Random strange thought for the night that has my head spinning.

Every generation has a theme. Every generation has a war. Ever generation has a problem.

When living in that time it was/is all you hear about. Communists, hippies, disco, rock and roll, dancing, satanic cult killings, sex rings, teenage mass murderers.  Then years later we learn, yes sometimes those things happened however many innocent people were convicted of crimes they did not commit because of hysteria. Lives destroyed, the innocent criminals and their families. All over what law enforcement and the media convinced us was an epidemic.

I'm not saying these things didn't happen, but did they REALLY happen on such a large scale as was portrayed?