[85] The Canadian journalist Yves Lavigne wrote that Barger's ability to impose a truce on the Scandinavian branches of the Hells Angels showed that his power over all of the Hells Angels chapters around the world was real, not nominal, and it was significant that he only took action in response to the possibility of a ban on outlaw biker clubs. Concert goers and musicians alike were subjected to violence from the Hells Angels, including Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane, who was knocked unconscious, and audience member Meredith "Murdock" Hunter, who was stabbed to death. He was 83. He used us for dupes". [68] On August 12, 1986, John Cleave "J.C." Webb, a member of the Anchorage Hells Angels, was shot and killed by Outlaws outside a biker bar in Jefferson County, Kentucky, prompting Barger to say that it was "time to start killing Outlaws again". [116] Instead, Barger's funeral was held at a motorsports racetrack in Stockton on September 24, 2022. Join us as we discuss.Get my new Audio Book Prospect. In an emotional pre-written statement uploaded online by Barger's family, the motorcyclist announced his own death, which was met by a wide range of tributes. Being born on 8 October 1938, Sonny Barger is 84 years old as of today's date 2nd January 2023. I ended up not liking him at all, a tall skinny, typical hillbilly from Kentucky. [7] Barger and the Hells Angels became associated with the counterculture phenomenon of the 1960s. The event took place at the legendary Oakland Clubhouse in California. Leonard "Cool Ray" Mullen, the Outlaws member convicted of killing Webb, testified that he shot Webb over a personal feud and that there was no war between the Outlaws and the Angels. [19], According to George Wethern who later testified against the club and entered the Federal Witness Protection Program in his 1978 book A Wayward Angel, Barger convened a meeting of the leaders of the Hells Angels and other California motorcycle clubs in 1960 in which the various clubs parleyed over the mutual problem of police harassment. [16] When Otto Friedli, the founder of the original San Bernardino Hells Angels chapter, was imprisoned in 1958, Barger was proclaimed de facto national president. Barger was attracting attention, and in 1966 Hunter S Thompsons first book, Hells Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, appeared; though it was less gonzo than his later work, Bargers portrayal lent much to Thompsons own future image. [87] Barger's role within the Arizona Hells Angels was reportedly an advisory position, as he did not hold officer status and he rarely attended rallies or public events. The Appeals Court agreed with the government's position that its conduct was necessary due to the Hells Angels' violent history, and rejected Barger's argument that the government had committed entrapment because it deemed the conspiracy to have been originated by the Hells Angels themselves. [71] Barger and three other defendants were also convicted on the misdemeanor charge of knowingly converting a copy of a government document, while five others were acquitted of all charges. [7][65], Anthony "Taterhead" Tait, the sergeant-at-arms of the Hells Angels chapter in Anchorage, Alaska, volunteered to become a paid informant for the FBI in 1984, commencing a three-year nationwide Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation known as Operation CACUS. [53] The prosecution team, representing the federal government, attempted to demonstrate a pattern of behavior to convict Barger and other members of the Hells Angels of racketeering offenses related to illegal weapons and drugs. By 1960, the Oakland Hells Angels had established an extensive narcotics network within the club. Just like I'm sure some cops have sold methamphetamines. Despite establishing a relationship with the police that led to the Angels trading weapons for arrested members, Bargers rap sheet grew. Barger reportedly celebrated his 50th birthday in the midst of the trial by partying and smoking marijuana at the home of Thomas Clay, Michael O'Farrell's lawyer, in Goshen, Kentucky. [6] Following a three-month-trial, the longest ever in the history of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, Barger and O'Farrell were convicted on October 28, 1988, on the felony charge of conspiracy to transport and receive explosives in interstate commerce with intent to kill and damage buildings. Owen. Barger passed away on Wednesday,. As of now, he is dead and passed on to the other side. Local law enforcement is warning about the possibility of violence at the Saturday funeral of Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger at the 99 Speedway in California. SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY, Calif. Thousands of people gathered over the weekend for the funeral of Ralph "Sonny" Barger, longtime president and founding member of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club.. Though the outcome of most cases was mistrial, he and Sharon were the only two acquitted outright. [29] He denied, however, that authorities permitted crimes committed by the Hells Angels. Back in Oakland, living between his fathers and his older sisters family, and doing dock work, he met fellow veterans and in 1956 joined the Oakland Panthers motorcycle club. [87][89] In 1999, Lavigne wrote: "The Hells Angels obviously have big plans for Arizona. 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One of our subscribers went to Sonny Barger's funeral. [17] After a chance encounter a member of a pre-existing Hells Angels chapter, Barger learned of the club's history, rules, regulations and procedures. Also, you will learn more exciting things about Sonny Barger in the given sections. [7], In 1998, Barger moved to Arizona, where he had previously served a prison sentence, with his third wife Beth Noel (ne Black) and stepdaughter Sarrah. [7], The first internal murder of a Hells Angels member sanctioned by the club was allegedly carried out when Paul "German" Ingalls was forced to ingest a large quantity of barbiturates until he suffered a fatal overdose. The Hells Angels were incorporated as a nonprofit corporation in 1966. "[19] The incident led to a collection of students, left-wing political groups, and labor unions led by Allen Ginsberg and Jerry Rubin meeting with motorcycle club representatives, headed by the president of the Sacramento Hells Angels chapter, in a cafeteria at San Jose State College, seeking assurance that a planned Vietnam Day Committee protest march in Oakland on November 20, 1965 would go undisturbed. On top of his work representing the Hells Angels organization, Berger . [111], Barger underwent surgery as a result of prostate cancer in 2012. Know his actual cause of death in the following paragraphs. Although I've had a public persona for decades, i've mostly enjoyed special time with my club brothers, my family, and close friends. [19] On October 16, 1965, Barger led a group of Hells Angels in an attack on anti-war demonstrators marching from Berkeley to the Army Terminal in Oakland to protest against munitions shipments. Sonny Barger would not pull up roots, after forty years in the Bay Area, on a whim. [10][11] His mother left the family when Barger was four months old, leaving him and his older sister Shirley to be raised by their Pentecostal grandmother and alcoholic father, a day laborer on the Oakland docks. Son of a mother, Kathryn Carmella Barger, and father, Ralph Hubert Barger, Sonny Barger had a rough childhood. [35] He blamed the Rolling Stones' extended delay before making an onstage appearance for worsening the hostility of the crowd, and said the Hells Angels refused to act as bodyguards for "a bunch of sissy, marble-mouthed prima donnas" when the band asked the bikers to escort them to the stage. [92] Mel Chancey, the president of the Hells Angels Chicago chapter who served as their lead negotiator, met with Barger in the spring of 1998 to discuss the negotiating terms. [33], Barger was one of the Hells Angels present at the Rolling Stones' Altamont Free Concert on December 6, 1969, at which the bikers were reportedly paid $500 worth of beer to provide security. He was convicted of aggravated assault, but he served only eight days in jail. [85] The meetings ended with the American leaders imposing a truce on their Scandinavian chapters as neither the Bandidos nor the Hells Angels wanted to see a biker ban. When Tait informed Barger in a phone conversation that the FBI was investigating the package he had mailed to Webb's sister, Barger proposed the alibi that the package contained sympathy cards. [7] Authorities accused the Angels of dominating the production of the drug in the U.S.[58] Barger addressed such allegations by saying: "I'm sure there are some individual Angels who've sold methamphetamines. He will retire only when he dies. For at least five years beginning in 1967, Barger and the Hells Angels turned over weapons acquired on the black market or locations of weapons, which could otherwise be used by Black Panther Party and Weather Underground radicals, to the Oakland Police Department in exchange for the release of jailed Hells Angels members. And I've had the privilege to be part of an amazing club. The ten defendants went on trial at Louisville federal court beginning in July 1988, accused of plotting to bomb the clubhouse of the Outlaws' Louisville chapter, located in the city's Portland neighborhood, in retaliation for the killing of John Cleave Webb. "[7], Barger referred to the 1970s as "a gangster era for" the Hells Angels, writing in his autobiography: "The other clubs tried to take our [reputation] from us. First of all we're a virtual army. [22] Amidst claims by the Hells Angels' attorneys, Jack Berman and Herman Mintz, of insufficient evidence and an illegal search by arresting officers, all five defendants pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of unlawful imprisonment. HELLS Angels founder Sonny Barger has died at the age of 83 after battling cancer. Having stage III laryngeal cancer, he underwent a total laryngectomy with bilateral functional neck dissections. [101][102] A Hells Angels member was charged with second-degree murder and seventy-three Pagan members were indicted on federal racketeering charges in the aftermath of the incident. Barger returned on November 29, 2011, in the season 4 finale, part one. We're all across the country, and now we're in foreign countries also. [59], In 1983, Barger was diagnosed with throat cancer and temporarily handed control of the club over to his second-in-command, Michael O'Farrell, while he received and recovered from treatment. The term refers to a comment allegedly made by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) that 99% of motorcyclists were law-abiding citizens, implying the last one percent were outlaws. Ad vertisement from shop TonakTradingCo. Born Ralph Barger Jr in Modesto, California, Sonny grew up in the tough port area of Oakland, where his father, Ralph Sr, was a dock worker. [5][12] Barger grew up in Oakland in the post-war era, during which time the city's shipbuilding and automobile industries went into decline, leading to a significant rise in unemployment. He also displayed another copy of the EPIC manual and explained how to use it to fellow Hells Angels at an Oakland chapter meeting. [66] He said of the government's case against him: "There never was a crime thought up by the Hells Angels. Barger features prominently in Hunter S. Thompson's book, Hell's Angels. Career Sonny Barger began his acting career in the 1960s. [23] The RICO case against the Hells Angels was the most substantial effort in federal history against the club at the time, and charged the defendants with various crimes dating back to 1971, including manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine; conspiring to commit murder; assault; use of false identification; intimidation; and bribery. I think it was a devastating blow to the government, and I couldnt be happier with the verdict except if I had been found innocent myself. On October 8, 1938, Sonny Barger was born in the city . A stateme Show creator Kurt Sutter spent time with Barger and other members of Hells Angels researching for the show, and acted opposite Barger in his scene. Wish you were here. [108] Barger was sentenced to an eight-day jail term for aggravated assault. He escaped drug-dealing, kidnapping and murder charges, but was finally convicted in 1973 of possession of heroin and firearms. Around a hundred Hells Angels wearing full "colors" attended the trial, as did the country singer Johnny Paycheck, a friend of Barger. Barger claimed to have been sitting on stage drinking beer when the violence was taking place. After the spate of publicity the Hells Angels received in 1965, Barger had the club's name copyrighted. He also sent a telegram to the then president, Lyndon Johnson, offering Hells Angels services to provide a trained group of crack gorillas [sic] to demoralize the Viet Cong and advance the cause of freedom. When another chapter member suggested calling the Outlaws to inquire whether Webb's killing was an isolated incident, Barger replied: "Call them collect." [48] Barger gave a series of interviews, including one with Geraldo Rivera for his Good Night America television program, in which he portrayed himself as a model prisoner and said: "They got to let me out sometime. [83][84] Although the Outlaws failed to kill either man, a number of Hells Angels-owned businesses in southern California were firebombed. "[25] President Johnson did not reply to the letter.[26]. [16] Although always a predominantly male organization, the Hells Angels had female members until 1964 when Barger imposed a rule making the group male only. Talks of his retirement are premature. That claim was revised to using the gun to keep the band playing after the violence, which can be seen in the 1970 documentary Gimme Shelter, had begun. They divorced after a domestic dispute in which she was hospitalised for a broken rib and lacerated spleen. In 1967, he appeared in the Hell's Angels on Wheels as well as the Hell's Angels '69. Sonny Barger was known for being a member of the Hells. [88] Barger transferred over from the Oakland chapter to the newly formed Cave Creek charter in October 1998. [12], He married his fourth wife, Zorana (ne Katzakian), on June 25, 2005. I'm sure some of our members own guns, whether legal or not. In 1967 he was consultant on, and had a cameo part in, Richard Rushs Hells Angels on Wheels, which starred Jack Nicholson, and graduated to a speaking part as himself in the movie Hells Angels 69 (1969). [59], In October 1982, Barger was part of a large group of Hells Angels from across the country who attended the murder trial of Jack "Jack-O-Lantern" Gentry, a member of the club's Cleveland chapter accused of shooting Outlaws member Ralph "Real Time" Tanner behind the Outlaws' Toledo clubhouse on November 30, 1980. [48] In April 1977, Barger won an appeal to face a retrial on a prior marijuana possession conviction. [61] The trial took place in Lucas County circuit court in Toledo, a city considered Outlaws territory. [91] On May 3, 2018, he testified in the racketeering trial of Bandidos former national president Jeffrey Fay Pike and former vice-president Xavier John Portillo after being called as a defense witness by lawyers for Pike. Barger then made plans to provide an alibi for Tait. "[5], Barger was employed as a machine operator from 1960 to 1965, when he was dismissed due to extended absences. [118] Barger was laid to rest at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon. [69] Barger was among thirteen people taken into custody in the Bay Area, where over 400 FBI, ATF, and California State Police personnel carried out 26 raids on homes and other properties, seizing more than 100 weapons, approximately $1 million in cash and drugs, and three methamphetamine laboratories. biker-gang rumble leaves 1 dead, 10 hurt, A founder of the Hells Angels testifies for ex-Bandidos leader. [41], On April 11, 1970, Barger was arrested on narcotics charges after Donald Howarth, a film studio property manager and 1967 Mr. America from Studio City, was apprehended while walking towards Barger's home with 17 ounces of cocaine and 30 ounces of heroin (with an estimated retail worth of $350,000) in a suitcase. A year later he and Don Boots Reeves founded the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels, using a logo borrowed from a club in Sacramento. [63] A female juror was excused from duty after her son was threatened by a group of Hells Angels at a downtown Toledo bar that he would have "lots of problems" if his mother did not "vote the right way". As the longtime president of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, Sonny Barger, who has died aged 83, was the epitome of the outlaw biker. [7] The Oakland chapter, with Barger serving as its president, assumed an informal position of authority within the Hells Angels that began following a standoff with local police and the California Highway Patrol in the aftermath of an outlaw motorcycle meeting in Porterville in September 1963. [1], Ralph Hubert Barger, Jr. was born in Modesto, California, on October 8, 1938, the son of Kathryn Carmella (ne Ritch) and Ralph Hubert Barger. [1] He had no biological children. If there was a contract out on him, then he'd be dead. [105], Barger's first wife Elsie Mae (ne George) died on February 1, 1967, from an embolism in her bloodstream after undergoing an illegal abortion. He married his last wife, Zorana, on June 25, 2005, and she was with him at the time of his passing. [23] Six Hells Angels members were arrested and a Berkeley police sergeant suffered a broken leg in the brawl. [55], By 1978, the Hells Angels had chapters in Nebraska, Massachusetts, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, North Carolina and South Carolina. [24] He went on to read out a telegram sent to President Lyndon B. Johnson, reading: "I volunteer a group of loyal Americans for behind the line duty in Vietnam. The prosecutors asserted that the Hells Angels were a highly organized criminal organization ruled by a "code of silence" involved in drug trafficking, shootings and bombings. Zorana and Sonny had married in 2005, the year he wrote Freedom: Credos From the Road, a compendium of his wisdom and guide to life. Two years later Barger appeared in Tom Wolfes Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test when the author and counterculture figure Ken Kesey invited the Oakland Angels to a party; Kesey introduced the bikers to LSD. [17] Under Barger's leadership, the club's membership began to increase. These set the scene for Nicholson and Fondas acting breakthrough with Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider, a romantic portrayal of bikers as countercultural outlaws. Bullshit, it was the end of nothingAltamont may have been some big catastrophe to the hippies, but it was just another Hells Angels event to me". [62] Barger and his Oakland contingent rented a house on Toledo's Sylvania Street, and the Angels showed a significant presence in the city throughout the court case. [42] Cross was also imprisoned, for possession of amphetamines in 1975, however, and Barger allegedly continued to lead the Hells Angels from his cell at Folsom State Prison. Hells Angeles founder Sonny" Barger and his then-wife Sharon after his release from jail in 1980. [7] According to police intelligence reports, he had designated San Jose chapter president Fillmore Cross as his international successor during a motorcycle run at Bass Lake prior to his imprisonment. [106] The marriage ended in divorce. Tait called Barger on November 9, 1987, and reported that he had accomplished his mission. [68], The conflict between the Hells Angels and the Outlaws saw a resurgence following Barger's release from prison as a result of his longstanding rivalry with Outlaws president Harry Bowman. But also know that in the end, I was surrounded by what really matters: My wife, Zorana, as well as my loved ones. An estimated 7,000 people attended, and the event was peaceful. On November 30, 2010, Barger made a guest appearance as Lenny "The Pimp" Janowitz on the season 3 finale of the FX television series Sons of Anarchy, about a fictional outlaw motorcycle club, allegedly based on the Hells Angels. [32] The killing of Agero was one of five possibly linked murders committed in the area around that time. Barger temporarily resigned as president of the Oakland chapter in June 1970 to fight the charges, but returned to the position within months after his successor, John "Johnny Angel" Palomar, was sentenced to a ten-year prison term for shooting a bartender. [60] Cleveland Hells Angel-turned-government witness Clarence Crouch testified for the prosecution that Gentry had murdered Tanner as part of an initiation process into the Hells Angels. While infighting did take place between the chapters, conflicts predominantly arose with other clubs such as the Gypsy Jokers. Fourteen months later he was discharged honourably, as he had lied about his age to join without parental permission. Please know that I passed peacefully after a brief battle with cancer. [15] Founding their own Hells Angels club on April 1, 1957, each member wore the patch a small skull wearing an aviator cap set within a set of wings, later copyrighted as the Hells Angels' "Death's Head" logo after having replicas made at a trophy store in Hayward. While imprisoned, Barger received dozens of requests for interviews every month but continuously turned them down as he was collaborating with a screenwriter at the time to have his life story turned into a film and was unwilling to compromise the commercial viability of the project. [32] He was among 33 members of the Oakland chapter arrested on drug charges after police raided a bar and a duplex apartment in the city on August 30, 1968. "[6] Barger appealed his convictions, contending that the government's investigative conduct had deprived him of his Fifth Amendment right to due process, that he had been incited to commit crimes by Anthony Tait and the government, and that the district court erred when it sentenced him pursuant to the Sentencing Reform Act guidelines. Jurgensen was also a longtime color commentary for Washington's radio broadcast crew. [86], On October 18, 1997, the five-chapter strong Dirty Dozen biker club of Arizona "patched over" to became Hells Angels chapters. With the Zimmermans, he also wrote a memoir of biker tales and two novels about a biker named Patch Kinkade, one of which, Dead in 5 Heartbeats, was made into a film in 2013 that he produced along with his fourth wife, Zorana (nee Katzakian); they both played bit parts in it. [40] During this period, Barger's main lieutenants were Sergey Walton, James "Jim-Jim" Brandes and Kenneth "K.O." I'll usually say "Fuck Harley-Davidson." Philanthropist. [42] Barger was, however, sentenced to ninety days in jail after walking out of a court session. Le gang de motards "Hells Angels" a t fond par Barger, qui l'on attribue le lancement de la premire branche amricaine du gang. He was an author and appeared on TV and in film, on top of being a founder of the Oakland charter motorcycle group . [4][7], The dispute between the Hells Angels and the Rolling Stones was compounded when the band refused to compensate the Angels for $50,000 in legal fees accrued by the club in the trial of Alan Passaro, who was acquitted of Hunter's murder on the grounds of self-defense. [36] He also claimed that he stuck a gun into Keith Richards' side, to force the Rolling Stones to keep on playing through the riot despite the band's misgivings. In December 1969 the Angels were hired by the Rolling Stones to provide security at the Altamont free festival. His father had German and Dutch ancestry, and his mother was of Italian descent. [15], In 1956, Barger joined his first motorcycle club, the Oakland Panthers, which he founded with a group of fellow military veterans. Sonny Barger's Net Worth. [7] Onscreen, Barger was identified but did not speak in Hells Angels on Wheels (1967) and was one of several members of the Angels who had speaking parts playing themselves in Hell's Angels '69 (1969); he appeared in several additional films. [4] Reflecting on the Altamont concert, which has been referred to variously as "the end of the hippie dream" and "the day the Sixties died",[37] Barger wrote in his 2000 autobiography Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club: "All that shit about Altamont being the end of an era was a bunch of intellectual crap. Barger also circulated a photograph of the two Outlaws who killed Webb, firstly at an Oakland chapter meeting on November 30, 1986, and again at a summit of West Coast chapter officers on January 3, 1987. It was thought up by the FBI. Sonny barger mort Jeudi, la page Facebook officielle de Sonny Barger avait publi une dclaration selon laquelle il tait parti l'ge de 83 ans au cours du week-end. [14] Barger took umbrage with what he felt was the Stones' refusal to take responsibility for the catastrophe and he said in the days after the concert: "Mick Jagger, like, put it all on us. He'll share with us what it was like to be there. [62] Wearing their "colors", the bikers rode their motorcycles past the residence of assistant county prosecutor James Bates, visited the neighbors of jurors after obtaining a list of prospective jurors in the case, and circled the courthouse in black vans with "Hells Angels" painted on the side. Barger's death was announced on his Facebook page late Wednesday. In 1979 Barger was one of 33 people charged with racketeering under federal Rico (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) laws. A statement on Barger's Facebook page notes his death . [7] When students at the University of California, Berkeley announced an anti-Vietnam War rally, the Oakland Hells Angels denounced the rally as "a despicable un-American activity". Vintage 1989 Sonny Barger - An American Legend t-shirt Sz Large ad vertisement by TonakTradingCo. We became isolated". At the time of his passing in July 2022, the American author, actor, and biker Sonny Barger had a net worth that was estimated to be $500 thousand dollars. Cops claimed he was suspected of being involved in the murder of John Cleve Webb - the Anchorage Hells Angels president.. John Van de Kamp, who was the California Attorney General, at the time, said police seized more than 100 weapons and $1million in cash and drugs . [12][16][107], On March 7, 2003, Barger was arrested by Maricopa County Sheriff's Office deputies after a reported domestic dispute with his wife and stepdaughter at their home in New River, Arizona. During a brawl between the bikers and the crowd, a black spectator, Meredith Hunter, was knifed to death by an Angel, Alan Passaro. 5 out of 5 stars (225) $ 165.00 FREE shipping Add to Favorites Mens Biker T-Shirt, Respect Is Earned - Organic Cotton - Motorcycle Motorbike Gift Funny, Sustainable . [6] As a result of critical media attention given to the HAMC after the concert, he went on KSAN, a local Bay Area radio station, to justify the actions of the Hells Angels and to present their side of the story. [48] He was paroled on November 3, 1977, after serving four-and-a-half years of his sentence. "[27] Barger and the Hells Angels are also depicted in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), during Ken Kesey's La Honda encampment. Barger had liked the discipline, masculine camaraderie, and learning how to disassemble weapons. 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