More than 12,000 crammed into City Park Stadium
on that hot night – September 16, 1964 – to see the Beatles in their
one and only concert in New Orleans.
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Ringo at at City Park Stadium - Sept. 16, 1964
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Policemen had to physically tackle some of the
youths – mostly girls – who broke away from the stand attempting to
crash through barricades separating them from the long-haired singers….
Police Supt. Joseph Giarrusso…called the episode one ‘that was both
tragic and amusing’ at the same time," according to newspaper accounts
the next day.
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| George at City Park Stadium - Sept. 16, 1964 |
"Some 700 teenagers broke out in disorder at
City Park Stadium Wednesday night midway through a spirited stage
appearance by England’s madcap Beatles,” wrote Times-Picayune newsman
Clarence Doucet in his story the next day, Sept. 17, 1964.
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| The Beatles held a press conference at the Congress Inn on Chef Menteur Highway. |
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| Reporters and photographers pack into the room at the Congress Inn for the Beatles press conference. |
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