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Beastly is the word for the people in this picture. Out beyond Palm Springs, six of the sicklers solo off and chainwhip a couple of stompers from another hogpen. In the peel-off, Loser (Bruce Dern) puts the burn on a police bike, catches a slug in the back, lands on the critical list. H.B. and his buddies bust him out of the hospital, but back at the clubhouse Loser dies of shock while puffing pot. As the fuzz move in, the choppers move out for Loser's funeral in a chapel draped with Nazi banners. The-rite soon...
...Hogpen. As school let out on Friday, hundreds of Jackson's Negro students gathered in the Farish Street
...blocks away. A police captain shouted through a bullhorn that they would be arrested if they did not have a parade permit. The marchers stopped. A cop smashed a Negro above the knees with his night stick. And many demonstrators obediently climbed into trucks for the trip to the hogpen prison...
...Being "taken to see the pigs" means a trip to a little shack near the camp hogpen. There "Big Jim" Bryant, a 7 ft. 2½ in., 300-lb. guard, holds the door shut while Warden Clay administers a whipping-up to 50 lashes-with a rubber hose...
...call it Hell if you like." In any case, the name stuck, though the place was to be found on no map, never had a post office, a church, or an incorporated government. Fifty years ago much of Hell burned down. Later the distillery was abandoned, became a hogpen. Twelve years ago a real-estate firm acquired Hell, turned it into a tourist resort under the name Hi-Land Lake...