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. Try again. I saw Hunter fall down, and he was still being kicked on., Hunter said, I wasnt going to shoot.. They know theyre coming back. 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. 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. 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. If you have questions, please contact [emailprotected]. To stab him five times is thoroughly defensive. And when they come back fightin, they got thumped. He disappeared. 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. . But Meredith Hunter was packing a double-barrelled gun. Cause of death was drowning, though foul play was never confirmed. He and his brothers had given their proof abundantly that afternoon. He plants a kiss on her forehead and steps away. Alan and Celeste met when he was 17 and she was 18, seniors at a high school in Santa Clara. That was a trip. You can also support us by signing up to our Mailing List. Fans frolic at the infamous Gimme Shelter rock concert featuring the Rolling Stones at the Altamont Race Track in Livermore, California on December 8, 1969. Decided Aug. 4, 1980 Victor D. Vertner, San Jose, Cal., for defendant-appellant. (Sitting at the formica-topped table in the prison reception room, Alan Passaro was so eager to talk to Rolling Stone that he brought with him a sheet of vellum on which he had written in pencil, in a small, artistic hand, a numbered list of points he wanted to cover. Please whitelist in order to read our content as well as support our work. Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purposeto let someone know "I'm here. Family members linked to this person will appear here. About the sham of rehabilitation. They met in an art class. 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. 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. There is a problem with your email/password. 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 had the morning off the next day, when Judge Hayes let some police officials tell about their bad experiences with Angels. 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. 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. Then he was stabbed. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. Its like a machine.. Passaro, who had a history of crime, was found dead in 1985 with $10,000 in his pockets. 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. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. at bat. (Its enough to drive a man to read a psychoanalyst. Luckily for Mick, their boat was hit by a storm, and the men were swept overboard. I read a lot in here, he said. The ambiguity of his sex, the spectacle of raper and victim in one body, threw the witnesses into convulsions of excitement.. 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. He says he and his gang were told they could drink all the beer they wanted if they kept punters off the lower stage. Judge Hayes and Burke sneaked him into the courthouse and were most careful to arrange that nobody found out where he lived or anything else about him but his name. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. And that made it personalYou know what? And ride. His death was labeled suspicious, but has gone unprosecuted. By the time the Stones came on everybody was wired up. . The Grateful Dead are there, cavorting in zonked-out hippie fashion, waiting for an overdue helicopter. Right, film people, lets do something! Jagger proclaims. What is this? Jagger was singing Under My Thumb when the Hells Angels bravely moved quickly toward the gunman. The defense strategy also worked the racial theme. We picked him up and passed him over to the medics. (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. And they been using me since. Here is how Robert Hatch, writing about Gimme Shelter in The Nation, saw Mick Jagger as he was filmed at Altamont: 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. Four people died during violence at the concert, which was billed as Woodstock West and drew 300,000 fans. 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. Please contact Find a Grave at [emailprotected] if you need help resetting your password. Meredith Hunter was not the only fan to lose his life at the show. 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. But the brotherhood and its mystique sprawling between all of the establishments and the mediaeval rigidity of the old German duelling fraternities pulled more strongly. Walker brought out not only inconsistency but evasiveness when he interrogated Cox about the semantics of the marijuana subculture. 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. On the first day of the trial, a score of Angels showed up in full parade dress. Hunter did a couple of numbers and he was straight like the rest of us ?, Cox: I dont really understand the question., Judge: Do you understand what the words mean?, Cox: Straight means someone with straight ideas., Judge: Have you used those words yourself?, Cox: Ive had someone ask me if Id had a number. 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. . Part of the movie was shown, without sound, to a jury trying Alan David Passaro, an Angel, on a charge of murder. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('Unit4'); }); The killing at the Altamont Speedway in northern Californiawas caught on camera. Meredith Hunter succumbed to deadly knife wounds, inflicted on him by Alan Passaro, a member of the Hells Angels biker gang. He was whipping around the road in a car full of shit and a load of weed and a known prostitute. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? Live Death Statistics Worldwide and The United States. 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. Later, a fan was stabbed to death by a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club 8 Dec 1969. Nobodyd back up. Full custom. Love is much more of a deeper thing than that, he replies, with mock hauteur, although he clearly kind of means it too. The bike people have bonds that are deeper than patriotism and tie them tightly into a brotherhood that is as spontaneous as a twitching nerve in a wounded mans back; their protective way of loving roots down toward the watery beginnings of our lives, where mother and child are one. Resend Activation Email. Let them take care of their own. But they might have done. No, things havent gone the way Alan and Celeste would have liked best. The incident was caught on camera and became a central scene in the Maysles Brothers documentary Gimme Shelter. Public Member Photos & Scanned Documents. Failed to remove flower. GREAT NEWS! Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? 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. 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. Even when he fell in love - and that was frequently - he was never submerged by disappointment. Passaro, himself, was pessimistic. Alan Passaro died in 1985 after drowning in the Anderson Reservoir in Santa Clara County. And if you got to go through fifty people to get to him, youre gonna get to him. It looked like he was blocking the view . Alan Passaro girlfriend, wife list. The police listed five stab wounds on Hunters back of the body, nine on the head, and two on the neck. Contribute Who is Alan Passaro dating? He died on 29 March 1985 in Morgan Hill, California, USA. A lot of guys just hang up their paroles at the gates. Twowere killed by hit-and-run car accidents and one by drowning in an irrigation canal. Live. Age 36 at death Zodiac Leo Alan Passaro dating history Relationships We have no records of past relationships for Alan Passaro. Following 17 days of testimony, an eight-man, four-woman jury deliberated for 12 and a half hours before Passaro was acquitted on grounds of self-defense . And there was gleaming Meredith Hunter in his lovely green suit, so photogenically high on a speaker box, so close to the stage. Nobody asked him if the siren on his patrol car was busted. 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. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? Criminal. Immediately after the trial, Passaro was returned to jail. 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. 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 . When violence broke out, Keith Richards was unprepared: The violence just in front of the stage was incredible. As soon as Burke got through with this reluctant witness, George Walker zoomed in to develop one of his favorite themes: That everybody around the Altamont stage had been so stoned nobody would know who was stabbing whom. All I know is that Hunter was up on the stage, got knocked off; a gun was flashed and fired. 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