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Altamont CA.

"the day the music died"

The Festival ​

  • Free Music festival 
  • Saturday December 6, 1969
  • Altamont Speedway, Northern California 
  • 300,000 attended
  • “West Woodstock” ​

The Lineup

  •  Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Rolling Stones
  • Grateful Dead were scheduled to play but cancelled due to violence

Flawed Start

  • The Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead had trouble finding a venue 
  • Altamont Speedway was the fourth place they tried behind San Jose State University, Golden Gate Park, and Sears Point Raceway 
  • These changes created problems such as lack of bathrooms and medical tents 
  • The stage was designed to be at the to of a hill, but after location changes it was at the bottom of a slope

Deaths 

  • Meredith Hunter was stabbed and killed by a Hell’s Angel after he approached the stage with a gun 
  • Two died in a hit and run car wreck 
  • One drowned in an irrigation canal while high on LSD ​
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      • Creation of NASA
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      • Agent Orange
    • JFK >
      • Televised debate
      • Fallible Man: JFK's Affairs
      • LEE HARVEY OSWALD
      • Kennedy's Addiction
      • Underqualified Winner
      • Wallace's stand
      • Freeing the face of Civil Rights mvmt
      • Vienna Summit
      • Cuban Missile Crisis
      • JFK early life
      • Assassination aftermath
      • CIA did it
      • JFK: Desegregation of Ole Miss
      • Cuban government conspiracy
      • A Cold Warrior
    • The Civil Rights Movement >
      • Hoover vs. MLK
      • Black Panthers
      • George Wallace
      • Muhammad Ali
      • Rubin Carter
      • Montgomery Bus Boycott
      • Third Hero
      • Branch Rickey
  • Altamont: Decade of Failure
    • Parents
    • War on Poverty
    • Drugs & Music Culture
    • FBI Corruption
    • Sixties Politics
  • Woodstock
    • LSD on the brain
    • About Woodstock
    • Drugs
    • Civil Rights Movement
    • Political