Playlist: Beth Shewell's Favorites
Compiled By: Beth Shewell
Here are some pieces I like for one reason or another....
Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws and Hell's Angels
From Blank on Blank | Part of the Blank on Blank series | 17:15
"I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.”
- Hunter S. Thompson, as told to Studs Terkel in 1967.
In the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson spent more than a year living and drinking with members of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club, riding up and down the California coast. What he saw alongside this group of renegades on Harleys, these hairy outlaws who rampaged and faced charges of attempted murder, assault and battery, and destruction of property along the way--all of this became the heart of Thompson’s first book: Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. Shortly after the book came out, Thompson sat down for a radio interview with the one and only Studs Terkel.