An Angel spotted him — out of some ten or twelve photogs immediately surrounding him — and demanded: “I want your film or you get hit.” Young kept shooting, and the Angel leapt at him, smashing the camera into Young’s face. Down he went. When several Angels began pounding him, Young rolled into a protective ball. “It felt like they were hitting me with a hammer and a broken bottle,” Young said later. Observers said it was pool cues.

It’s impossible to say what sheriff’s investigators will come up with. They stopped listening ( Rolling Stone learns) when one eyewitness said he wasn’t sure he could positively identify the killers. We cheated,” said Tom Frieberg, of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, who’d driven to Altamont with his old lady, “We were already in Chicago when we heard about it.” Meredith Hunter wasn’t the only one who never made it home from Altamont. Three others died that day, two in a hit-and-run auto case, one by jumping into an irrigation canal where the fast-moving waters overpowered him. The fight scene got worse. Long silence at the mike. Dense uncertainty crowded the night chill. Amazingly, Jagger seemed to lose control of his audience. A rare moment.

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It is authoritatively reported (by an intimate of the higher echelons of the Sherrif’s department) that there were four, possibly five, plainclothesmen from the department near the stage, close to the action, on duty — which means that they were carrying their firearms. Their exact instructions are unknown, but, generally, it is a law enforcement officer’s duty to stop any crime he sees being committed, especially murder. (In fairness, it is not certain they were present during the Hunter murder.) The layout at the raceway is easy enough to visualize without a map. It consists of an 80-acre plot of land with an auto raceway carved into its central plateau. This has got high rolling ground on three sides — these sides where were the earliest autos parked — and a low bowl-like fourth area on the side nearest the highway. The latter was where the stage was set up, since it afforded the greatest line of sight, line of hearing potential for the greatest number of people. By night, with only some 5,000 people milling around the interior section, it seemed to stretch on forever. It was hard to imagine that it could ever be totally filled with people, as far as the eye could see looking out from the stage. Sympathy for the Devil" (Interrupted by numerous fights near the stage, causing the band to stop and then restart the song.)This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( October 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Wavy Gravy, of Hog Farm fame and notoriety, and who had been there, working mainly with the medical aid people, saw plenty that was wrong with Altamont — and more importantly, has much to say about how those things can be done right in the future. Though they have nothing to say about it publicly, the Alameda County Sheriff’s office is pressing very hard on an investigation of the entire event — one of the prime reasons being that the department has been getting so much heat from county officials for “mishandling” it in the first place. The investigation has not gone especially well so far. Sheriff’s sleuths are “surprised and frustrated” to discover that hardly any witnesses to the violence are willing to talk with them.