Word: eyewitnesser
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One eyewitness speculated that the film "Gimme Shelter" had incited the youths. "Gimme Shelter" is a documentary of the Stones 1969 tour, which ended tragically at Altamount near San Francisco. During that concert, a man was fatally stabbed by Hell's Angels policing the stage area.
"Every time the Hell's Angels did something those guys would yell," the eyewitness said.
"When the black was stabbed by the Hell's Angel at the end of the movie, they screamed 'Kill the nigger,' the eyewitness added.
The eyewitness, who observed the incident through the window of the doors separating the lobby from the rest of the theater, said that one of the youths was about to drop a heavy metal door stop on the head of the prostrate theater employee, if he had not been distracted...
One eyewitness said yesterday of the damage, "Tabas has become a mound of rubble, bent iron beams and dirt."