Patrick from the programmed to kill (lolfieldlove) is a good guy. He wanted me to do an interview with him about the Dahmer/Gacy info I gave him for that episode. Professor here's another thing you can add to your Clinton podcasts in the future. Larry Eylers defense attorney David Schippers was the attorney who first filed the impeachment papers on Bill Clinton about his Lewinsky affair. I found that interesting.
UPDATE JonBenét's TRUE CASE HISTORY WARNING...Once you read it, you too must choose to do something to help bring justice to a tortured child's soul, or - simply do nothing! For nearly 14 years I have asked many authorities to...
look at the mountain of evidence which warrants a DNA & Left Palm print of the 3rd Santa . Remember, hours prior to her murder, JonBenét told 4 people
"Santa is coming after Christmas but it's a secret."
Know this: but for the Grace of God...there go I.
Since your blessing was...this was not your child, You are obligated to do something!
ALL questions about the JonBenét murder case are answered in this book...including who is the 3rd Santa & who protected him in order to cover-up their own crimes.
Santa (you be the judge) MURDERER OF MINE!
Finally! Justice for JonBenét Author
M'Linda Kula and her devoted, protective husband Thomas Kula
Additional Supporting Evidence The 3rd Santa's name was William (Bill) Ramsey prior to JonBenét's murder. Immediately following his Christmas 1996 vacation, he changed his name and has since changed it again, multiple times. His two friends have been constant companions of his for several years (previous to the time of the crime and continuing to the present). However, after the murder, one of these friends vehemently denied any knowledge whatsoever of the alleged murderer when the police questioned: "Do you know this person?" It should be noted that the friend's application to the Karate school, in his own handwriting, states that he was referred to this school by his friend, the alleged murderer. One must ask why this friend lied to the police about his friendship and personal knowledge of the alleged murderer. A copy of the application was given to one detective. The visible truth left that detective speechless. By his own words, annual Christmas trips to the west were to visit his father in order to retrieve a large sum of money (his inheritance) (enough to sustain him for one year). He specified $118,000 was the expected amount in 1996 as mentioned in the JonBenét ransom note. He said this money was given to him to ensure his absence from his father for another year.
He proclaimed himself to be the "black sheep of a very wealthy family," before his 1996 trip.
He purchased the Hi-TEC boots just prior to the 1996 Christmas trip (same sole print as found next to JonBenét's body.)
He possessed a three-prong stun gun, as used on the victim's body (lower left back and lower left leg).
He practiced use of a stun gun on his friend's Doberman Pinscher. That friend is a convicted pedophile who molested over 53 children while simultaneously teaching the local police "tactical self-defense training techniques."
The relationship between the child molesting teacher and his adult students (area police), may be why the aforementioned information was not pursued for at least 18 months after the police had been alerted to this alleged pedophile. This friend is now doing time for a mere handful (9 counts) of the crimes that he has committed.
His duplicate application to the Karate school has the suspect's handwriting sample. It matches the handwriting on the ransom note. There is one letter of the alphabet that stands out as being so unique that one in ten million would print or write this particular letter in such an unusual fashion. This rare style of writing this particular letter appears on both the application and the ransom note. According to a forensic criminologist with over 25 years of experience, he has never seen this particular letter written in this fashion, there is no doubt in his mind that the same person wrote both documents. It also appears on the cover of a VHS tape titled, "The Seven Deadly Sins."
In 1996 only the original 1952 Jean Luc-Godard movie version was on VHS
(Brad Pitt remake was still in the theaters in 1996, VHS Release date was not until August 26, 1997) www.imdb.com/title/tt0044025/
Note, the word "pride." This is very symbolic of why JonBenét died. Hmmmmmm!
A hand-carved, hand-painted, miniature Karate wood Training Sword (sealed with glistening lacquer), was stolen from the Karate school where he took classes prior to the crime. This sword matches the wood stick in the autopsy report used to complete the garrote. It is also described as a paintbrush handle; however, paintbrush handles are not finished with glistening lacquer. Nothing else, but THIS WOODEN SWORD would cause a V-shaped skull fracture to JonBenét.
The 3rd Santa, to this date, CONTINUALLY CHANGES HIS FIRST AND LAST NAME, I.E. William (Bill) Ramsey, then Larry Rohn and he is now currently going by Bill Rohn. He also continually changes his appearance and his residence, but never leaves his township! One must ask why he feels so safe in this particular township!
This very strong person of interest has had
FIVE COMPLETE NAME CHANGES SINCE THE MURDER
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE MURDER HE CHANGED THE PAINT COLOR OF HIS FORD RANGER PICKUP FROM BLACK TO RED
In the early days of the investigation he knew the personal nickname John and Patsy Ramsey used for JonBenet (Johnny B). Only family members were privy to this information.
Yet YOU STILL HAVE
NOT INVESTIGATED
THIS SUSPECT?!
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I don't have any specific knowledge of the church, but like you, I developed a suspicion that it was some kind of meeting ground for a pedophile group/cult after researching the case for a while. My suspicion was that the decision to call in the Whites, the Fernies, Father Rol Holverstock, and Dr. Francis Beuf to the Ramsey home that morning was to pollute the crime scene, allowing for any forensic evidence of their presence (likely from the staging done that night into the early morning) to be explained. There are signs that all of them were acting in lockstep, like Linda Arndt's observation that none of them cared about the 10 AM deadline passing with no phone call, and Dr. Beuf, who appears to have covered up JonBenet's long-term sexual abuse, supplying Patsy (not a patient of his!) painkillers. So to find out that every one of them other than the Whites was part of the same church in Boulder certainly raised red flags. One old Justice Watch post from 2000 even speculated along these lines:
I hate to lose credibility with the "normal" folks of the forum...but with the new MW info, and the old Moe information...and the tal jones connection with the story above to enlighten me with thoughts I'd be happy to have never considered, the fact that their minister got there PDQ...I'm leaning toward some sort of church cult that these people all belonged to...as well as other power brokers in Boulder, where jbr was on the altar and "this was't supposed to happen".
As I read this, the thought came into my mind for the first time that the death of JonBenet actually happened at St. John's Episcopal Church in Boulder, CO, which was being used as a front for Satanists in Boulder. I include the Ramseys and the Whites and the Fernies and the Stines, Rolland Hoverstock and others as being Satanists in Boulder. Just thinking aloud here, a Christmas day party happens at the residence of Fleet White Jr. and Priscilla White and then late that night a core group of people remaining from that party go to St. John's for a late night Satanic ritual. I have always noted that the timing of the death is an important one to Satanists. Christmas night at midnight has special significance to them. And where would they hold such a ritual? In the home of Fleet White Jr. or in that Satanic front Church? I can see JonBenet being ritually sexually abused on an alter in that church. But if it was held this way then it becomes much more likely that it was not an accidental death but a sacrifice. I need to contemplate this more but already I am seeing it as being a very real possibility. Speaking of Rolland Hoverstock, whenever I see his picture I get the vibes that the man was a total sleazebag. Could he have been some of kind of Satanic high priest in this Boulder cult? Just a thought.
Helter Skelter: An American Myth, a six-part docuseries about Charles Manson exec produced by Greg Berlanti, has been pushed back by Epix.
The series was previously planned to debut on June 14 and the MGM-owned network has not yet set a replacement date.
Deadline understands the network didn’t feel it was an appropriate time to release the series given the subject matter – Charles Manson planned to incite a race war called Helter Skelter.
The series comes 50 years after the murder of Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojtek Frykowski and Steven Parent and Manson’s subsequent trial. It will chronicle the Manson Family history, featuring never-before-accessed interviews from former family members and journalists first on the scene and in the courtroom, with archival footage and newly-unearthed images.
It is executive produced by Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter for Berlanti Productions, Eli Frankel for Rogue Atlas Productions and is produced in association with Warner Horizon Unscripted Television. Lesley Chilcott, producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, will direct as well serve as executive producer.
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Leonard while working as a "teacher" IN THE CALIFORNIA REFORM SCHOOL SYSTEM. Some of the Polaroids of young girls found in Lake's "murder bunker" were taken INSIDE SOME OF THE SCHOOLS WHERE SHE TAUGHT. Again, so what? Well, a lot of the Manson girls (and tangential victims, suspects, etc) spent time in the California reform school system, and probably met each other there. Ask any former juvenile delinquent what goes on in the reform school system. It didn't just start the day Van Houten and Atkins walked in, and stop the day Klaralyn walked out.
There's only one underworld. And everyone we're investigating was and is in it.
All makes sense.
17 years ago - ex wife decides we need to become "Foster Care" parents to at risk teenagers (who are mandatory removed from their families if parents are involved in any crime- drugs, incest, etc) - so wife could stay home and earn $2500/mo tax free - via Family Care Network fcni.org/blog-categories/ceo-voice?page=2 had 5 kids go through our house in the 1st 9 months - one at a time. Started with 14 year girl who stole a car and ran away, then a teenage boy who almost set the house on fire - progressively getting younger kids who were the most violent - ended when one 10 year old boy was extremely violent, had his own entourage of FCN approved 21 year old gay male volunteers to hang out with the boy, and one time he calculated a one on one closed door situation with myself to set me up as a pedo / with goal of blackmail, then threatened me with a knife, - finally ended when ex wife had evolved into a resident Nurse Ratched. EVERY kid in the FCN System instantly had to accept a regimen of 30 pills each day, some were drug company "trials" - to make them lifelong addicts to the drug companies. The police had to be called after the last kid attacked my wife while I was at work and police had to respond- my life felt like I was living in the Franklin Coverup movie en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_Ratched
I had to bail on that short 3 year 2nd marriage and the whole situation to protect my own hide, because life as FCN Foster Parent became unbearable and an unethical ticking time bomb - I could tell it would only be a matter of time before a violent act would occur under that roof and it would be too easy for FCN to use me as a useful idiot / fall guy and id end up in prison, or end up dead.
IMHO, FCN cherry picks 5 to 10% of the cutest kids and traffics them to highest bidder.
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Post by Admin Horan on Oct 17, 2020 7:55:07 GMT -6
And the Altamont raceway park is just outside Livermore, location of a major Hells Angels "club" house. It was a main "distribution" center for HAs cocaine, meth, and weed operations. The two best suspects in the Keddie Cabin 28 murders, Henry Thompson and Chuck Walke, drove from Quincy to Livermore and back TWICE that weekend. Johnny and Dana were dropped off at the Chevron station by their friend Donna at noon Saturday. Henry's red pickup was seen there by Donna at that time. Sue Sharp picked up Johnny and Dana, and Chuck and Henry left the Chevron station and drove four hours to Kathy Goddu's house in Livermore. They stayed a grand total of 30 minutes and drove aaallll the way back. That would put them at the Chevron station at 9:15ish-9:30ish, the exact time Johnny and Dana disappeared from the Chevron station. Chuck and Henry admitted they drove to Tom Schmid's house across the backyard from Cabin 28 "later" that night, and left Keddie about 4:30ish am Sunday morning. They then apparently (according to Goddu) drove aaaallll the way back to Livermore, then back to Quincy again. As if they picked someone (or something) up, took him to Keddie, then drove him back to Livermore.
The HAs also had a clubhouse and meth lab west of Portola, on the road to Quincy. There are two roads you can take out of Quincy to get to Livermore. The routes are pretty much identical in miles and driving time. One of them goes right past that HAs clubhouse near Portola. Sue Sharp was dating a man whose father was a founding member of the HAs. And a Filipino girl from Livermore was also living--alone--in Keddie at that time. Everyone in Plumas County said that the cocaine in Plumas County was coming from Livermore. Philip Arthur Thompson was apparently the HAs hookup for the coke. One of those jailhouse snitches courts love to rely on so much fingered PAT for Keddie. PAT's side hobby was raping and murdering young girls. We don't know Tina Sharp's exact manner of death, but...Chuck Walke's brother Cary is also a convicted child rapist. Sue Sharp's "friend" Marilyn Smarttt is married to a convicted child rapist now.
Chuck and Henry's mother married into a "wealthy" (by Twin Peaks standards) family who owned a lot of timberland. An eyebrow-raising assortment of Hollyweird real estate Scientologists liked to camp and ski on their land. They had a daughter who faked her own death and moved away. Other members of the family have "disappeared." Several other teenaged girls were murdered in Plumas County in the 1970s very similar to PAT's known MO. The funny thing is, their own brothers have always been suspects. And the daughter of the owner of the Keddie resort (the Albins were only operating the resort on contract) was murdered in her parents' home in very similar fashion while her brother (a dead ringer for one of the suspects in the Keddie composite sketches) stepped out of the house for an hour. Her uncle was a prominent mob real estate lawyer in Reno. ALL of those murders remain "unsolved."
To this very day, Quincy and Keddie are notorious rat's nests for pedophiles--including those who make child porno and snuff films--on the run from John Law. So, what? Leonard Lake and his wife Klaralyn, who according to a court of "law" produced child porno and snuff films, grew weed for the HAs on his organic farm at Greenfield Ranch commune outside Ukiah, after he joined a San Fran "death cult" in the Haight in 1968ish. Lake spent a lot of time in military psych hospitals after he went "crazy" in Vietnam. One of the male nurses was Jack and Marjorie Parsons devotee "Samson de Brier."
Who the fuck else COULD have distributed any child porno or snuff films Lake made, but the HAs? Who the fuck would the HAs let into their territory to do any business with Lake? Lake also trafficked in weapons, most of them stolen from military bases. His customers? The HAs. And Lake's "missing and presumed dead" brother, Donald Allan ("Dee Ay" Lake, if you like) Lake, looks an AWFUL lot like Keddie Cabin 28 character "Dee Jay" Lake. Dee Jay Lake showed up in Plumas County juuuuuust about the time "Dee Ay" supposedly "disappeared." Donald Lake, like Shorty Shea, was not reported missing until AFTER he was reported murdered. If you ever talk to "Dee Jay" Lake, ask him who his parents were. He'll hang up.
Leonard and Klaralyn met Martin and Marilyn Smartt working for the same carnival company. The sister of one of Lake's victims was a professional dancer who worked for the same carnival company, and may have given Klaralyn herself dance lessons. She also worked a lot of the same Reno and Vegas clubs where Glenn Krell's jazz combos (including a bass player friend of Hal Snook and his wife) played and Manson's girls danced (and made pornos.) So, what? Well, Klaralyn procured girls for Leonard while working as a "teacher" IN THE CALIFORNIA REFORM SCHOOL SYSTEM. Some of the Polaroids of young girls found in Lake's "murder bunker" were taken INSIDE SOME OF THE SCHOOLS WHERE SHE TAUGHT. Again, so what? Well, a lot of the Manson girls (and tangential victims, suspects, etc) spent time in the California reform school system, and probably met each other there. Ask any former juvenile delinquent what goes on in the reform school system. It didn't just start the day Van Houten and Atkins walked in, and stop the day Klaralyn walked out.
There's only one underworld. And everyone we're investigating was and is in it.
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"When a man lies, he murders some part of the world." —Paul Gerhardt
"The Silent Shame" goes too far. NBC's somber documentary about sexual abuse of children, at 10 tonight on Channel 4, may not tell more than one needs to know about this subject, but it shows more than one needs to see. The film includes extensive examples of printed and filmed pornography involving children and, at one point, an overly graphic description of one obscene photo that is then displayed, partially covered, for the camera.
The program means to be troubling, but it is troubling in ways it may not have intended. Produced and directed by Chuck Collins, and written and reported by Mark Nykanen -- apparently the new resident gonzo at NBC News -- this investigation of child sexual abuse and of the child porno trade uses all the tools of the investigative journalist, sometimes in highly questionable ways.
Nykanen poses as a pedophile, for instance, in order to get another pedophile to discuss his desires and recall specific acts while his conversation is recorded by hidden camera and microphone. Then Nykanen reveals his identity and accosts the man: "Are you willing to grant that you possibly traumatized these children?"
In Holland, where much child pornography is produced and exported, Nykanen poses as a pornographer and makes a deal with a couple for the printing and distribution of obscene films, again on concealed camera. Outside, he announces his identity and badgers the couple. Then he runs off to the police station with his evidence. "But the Dutch will not act," he had complained earlier.
Isn't this vigilante journalism, if journalism at all?
A U.S. postal sting operation that unearthed pedophiles is also revealed -- "for the first time," Nykanen boasts. The Post Office began printing a phony "Crusaders for Sexual Freedom" newsletter to lure offenders into revealing themselves. The project certainly carries overtones of entrapment, but Nykanen ignores them. This whole program ought to be fascinating viewing for the American Civil Liberties Union. If there's a Dutch Civil Liberties Union, they might be interested as well.
It isn't particularly tempting to defend the rights of child abusers, especially after headlines about such shocking cases as that of the McMartin Pre-School in Venice Beach, Calif., which is mentioned here, and another such case in New York, which isn't. Nykanen, however, does everything but make citizens' arrests. There is also footage of police arresting suspects and searching their apartments with network cameras following dutifully along.
Certainly the problem is alarming. Is it widespread enough to justify bringing it into the American mainstream of prime time? Statistics rattled off by Nykanen suggest that indeed it is. But in the pursuit of dramatizing the problem, more than an adequate number of examples are included -- photos, film clips, magazines. At a certain point, the display of lurid material becomes itself lurid. Even though hard-core material is partially obscured, there is the uncomfortable possibility that the examples are included at regular intervals in order to sustain viewer interest in the documentary.
The Reagan administration, all too typically, is trying to crack down on offenders but, Nykanen reports, has slashed federal funds to help the victims. Most of the offenders on the program seem sad and furtive and in need of help themselves (society gets off scot-free; there's nothing here about exploiting children in suggestive advertising or forcing them into premature sexual roles, and what effect that might have on the problem). When Nykanen interviews children who have been abused, seated and with their backs to the camera, the program is most effective. When it attempts to shock with generous peeks at pornographic materials, it may become what it condemns.
Larry Eyler walks free from the Lake County Jail in Illinois with his mother, Shirley DeKoff, in February 1984 on a $10,000 bail. Eyler was allowed to walk free after blood-soaked boots and a knife with blood stains on the handle were illegally obtained from his vehicle. The blood belonged to Ralph Calise. Eyler's truck tire matched a casting print from the scene.
According to Eyler -- AND LITTLE HAS TO DATE COMPLETELY DENIED ANY PART IN ANY CRIME -- Little was with him when
they picked up Steven Agan at the bus station. According to Eyler, Little wanted to make a 'snuff movie', and they decided Agan would be the victim. . . . .
Indiana State University professor Robert David Little arrives at the Vermillion County Courthouse to plead innocent to charges against him in the murder of Steve Agan in 1991. A jury would later find him not guilty.
I forgot to add that Rev. Jim Smyth being a pedophile wasn't mentioned in the book. He's portrayed as a loving man of God who hates to see children abused and out on the streets. He held quite a bit of power in the Chicago children's services as did the nun Cathy Ryan. Eylers considered himself a devout Catholic and went to basically a Catholic mental facility at 11. His mother worked for the government, and his step father worked at the Indiana state hospital. He first met Larry when Larry was 19.
I also believe the reason Bridges and Crockett were murdered was to shut them up from talking any further. Bridges and Crockett knew each other well as Crockett dated Bridges cousin. It was also stated in the book that Eyler frequented the Chicago YMCA.
Here's some notes I took from the rest of the book. Very interesting. I believe Little and Dobrovolskis were involved with these killings. They were at Eylers house most of the weekend that Danny Bridges was murdered. Eyler claims Little brought Danny over to Eylers house the night he was killed.................Dr. Frank Smith dated Eyler and proscribed him the Placidyl he used on victims. He proscribed it during the murders up to 8 months after they "broke up".
Eyler lived in fort Myers Florida with his sister in 1979. There he dated Eddie Daniels who later admits to some of the murders.
Sheriff Robert "Mickey" Babcox head of Republican Party in Lake County ILL
1970s computerized operation called "chicken delight escort service".
Nun Catherine Ryan of sisters St. Francis, executive director of Maryville, In charge of the juvenile division of circuit court. Took Danny Bridges to Maryville with the support of Daley.
Ryan took kids off the street and sent them to Maryville ran by Rev. Jim Smyth who has been accused of sex abuse and removed from ministry.
Ryan's boss was Richard M. Daley son of famous mayor Richard J Daley
Maryville was intended to be a Great Lakes version of boystown for boys and girls who were sexually abused by relatives or strangers. Smyth knew at a glance when a boy has been "hustling".
Danny lived with a man above a strip club in Lyons in an area where motorcycle gangs hung out
In Chicago Danny hung out at Joes Juice Bar.
Danny was part of a prostitution ring in High Point North Carolina
NBC flew Danny back to Chicago to work on a documentary about child prostitution and sex abuse.
Danny was a police informant on sex abuse cases. His steady contact was Norma Reyes who worked out of the juvenile court building on the west side.
His months of appearing on the stands against child molesters had a 96% conviction rate
Danny's cousin dated Steve Crockett who was killed and Eyler was accused of the murder.
Danny was held as a sex slave in an apartment basement by "Greg Lang" on north Leavitt street. Its the last time he was seen alive by friend "Sammy".
Danny was part of an NBC special on sex abuse and child prostitution.
Dobrovolskis was with Eyler in the morning meaning he was there the night before when Eyler bagged Bridges body and dumped him in his own dumpster.
Police let Dobrovolskis go because he was "just as much confused as frightened" and he passed a polygraph test.
50 boys from Marville and Rev. Smyth attended Danny's funeral
Prosecutor Mark Rakoczy and Rick Stock visited Dr. Little because they needed to establish that Eyler was alone a short time before Danny was killed. Their reasoning for this is juries become confused if they believe more than one person is involved in a crime, and yet only one man is charged. (The prosecutors purposefully made it a lone killer case knowing others were involved. My words)
Prosecutors said Littles answers seemed rehearsed
Police took pictures of Little to see if he could be linked to any of the victims, they said he couldn't. Only then did prosecutors feel confident that Eylers lawyer couldn't impeach Little from the stand.
Indiana state police stopped the investigations of all the other Indiana victims when Eyler was arrested.
Eyler first met professor Little in 1975 then moved in with him shortly after with friend James Williams.
A vice squad detective entered the courtroom during Eylers trail and noticed two men sitting as spectators who had molested Danny.
The prosecution said no semen was found on Danny and claimed he was brought to Eylers home to be murdered.
Eylers mother Shirley Dekoff worked for the federal government starting in the late 50s to early 60s (didn't specify what she did)
Eyler was sent to a catholic school for emotionally disturbed children in Ft. Wayne at 11.
Irving Dekoff director of staff development at state hospital in Richmond.
It was Melvin Belli who co-arranged the Altamont security team be the San Francisco branch of the Hells Angels - operating in the San Jose Branch's territory - which presented many issues
…and if Jagger had not insisted in keeping all of the money (ed.,from the film) the concert would have taken place at Sears Point - within the Frisco Angels territory”.
Jagger was driven by an intoxicating vision of the future where the Stones could be bigger than the Beatles. But in early 1969, the British blokes were broke.
'They belonged to one of the most popular rock bands in the world and they led luxurious, glamorous, even decadent lives, but there is nothing more pathetic than rich people without money,' Selvin writes.
Keith Richards couldn't even come up with the down payment to buy a house in London's Chelsea district.
Meanwhile, Jagger took 18 months getting his down payment together for his own house in Chelsea. And bassist Bill Wyman was signing bad checks.
The Stones had ruled the rock scene with hit singles and albums for five years - 'only surpassed by the group's sole real rival, The Beatles' - but now they were in dire financial straits.
But still on Jagger's mind was a movie about the upcoming tour. That would drive in dollars.
The movie Woodstock was going to be released and there were big bucks in licensing deals. Jagger wanted in.
Filmmakers Albert and David Maysles took the bait.
All was set for the Dead's park permit guru to clear the way for the secret show and line up support with parks commissioners for the chosen site - the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park.
The meeting was killed and suddenly a mystery man, Jon James, no one knew but who was 'a refuge from the Witness Protection Program with a background in organized crime' appeared on the scene to 'take charge of the negotiations with the city'.
When Mayor Joe Alioto got wind of the plan to use Golden Gate Park, he nixed it.
Another site had to be found and quickly because the concert had already been announced.
Sears Point Raceway outside Sonoma, 34 miles from San Francisco, was suggested as an alternative.
A thousand-acre raceway, it was well prepared to deal with large crowds, parking for 100,000 cars, toilets, concession stands, water, electricity. Security was in place and police support ready at hand.
Four days away from the scheduled date, however, raceway owner Craig Murray said he wanted all proceeds to go to Vietnamese war relief.
Equipment for the concert was being moved in, phone lines installed - until Murray realized there was no leadership.
'He saw nothing but disaster,' Selvin writes. 'Jagger dismissed the Vietnam War as an American issue.'
Filmways, the corporation that had purchased the Raceway five months earlier, learned it wasn't a free concert and demanded a $100,000 fee and distribution rights to any film.
'Jagger would not give up a nickel of the film's profits,' writes the author.
It was 'an almost miraculous site' but the Stones would not budge. The show would have to move.
Altamont Speedway's owner made a call to say his track was available – for free. He just wanted the publicity.
'It was a desolate, remote location on the edge of southern Alameda County, where fierce winds whipped through the scrub and sage grass,' Selvin writes.
It was a 'godforsaken patch of scrubby land, a landscape littered with wrecked cars, abandoned tires, oil stains, and broken glass'.
Only two patrol cars worked that jurisdiction for the Alameda County sheriff's department.
Radio reception ended at the Altamont pass and after that, deputies were on their own - with no way to call for backup.
It was up to the California Highway Patrol to help out. And with the location announced, the crowds started coming.
'Under the starless black sky, ghostly figures carrying blankets, sleeping bags and supplies wandered down Midway Road,' Selvin writes. 'Autos were piled up willy-nilly on the side of the road, parked where nobody could remember the next day.'
Fifty thousand people were filing in the night before the big show.
And the drug overdoses started being reported by the California Highway Patrol. Tens of thousands of people were stumbling around stoned in the darkness.
It was cold, dipping to 37 degrees that night, and neighboring fences and barns were being torn down for firewood to keep these people warm while smoking dope and having sex.
Bonfires were made out of the tour lighting's custom made cases that cost $3,500 a piece.
There was little food or water except what was carried in and because there were only 100 portable toilets on the grounds, concertgoers used the field they were standing on.
The Hells Angels At Altamont – What Really Happened January 29, 2017
The infamous Altamont Speedway concert in 1969 was recognized as a turning point in the music scene, the hippie scene and the outlaw biker scene. It was a cultural shift from “The Summer of Love” to the dawning of “The evil hippie”, a branding that exposed the dark undercurrent running through the California rock music experience.
In a deeply researched new book, author Joel Selvin has gathered interviews with band members, spectators, police, medics and Hells Angels. This must be THE definitive account of the doomed free concert, and Selvin spares no detail in his quest to hear all sides of the story. In “Altamont – The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels, And The Inside Story Of Rock’s Darkest Day” – Selvin corrects the illusion that The Hells Angels were fully to blame for the mayhem, something that is portrayed in the documentary “Gimme Shelter”, lending to the belief that Rolling Stones management was an innocent party. I cannot recommend this book enough, for those interested in any aspect of this event, but allow me to provide a summary.
In 1969 the Rolling Stones were in severe financial trouble. The plan was to run a large American concert tour to culminate in San Francisco at a free concert. This was an obvious attempt to coat-tail on the success of Woodstock, and the documentary movie that resulted from that music festival.
The concert was to be embedded in Grateful Dead territory, with the strong relationship between the Dead and the Frisco chapter of the Hells Angels playing an important role. The Angels, though ideologically different from hippie culture, were a staple in Haight-Ashbury street life and The Dead trusted them. Selvin writes: “the hippies saw the Angels as fellow rebels from straight society”.
In November The Rolling Stones were introduced to the Maysles brothers, Albert and David. They had been recommended to film the band at a meeting in L.A. before the Stones began the tour. Albert Maysles shot his first movie, about mental hospitals in the Soviet Union in 1955 as an extension of his work with a research project at Massachusetts General Hospital. That alone is very unusual and almost suggests an element of spy-craft. Another individual connected to the concert that was indeed tied to intelligence was attorney Melvin Belli, a celebrity lawyer who had at one time represented none other than Jack Ruby, the killer of accused Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Belli was basically there to lend bluster and to influence local arraignments. One more element must not be ignored; the concert was flooded with “bad” acid, at a time when the CIA was indeed attempting to drug a potential revolutionary movement.
Originally scheduled for Golden Gate Park, the concert promoters were forced to consider relocating to Sears Point Raceway outside Sonoma. That location would have worked well, with a thousand acres and easy freeway access. Hells Angel Terry the Tramp, a friend of the Grateful dead, warned that moving the concert would put it in the jurisdiction of a different chapter of The Angels – and the Angels had already been selected for security duty. Their pay was $500.00 worth of Beer.
When Sears Point Raceway officials saw the army of hippies and the chaotic method of piecing together the equipment and stage – they balked. A primary owner of the track, Filmways corporation (producers of “Green Acres” and “The Beverly Hillbillies”) demanded a $100,000 fee since the concert was going to be filmed. Author Selvin makes it clear that much fault for the concert’s downhill slide lies with Mick Jagger, who refused to let any of the film’s profit go to Filmways. It was his decision alone – The Rolling Stones were broke, needed money and were anxious to compete with the Woodstock concert movie, also soon to be released.
While the wrangling over a concert location was being fought out, Dick Carter contacted attorney Melvin Belli and offered up his desolate Altamont Speedway as an alternative. With the proposed move to Altamont, the band lineup was The Grateful Dead, Santana, The Jefferson Airplane, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and The Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram Parsons.The stage and lighting equipment were frantically moved from Sears Point to remote Altamont overnight.
Rival concert producer Bill Graham undermined the effort to have the Hight-Ashbury Free Clinic available at Altamont, so a rag-tag group of volunteers stepped in as medical staff. Early in the day overdoses were beginning to be a real problem, with bad LSD, amphetamines and lots of cheap red wine passed among the crowd. There were no food concessions, and only a handful of portable toilets available.
The Frisco Angels, known to the Airplane and The Dead showed up, but they were in the San Jose chapter’s territory. With them was a number of “unpatched” prospects, hangers-on that were determined to prove their mettle to the club. Other Angels were cooperative, providing escort for band members and helping in the medical tent. Things were starting to get really scary.
Author Joel Selvin makes the case that The Hells Angels did what they were hired to do – provide security between the bands, perched atop a mere 4-ft. stage, and 3000,000 drunk, tripping hippies. Selvin writes:
“The Angels had caused problems before, but this was a raging violation. The musicians had never had reason to fear. They felt immune from the real world when they were preforming. Nothing had ever penetrated that bubble before. It was an illusion kept in the best interests of both the musicians and the audience. This distinction was lost on The Angels“.
As the Angels cleared the stage area with fists and pool cues, the front edge of the concert became a combat zone. Selvin explains:
“These hippies had no defense against this kind of savagery”.
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In all, four people died at Altamont. A young black man named Meredith Hunter made the mistake of trying to defend himself with a handgun and was stabbed to death by Angel Alan Passaro. Several people were run over by an acid casualty racing a car through the crowd and another drowned in a ditch.Marty Balin of The Airplane was punched-out on stage, and then again by the same Hells Angel in the medical tent.
Mick Jagger’s performance of “Sympathy For The Devil” set the stage for a “blood sacrifice” and all the bands withdrew into their music to emotionally shield themselves from the violence and fear. With themes like “Goat’s Head Soup”, Their Satanic Majesties”, “Let It Bleed” and “Sympathy For The Devil”, the Stones had been playing the occult card, but nothing had prepared them for Altamont. Selvin described it as “Conjuring the dark arts through simulated ritual”.
Selvin’s strong point is in his varied interviews that cover all the angles – with cops, medics, band members and concert casualties. He also provides a vigorous defense of The Hells Angels through their own words, from Angel President Sonny Barger and others. Selvin clearly puts much of the blame for the ill-fated concert on The Rolling Stones, their management and Mick Jagger in particular:
“…that if Jagger had not insisted in keeping all of the money (ed.,from the film) the concert would have taken place at Sears Point”.
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The concert is reproduced – somewhat out of order – in the movie “Gimme Shelter”. If you haven’t seen it before, you need to see it now.
In the aftermath, The Stones fled, leaving a trail of unpaid debts – to hotels, car rentals, travel agencies and other businesses. The movie did help Angel Alan Passaro in the court case regarding the Meredith Hunter stabbing, there is a scene in Gimme Shelter where Hunter can clearly be seen brandishing the handgun. Passaro was declared not guilty.
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Selvin sums up the tragedy this way:
“But the long shadow of Altamont never disappeared. The concert grew in symbolic stature, coming to represent the end of the heady decade of the sixties that had reached a crescendo four months earlier in August with the massive Woodstock Festival, the moon landing, and the Manson killings all taking place within days of each other. Altamont was the coda. It was the stain that wouldn’t wash out of the fabric of the music”
This book is a must-read for rock fans, bikers or folks studying the sixties. It reads very well and moves along at a good pace, and now I’m interested in reading his “Summer Of Love: The Inside Story Of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love and High Times in the Wild West”.
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