Chapter 15: Oakland in My Rearview Mirror, Carefree Highway through my Windshield Summary and Analysis

After his conviction on bombing conspiracy, Sonny was sent to the federal correction institution in Phoenix in 1987 and was released and placed on parole in 1992. Harley-Davidson quit making Sonny's favorite model, the FXRT, in the same year. About a hundred members welcomed Sonny home with a new FXRT. Sonny immediately violated his parole by attending a large rally in Hayward and associating with known felons. Sonny had liked Arizona so well that he wound up transferring his membership to the Arizona Hell's Angel, Cave Creek chapter.

The Hell's Angels formed a club in the fifties to ride and party. In the sixties, the Angels became a household name. The seventies was the gangster era for the club and in the eighties...