Bob Fass, ’60s counterculture curator and radio pioneer, dies at 87

On the evening of Feb. 11, 1967, several thousand people suddenly appeared inside the arrivals building at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, where they danced, sang, smoked marijuana, handed out flowers and simply gawked at one another.

It was the Fly-In, the first in a series of mass events that Bob Fass organized on his all-night radio show on New York’s WBAI. They were celebrations of what Mr. Fass called “a colossal amount of human connection.” They had purpose and no purpose. No one was in charge.