The people were packed right up to the stage. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. [1] Charged with murder, Passaro was tried in a court of law in January 1971. it looked as if he fell to the ground and the crowd was on him.. Our site is an advertising supported site. The D.A. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. 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. And he said Hunter not only waved his gun, but fired it. 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 was arrested and charged but he claimed self-defense and he was later accquitted. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time A panel of 60 persons was called to the courtroom of Alameda County Superior Court Judge William J.Hayes in a courthouse that looks like a half-ruined wedding cake, and is located on the shore of the only pretty thing in downtown Oakland, Lake Merritt. 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. And my kid. The sheriffs people got it by contacting an inspector in the San Francisco police department who specializes in Hells Angels. 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. He was released from jail about a year ago, police said. . Hells Angels flank the stage. A natural film extra! This account has been disabled. 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. Let them take care of their own. They know theyre coming back. A man must not show feelings. Mr.Bryant, did you see blood, did you see a gun flash? Now I dont know if you think we pay fifty dollars for them things, or steal them, or pay a lot for them, or what. Mostly I just read philosophy and psychology and wait for my wife to come down. Celeste said she herself wasnt crazy about his joining the Angels. The psychologists and sociologists of America are very good at night writing Ph.D. theses about the alienation of the young. The authorities in public power are very good at boycotting the people-hood of the young. Prosecutors say the contractor, 40-year-old David Passaro, repeatedly beat the man before . A Hells Angel had knocked out Jefferson Airplanes Marty Balin. David A. Passaro, of Lillington, N.C., is shown in this undated handout family photo provided by WRAL TV in Raleigh, N.C. Passaro, a former Army ranger hired by the CIA to conduct interrogations . hes got his big red tongue out and is licking his lips. 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. Walker brought out not only inconsistency but evasiveness when he interrogated Cox about the semantics of the marijuana subculture. 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). 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. And that made it personalYou know what? There were some sensitive verbal exchanges, too. This story is from the February 18th, 1971 issue of Rolling Stone. And the defense attorney, George G. Walker, used some of his 20 peremptory challenges to get rid of other black prospects. Contribute Who is Alan Passaro dating? Chopped. 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. Passaro was charged with murder, but acquitted on the basis of self defense. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. All Pictures results for Alan David Passaro. He and his brothers had given their proof abundantly that afternoon. 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. You ought to see it, its wild.. Meredith Hunter succumbed to deadly knife wounds, inflicted on him by Alan Passaro, a member of the Hells Angels biker gang. The bike had caught fire. There was a problem getting your location. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. The witness knew the language of the dopeloving underground. 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. 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! . Mick Jagger, he put it all on the Angels. Failed to remove flower. When I was in the hole I read The Trial. Or was it the big gun that riled them? You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Alan's lifetime. I do care for a lot of the people because they are down to earth. Another Harley. Try again. The Rolling Stones onstage at The Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California on December 6, 1969. Jagger comes sweeping in, surveys the unruly scene. They saw the Angel hard on that quarry on his like a naked African hunter moving out of hunger on a giraffe, moving with just as sharp a reflex as the wanted animal had and having only one advantage, the knife. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. 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. There were 300,000 people in front of that stage that day, but it was so hard to get any eye witness, let alone keep him. His initial charge was met with a beating from the bikers, who chased him back. Alan Passaro, 21, was the Angel arrested and charged with murder. . Please try again later. We don't want to rely on ads to bring you the best of visual culture. Personally, I was there to sit on the stage and listen and drink this beer that we were promised. He gets three hundred dollars and Im in here for fucking eight and a half. And, after that, they tried to destroy our bikes, and were not gonna stand for it. And where was the Alameda country health department? Meredith Hunter was the 18-year-old stabbed to death by a Hells Angel at The Rolling Stones Altamont Free Concert on December 6 1969. 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. 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. Others say the Stones hired the Angels to protect them, and maybe also some of the other acts, like Santana, Jefferson Airplane and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. The film clip, from Gimme Shelter, the Maysles documentary of the Stones tour, was also run many times during the course of the trial. This time peace and love did not win out. We ended up getting a great law and order jury, said John Burke, the deputy D.A. You can also support us by signing up to our Mailing List. It looked like he was pulled off of position., It was someone out of the crowd. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. Burke: Why did you strike at Hunter with a knife?. I dont know shit about Belli.), Editors picks Please consider making a donation to our site. Yes I have a dark side, doesnt everyone? (When I get out Im going to get another chop. Burke asked him if he knew who the man was whom he saw stab Hunter twice. We parked where we were told we were supposed to park. Passaro was charged with murder, but acquitted on the basis of self defense. In 1969, The Rolling Stones headlined a concert at the Altamont Speedway in California. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Name: Alan David Passaro. So I plead guilty and its straight off the streets and into the pen. His conversation did not sound disoriented. What did Cox mean by agreeing with everything he said? googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('Unit4'); }); The killing at the Altamont Speedway in northern Californiawas caught on camera. He was found dead floating in the Anderson Reservoir with $10,000 in his pocket in 1985. The victim died after being beaten severely during an interrogation by David Passaro, who was once . 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. Learn more about merges. . And you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. A brat. He kept getting in trouble with the law. 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. Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. As John Burke said: The movie was the whole thing. The jurors saw that movie footage about twenty times during the next four weeks. Carter said that eight helmeted sheriffs deputies got through to the murder scene that evening, took one look around, looked at Hunter and saw he was indeed dead, and hightailed it out of that agglutinated mass of longhairs, naked freak-outs, beaten-up kids, Angels, and bum-tripped people in all kinds of costumes that clean-cut kids wouldnt be caught dead in. . Meredith Hunter was not the only fan to lose his life at the show. Even when he fell in love - and that was frequently - he was never submerged by disappointment. This gun, like the witnesses, did little or nothing for the prosecution. The incident was caught on camera and became a central scene in the Maysles Brothers documentary Gimme Shelter. Record information. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. Live Death Statistics Worldwide and The United States. The Altamont Free Concert took place just four months after Woodstock. 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. Please reset your password. I read Fromm, Understanding of Dreams. I read a lot in here, he said. This was an unexpected event (Walker said the D.A. One of the objects shown to the jury was a 22-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver with a six-inch barrel. Oops, we were unable to send the email. In 1948, in the year that Alan Passaro was born, on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. It shot my whole theory of dont trust anyone over 30. I mean I dont know none of them. 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. During his testimony, Passaro said he had acted in what he believed to be self-defense. . 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. We have set your language to 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. Passaro was arrested and charged but he claimed self-defense and he was later accquitted. Little Richards Ugly Exploitation by the Music Industry Is Laid Bare About Alan Passaro is a member of the following lists: 1948 births, Deaths by drowning and 1985 deaths. The 100 Best Albums of 2022. They were unarmed innocents. Belli said he had filed the suit on behalf of Passaro and expected to win a substantial amount in damages for using Passaro as a movie star without his consent. Scientists believe they've found untapped helium reserves, Extra food support ends for millions of low-income U.S. taxpayers, Man arrested after explosive device found in his luggage at Pennsylvania airport. Cox testified on three days. Immediately after the trial, Passaro was returned to jail. 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. And you know what? March 1 (UPI) -- A North Carolina woman found out she had won a $1 million Powerball prize just hours before celebrating her 58th birthday. 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. Sergeant Donovan told the jury: When I received a copy of the Stones newspaper I read it over and over again.. 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. You can always change this later in your Account settings. But there were about 10 or 20 who were completely out of their minds trying to drive their motorcycles through the middle of the crowds. But they might have done. 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. Alan Passaro girlfriend, wife list. Year should not be greater than current year. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. But it seems more likely that they concluded that Passaro stabbed the victim but in doing so was committing justifiable homicide. But when Passaro took the stand he said Hunter had fired his gun just before a knife, or knives, made hamburger of his back. By the time I got to Hunter he had already been stabbed. He plants a kiss on her forehead and steps away. Alan and Celeste got themselves a nice, two-bedroom house in San Jose. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. His death was labeled suspicious, but has gone unprosecuted. He asked Bryant: If you smoked a couple of numbers would you know what that meant? 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 . 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? Jagger laughs at his disobedient drummer. March 1 (UPI) -- A trio of engineers broke a Guinness World Record when they created and threw a paper airplane that flew a distance of 289 feet and 9 inches. 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. Jensen goofed. But we had them at the suggestion of the Grateful Dead. 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 died on March 29, 1985 in Morgan Hill, California, USA. 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. The story goes that the Angles were hired by headline act The Grateful Dead for security. 1948 Alan Passaro was born on August 23, 1948 in Farrell, Pennsylvania, USA as Alan David Passaro. A MediaComms.IO company. Last of three loose bison rounded up in Maine. Alan Passaro died in 1985 after drowning in the Anderson Reservoir in Santa Clara County His death was labeled suspicious, but has gone unprosecuted In 2008, . Marriage & Divorce. Rolling Stones to Release All-Star 50th Anniversary Show as Live Album. All I know is that Hunter was up on the stage, got knocked off; a gun was flashed and fired. Are you familiar with the jargon Im using? Walker worked on this theme with Paul Cox and other prosecution witnesses. Via Rolling Stone. 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. But here was a case where the victim was black and the accused was a Hells Angel: the devil and the deep blue sea. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? He worked for awhile at Daltons Barber Shop in Milpitas, a few miles away. It looked like he was blocking the view . I stuck it [the knife] in the ground, cleaned it off.. (He said he had to sell his bike to help pay Walkers legal fee. But they moved them people back out of the way of the bike. But as the months went by, the fright built up in him. But Meredith Hunter was packing a double-barrelled gun. The Grateful Dead are there, cavorting in zonked-out hippie fashion, waiting for an overdue helicopter. 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 . The body of Alan D. Passaro, 36, of nearby Morgan Hill, was found by two boaters Sunday in Anderson Reservoir, about 75 miles south of San Francisco. All Rights Reserved. A lot of guys just hang up their paroles at the gates. 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. Is it a coincidence that Alan Passaro, as he heard the verdict read and yelled YEOWWWW! Alan David Passaro, 24, one of Barger's soldiers and an ex-convict, was charged with Hunter's . On his arm were needle-marks, consistent with the finding of 1.0 MG% of methamphetamine in the urine and 0.1 MG% of amphetamine in the liver. Try again later. They jury agreed with the defence that hed acted in self-defence. He was found dead floating in the Anderson Reservoir with $10,000 in his pocket in 1985. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. This tentative young man in his light-opera costume was very embarrassed by the contradictions. And we got the fire put out. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. 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