Birthday: August 23, 1948 Date of Death: March 29, 1985 Age at Death: 36. (He said he had to sell his bike to help pay Walkers legal fee. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. . Record information. But wasnt it a little too late to corner those scores of persons who saw the knifing, and a dozen who were close enough to the dying man to see the knife, or knives, pulled out of the black young flesh? To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. And they might think because theyre in a crowd of 300,000 people that they can do it and get away with it. Part of the movie was shown, without sound, to a jury trying Alan David Passaro, an Angel, on a charge of murder. They took me to lunch and made sure I ate.. And when they come back fightin, they got thumped. 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. Alan Passaro girlfriend, wife list. 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. Because it had blood on it, on the collar and on the front.. it looked as if he fell to the ground and the crowd was on him.. Two dogs rescued after falling through ice on Colorado lake. He said he hadnt been smoking grass. Alan Passaro, 21, was the Angel arrested and charged with murder. We ended up getting a great law and order jury, said John Burke, the deputy D.A. The plunder of the dead festival has not ceased. Later, a fan was stabbed to death by a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club 8 Dec 1969. 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. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. He talked to one of their leaders about the gun and was told: Itll turn up on my porch one day. And it did (even though nobody knows for sure that it was Hunters gun). Alan and Celeste got themselves a nice, two-bedroom house in San Jose. Add to your scrapbook. But sometimes I make statements during interviews to loosen a guy up . Lt. Darold Thomas, head of the sheriff's detective unit, said Tuesday, 'The death is kind of suspicious, but it is only a drowning at this point.'. The attack that was caught on film and featured in the documentary Gimme Shelter, and Hunter died at the scene. Or was it the big gun that riled them? Are you adding a grave photo that will fulfill this request? [1] Claiming self-defense, he was acquitted of the . And, after that, they tried to destroy our bikes, and were not gonna stand for it. Via: Beth Bagby, New Hampshire Public Radio : More: Bill Owens: Altamont 1969 ;Joel Selvin : Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels And The Inside Story Of Rocks Darkest Day. The judge ruled that the death penalty remained an option. - Douglas Percy Bliss on his friend Eric Ravilious from their time at the Royal College of Art Eric Ravilious loved. Im signed up for a course in butchery, and I cut hair sometimes, but its bullshit. March 1 (UPI) -- A basketball player from Poland broke a Guinness World Record in London when he jumped 10 feet and 5 inches to complete a between the legs slam dunk. They were unarmed innocents. By the time the Stones came on everybody was wired up. During his testimony, Passaro said he had acted in what he believed to be self-defense. And Im bum kicked about the whole thing. He gets three hundred dollars and Im in here for fucking eight and a half. To sit around on your ass some more like I done in here? 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. 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. . St. Petersburg. 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 murder indictment. Just one week before the trial began, on December 14th, they caught this valuable witness.When Cox took the witness stand he was wearing a double-breasted, dark-blue coat with brassy buttons and white twill pants slightly flared at the bottom: the kind of clothes the heroes of British light operas used to wear 30 years ago to produce a blithe yachting flavor. I did what I thought was right. Hes five now.), The jurors, after 12 1/2 hours of deliberation, rejected Burkes argument that Passaro was guilty of premeditated murder because: He goes at a man with a gun into a position of danger, and he does that when he says hes afraid., Perhaps they went along with Walkers argument that someone else stabbed Hunter. Via Rolling Stone. There is a problem with your email/password. But the murder trial that grew out of it was full of exasperating, grubby Little People. He may be in for eight years. Person hired to promote new 'Scream' movie prompts 911 calls. After that happened, we got the fire out. And everything was cool. Meredith was killed as the Stones played, the horror recorded onGimme Shelter, David and Albert Maysless documentary. But when Passaro took the stand he said Hunter had fired his gun just before a knife, or knives, made hamburger of his back. (When Sheriff Frank Madigan was asked about this he said: All we had at first was a report that someone was injured there, and when we got there we found a deceased person.). 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. Above, in Gay Nineties script, was the legend: Hells Angels, Frisco, California.. Five months after the drowning death of Brian Jones, a music festival held near San Francisco turned murderous, smothering Aquarius and its political anthems with a handful of apocalyptic screen images, "restless youth" seemingly devouring itself. 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" And, if youre honest, youll just drag up from the depths all the times youve hated or felt passionately about something and play it. However, a close examination of the film revealed that Hunter had pulled a gun first. They used the club for publicity for this movie of theirs. Altamont itself was heroic an epic as Wagnerian in stature as the Nuremberg rally had been: closing out an era with a bang, not a whimper. I think it illustrates the difference between the two countries. Charged with murder, Passar. It shot my whole theory of dont trust anyone over 30. I mean I dont know none of them. He was afraid it would make him look like a sissy.. . Motorcycles crowd the field at the infamous Gimme Shelter rock concert featuring the Rolling Stones. And the defense attorney, George G. Walker, used some of his 20 peremptory challenges to get rid of other black prospects. A system error has occurred. And they knew him from his movie role. Yes I have a dark side, doesnt everyone? But shortly afterward, Cox maneuvered the witness into saying a hitchhiker at Altamont offered me a hit. The defense attorney smiled and glanced toward the jury. Still, 45 days after the homicide, lots of people, even lawyers and newspapermen, were reading what Cox told John Burks in Rolling Stone. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. As for the show, here is how Robert Hatch, writing about Gimme Shelter in The Nation, saw Mick Jagger: 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 jury selection game is combination chess and poker. I know some of them hit people. But Richards was playing to the home crowd. He was a notorious member of the Hells Angels biker gang. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. Looking back I dont think it was a good idea to have Hells Angels there. Family members linked to this person will appear here. He and his brothers had given their proof abundantly that afternoon. He made himself comfortable in the witness chair, letting his well-muscled legs fall wide apart. Donovan said they talked to 1100 persons and showed them photographs of possible suspects. In 2008, FBI agent Mark Young revealed that the Hells Angels plotted to kill Mick Jagger in the aftermath of the incident, angered when Jagger went on the record as saying hed never again hire the Angels to provide security. He was released from jail about a year ago, police said. Wonderful. You can send a murderer down for years and sleep at night; but sending a man to his death requires a different mind set. 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. They helped us with money for the lawyer. Burks explained: I didnt say anything. I think he has a cause of action, the noted compensation lawyer said. 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. Walker stood up and asked him why he had taken off the windbreaker jacket hed been wearing. 1980) Dec. 13, 1980. A brat. And that made it personalYou know what? You have chosen this person to be their own family member. Cox pointed to the table where Passaro was sitting with his lawyer. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. View. Talk about color! I probably was a little excited talking to him.), The contrasts in Coxs testimony with what he reported over the phone to Burks pretty much decimated him as a witness. And a lot of time there was six or seven Angels on one guy, and a lot of times there wasnt. But Meredith Hunter was packing a double-barrelled gun. The attack that was caught on film and featured in the documentary Gimme Shelter, and Hunter died at the scene. And Im going to ride and ride. 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. Thats the difference.. The incident was caught on camera and became a central scene in the Maysles Brothers documentary Gimme Shelter. 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. And we got the fire put out. 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. Passaro was acquitted. Meredith Hunter succumbed to deadly knife wounds, inflicted on him by Alan Passaro, a member of the Hells Angels biker gang. Sergeant Donovan even gave up his Thanksgiving holiday so he could go out to Coxs home and catch him with a subpoena. Alan Passaro was not guilty. It looked like he was blocking the view . 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? This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? alan david passaro drowning. How do you describe love?). 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. I didnt go there to fight. Make sure that the file is a photo. During a performance by The Rolling Stones, Meredith Hunter, 18, was stabbed and beaten to death in front of the stage by Alan David Passaro, a member of the Hells Angels (the motorcycle club was . Year should not be greater than current year. The apprehended cameraman, Baird Bryant, folded his hands and waited for Walker to use him in his portrayal of the stonedness of the prosecution case. As the day went on, the crowd, which numbered some 300,000, descended into a madness fueled by drugs and alcohol. Cox had the morning off the next day, when Judge Hayes let some police officials tell about their bad experiences with Angels. On December 6, 1969, he killed audience member Meredith Hunter at the Altamont Speedway in California, during a concert by the Rolling Stones. 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. 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. Please reset your password. But when all of the Big People and the 300,000 pilgrims had gone home, there was only that wasteland of tromped-on, pissed-on grass, lost beads, lost earrings, lost panties and broken bottles. Utter balls, of course. Let them take care of their own. And my kid. Question by Walker: Would you know what I meant if I said Mr. Ive played a lot of evil, ball-breaking women. You can always change this later in your Account settings. Even the gun of Meredith Hunter was lost on the field of Altamont: as he lay dying on his stomach, somebody stole it. Alan Passaro was born on 23 August 1948 in Farrell, Pennsylvania, USA. But I dont really want to be. When violence broke out, Keith Richards was unprepared: The violence just in front of the stage was incredible. 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. Did that alter the trials outcome? Walker told the jury: Under the theory of self-defense, he [Passaro] could have struck all five of those blows if that was necessary to subdue that man.. To stab him five times is thoroughly defensive. Live. Burks Burke Burks Burke Burks Burke. I aint never going to ever pretend to be a cop. This tentative young man in his light-opera costume was very embarrassed by the contradictions. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Seal pup returned to water after crossing busy New Jersey road. I think maybe a 71 PX. Try again. Then he was stabbed. You can also support us by signing up to our Mailing List. After 17 days of testimony, 22-year-old Alan Passaro found not guilty in the stabbing death of 18-year-old Meredith Hunter By Rolling Stone February 18, 1971 The Rolling Stones onstage at The. 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. Everybodys having a good, good time. Youll get your face kicked. Hells Angels flank the stage. When The Stones lead singer Mick Jagger spoke out against the biker gang following the incident, they hatched a plot to murder him. 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