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001543301 245__ $$aCrowd at Bull Island music festival in Bull Island, Illinois
001543301 260__ $$bUniversity of Southern Indiana$$cSeptember 2-4, 1972
001543301 269__ $$a1972
001543301 347__ $$a600-800 dpi
001543301 520__ $$aOver the Labor Day weekend in 1972, 2 promoters planned to hold a rock music festival on the grounds of a racetrack in Chandler, Indiana, billed as the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival. Indiana officials prohibited the use of the initial site, forcing promoters to a last minute move to Bull Island, a piece of land jutting out into the Wabash River. Only accessible from Indiana, Bull Island was east of the river, but through a technicality based on the original course of the river, it was officially in Illinois' jurisdiction. (Bull Island is how this festival is most commonly known.) Expected crowds of 55,000 swelled to 200,000 to 300,000. Law enforcement (only 3 deputy sheriffs were on scene), access (cars were parked for 4 miles along the interstate as drivers and passengers then hiked in), sanitation, food, and water were completely inadequate. Many of the promised performers did not show. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll was the order of the day. A torrential rainstorm furthered the chaos; the event ended withn 2 deaths, overturned and robbed food trucks, the stage being burned, mounds of debris, and massive legal problems for the 2 promoters.
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001543301 6531_ $$aRelated Materials -- 1951-2000
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001543301 691__ $$aIllinois
001543301 7001_ $$aSonny Brown
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