The festival Woodstock musical festival that drew nearly half a million people to Max Yasgur's dairy farm in the Catskill mountains was a pivotal moment in American culture. The festival ran August 15–17, 1969.
Woodstock 1969 This is a general view of the crowd at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Aug. 14, 1969. (AP Photo)
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WOODSTOCK 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. (AP Photo)
ASSOCIATED PRESS Woodstock 1969 A mud-caked music lover lies atop his motorcycle at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Aug. 14, 1969. (AP Photo)
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WOODSTOCK 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. (AP Photo)
ASSOCIATED PRESS WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL 1969 About 400,000 people attend the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, N.Y., August 16, 1969. (AP Photo)
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WOODSTOCK About 400,000 people attend the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, N.Y., August 16, 1969. (AP Photo)
ASSOCIATED PRESS WOODSTOCK Jammed cars are seen on Rt. 17B near the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on August 16, 1969. (AP Photo)
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WOODSTOCK 40th FILE -In this August 1969 file photo, a view of part of the crowd at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival held on a 600-acre pasture in the Catskill Mountains near White Lake in Bethel, N.Y., in Aug. 1969. The festival, billed as "Thee Days of Peace and Music," started on Friday, Aug. 15. More than 400,000 persons attended. (AP Photo)
ASSOCIATED PRESS Woodstock 1969 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. (AP Photo)
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Woodstock 1969 Young people abandon their trucks, cars and buses as some 200,000 persons try to reach the Woodstock Music and Art Festival on a leased cow pasture at White Lake in Bethel, New York Friday, Aug. 15, 1969. Cars were backed up for 10 miles. The festival closed the New York State Thruway, creating the nation?s worst traffic jam. (AP Photo)
Anonymous Woodstock 1969 Music fans are treated for cuts and bruises after falling from the outside of a car on the grounds of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival at White Lake in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 15, 1969. (AP Photo)
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WOODSTOCK **ADVANCE FOR MONDAY AUG. 10** FILE -In this August 1969 file photo, over 400,000 people attend the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, N.Y., August 16, 1969. (AP Photo)
ASSOCIATED PRESS Woodstock 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. (AP Photo)
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Woodstock 1969 Woodstock Rock music fans gather at a stand outside a motel near the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, New York, Aug. 16, 1969. (AP Photo)
ASSOCIATED PRESS Woodstock 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. (AP Photo)
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Woodstock Festival 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. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)
Marty Lederhandler Woodstock 1969 Music fans seek shelter is a grass hut at the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, New York, Aug. 17, 1969. Sign above reads "Have a Marijuana." (AP Photo)
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Woodstock 1969 Volunteers pick up trash in the mud on the grounds of the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, New York, Aug. 17, 1969. Festival sponsors asked for volunteer help in removing the debris left by some 300,000 rock music fans. (AP Photo)
Anonymous Woodstock 1969 Rock music fans hike from the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in Bethel, New York, Aug. 17, 1969. Some 300,000 fans began to leave as the festival ended in the rain. (AP Photo)
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Woodstock 1969 Young people leave debris-strewn scene where hundreds of thousands congregated over the weekend to enjoy the rock music festival held in field in Bethel, New York, Aug. 18, 1969. In background is stage where musicians performed. (AP Photo/Bob Scott)
Bob Scott Woodstock 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. (AP Photo)
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Woodstock A girl naps on top of her car, while trying to reach the music festival at Woodstock, N.Y., Aug. 16, 1969. (AP Photo)
Anonymous Digging Woodstock FILE - In this August 16, 1969 file aerial photo, music fans at the original Woodstock Music and Arts Festival are packed around the stage, at bottom, in Bethel, N.Y. Archaeologists from New York's Binghamton University are trying to find the exact location of the stage and light and speaker towers and say aerial shots taken nearly 50 years ago can't be relied upon to help them, because the bottom of the hillside was re-graded in the late '90s to accommodate a temporary stage for anniversary performances, and the spot of the original stage is under a layer of compacted fill. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)
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Woodstock 1969 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. (AP Photo)
Anonymous WOODSTOCK Woodstock Music and Art Festival participants leave the festival on Aug. 17, 1969 in Bethel, N.Y. (AP Photo)
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