[87][89] In 1999, Lavigne wrote: "The Hells Angels obviously have big plans for Arizona. biker-gang rumble leaves 1 dead, 10 hurt, A founder of the Hells Angels testifies for ex-Bandidos leader. He was a total fake. Sonny Barger tied knots with Zorana Berger in the year 2005 who they have been together for a long time since they came together. His mother's name is Kathryn Carmella Barger, while his father's name is Ralph Hubert Barger. [118] Barger was laid to rest at Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon. 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[35] He blamed the Rolling Stones' extended delay before making an onstage appearance for worsening the hostility of the crowd, and said the Hells Angels refused to act as bodyguards for "a bunch of sissy, marble-mouthed prima donnas" when the band asked the bikers to escort them to the stage. A Hyatt hotel room key and a handwritten note deemed to have been written by Barger after evaluation by a handwriting expert listing Anthony Tait's hotel room number and rental car license plate number were also found at Michael O'Farrell's residence. We feel that a crack group of trained guerillas could demoralize the Viet Cong and advance the cause of freedom. [7] At Christmas 1989, he sent one of the prosecutors in the case, assistant U.S. attorney Cleve Gambill, a card from prison, showing him posing on a towel as if he were on the beach, with the message: "Nice weather. Sonny was initially known as Ralph Hubert "Sonny" Barger. In 1967 he was consultant on, and had a cameo part in, Richard Rushs Hells Angels on Wheels, which starred Jack Nicholson, and graduated to a speaking part as himself in the movie Hells Angels 69 (1969). [66], Operation CACUS concluded on November 10, 1987, when 38 Hells Angels members and associates in Alaska, California, Kentucky, North Carolina and South Carolina were arrested on various narcotics, weapons, explosives, and conspiracy charges. The club also hired public relations specialists and began participating in charity fund drives. One of our subscribers went to Sonny Barger's funeral. Barger had liked the discipline, masculine camaraderie, and learning how to disassemble weapons. He was arrested again on the same charge the following year, and for assault with a deadly weapon in 1965 and 1966. [53] The prosecution team, representing the federal government, attempted to demonstrate a pattern of behavior to convict Barger and other members of the Hells Angels of racketeering offenses related to illegal weapons and drugs. Hells Angeles founder Sonny" Barger and his then-wife Sharon after his release from jail in 1980. A team of Outlaws members were sent to California in early 1995 to carry out surveillance ahead of the assassination of either Barger or Christie. [85] To forestall this possibility, Barger attended the peace talks in Seattle representing the Hells Angels along with Thomas Mller of the Angels Malm chapter who was in charge of all the Hells Angels in Europe. Sonny Barger, second left, in the film Hells Angels 69. Sonny Barger was born as Ralph Hubert "Sonny" Barger on 8 October 1938, in Modesto, California, the United States. Oakland police sergeant Edward "Ted" Hilliard testified in 1972 that he accepted guns, dynamite, and grenades from Barger personally in return for deals on arrests during at least fifteen separate meetings, the most recent of which took place in the spring of 1971. This is not surprising. [66], Barger sent a stolen copy of a government document prepared by the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC), which contained the identities and personal data of Outlaws members and associates, via express mail to Webb's sister in Louisville, Kentucky, who then turned it over to Hells Angels members. As the longtime president of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, Sonny Barger, who has died aged 83, was the epitome of the outlaw biker. [96] He subsequently wrote several biker-related novels. [66], Barger and nine other Hells Angels from California and Alaska were extradited to Kentucky to stand trial for conspiring to transport firearms and explosives across state lines. They hated each other. White people were scared of us. On June 30, 2022, Sonny's Facebook post announced his passing. The biker, of California, passed away peacefully surrounded by his wife Zorana and relatives on June 29. Sonny Barger was well-known for his membership in the notorious motorcycle gang known as the Hells Angels. [53] The defense maintained that the club should not be held accountable for crimes committed by individual members. Of the remaining twelve, nine were convicted and three including Sonny and Sharon Barger were acquitted. In December 1969 the Angels were hired by the Rolling Stones to provide security at the Altamont free festival. Welcome to Sonny's online store. I'll usually say "Fuck Harley-Davidson." [67] He also covertly recorded club meetings by wearing a wire. [24] He went on to read out a telegram sent to President Lyndon B. Johnson, reading: "I volunteer a group of loyal Americans for behind the line duty in Vietnam. "[23] He also began studying sociology at Folsom. Law enforcement revealed that Barger was accused of transporting and receiving explosives designed to "kill, maim or threaten". And they have no idea how many of us there areWe have money, many allies that are outlaw bikers that are not Hells Angels, that would probably do anything we asked them to, if something happened". [32] As a result of his imprisonment, Barger was forced to relinquish his presidency of the Oakland chapter for the first time since its inception. Show creator Kurt Sutter spent time with Barger and other members of Hells Angels researching for the show, and acted opposite Barger in his scene. "[43] Barger and the others were charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, and assault with a deadly weapon. We really missed the boat not switching over to the Japanese models when they began building bigger bikes. [29] He denied, however, that authorities permitted crimes committed by the Hells Angels. [85] The Canadian journalist Yves Lavigne wrote that Barger's ability to impose a truce on the Scandinavian branches of the Hells Angels showed that his power over all of the Hells Angels chapters around the world was real, not nominal, and it was significant that he only took action in response to the possibility of a ban on outlaw biker clubs. And Bargers dream of patriotic bikers as guerrillas was given life on film in The Losers (1970), where members of the Devils Advocates take armoured choppers to rescue a CIA agent held in Cambodia. [51] The bombings prompted the California Department of Justice to issue a warning to police departments that the Angels were engaged on a campaign to eliminate law enforcement personnel who investigated their drug activities. [32] He was among 33 members of the Oakland chapter arrested on drug charges after police raided a bar and a duplex apartment in the city on August 30, 1968. [2], "Ralph Barger" redirects here. [42] Cross was also imprisoned, for possession of amphetamines in 1975, however, and Barger allegedly continued to lead the Hells Angels from his cell at Folsom State Prison. I ended up not liking him at all, a tall skinny, typical hillbilly from Kentucky. [7] According to police intelligence reports, he had designated San Jose chapter president Fillmore Cross as his international successor during a motorcycle run at Bass Lake prior to his imprisonment. Barger was also provided with an alibi from his girlfriend, Sharon Gruhlke, who claimed she was in bed with him at the time of the murder. The clubs voted to ally under a "1%er" patch to be worn on their respective "colors". Cops claimed he was suspected of being involved in the murder of John Cleve Webb - the Anchorage Hells Angels president.. John Van de Kamp, who was the California Attorney General, at the time, said police seized more than 100 weapons and $1million in cash and drugs . Two years later Barger appeared in Tom Wolfes Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test when the author and counterculture figure Ken Kesey invited the Oakland Angels to a party; Kesey introduced the bikers to LSD. Jurgensen was also a longtime color commentary for Washington's radio broadcast crew. [79][80][81][82] In another New Year's Eve speech on December 31, 1994, Bowman declared that the Outlaws would in turn attack the Hells Angels in California. He asserted that violence only started once the crowd began vandalizing the Angels' motorcycles. [23] The indictments followed two car bombings targeting law enforcement officers in northern California, which were blamed on the Hells Angels. We're all across the country, and now we're in foreign countries also. Noel suffered a broken rib and back, and a lacerated spleen. [4] Reflecting on the Altamont concert, which has been referred to variously as "the end of the hippie dream" and "the day the Sixties died",[37] Barger wrote in his 2000 autobiography Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club: "All that shit about Altamont being the end of an era was a bunch of intellectual crap. [41] The case was dismissed when Barger's wife Sharon testified that the guns belonged to her, not her husband. [16] According to U.S. Attorney William Hunter, the "cornerstone" of the Hells Angels' drug enterprise was the "largescale manufacture and mass distribution of methamphetamine". "[5], Barger was employed as a machine operator from 1960 to 1965, when he was dismissed due to extended absences. Rednecks couldn't stand us either. Alleged kidnapping mastermind apparently fabricated family ties to Hells Angels founder, American Legend Sonny Barger celebrate his 80. [44], Along with fellow Hells Angels members Sergey Walton, Donald Duane "Whitey" Smith, and "Oakland" Gary Popkin, Barger was charged with the May 21, 1972 murder of Servio Winston Agero a drug dealer from McAllen, Texas who had traveled to Oakland with a consignment of narcotics for sale which allegedly occurred following a dispute over an $80,000 cocaine deal. [74][75] Colorado state senator Nighthorse Campbell had allegedly tried to use his influence to have Barger released from prison earlier. Between 2010 and 2012 he made three appearances on the biker TV drama Sons Of Anarchy. The Pontiac struck a tree after its tires were shot out by pursuing park rangers, and England and Stefanson fled into the brush only to be apprehended later. We became isolated". [16] Barger was not the founder of the Hells Angels as is often claimed the group was founded in 1948 but he became its best known member to such an extent that he is often misidentified as the club's founder. [7][23] In a jailhouse interview with Cynthia Gorney of The Washington Post in October 1979, he stated: "I can tell you why they want to get rid of the Hells Angels, what I think. [31] In the late 1960s, Barger began selling heroin and also developed an addiction to cocaine. [111], Barger underwent surgery as a result of prostate cancer in 2012. [6] The defense team endeavored to expose the government's "outrageous" investigative conduct and discredit Tait, whom the government acknowledged was paid $300,000 in salary and expenses for the information he provided. [45] Barger and his three co-defendants were acquitted on December 29, 1972, following a seven-week trial after Ivaldi's credibility came under scrutiny. A delegation of Angels and their chief rival motorcycle gang, the Gypsy Jokers, met the activist Jerry Rubin and poet Allen Ginsberg in front of 1,000 people at San Jose State College to negotiate clearance for the November march scheduled for Oakland. He joined the Hells Angels' Cave Creek chapter, and operated a motorcycle repair shop. [17] Unlike the World War II veterans who formed the early Hells Angels chapters, many of the founding members of the Oakland chapter were former servicemen with disreputable military records. [52], Barger and 17 of his co-defendants went on trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California at the San Francisco federal courthouse beginning on October 4, 1979. [58] U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese stated that Barger's arrest had averted five murders. 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He was an author and appeared on TV and in film, on top of being a founder of the Oakland charter motorcycle group . A prosecution witness, Richard Ivaldi, testified that he witnessed Barger shoot Agero dead as he slept at the home of an absent acquaintance, and that Barger subsequently ordered the others to set fire to the residence. [32] The killing of Agero was one of five possibly linked murders committed in the area around that time. He escaped drug-dealing, kidnapping and murder charges, but was finally convicted in 1973 of possession of heroin and firearms. [19], According to George Wethern who later testified against the club and entered 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 the mutual problem of police harassment. The supposed peace meeting, scheduled to be held in an eastern state, was in fact an opportunity for the Hells Angels to assassinate their rivals' leadership, according to investigators. [61] The trial took place in Lucas County circuit court in Toledo, a city considered Outlaws territory. Ralph Hubert "Sonny" Barger, Jr. (October 8, 1938 June 29, 2022) was an American outlaw biker, author and actor who was a founding member of the Oakland, California chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in 1957. Career Sonny Barger began his acting career in the 1960s. [41] During his incarceration, a bikers' magazine ran a "Free Sonny Barger" campaign, selling T-shirts and bumper stickers, which helped pay his legal expenses. [59], In October 1982, Barger was part of a large group of Hells Angels from across the country who attended the murder trial of Jack "Jack-O-Lantern" Gentry, a member of the club's Cleveland chapter accused of shooting Outlaws member Ralph "Real Time" Tanner behind the Outlaws' Toledo clubhouse on November 30, 1980. [70] Under a special arrangement approved by U.S. District Judge Edward H. Johnstone, defense attorneys subpoenaed each of the codefendants as witnesses, entitling them to per diem witness fees. These set the scene for Nicholson and Fondas acting breakthrough with Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider, a romantic portrayal of bikers as countercultural outlaws. He also displayed another copy of the EPIC manual and explained how to use it to fellow Hells Angels at an Oakland chapter meeting. At the time of his passing in July 2022, the American author, actor, and biker Sonny Barger had a net worth that was estimated to be $500 thousand dollars. TonakTradingCo From shop TonakTradingCo. [15], In 1956, Barger joined his first motorcycle club, the Oakland Panthers, which he founded with a group of fellow military veterans. Barger claimed to have been sitting on stage drinking beer when the violence was taking place. After Cleveland chapter president Kenny Yates was shot and wounded by Outlaws in Joliet, Illinois on September 18, 1987, Tait told Barger that he had been to Chicago and Milwaukee to carry out reconnaissance on Outlaws clubhouses there and that he would require an alibi if he was to carry out an attack, to which Barger responded: "That would be no problem." A statement on Barger's Facebook page notes his death . Sonny Barger was known for being a member of the Hells. He has nothing else to live for". [101][102] A Hells Angels member was charged with second-degree murder and seventy-three Pagan members were indicted on federal racketeering charges in the aftermath of the incident. Although many of his school friends became drug addicts, Barger worked at a grocery store and enlisted in the U.S. Army, aged sixteen in 1955, but was given an honorable discharge fourteen months later when it was discovered that he had forged his birth certificate in order to be able to join. [7] He authored five books, and appeared on television and in film. "[19] The incident led to a collection of students, left-wing political groups, and labor unions led by Allen Ginsberg and Jerry Rubin meeting with motorcycle club representatives, headed by the president of the Sacramento Hells Angels chapter, in a cafeteria at San Jose State College, seeking assurance that a planned Vietnam Day Committee protest march in Oakland on November 20, 1965 would go undisturbed. [7] Onscreen, Barger was identified but did not speak in Hells Angels on Wheels (1967) and was one of several members of the Angels who had speaking parts playing themselves in Hell's Angels '69 (1969); he appeared in several additional films. [49], Barger was arrested on a parole violation charge of possession of firearms when police officers discovered a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, a .38 caliber revolver, and a rifle after arriving at his Oakland home on March 27, 1978, to serve a subpoena and to conduct a parole search. 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