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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1969
Page
9
Crowds estimated at 300000 attend Saturday’s Tracy California rock festival near the raceway along a divided freeway. Cars line the roadway with about 300 abandoned after the event. AP wire photo.
Tracy California AP report notes a free rock music festival east of town drew about 3000 youths. Four men died during the event, including Meredith Hunter 18 of Berkeley who was stabbed, and two New Jersey men among others run over after the show. Many attendees sought aid from 19 doctors and six psychiatrists as officers reported overdoses and a chaotic scene with crowds and traffic jams.
New York AP Rudolf Friml, at 90, performed a sparkling piano medley at his birthday party at the Shubert Theater. The ASCAP event featured The First 99 Years with Friml, with film clips and slides. Friml hinted at publishing plans amid audience applause. Also in Londonderry a magistrate granted a one-week defense delay for Bernadette Devlin on riot charges.
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