August 12th – Janis Joplin performs her
final concert at Harvard Stadium to a full house of 10,000 fans.She would die of a drug overdose less than
two months later.
August 14th – Stephen Stills is arrested for
cocaine possession at a motel in La Jolla, California.(He was found crawling along a corridor in an
incoherent state)He will later be
released on$2500 bail.
