Youll get your face kicked. But the patrol has no hesitation about moving in on last-minute situations caused by anti-war demonstrators. He was so scared he sometimes looked like ectoplasm. 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 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. How could one Hells Angel be held more accountable than Mick Jagger, for his incitement to Satanism: than Sam Cutler, for his nativete in assigning police powers to the Angels; to Sheriff Madigan for letting these bike-fetishists take over his duties? He was found dead floating in the Anderson Reservoir with $10,000 in his pocket in 1985. Passaro was charged with murder and tried in 1971. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. 1980) Dec. 13, 1980. Let them take care of their own. The tall, curly-haired defense attorney walked up to within eight feet of the witness and asked him if he remembered telling John Burks that Hunter was not so stoned that he was out of his wits. Cox did remember that. The Rolling Stones onstage at The Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California on December 6, 1969. Three hundred dollars. Help us build our profile of Alan Passaro! Cox had the morning off the next day, when Judge Hayes let some police officials tell about their bad experiences with Angels. Alan and Celeste met when he was 17 and she was 18, seniors at a high school in Santa Clara. All Rights reserved. Yes I have a dark side, doesnt everyone? The incident was caught on camera and became a central scene in the Maysles Brothers documentary Gimme Shelter. Failed to remove flower. They had hit people with pool queues. 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.. - Douglas Percy Bliss on his friend Eric Ravilious from their time at the Royal College of Art Eric Ravilious loved. The hand of drummer Charlie Watts is shown in foreground. The Hells Angels Plot To Kill Mick Jagger, 10 Facts You Didnt Know About Queen Elizabeth II, The Altamont Festival brings the 1960s to a violent end. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? The prosecutor wanted to know if he saw Hunter stabbed. And they been using me since. He had been really hard to get. Alan Passaro, 21, was the Angel arrested and charged with murder. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. This story is from the April 1st, 1971 issue of Rolling Stone. But to be fair, out of the whole 300 Angels working as stewards, the vast majority did what they were supposed to do, which was to regulate the crowds as much as possible without causing any trouble. A group of bikers attempted to land a boat outside the singers Hamptons, Long Island holiday estate, where they planned to enter from the rear to bypass the security at the entrance of the mansion. It was supposed to be Woodstock redux. Mick Jagger Mick Jagger sings at the Altamont Rock Festival at Livermore, Calif. on while Hells Angels cross stage during melee to help fellow motorcyclists. The scavengers pawed over the ground as once thieves had ransacked the bodies of the soldiers on the field of Waterloo. The trial began 370 days after the killing. So I plead guilty and its straight off the streets and into the pen. But most people thats got a good Harley chopper got a few grand invested in it. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. 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. He told how he saw Hunter standing on a box and blocking the view (theyre getting so pushy). Hells Angels, far left held back surging crowd. They helped us with money for the lawyer. Its not flippant, to be thrown away on celluloid. Jagger was singing Under My Thumb when the Hells Angels bravely moved quickly toward the gunman. Failed to delete 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. Live. I didnt see the stabbing of Meredith Hunter but I remember him. Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. John Burke, as prosecutor, felt up against the wall. His initial charge was met with a beating from the bikers, who chased him back. But they might have done. Passaro, a former Hells Angel, was acquitted in the death of a Berkeley teenager stabbed to death during the December 1969 rock concert. Burke: Why did you strike at Hunter with a knife?. Trivia (2) Passaro was caught on film stabbing Meredith Hunter and put on trial for murder. Meredith Hunter was not the only fan to lose his life at the show. He said he saw an Angel grab the side of his head and shake him: and that when Hunter shook loose, the Angel hit him and threw him into the crowd. He said he saw Hunter try to get to his feet, and he saw Hunters girl friend, Patricia Bredehoft, run over and try to get between him and some Angels, and that she shouted to him not to use his revolver. Alan Passaro died in 1985 after drowning in the Anderson Reservoir in Santa Clara County. As John Burke said: The movie was the whole thing. The vibe is sweet and playful. 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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. I do care for a lot of the people because they are down to earth. I mean, maybe the Stones are all right, but they used us. Burks explained: I didnt say anything. The Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger signs autographs for fans at the Altamont Race Track, Dec. 8, 1969. In 1980, Passaro was sentenced to two years in prison on an unrelated weapons charge and federal racketeering charges brought against a group of Hells Angels, authorities said. A natural film extra! Barger had more to say on KSAN, San Franciscos underground FM station: We were told if we showed up, we could sit on the stage and drink some beer that the Stones managers had brought us, you know. Celeste, was there every day, watching for the moments when Alan would turn around and give to her one of those intimate facial signals that recollect good times in bed, good meals eaten together, skiing (which he loves) and the hours of delicious whispering and joking and telling of secrets. saw in your movie (the tall black teenager in the shiny, Polyester suit the color, almost exactly, of the paint on the walls of the gas chamber, the color of ripe pippin apples the tall man falling to the ground)? Walker brought out not only inconsistency but evasiveness when he interrogated Cox about the semantics of the marijuana subculture. We moved them people to save that bike. He made himself comfortable in the witness chair, letting his well-muscled legs fall wide apart. I know some of them hit people. The first witness was a cameraman, Baird Bryant of Los Angeles, who shot the cemetery scene in Easy Rider. Some other Angels caught what was happening and came off the stage, and when they did, people started backing up. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. And the Hells Angels were in fact hired for security duties; to guard the stage and keep the peace for the duration of the festival. Name: Alan David Passaro. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Alan Passaro (128893580)? Passaro never went to prison. About the sham of rehabilitation. Even the gun of Meredith Hunter was lost on the field of Altamont: as he lay dying on his stomach, somebody stole it. March 1 (UPI) -- Officials at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium confirmed a cheetah briefly escaped from its enclosure, but was behind a public barrier at all times. Foxiz News Network. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. 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? There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. . 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. Navy SEAL who saved 3 kids from drowning receives medal for his heroism "I was reminded of the seven-mile swim we do in BUD/S, and I thought to myself, if I have to I can do this all day" The Altamont Free Concert took place just four months after Woodstock. Immediately after the trial, Passaro was returned to jail. 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. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. Try again later. 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. Passaro, 22, threw back his head and let out a whoop as the verdict was read. Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. It might be said that they overdid their proving because the superstar they were hired to defend had raised a great turmoil of ambivalent vibrations in the crowd. Cox talked in tones so low they would have been inaudible without the microphone. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. That hurt, he said. 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! But sometimes I make statements during interviews to loosen a guy up . And there was gleaming Meredith Hunter in his lovely green suit, so photogenically high on a speaker box, so close to the stage. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Please whitelist in order to read our content as well as support our work. 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. At this point the trial sank into a fog of surrealism that had the jurors blinking and fidgeting; two of the men scratched their balls and two of the women crossed their legs very tightly. Related Hunter might not have died, according to medical testimony at the trial, if there had been an emergency hospital on the premises. And Ive been hurt by experts. Carter, testifying, said it was Sam Cutler, the Stones road manager, who hired the Angels to guard his artists. I myself jumped down there and the wiring has shorted out somewhere. 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. Twowere killed by hit-and-run car accidents and one by drowning in an irrigation canal. Cause of death was drowning, though foul play was never confirmed. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. Live Death Statistics Worldwide and The United States. We parked where we were told we were supposed to park. Was it a racist crime? When he was asked about the confrontation with Hunter, he astonished the reporters by saying, I went for my knife.. These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. He was a notorious member of the Hells Angels biker gang. DAVID A. PASSARO: After 9/11, President Bush got on national television, and said, not only are we going to go after the terrorists, but we're going to go after those that harbour the terrorists . He testified he might even be as tall as 5 10, but at Soledad he was measured as 5 6. Walker needed help in a situation where you had movie footage showing a guy in an Angels jacket running hard like a pole vaulter at a track meet, running with an eagerness quicker than any thought, quicker than any feeling, and just a shade quicker than most peoples impulses, running right at that man who died, and with his knife. Patrick Peyton of County Mayo, Eire, appeared before 250,000 persons in the Polo Grounds of Golden Gate Park, telling them: The family that prays together stays together. The lovable, round-faced priest also reported on praying victories over communist infiltrators in South America. It was a Harley-Davidson. Rolling Stones to Release All-Star 50th Anniversary Show as Live Album. Cox pointed to the table where Passaro was sitting with his lawyer. Utter balls, of course. Mostly, a little bit to the side of the stage so that people who were there didnt have to move back too far. 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. In this case, the district attorney, Lowell Jensen, made a strategical error by not ruling out the death penalty at the outset. I read a lot in here, he said. Age 36 at death Zodiac Leo Alan Passaro dating history Relationships We have no records of past relationships for Alan Passaro. . 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. He may be in for eight years. at bat. Make sure that the file is a photo. Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Firefighters in Georgia came to the rescue of a dog who fell into a storm drain and ended up stranded about 12 feet underground. The Mandalorian Season Three Gets Off to a Disappointing Start Rolling Stone digs a little deeper into the events that led to the acquittal of 21-year-old Hell's Angel Alan Passaro. And where was the Alameda country health department? Prosecutors say the contractor, 40-year-old David Passaro, repeatedly beat the man before . Thats what I went there to doIm no peace creep, by any sense of the word, and if a cat dont want to fight with me, dont want to hassle with me, I want to be his friend. There was an error deleting this problem. The ambiguity of his sex, the spectacle of raper and victim in one body, threw the witnesses into convulsions of excitement., Mick Jagger stops performing at the Altamont Rock Festival at Livermore, California, Dec. 6, 1970, while Hells Angels cross stage during melee to help fellow motorcyclists. 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