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(J) A Biography about the life of Meredith Hunter

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(J) A Biography about the life of Meredith Hunter

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This is a biography about the life of Meredith Hunter who was killed during the concert and made headlines.

This is considered a second-hand source since the writer of this biography didn't experience the life of Meredith Hunter. Instead, he is retelling the story of Meredith's life.

Meredith Hunter was killed by the Hells Angels motorcycle gang. They were hired as security for the Rolling Stones and the concert.

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More than a movement died at Altamont 50 years ago

Billed as "Woodstock West," the hastily planned Altamont Speedway Free Festival descended into harrowing violence, leading critics and some supporters to conclude that the ethos of the 1960s counter-culture movement had died at the motorsports track in northern California during the chaotic and mind-bending events of Dec. 6, 1969.

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The short life and tragic death of Meredith Hunter

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More than a movement died at Altamont 50 years ago Billed as "Woodstock West," the hastily planned Altamont Speedway Free Festival descended into harrowing violence, leading critics and some supporters to conclude that the ethos of the 1960s counter-culture movement had died at the motorsports track in northern California during the chaotic and mind-bending events of Dec.

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(H)This is an overhead view (Map) of the Altamont raceway park

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(H)This is an overhead view (Map) of the Altamont raceway park

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This is a birdseye view of the park and shows where the audience and stage was set up during the concert.

This is considered a second-hand source because it is a picture taken after the concert, and shows only the place it was taken and not when the concert was taken place.

The altamont raceway has hosted mant significant events such as the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series.

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(I) An Encyclopedia about the Hells Angels involvement with the Rolling Stones at the Concert

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(I) An Encyclopedia about the Hells Angels involvement with the Rolling Stones at the Concert

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This is an encyclopedia about the Concert's murder. The hells angels were the ones of killed an audience member when he climbed on stage.

This is considered a second hand source since an encyclopedia is more like a summary of the events of what happened not an experience.

The hells angels were hired to be the security for the rolling stones band.

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As the final show of their American tour, the Rolling Stones held a one-day rock festival at Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California, on December 6, 1969. The free event was intended as a thank-you gesture by the band to their fans and was to feature Santana; the Jefferson Airplane; the Flying Burrito Brothers; Crosby, Stills and Nash; and the Rolling Stones themselves. The most notable flaw of the haphazardly organized festival (besides its relatively inaccessible location) was the hiring of the Oakland chapter of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang as security, a shocking bit of naïveté on the band's part. Trouble started early on, when Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane was knocked down with an Angel's pool cue and a confused naked man was beaten to the ground. The disorder reached its climax during the Stones' appearance, when Meredith Hunter, an 18-year-old African-American man, rushed the stage with a gun and was stabbed to death before Mick Jagger's eyes. Much has been written about Altamont as "the day the '60s died" and "the anti- Woodstock," but, given the way most festivals were organized at the time, violence at a festival was perhaps inevitable.

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As the final show of their American tour, the Rolling Stones held a one-day rock festival at Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California, on December 6, 1969.

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(E) An Artifact, a flyer for the Altamont Free Concert

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(E) An Artifact, a flyer for the Altamont Free Concert

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This was the main flyer to promote Altamont Free and was placed all around the bay area before December 6th.

This is considered a primary source because it is an artifact from the event.

The posters attracted many and 300,000 people attended Altamont Free.

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(D) A Documentary about the Altamont Free Concert and Music History

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(D) A Documentary about the Altamont Free Concert and Music History

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This is a documentary created in 1970 just a few months after the events of the altamont free concert and the hells angels involvement.

This is considered a primary source since in the documentary there are recorded videos about the performances when it was live.

Many people from the bands that performed were featured in this documentary for the events that happened.

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(C) A Newspaper Article During the Tragedy of the Altamont Free Concert

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(C) A Newspaper Article During the Tragedy of the Altamont Free Concert

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This photograph of a newspaper article after the events of the Altamont Free Concert. There are multiple people describing how the Hells angels acted as security for the festival.

This is considered a Primary source since the sources that are on the newspaper are from some of the people that attended the concert live.

The crazy thing about this festival was how there ended up being 4 deaths and also 4 births during the concert.

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(G) An Article about the Altamont Free Concert after 50 years.

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(G) An Article about the Altamont Free Concert after 50 years.

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This is an article about the events of the event that happened at the Altamont Free Concert.

This is considered a second hand source since there was nobody from this article that attended this concert.

The murder at the concert was especially an important part of music history since it was one of the biggest concerts at the end of the 60s.

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Altamont, a new music festival in Northern California, was the brainchild of the Rolling Stones, who hoped to cap off their U.S. tour in late 1969 with a concert that would be the West Coast equivalent of Woodstock, in both scale and spirit. Unlike Woodstock, however, which was the result of months of careful planning by a team of well-funded organizers, Altamont was a largely improvised affair that did not even have a definite venue arranged just days before the event.

It was only on Thursday, December 4, 1969, that organizers settled on the Altamont Speedway location for a free concert that was by then scheduled to include Santana; the Jefferson Airplane; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; and the Grateful Dead, all in support of the headlining Stones. The event would also include, infamously, several dozen members the Hells Angels motorcycle gang acting as informal security staff in exchange for $500 worth of beer as a "gratuity."

It was dark by the time the concert's next-to-last act, the Grateful Dead, was scheduled to appear. But the Dead had left the venue entirely out of concern for their safety when they learned that Jefferson Airplane singer Marty Balin had been knocked unconscious by one of the Hells Angels in a melee during his band's performance. It was during the Rolling Stones' set, however, that a 21-year-old Hells Angel named Alan Passaro stabbed a gun-wielding 18-year-old named Meredith Hunter to death just 20 feet in front of the stage where Mick Jagger was performing "Under My Thumb." Unaware that someone had died, the Rolling Stones completed their set without further incident, bringing an end to a tumultuous day that also saw three accidental deaths and four live births.

The killing of Meredith Hunter at Altamont was captured on film in Gimme Shelter, the documentary of the Stones' 1969 tour by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, which opens with Jagger viewing the footage in an editing room several months later. In the years since, Jagger has not spoken publicly about the killing, for which Passaro was tried but acquitted on grounds of self-defense.

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Murder at the Altamont Festival brings the 1960s to a violent end

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Altamont, a new music festival in Northern California, was the brainchild of the Rolling Stones, who hoped to cap off their U.S. tour in late 1969 with a concert that would be the West Coast equivalent of Woodstock, in both scale and spirit. Unlike Woodstock, however, which was the result of months of careful planning [...]

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(F) A book written about the tragedy of the Altamont concert

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(F) A book written about the tragedy of the Altamont concert

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This is an image of a book written about the Altamont free concert (by Joel Selvin) and the incidents that happened.

This is considered a second hand source since the book was written by someone who did not attend the concert and see the events first hand.

This book goes over the events leading up to the tragedy like the hiring of the Hells Angels, the bodyguards for the Rolling Stones. As Well as the bands that played an in depth of the incident.

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(B) An interview with Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones bass player at the concert) 

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(B) An interview with Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones bass player at the concert) 

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This is a youtube video from the Dick Cavett Show (1968) of Bill Wyman explaining events from the concert.

This is a primary source because the interviewee is an eyewitness to the event.

Bill Wyman is a famous bassist most well known for his time when he was a part of the Rolling Stones Band between 1962 to 1993.

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Bill Wyman Talks About The Altamont Free Concert | The Dick Cavett Show

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(A) A Photograpgh of the Rolling Stones performing during the Altamont concert.

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(A) A Photograpgh of the Rolling Stones performing during the Altamont concert.

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This is an image of the Rolling Stones performing at the Altamont free concert.

This is considered a Primary source since this image was taken during the concert itself.

The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert held in Livermore, CA.