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...five-room bungalow. Sharon's biggest mistake seems to have been an abiding loyalty to her husband, the legendary Sonny Barger. Sonny, now 41, led the Angels through the glory days of the '60s: fighting in bars, terrorizing small towns, dropping acid with Ken Kesey, assaulting antiwar demonstrators. He was their leader during the Altamont rock concert killing. Sonny spent four years of the '70s in prison on a drug conviction and is the star defendant of the current case. "My Sonny has been a member 23 years this month," says Sharon...
...obsessed with nailing the Angels and was deafened in 1978 by a planted bomb. The newer, younger Hell's Angels turned meaner while Sonny was in jail. "Things changed. The whole world's meaner," he says. Sonny Barger has no regrets - except maybe about the antiwar demonstrators. "I done exactly what I wanted to do, but I haven't done racketeering and murder," he says. "There's been Hell's Angels convicted of murder, but that was on a one-to-one basis, not club policy." - Jane O'Reilly
...torture devices: the 'Tucker telephone,' an instrument used to send an electric current through genitals." In Jail: The Ultimate Ghetto, Ronald Goldfarb records so many atrocities of prison life that the reader is scarcely surprised to learn that in the District of Columbia jail a young white antiwar protester of the 1960s was raped dozens of times by blacks. In a 75-page opinion, Federal Judge John L. Kane Jr. last December held that conditions in Colorado's Old Max prison were so primitive and confining that they were bound to damage the minds of the inmates...
...teenager, Marshall recalls, he was taken by his father, a liberal intellectual, to see Martin Luther King's 1963 march on Washington. The experience propelled himwith his parents' encouragementinto the civil rights movement, and then a gradual evolution into antiwar radicalism. By 1968, Marshall was one of the most experienced student organizers in the U.S. The next year, after graduating from Cornell University, he was paid $20 a week by S.D.S. to organize radical antiwar movements on campuses up and down the East Coast. "I was told they had 10,000 pages...
...LOWENSTEIN was a man who fought all his life against the scourges of poverty, intolerance and violence. He joined the civil rights movement in the '40s, worked with Martin Luther King in the '60s, and spoke out early against South African apartheid and for Namibian independence. As an antiwar activist he won his greatest success, turning his lonely struggle to "Dump Johnson" into a mass movement. This feat drew from Robert Kennedy praise, "For Al, who knew the lesson of Emerson and taught it to the rest of us: `... if a single man plant himself on his convictions and then...