This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. He gets three hundred dollars and Im in here for fucking eight and a half. The attack that was caught on film and featured in the documentary Gimme Shelter, and Hunter died at the scene. Alan Passaro died in 1985 after drowning in the Anderson Reservoir in Santa Clara County. Alan Passaro, 21, was the Angel arrested and charged with murder. Criminal. Dont ask me to police nothing. Violence had already marred the event. Resend Activation Email. I tried to shake the gun loose. He said he struck at Hunter twice with the knife and later was riding the black teenager, who was dead on his back. And everybody started climbing all over him and I was knocked away and I couldnt see the guy no more. And when the concert was over he helped pack up all the instruments, jumped on his bike and rode home. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. I know some of them hit people. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. We picked him up and passed him over to the medics. (Maybe you can beat on a cop and get away with it, but dont beat on no Hells Angel. A system error has occurred. By the time the Stones came on everybody was wired up. She gave in during the last hour of deliberation. So I told them to back up so we can get this fire out. Sure, the Angels tie into the rock culture as far as the music goes. 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. (You know in November Im going to go before the Adult Authority for them to set my sentence and theyre going to stick all kinds of shit on my jacket [prison file] racist, Nazi-affiliated, and all. But the murder trial that grew out of it was full of exasperating, grubby Little People. Since he was so scared of Hunter, and his avowed purpose was to get the gun, did he use the knife on Hunter to get the gun? He made himself comfortable in the witness chair, letting his well-muscled legs fall wide apart. Mick Jagger, he put it all on the Angels. I did what I thought was right. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. Right, film people, lets do something! Jagger proclaims. He died on 29 March 1985 in Morgan Hill, California, USA. St. Petersburg. We parked where we were told we were supposed to park. 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.. , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Meredith Hunter was not the only fan to lose his life at the show. I got where I hated the beauty business, she said, and he got where he hated the barber business. But the patrol has no hesitation about moving in on last-minute situations caused by anti-war demonstrators. During his testimony, Passaro said he had acted in what he believed to be self-defense. And they been using me since. But it seems more likely that they concluded that Passaro stabbed the victim but in doing so was committing justifiable homicide. We ended up getting a great law and order jury, said John Burke, the deputy D.A. 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 consider making a donation to our site. featured in Gimme Shelter, the film by David Maysles and Charlotte Zwering which . Cox testified on three days. DONATE, Before the money moved in, Kings Cross was a place for born-and-bred locals, clubs and crime, See what really went on during that time in NYC's topless go-go bars, Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music. May 11, 2022 . The trial began 370 days after the killing. 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. Little Richards Ugly Exploitation by the Music Industry Is Laid Bare And he said Hunter not only waved his gun, but fired it. The Hells Angels, a rowdy crowd, and a poorly-arranged venue all conspired to turn a multi-band extravaganza, headlined by the Rolling Stones, into a violent and even deadly debacle. And my kid. Everybodys having a good, good time. No, things havent gone the way Alan and Celeste would have liked best. And you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The trouble is its a problem for us either way. The concert, which aimed to be a Woodstock of the West instead managed to be the death knell of the hippie generation. I been riding bikes since I was 14. Contribute Who is Alan Passaro dating? This was an unexpected event (Walker said the D.A. The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time After 17 days of testimony, 22-year-old Alan Passaro found not guilty in the stabbing death of 18-year-old Meredith Hunter. A Hells Angel had knocked out Jefferson Airplanes Marty Balin. All Pictures results for Alan David Passaro. The film clip, from Gimme Shelter, the Maysles documentary of the Stones tour, was also run many times during the course of the trial. Statute book says Im out in November. Prosecutors say the contractor, 40-year-old David Passaro, repeatedly beat the man before . A brat. The prosecution could round up only one witness from the multitudes near the stabbing who would testify against Passaro. His blonde-haired, soft-speaking wife. 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. (At Altamont that day, he said, I was just doing what I had to do. His attorney, George G. Walker, told the press that the verdict reaffirms my belief in the jury system., Trending soon began to think of something more than himself? Other witnesses testified that Hunter had harassed members of the Angels who had been hired to guard the stage and had allegedly drawn a gun after being shoved around by several Angels. And everything was cool. The scavengers pawed over the ground as once thieves had ransacked the bodies of the soldiers on the field of Waterloo. Chopped. It was meant to be a west coast Woodstock, but today we remember it as the "end" of the '60s: Altamont. I read a lot in here, he said. Learn more about merges. To stab him five times is thoroughly defensive. 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. And I aint no peace freak not by no sense of that word peace. Somebody get my face and Ill get theirs. 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. They took me to lunch and made sure I ate.. He and his brothers had given their proof abundantly that afternoon. You can send a murderer down for years and sleep at night; but sending a man to his death requires a different mind set. And it was evident, as the month-long trial went on, that he had succeeded as a husband. 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. When I was in the hole I read The Trial. Oops, some error occurred while uploading your photo(s). The people moved back in again.. (I dont know Jagger but I think hes a punk. Some of his colleagues thought that would help him figuring that Angels are neither for law nor order. Born August 23, 1948 Died March 29, 1985 (36) Add or change photo on IMDbPro Add to list Photos Known for Gimme Shelter 7.8 Self - Hell's Angel Who Stabs Meredith Hunter (uncredited) 1970 Credits Edit IMDbPro Self All Rights reserved. 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. (One not filmed byGeorge Lucas because his camera broke.). A North Carolina jury convicted a former CIA contractor of assaulting a detainee in Afghanistan. But there aint nobody gonna take anything I got and try to destroy it. Since the guy he shot was a fugitive at the time, we couldnt take him to a doctor or an emergency ward. . Please try again later. a scene at a helipad on a pier on San Francisco Bay. cemeteries found in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, USA will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. I stuck it [the knife] in the ground, cleaned it off.. In 1980, he was given a two year prison sentence on a weapons charge and federal racketeering charges in relation to his activities with the Hells Angels. Try again later. Aint nobody gonna kick my motorcycle. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. 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). His death was labeled suspicious, but has gone unprosecuted. 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. Try again later. And ride. Hunter was black. Still, 45 days after the homicide, lots of people, even lawyers and newspapermen, were reading what Cox told John Burks in Rolling Stone. But Angels big shot Sonny Barger says this is untrue. The event turned into a disaster when a member of the Hells Angels, who had been hired as security, stabbed a gun-toting audience member. Public Member Photos & Scanned Documents. He was lucky that Walker had spared him the full Angel treatment. 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 . Family members linked to this person will appear here. Passaro, himself, was pessimistic. 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. 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 during the murder, but it was 'Under My Thumb,' that was playing. The people were packed right up to the stage. Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. A lot of guys just hang up their paroles at the gates. Well, Mr.Bryant, did you see what the cops and the D.A. 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. His conversation did not sound disoriented. What did Cox mean by agreeing with everything he said? He was released from jail about a year ago, police said. Motorcycles crowd the field at the infamous Gimme Shelter rock concert featuring the Rolling Stones. (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.). When Walker took this case, the Las Vegas odds makers probably would have bet 100 to one against him. Are you familiar with the jargon Im using? 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