From the archive, 8/12/1969: Rolling Stones at Altamont, CA. Four deaths and four births at free concert

First published in the Guardian 8 December 1969ALTAMONT, CALIFORNIA, DECEMBER 7Thousands of shivering people awoke this morning in the chilly fog draped around these arid hills, 40 miles south of San Francisco, and continued picking up the pieces in the wake of the largest free rock concert in the history of the western United States. The stragglers had been trapped by the massive three-day traffic jam that resulted when more than 300,000 people went to the Altamont motor racing track for the gr...

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