Everybody's Heard Of The Rolling Stones Free Concert At Altamont Speedway In California, Where The Hells Angels Stabbed A Spectator To Death, But...

..... how many knew that the victim was an 18 year-old African American male named Meredith Hunter, who came to the show dressed like a pimp with his white girlfriend, and in possession of a .22 revolver, which he brandished at Mick Jagger while the band was trying to perform "Under My Thumb" ?

And (the plot thickens), how many reading here knew that Alan Passaro (Aug. 1948 - March 1985), the white Hells Angel who was tried for Hunter's Dec. 6th, 1969 stabbing death, was acquitted by a San Francisco jury in 1971, after the jury saw footage of the incident?

Plus: Meredith Hunter's mother sued the Rolling Stones for millions, but she lost on the strength of the footage shot by "Gimme Shelter" filmmaker David Maysles, which clearly shows that her boy Hunter was on a murderous rampage.

The Rolling Stones eventually gave Meredith Hunter's mother ten thousand dollars.



The New York Times: Has Absolutely Nothing To Do With This Story RIght Now, But I'm Sure That If They Did They Would Muddle Up The Facts Just Fine