Aug. 1969. The festival, billed as "Thee Days of Peace and Music," started on Friday, Aug. 15 and ended Monday morning, Aug. 18. More than 450,000 persons attended.

Steve Starr Associated Press
Jammed cars are seen on Rt. 17B near the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on August 16, 1969.
A youth lies with head injuries suffered when he was thrown from the trunk of a car on the road leading to the Woodstock Music and Art festival in Bethel, New York, Aug. 16, 1969. Ambulances were unable to reach the scene because of the traffic.

Anonymous Associated Press
Hundreds of rock music fans walk along the wet highway leading from Bethel, New York, Aug. 16, 1969 as they try to leave the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. Two hundred thousand persons spent a rainy night at the festival.

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Young people begin leaving the grounds of the Woodstock concerts after spending a rainy night, Aug. 16, 1969.
Hundreds of rock music fans jam highway leading from Bethel, New York, Aug. 16, 1969 as they try to leave the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. Two hundred thousand persons spent a rainy night at the festival.

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Hundreds of rock music fans jam highway leading from Bethel, New York, Aug. 16, 1969 as they try to leave the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. Two hundred thousand persons spent a rainy night at the festival.

Anonymous Associated Press
Part of the vast audience at the Woodstock Music Festival in Woodstock, New York on August 14 ,1969.
Woman sweeps debris from the street in front of her home in Bethel, NY, as rock music fans leave the Woodstock Music and Art Festival, Aug. 18, 1969. Many of the 300,000 persons attending the festival were still making their way home.

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