Chapter 7: The Sizzling, Acid-Drenched Sixties Summary and Analysis

In a 1999 documentary about the Hell's Angels, UCLA professor Donald Cosentino concluded that the Angels never change. The Angels didn't like the anti-war left-wing protestors. A Vietnam Day Committee demonstration took place in October 1965 on the Oakland-Berkeley city line. Similar demonstrations were planned for across the nation. Sonny and eight other Angels moved through the crowd and started a fight but did not hurt any women or children. They brutally kicked and beat the male protestors demanding that they go home. Sonny personally went for Jerry Rubin, the famous antiwar writer and organizer, but was stopped by the cops. The Angels supported the war and were upset that America was probably going to pull out.

They issued a press release explaining their absence from the next large protest. They were patriots and didn't...