Woodstock ’99Rome, New York
A major music festival at Griffiss Air Force Base marked by severe heat, large-scale disorder, fires, looting, sexual-assault allegations, arrests and extensive medical demand.
Incident Overview
What Happened
Woodstock ’99 took place from 22 to 25 July 1999 at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York. Reviewed sources describe the location as a former air base used for a large multi-day music festival.
The event was attended by hundreds of thousands of people and became associated with severe heat, poor crowd conditions, fires, looting, sexual-assault allegations and heavy medical demand.
Reviewed material does not provide one clean injury total. The strongest working figure is 5,162 medical cases, but other reports describe narrower categories such as heat illness, on-site medical admissions and hospital treatment.
Fatalities & Harm
Confirmed Themes
Three deaths were reported in the reviewed sources: David G. DeRosia, Tara K. Weaver, and a 44-year-old man with a pre-existing heart condition.
The 44-year-old man is identified by some later sources as Scott L. Stanley, but the original contemporary source naming him was not directly verified in the reviewed material.
The reported harm profile includes heat illness, dehydration, violence-related hospitalisation, drug-related medical cases and allegations of sexual assault.
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Reported Numbers
Chronology
Event Timeline
Operational Themes
Main Issues
Disputed Details
Conflicts and Limits
The reviewed sources agree on the broad picture, but several figures and details remain either conflicting or only partly verified.
The final arrest number was not settled by the directly reviewed material.
Reports 44 arrests at the concert.
Confirms an interim count of nine by July 25, not a final weekend total.
The narrower contemporary source only proves the count had already risen. It does not confirm the final number.
Sources use different categories: all medical cases, heat cases, on-site admissions, violence hospitalisations and area-hospital treatment.
Report 5,162 medical cases over the event, with some detail on drug-related cases.
Give figures including more than 700 heat cases, over 1,200 on-site admissions, 60 violence-related hospitalisations, and 253 area-hospital treatments.
These numbers may overlap, so they should not be added together. Spreadsheet maths would be a crime scene.
Later accessible sources identify the man, but the directly reviewed source did not provide the full name.
Describes a 44-year-old man with a pre-existing heart condition who died of cardiac arrest at the campsite.
Identify him as Scott L. Stanley of Hyannis, Massachusetts.
The name is treated as reported, not fully settled from an original contemporary source.
Not Verified
Details Not Settled
These points were not verified from the reviewed accessible material and should not be presented as settled fact.
Source Material
References
References are grouped as cards below. Some are contemporary reports; others are later retrospectives or analysis and should be weighted accordingly.
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