A free Rolling Stones concert turned violent melee that left four dead and many others injured, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival occurred 55 years ago today — a disaster that is often considered ...

The decade of peace and love and the counterculture movement is perceived to have reached its symbolic abrupt end at the Rolling Stones’ Altamont Free Concert at the turn of the decade in 1969. What ...

On this day, Dec. 6, in 1969, a teenager was fatally stabbed by a Hells Angels member during a Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway near Oakland. Advertised to be “Woodstock West,” the show ...

On December 6th, 1969, an estimated 300,000 people gathered at California’s Altamont Raceway for what was meant to be the West Coast’s answer to Woodstock. Organized in just a few short weeks, the ...

The Leonard Lopate Show, hosted by Leonard Lopate for over three decades, featured conversations that New Yorkers turned to each afternoon for insight into a wide variety of topics; including ...

Fifty years ago, on Dec. 6, 1969 — "rock ‘n’ roll's all-time worst day… a day when everything went perfectly wrong,” according to Rolling Stone magazine — one of the greatest tragedies in music ...

Dec. 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, abolishing slavery in the United States. In 1877, The Washington Post published its first ...