I'll let Rolling Stone tell the story in one of their first (and best) pieces of reportage not written by Hunter S. Thompson...
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-19700121
An alternative look at the history of the 1970s by Ron Jacobs
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Blast From the Past--1969
This piece first appeared in the now defunct newspaper edited by Shay Totten--the Vermont Times....it was reprinted in Counterpunch a few years later...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/01/13/a-blast-from-the-past/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/01/13/a-blast-from-the-past/
Labels:
1960s,
1970s,
Altamont,
anti-imperialism,
antiwar,
Beatles,
Bill Graham,
Black Panthers,
counterculture,
Fred Hampton,
Grateful Dead,
hippies,
Mark ClarkCounterpunch,
Rolling Stones,
underground press,
Washington DC
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