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🗓️ 27 March 2023
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0:00.0 | Hello and thank you for joining us for Into the Killing. If you have a case who wants to cover on Into the Killing or one of our YouTube channels, please visit our website, criminellisted.com. Then you just go to the suggested case page. For this episode of Into the Killing, we're going back to December 1969. On December 1, 1969, the first draft lottery was held in the United States since World War II. |
0:23.6 | The United States government was looking for more soldiers for their controversial war in Vietnam. |
0:29.6 | The first day drawn was September 14th. |
0:31.6 | So any man who was born on that date between 1944 and 1951 was summoned to enlist. The draft was very unpopular |
0:40.1 | and it strengthened the anti-war movement, but the war continued for another five and a half years. |
0:46.2 | On December 6, 1969, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival was held outside of Tracy, California. |
0:53.4 | The concert was the feature Santana |
0:55.5 | Jefferson Airplane, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Crosby Stills, Nash and Young, the Grateful Dead, |
1:01.2 | and the Rolling Stones. 300,000 people attended the concert. The motorcycle club, the |
1:07.2 | Hells Angels, were hired to be security for the event. They were paid $500 worth of beer. |
1:13.5 | They drank the beer in front of the stage for most of the day. Throughout the day, |
1:17.1 | crowd members became unruly and there were fights among the concert goers. |
1:21.4 | Audience members also fought with members of the Hells Angels who were becoming extremely intoxicated. |
1:27.4 | Things got so violent that the Grateful Dead chose not to play. |
1:30.3 | The Rolling Stones took the stage last. |
1:33.3 | As they played their song, Under My Thumb, |
1:35.3 | 18-year-old Meredith Hunter tried to get on stage. |
1:38.3 | He was pushed away by members of the Hells Angels. |
1:41.3 | Hunter got angry and he tried to get back on the stage. A Hell's |
1:45.0 | Angel, Alan Pasacero, saw Hunter pull out a gun. Passacero was armed with a knife. He ended up |
1:51.3 | stabbing 18-year-old Meredith Hunter to death. The stabbing was recorded by a documentary team who was |
1:57.1 | recording the end of the Rolling Stones tour. The Rolling Stones supposedly did not know about the stabbing and they finished their set. |
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