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Hell's Angels began as the article "The Motorcycle Gangs: Losers and Outsiders" written by Thompson for the May 17, 1965 issue of The Nation. [citation needed] In March 1965, The Nation editor Carey McWilliams wrote to Thompson and offered to pay the journalist for an article on the subject of motorcycle gangs, and the Hells Angels in particular.
According to George Wethern – who left the Hells Angels in 1972 and went on to testify against the club before entering 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 ...
In his 1967 book “Hells Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga,” Hunter S. Thompson described Barger as the Angels’ “maximum leader,” a fighter and philosopher who possessed “a steely ...
George Gus Christie Jr. (born April 26, 1947) is an American author and former outlaw biker who served as president of the Ventura, California charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club between 1978 and 2011.
With the death this week of Ralph “Sonny” Barger, national president of famed motorcycle club the Hells Angels, a piece of vibrant American pop culture history recedes farther into the past.
Sonny Barger, a founding member of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels who became the face of the motorcycle club, has died at the age of 83.In a Facebook post Wednesday evening, Barger ...
Anthony John Tait (born May 27, 1954) is an American man who served as an informer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) within the Hells Angels.Tait has been described as the "most damaging informant in the history of the Hell's Angels" whose testimony led to the conviction of the Hells Angels leader Sonny Barger on charges of conspiracy to commit murder.
Ralph “Sonny” Barger was a founding member of the Oakland, California, chapter of the Hells Angels in 1957 and was present at its most infamous moment — the 1969 Rolling Stones concert at ...