Sergeant Donovan testified that 12 days after the killing he had only one eyewitness (Cox). The jury selection game is combination chess and poker. SAN FRANCISCO, FEBRUARY 12, 1971 Attorney Mel Belli announced he had filed suit in Superior Court against "the guys who released Gimme Shelter," a movie that achieved notoriety by showing a. (At Altamont, he said, People were loaded and fell out. John Burkes turn: he wanted to know how many beers Tannahill [an Angel] had more than two? Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purposeto let someone know "I'm here. He had had some experience with British Angels at a Stones concert in Hyde Park. The questioning by the prosecutor and the defense attorney brought out that few of them knew anything about Altamont except that there had been some kind of a youth fuss there around Christmastime and a few people got knocked off. Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. But they moved them people back out of the way of the bike. On the first day of the trial, a score of Angels showed up in full parade dress. The witness knew the language of the dopeloving underground. He died on March 29, 1985 in Morgan Hill, California, USA. He asked Bryant: If you smoked a couple of numbers would you know what that meant? . Did that alter the trials outcome? It takes premeditation in a killing to get a man into the gas chamber: if youre stoned, how can you tell if somebody is premeditating? or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. Year should not be greater than current year. They told me if I could sit on the edge of the stage so nobody would climb over me, I could drink beer until the show was over. He was whipping around the road in a car full of shit and a load of weed and a known prostitute. An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request, There is an open photo request for this memorial. Polish basketball player breaks slam dunk world record. Nobodyd back up. The scavengers pawed over the ground as once thieves had ransacked the bodies of the soldiers on the field of Waterloo. Once we jumped off the stage, thats when I heard the gun go off. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. He got into this ambiguous drama by telephoning Rolling Stone and unloading some of the horror and disgust that were jammed up inside him like hard turds. Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A swimmer visiting a beach in New South Wales, Australia, found a mussel-covered message in a bottle that turned out to have traveled more than 185 miles. The prosecutor wanted to know if he saw Hunter stabbed. 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. Alan and Celeste met when he was 17 and she was 18, seniors at a high school in Santa Clara. 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. Verify and try again. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. Or was it the big gun that riled them? And, if youre honest, youll just drag up from the depths all the times youve hated or felt passionately about something and play it. The Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger signs autographs for fans at the Altamont Race Track, Dec. 8, 1969. Search above to list available cemeteries. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe the, "I never saw Eric Ravilious depressed. When The Stones lead singer Mick Jagger spoke out against the biker gang following the incident, they hatched a plot to murder him. And Im going to ride and ride. He died on 29 March 1985 in Morgan Hill, California, USA. It is interesting, therefore, to reflect on a statement made in a corridor of the courthouse by one of the defense witnesses, Richard Roy Carter, a used-car-lot operator who leased the Altamont racetrack. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. The Hells Angels biker gang had been hired by the Rolling Stones to work security at the concert. I had to help one chick to the back with a cut foot. featured in Gimme Shelter, the film by David Maysles and Charlotte Zwering which . When he rushed the stage and pulled out a huge black gun, the rest of what went down happened pretty fast. Looking back I dont think it was a good idea to have Hells Angels there. And Im bum kicked about the whole thing. He likes his father a lot and the name of his four-year-old son is Michael Alan Passaro. The judge said Cox has expressed his fear and the court needs to know whether in fact the Hells Angels are a dangerous group. But he did not let the jury hear this testimony. Ive played a lot of evil, ball-breaking women. The sheriff said it was not his responsibility because the festival was held on private property. His conversation did not sound disoriented. What did Cox mean by agreeing with everything he said? Birthday: August 23, 1948 Date of Death: March 29, 1985 Age at Death: 36. They helped us with money for the lawyer. I mean, maybe the Stones are all right, but they used us. I didnt see the stabbing of Meredith Hunter but I remember him. So the great law and order jury in the courtroom in Oakland studied this man from Soledad as he sat at a table with his attorney, George Walker, and watched them take their 12 judgment seats. Although various sources dispute the issue, legend has it that the outlaw bikers were hired to provide security at the event for the bargain basement price of $500 worth of beer. Some of them people were like maybe them Friday-nighters that got that front row, I dont know, but they didnt want to give up that spot even to put that fire out. March 1 (UPI) -- Police in Maine said the last of the three bison to escape in Aroostook County was safely rounded up with help from the animals' owner. The huge crowd of admirers was brilliantly controlled by Police Chief Tom Cahill, a member of the Faith. You ought to see it, its wild.. Rolling Stone digs a little deeper into the events that led to the acquittal of 21-year-old Hell's Angel Alan Passaro. Prosecutors say the contractor, 40-year-old David Passaro, repeatedly beat the man before . No luck. Hunter had a loud green suit on and really stuck out from the crowd. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Alan David Passaro I found on Findagrave.com. You can send a murderer down for years and sleep at night; but sending a man to his death requires a different mind set. This was an unexpected event (Walker said the D.A. By the time I got to Hunter he had already been stabbed. 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. The coroner said it had been an accidental death. Sergeant Hilliard said three of his informants had told him that Angels had remarked, in comment on her death, This is what happens to snitchers. Oakland patrolman James Carreker testified that one informant told him once: Id rather go to the state penitentiary for 20 years than be involved [as an informer] with the Hells Angels and get caught at it.. Immediately after the trial, Passaro was returned to jail. Another person who was facing the epicenter of the violence that day was Cox, a skinny, frightened young man whose passion for the art of the Rolling Stones was so great he arrived at 11PM the night before and staked out a claim to the right of the stage. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? (AP Photo). 1980) Dec. 13, 1980. And, he testified, I attempted to get his gun hand . 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. (Shit, he said, when they picked me up on this weed they made a deal: I cop out and they give me six months in the country jail. Jagger laughs at his disobedient drummer. Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. He faced the jury wearing a powder-blue sports shirt, plain white beads and medium-long hair. Full custom. In 1969, The Rolling Stones headlined a concert at the Altamont Speedway in California. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. Learn more about merges. Yes I have a dark side, doesnt everyone? At Altamont, Sheriff Madigan explained, Mel Belli and the promoter said they were hiring 300 private patrol. Translation: Let them take care of their own. 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. After Sergeant Robert Donovan of the sheriffs office read the article in Rolling Stone, he and other detectives finally located Cox by finding the telephone number where the call had been placed; and persuading people there to lead them to this guy who has said, I saw everything. Cox appeared before the county grand jury in March of 1970 and later in a lineup identified Passaro as the guy he saw stab Hunter in the back. But we had them at the suggestion of the Grateful Dead. By the time the Stones came on everybody was wired up. He said he and another inspector couldnt get out to Altamont that evening because they couldnt penetrate the disorderly human anthill that surrounded the event. Oops, something didn't work. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. The problem in the Altamont case is that the state of California had accused only one of many who should be defendants. I built it myself. But most people thats got a good Harley chopper got a few grand invested in it. . And a lot of time there was six or seven Angels on one guy, and a lot of times there wasnt. And everything was cool. A system error has occurred. But not the philosophy: Peace, and let everybody walk on you.'. The Rolling Stones at The Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California on December 6, 1969. Jagger was singing Under My Thumb when the Hells Angels bravely moved quickly toward the gunman. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. 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. See BTS Jung Kook Debut New Single Dreamers at FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony, Drake & 21 Savage, Selena Gomez and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week, Christian Leave Asks Why Not? on Bedroom Pop Singers New Single, Jason Derulo Pens First Book 'Sing Your Name Out Loud', Wizkid More Love, Less Ego Tour Postponed to Fall 2023, A Year After Brain Injury, Amy Grant Sets First Solo Musical Return in a Decade, Blink-182 Postpone First-Ever Latin America Tour Dates Following Travis Barker Finger Injury, Raye Relives Her Sexual Assault in Harrowing 'Ice Cream Man' Video, How to Watch 'The Mandalorian' Online: Stream Season 3 Now, Alex MurdaughCalled 'Family Annihilator' by Prosecution in Murder Trial. Cheerfulness kept creeping in." - Douglas Percy Bliss on his friend Eric Ravilious from their time at the Royal College of Art Eric Ravilious loved. (Its enough to drive a man to read a psychoanalyst. This story is from the April 1st, 1971 issue of Rolling Stone. I rode while I was cutting hair and coming clean you know, I tried all that straight shit, and it wasnt me. All Rights Reserved. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. Passaro was charged with murder, but acquitted on the basis of self defense. I cant tell you why. These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. Please consider making a donation to our site. It shot my whole theory of dont trust anyone over 30. I mean I dont know none of them. Record information. Person hired to promote new 'Scream' movie prompts 911 calls. And any juror, watching Alan Passaro, could see, just by the way he walked in and sat down, and the way he flicked his arm away from the bailiff, that his body was away ahead of most of the ideas he might have. There was little indication of emotion in Passaros voice until he talked about his role in the brotherhood of the Angels. Marriage & Divorce. Our site is an advertising supported site. The Angels survived, but the plot to kill the Jagger was scrapped. Walker asked him what happened to Hunter when he was knocked off his position on the speaker box a few feet away. Luckily for Mick, their boat was hit by a storm, and the men were swept overboard. Walker, giving out body English he learned as a star basketball forward for UC Berkeley 13 years ago, dribbled slowly past the jury and scored. Altamont [ edit] His initial charge was met with a beating from the bikers, who chased him back. Above, in Gay Nineties script, was the legend: Hells Angels, Frisco, California.. If you think youre too short, you might do some attention-getting things to show the world youre not a nobody, and to show the cops (who have to be, by law, taller than average) that you can stand up to them. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Maybe the eight white-skinned men and four white-skinned women of the jury decided that Meredith Hunter, waving a gun that day, and a certified speed user, was even more lawless and disorderly. He had been really hard to get. To sit around on your ass some more like I done in here? And, after that, they tried to destroy our bikes, and were not gonna stand for it. BERKELEY The murder trial stemming from an incident during the Rolling Stones Altamont concert 13 months ago ended January 19th when the jury declared Hells Angel Alan Passaro not guilty in the stabbing death of 18-year old Meredith Hunter. The established authorities consider an affair like Altamont to be different from an affair like the one in 1961, when Father Patrick Peyton, on behalf of a private organization, commanded lovely cooperation for his Family Rosary Crusade rally in Golden Gate Park. Celeste said she herself wasnt crazy about his joining the Angels. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. He said: Im writing a book about how we got to white culture groups like the blacks and browns have to hassle out problems with the institution. March 1 (UPI) -- A person dressed as the "Ghostface" killer from the "Scream" franchise prompted multiple 911 calls in California, but police said the person was hired to promote the latest installment in the franchise. Shit, Id cut off my arm before Id sell my motorcycle. Passaro never went to prison. He died on March 29, 1985 in Morgan Hill, California, USA. And it was evident, as the month-long trial went on, that he had succeeded as a husband. Try again later. However, a close examination of the film revealed that Hunter had pulled a gun first. His black hair was too neat and too thick. His father likes him and, Celeste said, promised to deed to him a hotel he owns in Italy if the jury got him off the murder rap. Twowere killed by hit-and-run car accidents and one by drowning in an irrigation canal. He kept getting in trouble with the law. Fans enjoy themselves at the infamous Gimme Shelter rock concert featuring the Rolling Stones, at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, Ca. 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. But when youre standing there looking at something thats your life, and everything you got is invested in that thing, and you love that thing better than you love anything in the world, and you see a guy kick it, you know who he is. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. 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. The story was the focus of the 1970 film, "Gimme Shelter," and is also the focus of an urban legend that states that the song, 'Sympathy For The Devil,' was playing . Only after I had seen the film, the witness said, was I aware of the nature of the happenings. With Dave Maysles at his side, he had been on a quest for color, swinging his lens around to pick up, now Mick Jagger, now and then a naked man, or the hips or breasts or big-eyed glory of a stoned girl, or the very colorful Angels as they stood so intransigently planted on the edges of the stage, their Deaths Head jackets to camera. Its hard to adjust to quick changes in plans. He was a notorious member of the Hells Angels biker gang. On December 6, 1969, he killed audience member Meredith Hunter at the Altamont Speedway in California, during a concert by the Rolling Stones. The bike had caught fire. Passaro was charged with murder and tried in 1971. If he dont want to be my friend, then out of sight, dont even talk to me. The Municipal Railway outdid itself in getting special bus service so as to avoid a traffic mess. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Alan's lifetime. . 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 jurors knew him well, watching him from a distance of 15 feet for nearly four weeks, passing within 18 inches of him two or three times a day. Mick Jagger, center, dances on stage causing audience members to raise their arms and hands during rock concert at the Altamont Speedway near Livermore, Calif., Dec. 9, 1969. Alan David Passaro (August 23, 1948 - March 29, 1985) was a Hells Angels member known for the 1969 stabbing of Meredith Hunter at the Altamont Free Concert during The Rolling Stones' set, as seen in the 1970 documentary film Gimme Shelter. Cause of death was drowning, though foul play was never confirmed. He says he and his gang were told they could drink all the beer they wanted if they kept punters off the lower stage. John Burke, the prosecutor, said after the verdict: He was impeached by his inconsistent statements.. Over the years, though, Ive learned how to get up and do it again., Hells Angels are on stage with the Rolling Stones Mick Jagger, wearing red, and guitarist Mick Taylor, with back to camera. He was released from jail about a year ago, police said. Cox had the morning off the next day, when Judge Hayes let some police officials tell about their bad experiences with Angels. And that made it personalYou know what? Especially after I talk to you. Cox talked in tones so low they would have been inaudible without the microphone. One audience member intent on joining The Rolling Stones was 18-year-old Meredith Hunter, who was jacked up on methamphetamine. Like some dudes want to be lawyers and some dudes want to be barbers, I wanted to be an Angel. Passaro was arrested and charged but he claimed self-defense and he was later accquitted. All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. And there in the room, six feet from the jury, was John Burke, the meticulous deputy D.A., with a pleasant, almost childlike smile, who certainly doesnt look as though he would want to have a man gassed to death. The judge ruled that the death penalty remained an option. and says with amused disbelief to no one in particular, What is going on? He gets the lay of the land from a chuckling and ultra-mellow Jerry Garcia, attired in an outtasite lavender wool poncho, and chats warmly with Ian Stewart. But had he been drinking? 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. 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