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Rolling Stones Perform in Sacramento

Oct. 26, 1964 - The Rolling Stones, Britain’s latest contribution to popular music, got a roaring — sometimes wild — reception in Sacramento tonight. And the Memorial Auditorium bears scars to prove it.

The police reported about 15 windows were broken by stones thrown by a crowd which gathered outside. One boy, Donald Van Jones, 17, of 1530 London St., was arrested on a charge of malicious mischief by Patrolman Ernest Hollinghead, who reported he saw him throw a stone through a glass door.

Inside the auditorium, the scene was a frenzied one.

At one point, a warning was issued that the performance of the Stones, successors to the Beatles in Britain’s 1964 popularity poll, would be ended by the police if the teenage audience did not control itself.

At the end of the session, many hysterical teenagers had to be prevented from throwing themselves bodily on the stage.

One girl was taken to the city emergency station in an ambulance after becoming hysterical. A doctor diagnosed her condition as “anxiety reaction.”

A crowd of several hundred teenagers was at the municipal airport to greet the singing Stones when they arrived this afternoon.

Girls scaled airport fences and dodged city policemen in order to get to the five long-haired, tousled figures. Several became casualties during the ensuing scramble and two fainted.

The Stones were bundled into two cars and rushed quickly from the scene. A press conference scheduled to take place at the airport was canceled.

One girl ran screaming to Rolling Stone Brian Jones as he was about to climb in the waiting car and had to be pulled away by policeman Harold W. Joines. She returned to a friend and gasped: “I touched him.” Then she fainted.

Thought the plane carrying the Stones did not arrive until 3:50 p.m., more than 50 youngsters were waiting at the airport since 9 a.m. Many carried posters and placards with slogans.

Assistant Airport Manager Norman Coad said he had never seen anything like it.

“Those girls swooped over the fences,” he said. “They just did not seem to know what they were doing.”

Though some of the teenagers had encouraged their parents to ask the schools for their early dismissal, the majority had cut classes.



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