Was it a racist crime? And there was gleaming Meredith Hunter in his lovely green suit, so photogenically high on a speaker box, so close to the stage. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time In this Dec. 8, 1969 file photo, the Rolling Stones perform at the Gimme Shelter rock concert at the Altamont Race Track in California (AP Photo, file). But Angels big shot Sonny Barger says this is untrue. If you cant be quick, be through. They tried me as a person. Despite the size of the crowd and the ardor of it, there were no casualties, save for the customary cases of fainting women and bruised toes. The investigation of the crime and the trial demonstrated again what a great artist Franz Kafka was (that strange little man twisted up by Germanic official ness, telling how hard it is to beat city hall, what happens to us when we let our institutions mechanize us). The Idol: How HBOs Next Euphoria Became Twisted Torture Porn But I dont really want to be. Passaro, who had a history of crime, was found dead in 1985 with $10,000 in his pockets. When he rushed the stage and pulled out a huge black gun, the rest of what went down happened pretty fast. Alan Passaro girlfriend, wife list. In the process, you know what, some people got hit. The film clip, from Gimme Shelter, the Maysles documentary of the Stones tour, was also run many times during the course of the trial. I read a lot in here, he said. SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Sheriff's deputies today sought clues in the drowning of a former Hells Angel once tried for the 1969 stabbing death of a teenager at a Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Raceway. Try again later. Rolling Stones Keith Richards (left) and Mick Jagger (right) sing on the rose petal-littered stage during free rock concert at Altamont Speedway near Livermore, Calif., Dec. 6, 1969. He gets three hundred dollars and Im in here for fucking eight and a half. I mean, maybe the Stones are all right, but they used us. When he looked at Cox, his eyelids drooped a trifle. 0 cemeteries found in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, USA. She said he used to go around at Christmastime and make spare change by painting nativity scenes on gas station windows. Other witnesses thought they saw a flash near the end of Hunters hand; indeed, the movie showed a strange glint there and nobody was sure what caused it. A brat. Public Member Photos & Scanned Documents. Hes in Soledad on a felony rap of possession of marijuana for sale. It was more than a lidhaving so much in California makes you a dealer. Failed to remove flower. From the witness chair he had to face, in the audience, two or three Angels (out of uniform) who stared at him with considerable interest. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. the murder indictment. Finally, the Stones come out and they start playing. If he dont want to be my friend, then out of sight, dont even talk to me. How do you describe love?). A North Carolina jury convicted a former CIA contractor of assaulting a detainee in Afghanistan. . But the murder trial that grew out of it was full of exasperating, grubby Little People. A number of prospective black jurors were excused by Judge Hayes because they admitted they could be prejudiced in favor of the gas chamber. Alan Passaro, 21, was the Angel arrested and charged with murder. Love is much more of a deeper thing than that, he replies, with mock hauteur, although he clearly kind of means it too. When he waived his constitutional rights not to testify against himself and sat down in the witness chair some of the jurors leaned forward. He reminded the jurors that Cox had described Hunter as straight like the rest of us. So, the defense attorney warned, in that euphoric state a man could fly through the air.. On December 6 1969 Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death by a Hell's Angel at The Rolling Stones Altamont Free Concert Meredith Hunter in 1969, wearing the same lime-green suit he would wear to Altamont. Alan Passaro, 21, was the Angel arrested and charged with murder. He was released from prison in 1984, and the following year Passaro was found dead wearing a suit and floating in the Anderson Reservoir with $10,000 in his pocket. After that happened, we got the fire out. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. hes got his big red tongue out and is licking his lips. He told the jury that when he phoned Rolling Stone: I was very nervous, wound up like a clock, and agreeing with everything he said. (Commenting on this the other day, Burks said: I still think he was telling us what had gone on there. Question by Walker: Would you know what I meant if I said Mr. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. (A word to the wise: never cop to nothing.). Twowere killed by hit-and-run car accidents and one by drowning in an irrigation canal. He kept getting in trouble with the law. There was an error deleting this problem. I went there to have a good time and sit on the stage. I didnt see the stabbing of Meredith Hunter but I remember him. But had he been drinking? But there aint nobody gonna take anything I got and try to destroy it. We parked where we were told we were supposed to park. . For, on the tenth floor of the courthouse, in the jail, facing reporters, he declared: I am more glad for my mother than for myself. A jailer gave him a cigar, and as he leaned back to light it, his mother, Katherine, in his mind, was more glad than he was! He, himself, went out with the D.A.s investigator, Lieutenant McDonough, in the manhunt. Gone was his longish hair, gone was the Fu Manchu mustache, gone was the Angel uniform, gone were his colors. His black hair had been shorn to regulation length at Soledad. Try again later. . I aint never going to ever pretend to be a cop. And she didnt care if she bled to death. They took me to lunch and made sure I ate.. After the verdict he exclaimed, I didnt think I had a chance! Walker referred to his trial work as what a painter does. The mural he painted for the jury showed a righteous Angel sticking to an assignment, loyal to his bike brothers, and feeling his life was in danger from a man seven inches taller than he, a man probably high on speed, paranoid, waving a gun, maybe even shooting it, and causing some people to believe he might want to assassinate Mick Jagger. Passaro, who had been a member of the Angels for four months at the time of the concert, was arrested and charged with murder after being identified as a suspect from film footage shot by Albert and David Maysles at the concert. Nobody asked him if the siren on his patrol car was busted. About the sham of rehabilitation. This browser does not support getting your location. Snubbing the King: Why Don't Big Stars Want to Perform at Charles' Coronation? There is a problem with your email/password. He had had some experience with British Angels at a Stones concert in Hyde Park. it looked as if he fell to the ground and the crowd was on him.. (I dont know Jagger but I think hes a punk. The jury selection game is combination chess and poker. Even the gun of Meredith Hunter was lost on the field of Altamont: as he lay dying on his stomach, somebody stole it. Chopped. he had a weapon in his hand He stepped back on the box and when he did I hit him and yelled, Look out, hes got a gun! . SAN FRANCISCO, October 7, 1961 The Rev. Cox talked freely enough to the grand jury and his testimony helped get the D.A. And ride. He said he left the Altamont stage because somebody threw a gallon wine bottle at a motorcycle and knocked it over tantamount to knocking over the altar during a Catholic Mass. Hunter fell to the right of the stage., Somebody reached out and grabbed his left hand with the gun in it and pulled it down., I saw him stabbed about twice. The man he pointed to looked very different from the one who had ridden his Harley Davidson down to Altamont that day. March 1 (UPI) -- Animal rescuers said a young seal was returned to the wild one day after it exited the water and walked across a busy New Jersey road. He laced his thin hands together continually and worried his knees together and glanced fearfully at nothing else but his own confused memories of that day. March 1 (UPI) -- A North Carolina woman found out she had won a $1 million Powerball prize just hours before celebrating her 58th birthday. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. Judge Hayes and Burke sneaked him into the courthouse and were most careful to arrange that nobody found out where he lived or anything else about him but his name. To use this feature, use a newer browser. On the first day of the trial, a score of Angels showed up in full parade dress. . About the indeterminate sentence. Trump Melts Down Over Murdoch Admitting Fox Lied About Election Fraud. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer, At the end of October 1959 in the basement of 39 Gerrard Street - an unexceptional and damp space that was once a sort of rest room for taxi drivers and an occasional tea bar - Ronnie Scott opened his first jazz club. Then he was stabbed. But when Passaro took the stand he said Hunter had fired his gun just before a knife, or knives, made hamburger of his back. Sure, the Angels tie into the rock culture as far as the music goes. Like some dudes want to be lawyers and some dudes want to be barbers, I wanted to be an Angel. He allowed himself to lean half an inch forward and his eyes looked somewhat out of focus, as though this fidgety snitcher was not quite worth the dislike of a member of the mystic Angel brotherhood. Sergeant Donovan told the jury: When I received a copy of the Stones newspaper I read it over and over again.. The incident was caught on camera and became a central scene in the Maysles Brothers documentary Gimme Shelter. First I heard he was my lawyer was when I read it in Herb Caens column. The defense strategy also worked the racial theme. He and his brothers had given their proof abundantly that afternoon. He likes his father a lot and the name of his four-year-old son is Michael Alan Passaro. Some of his colleagues thought that would help him figuring that Angels are neither for law nor order. And Im going to ride and ride. The sheriffs people got it by contacting an inspector in the San Francisco police department who specializes in Hells Angels. Look, I aint no cop. That would be like some freak getting up in front of a Surrender for Christ crusade meeting and saying hes going to shoot Billy Graham. Sergeant Donovan even gave up his Thanksgiving holiday so he could go out to Coxs home and catch him with a subpoena. How much blood was on the knife afterwards? No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. Yes I have a dark side, doesnt everyone? Burke: Why did you strike at Hunter with a knife?. 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View. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. Edit your search or learn more. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Here is how Robert Hatch, writing about Gimme Shelter in The Nation, saw Mick Jagger as he was filmed at Altamont: He hits the crowd with his pelvis, flings his scarf around his shoulders, jabs nervously at his flowing hair, mouths like a woman in heat, jerks with an aggressive, staccato beat that is as explicit as an anatomy chart. The newspaper reporters identified Passaro as a Hells Angel. It would have been as accurate to identify him as a husband, a father or a barber. He was all these. This gun, like the witnesses, did little or nothing for the prosecution. Fans enjoy themselves at the infamous Gimme Shelter rock concert featuring the Rolling Stones, at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, Ca. When that dude [Hunter] pulled out a piece and somebody says, Hes going to do Jagger and, being closest, I jump in and almost get my head blown off and get a murder beef and get my face blasted from coast to coast which I dont dig well, I figure Jagger could have said something instead of blaming it all on the Angels. We want to hear it. . The jurors saw that movie footage about twenty times during the next four weeks. So I told them to back up so we can get this fire out. I didnt go there to police nothing. But Meredith Hunter was packing a double-barrelled gun. Alan and Celeste met when he was 17 and she was 18, seniors at a high school in Santa Clara. When The Stones lead singer Mick Jagger spoke out against the biker gang following the incident, they hatched a plot to murder him. 1980) Annotate this Case U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - 624 F.2d 938 (9th Cir. The body of Alan D. 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