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CL 221379 00:01:08 - 00:10:42 1966 B/W SD Troublemakers Pt. 1 of 4
Narration over black explaining Newark Community
Union Project, NCUP, project.
00:01:40 Man at desk talking about idealistic movement of students; Black woman
talking; other women talking about organizing.
00:02:35 White young man asking: What do you want ot change?” to women & children meeting. Wants a place for teenagers to keep them
off the corner. Black teenagers
talk about what it should have in it.
00:04:30 Inter-title over freeze-frame: The problems of organizing. Young white man questions how organizers work; others discuss emotional
energy re police brutality; rent control. Pan over meeting room or commune w/ people lounging about amid boxes,
chairs etc.
00:06:02 Two Black men & boy w/ White organizer on sidewalk in front of small
grocery store front. Organizer
talking to guy w/ guitar in doorway, others locals listening. CU Black guy: “It’s time the poor man starts doing something for
himself.” Others talk about
needing to shoveling snow; need to get new politicians; arguing about what it
takes to get off unemployment; why the system isn’t working. Need for unity.
00:09:56 White organizer walks into courtyard of old apartment building, washing
on line & women & children talking. W/ Black organizers in & out of doorways; pass out
leaflets. On sidewalk putting up
Sherman Avenue Meeting poster next to Freedom Now poster.
Ethnic; African-Americans; Poverty; 1960s;
Alternative Culture; Radicalization; Newsreel Films; New Jersey; 1966; Student
Involvement; Negroes; Blacks; Counter Culture; Slums; Ghetto; Politics;
CL 221379 00:10:42 - 00:24:10 1966 B/W SD Troublemakers Pt.. 2 of 4
Int. meeting of older people led by Newark
Community Union Project, NCUP, project. Man talking about being mad because of the situation “the rich man
controls...and there is 52% negro & 90% are poor.” “Its time we do something...” Projector set up in room w/
screen.
00:12:27 Narrator voice over about first meetings releasing anger &
frustration. MCUs & CUs of
people thoughtfully listening to previous Black speaker. “If that anger is not focussed on an
action, meeting become repetitious; nothing is decided, people get discouraged
& stop coming.”
00:12:56 Inner-title over freeze frame: 2) Issue organizing - housing. Local woman speaking; organizers speaking about housing violations &
rent control; cost of rent and refusal of landlords to make basic repairs.
00:14:11 Older man & woman & younger white woman organizer leaving to go
ask help from local Human Rights Commission. Older couple, Mr ? & Mrs. Gaskins walking up steps of
large city government building w/ ornate stonework. Black couple explain things needing repair.
00:15:41 Couple going back into house.
00:16:08 CU Mrs. Gaskins telling NCUP of receiving letter of eviction after
Housing Authorities inspected & sent landlord a letter; explains problems
w/ apartment laughing over it. MCU
pensive.
00:17:23 NCUP members smoking cigarettes, waiting for monthly PAG meeting
(Peoples Action Group, local War On Poverty group) & discuss how to see if
they will help stop Mrs. Gaskin eviction, though the building has over 101
violations. NCUP back to Mrs
Gaskin to ask her to appear before PAG.
00:19:52 Mrs. Gaskin speaks to PAG & asks group for help. Others talk about what to do & how
to help. Woman in same building
gives empassioned speech in support & calling for rent strike.
00:23:14 PAG picketing w/ placards & signs landlord, Phil Kaufman’s
residential house as a symbolic effort; leaflet to passing car. Marchers end w/ freeze frame of Mrs.
Gaskin on picket line.
Ethnic; African-Americans; Poverty; 1960s;
Alternative Culture; Radicalization; Newsreel Films; New Jersey; 1966; Student
Involvement; Negroes; Blacks; Counter Culture; Slums; Ghetto; Politics;
CL 221379 00:24:10 - 00:41:20 1966 B/W SD Troublemakers Pt.. 3 of 4
Inner-title over freeze frame: 3) Issue organizing - traffic light.
Woman in MCU tells of son being killed last
year; wants a traffic light, breaks into tears. Kids talk about need for traffic light. Intersection sit-in seen from above,
man blocking bus; line of men blocking traffic & cops arriving. Black policeman directing traffic; men
causing cars to stop. Black man
tells young white organizer “you can’t scare the police.” Black asks him if he knows anything
about philosphy, “do you know Plato’s statement? “The seed of a rising nation is in the blood of a
mortal.” He says he didn’t come
out to block traffic as it wasn’t worth going to jail. He decides he’ll go to jail w/ others;
they decide on Monday. He didn’t
show up but others did. Fathers w/
children, people w/ signs seen from above & LS down street.
00:28:31 Precinct Captain explains Deputy Mayor says there will be stop signs put
w/in 48 hours while they decide if light is needed. He says he doesn’t handle traffic. But no lights so a month later they demonstrate.
00:29:15 City officials show up & talk, say it is a state problem. Man takes responsibility for getting
back in touch w/ community. Official asks for “..patience, give them time.”
00:31:01 Man reports to NCUP as to progress. Black people on curb talking; light has been approved. People on street leaving City Council
meeting thinking it would happen as Mayor had said it was approved. City official at desk explaining why it
takes time to get traffic light put in & that the state must do it, not the
city.
00:33:13 Intersection & street scenes. GOOD
00:33:37 Woman & children outside NCUP office, posters for election
campaign.
00:33:55 Inner-title over freeze frame of candidate: 4) Joining a political campaign. United Committee for Political Freedom, a coalition of
Negroes, Whites & Puerto Ricans w/ civil rights orientation. NCUP being asked for support in
campaign. Describes to camera
their grass roots support. Arguing
in NCUP whether or not to work w/ political system.
00:35:57 NCUP members talking on behalf of UCPF to Blacks in suits, as they’ve
decided to support their campaign. NCUP members on street leafletting, political signs. CUs & LS at UCPF dance, drinking
beer, dancing, talking. Small
meeting w/ Candidate Richardson speaking. Street w/ car & loudspeakers on talk calling to vote for United
Freedom ticket, moving thru residential neighborhood. Man sorting mailings; men leafletting, women in front of
grocery & on street corner handing out information. CU speaker in car into microphone. Organizer: “This is a fight against police brutality; a fight against
job discrimination; a fight against half-day school sessions. We’re trying to bring rent control back
to the city of Newark.” Others
talking about it on sidewalk. Arguing about nature of political parties. GOOD CUs.
Ethnic; African-Americans; Poverty; 1960s;
Alternative Culture; Radicalization; Newsreel Films; New Jersey; 1966; Student
Involvement; Negroes; Blacks; Counter Culture; Slums; Ghetto; Politics;
CL 221379 00:41:20 - 00:50:07 1966 B/W SD Troublemakers Pt.. 4 of 4
NCUP meeting, people sitting, talking &
smoking. Discussing nature of 3rd
party & effect of this party on basic Democratic Party & their
image. Man talks about what
Democrats have done; Democrats sound trucks.
00:43:25 Woman leafletting for United Freedom Party; man speaking for it outside
polling place.
00:44:25 Man w/ blackboard w/ votes being posted. Richardson up to microphone & acknowledges their
loss. Depressed looking organizers
talking about the problems of getting involved w/ politics.
00:48:22 Inner-title: 5) A
summary. Organizers going into
building, walking on sidewalk. Daily life on sidewalk.
00:48:55 People leaving late NCUP meeting; people asleep.
00:49:35 Credits. Camera - Robert
Machover; Sound - Norm Fruchter.
Ethnic; African-Americans; Poverty; 1960s;
Alternative Culture; Radicalization; Newsreel Films; New Jersey; 1966; Student
Involvement; Negroes; Blacks; Counter Culture; Slums; Ghetto; Politics;
CL 221380 02:01:07 - 02:12:03 1967 B/W SD Strike
City Pt. 1 of 3
Title: The reason we went on strike I was tired of working for six dollars a
day & I was tired of my wife & kids working for $3 a day. Pan over foggy morning across barnyard
w/ posts, dust.
Main title: Strike City super-imposed Black boy by fire.
02:02:13 Small girl feeding very young boy from baby food bottle. CU feet on wooden flooring beside
stove. CU lips cooling cup &
drinking. Other children &
families in tent heated by stove. People talking about striking. Woman cooking, baby playing. Small boys drinking water from soda pop bottles. Woman cleaning beans.
02:04:09 Man walking w/ axe, cutting wood w/ snow on ground & roofs of large
tents behind. VO “Well honey, I’m going to tell you one
thing, so help me God I still believe in Christianity, but I don’t want to hear
‘em talkin’ this crap to me about we live in a free country...and still people
have to live in tents ‘cause of what they believe.” Int. woman combing child’s hair. CU face. Kid walking & running after geese
&/or ducks in farmyard. Young
boys up wooden steps into house or juke joint.
02:07:18 Int. w/ kids in front of juke-box. Men beside pinball machine.
02:07:48 Winter fields w/ drifted sand across barren crop rows. Man walking across muddy yard w/ tire
tracks. Men sitting inside by wood
burning stove; voice over about not wanting to hire anyone this year.
02:09:04 POV moving past end of crop rows w/ water standing. MCU Old men & women sitting as man
talking to group about non-profit group they’ve set up to build houses at
Strike City. CU of board members;
walking & talking about where they are going to put the houses. Men pound stakes, stretch string,
surveying. Carpenter cutting
stakes. CU plot plan for Strike
City. Men digging
foundations. Cement mixer
truck & pouring concrete, men
watching & tamping.
Poverty; Plantation System; Slavery; 1960s;
1967; Unemployment; Farmworkers;
Note: No music rights; must be cleared if used.
CL 221380 02:12:03 - 02:24:48 1967 B/W SD Strike
City Pt. 2 of 3
Close blowing in wind; tent canvas flapping;
ppeople walking outside tents; cement truck leaving. Kids playing. Boys pump water w/ hand-pump into buckets & carry to tent. Woman mopping inside of tent; pregnant
woman watching.
02:14:09 Men finishing concrete floor w/ motorized paddle. Men walking & talking on floor; men
laying concrete block walls; cutting blocks; shoveling concrete. Framing doorways, interior stud walls
raised & nailed in place. Kids
play on floor w/ blocks.
02:16:34 Men pick up tools & walk to tents. Women sweeping new building; kids play, dance & sing
folk songs. Playing games.
02:18:13 Men talking, woman & child; kids play basketball, swing under large
old tree. Lighting new stove w/
newspaper from wooden stove. Family eating around table.
02:19:20 Men playing cards. CU
smoking, dealing cards. Boy
reading book beside table; kids in bed. Folks dancing, clapping. Faces laughing.
02:21:07 Man in chair, family in bed. VO talking about why they went on strike. POV from car past sharecropper shacks. View of large plantation fields as man
tells other workers about Strke City meeting.
02:22:31 Man speaking to meeting in new large room, blackboard; faces of
listeners. VO about money not
coming fast enough from Washington. CU clapping & singing.
Poverty; Plantation System; Slavery; 1960s;
1967; Unemployment; Construction; Farmworkers;
Note: No music rights to radio music. Must be cleared if used.
CL 221380 02:24:48 - 02:32:41 1967 B/W SD Strike
City Pt. 3 of 3
Black woman & two children arrive at
Washington DC government building; walk down large marble hall. Into entrance of large Congressional
hearing room. Entering &
sitting down. Man testifying.
02:26:30 Adam Clayton Powell standing in front Chairman (?) of hearing. CU man at microphone in hearing room.
02:27:16 Snow outside tent. Photographs of tents. In
Lafayette Park w/ Strike City banner; view towards White House from
demonstration, pedestrians. Tents
& signs; VO as though talking to Pres. Johnson. Press Conference held in front of tents many reporters &
cameramen.
02:28:56 Man at microphone, people singing We Shall Overcome behind him w/ arms
linked. Saying they’ll come back
another day. Moving truck
leaving. CU faces, hands in hands,
men women & children.
02;30:47 Man silhouetted against tents. Girl & men & women planting seeds in dirt. Hoeing along rows. Watering plants w/ buckets. Tent entrance flap blowing across
wooden platform.
Poverty; Plantation System; Slavery; 1960s;
1967; Unemployment; Construction; Farmworkers;
Note: No music rights to radio music. Must be cleared if used.
221353 14:22:41 -
14:33:49 1968 Col Sd
The President - April 1968 Pt. 3 of 4
INCLUDING:
CU 1968 Civil Rights Act w/ Received date stamp. CU of Black smiling & pan over
other Blacks; LBJ at microphone speaking after signing. Talks of the signing of the 1964 Bill
(interstate accomodations); of the 1965 Act (voting rights) & now this Fair
Housing Bill guarantee being part of the American Way of Life. Picture of Pres. Johnson’s signature on
the bill.
14:25:42
X 220487 03:00:57
- 03:10:51 1968 USA B/W sd Columbia
[Revolt - Part 1 of 5]
The Newsreel - Radical Documentary
Shots of Columbia University buildings with pillars, statues, arcades, very
grand looking, while narration talks of mighty mission of university to
society. Shots become more shaky and narration argues University produces
students for corporations and military, over shots exterior modern university
buildings. Voice over talks of way land was acquired, trustees all CEO’s of big corporations.
03:05:00 High shot over Columbia university and pan over city.
03:05.23: Black kids look through fence. Sign says building of university gym
soon to start, Morningside park where gym to be built is locked off. Local
people removed from Morningside park, some sit-in, taken in police van,
reporters film. Bulldozers dig park. Voice over woman making radical speech
about park.
03:06:18 High shot student demonstration in University campus. Protest
including Blacks. Protesters march to library. Stills of police arresting
demonstrators and shuffle. Demonstration turns to riot and violence. Group of policeman wave off
camera. Demonstrators in street. Voice over demonstrators tells about event.
Student political meeting, CUs of students,black speaker. Voice over explains
difference of perspective and tactics between black and white militants.
03.09.45: High angle protest with umbrellas. Police arrive. Black students
flood the basement, together with whites, and barricade basement with chairs.
Voice over runs throughout the film: made up of interviews of radical students and militants.
X 220487 03:10:51
- 03:20:44 1968 USA B/W sd
Columbia [Revolt - Part
2 of 5]
The Newsreel - Radical Documentary
03:10:51: Black protesters with
placards march. Police car, out of focus. Black demonstrators in front of
university with speaker talking about treatment of blacks.
03:13:00: White student defence committee sit-in, occupying university boss’
office and going through files. Voice over says they found evidence Blacks and
Puerto Ricans would be moved out. They barricade the building with furniture.
Mimeograph printing leaflets. Blackboard with messages and communications.
(03:15:02: film stops and starts again - film probably snapped)
Student comes in office through window. Group of students sit on office floor
and mope around, argue about politics etc. (no direct sound). Take vote of
confidence.
03:16:35; graffiti on wall “Up against the wall, mother”.
Demonstrators sleep on floor of university building and offices. Students demonstrating outside
university building, locked-in students stand on building’s windows, then food
is distributed. Police arrive. Riots scenes shown with stills. Food is thrown
to locked-in students on windows. Professor stands to tell students to stop.
Voice-over says faculty never understood student demands.
03:19:10: Inside university building white student lock-in, food and drink
shared.
X 220487 03:20:44
- 03:30:28 1968 USA B/W sd
Columbia [Revolt - Part
3 of 5]
The Newsreel - Radical Documentary
03:20:44 Locked-in students
dancing in office. It gets dark, they burn pieces of paper. Playing drums.
Dancing under s pole. Turns into a big party with people cheering and clapping
on staircase.
03:22:07 Girl and boy get married
in lock-in, she in makeshift wedding dress and white veil, they say vows and
other students cheer.
03:23:06 Riot police with
helmets surround university at
night. Police chief (?) telling students to leave building through loudspeaker
(not sync). Riot police enters building screaming. Stills and moving images
show riot police evicting demonstrators, violently. Students dragged down
steps. Bleeding students stills. Injured and wounded on floor. Ambulance.
03:26:55 Students march out of
university building chanting “We want peace’, making V peace sign, escorted by
police. Still bloody-faced student. Shouting ‘We have nothing against the
cops”. Demonstrators climb in
police van. 03:28:14: still of three hands stick out of police van, nice shot.
03:28:18 Hospital, nurse’s
medicine tray. Nurse bandages student’s eye. Bandaged student holds sign ‘Up
against the wall m-f”. Still wounded protesters.
03:29:15 Entrance Mathematics
building (sign). Police boots and truncheon walk up looted stairs. Destroyed
offices, paint on wall, litter on floor. Voice over says damage was caused by
police. Police outside university building, voice over talks of inconsistencies
in press coverage revealing police interference. Policemen check students I.D. on campus entrance.
X 220487 03:30:28 - 03:40:43 1968 USA B/W sd
Columbia [Revolt - Part
4 of 5]
The Newsreel - Radical Documentary
Row of policemen outside campus. Policeman plays with truncheon.
Student performance / demonstration holding signs Mobil, IDA etc., walking with “IDA” and “TPF” helmet and
truncheon behaving like apes, imitating police violence whilst student
spectators sing / rap slogans.
Faculty members make peace signs, students shout “Strike!” Signs “People power
not money power.” Sign above building entrance ‘Avery is on strike”. Voice over
speech by strike leader. protesters walk in small circle holding placards. Distributing leaflets. Many protest signs
and placards.
Sit-in in front of university with speaker. Placard university chief or dignitary as King in pack of
cards, “Strike!”. Denim jacket ‘Up against the wall”.
03:35:06 Band plays, concert with
guitar, base, drums. Good high shot.
03:36:37 Giant board game on lawn
with dice . Voice over
Message boards ads for liberation classes. Big sign in street ‘ Please strike support liberation
classes”. Empty classroom with
‘strike” on blackboard .
03:37:45 Students sitting in small
groups on lawn on campus for self-run classes. Voice over says students didn’t
want to fit in society anymore.
Buildings returned by students to local community. Crowd of protesters roam streets, high angle. Police walk through. Riot police stand in front of building
for more evictions. Arrests, protesters into police van.
X 220487 03:40:43 -
03:48:50 1968 USA B/W sd
Columbia [Revolt - Part
5 of 5]
The Newsreel - Radical Documentary
Students occupy university building. Chanting “strike”. Night, outside univ
building , riot police stands around. Big crowd of protesters chant “strike”.
Police inside buildings. Voice over says it was no use trying to defy police.
Riot police in morning after evictions leave university. US flag on top
building.
03.44.32 Police around university on graduation day let students through. graduates in cloak and mortar board. Heavy security, police
cars and vans outside campus gates.
03.46.10: Black child punches effigy “Kirk” and “police” in front of church, burn effigy. Demonstration, singing ‘Oh Lord”, Blacks and whites walk through street
with balloons and placards. Placard ‘To rebel is justified”. Protesters sit n campus lawn.
220800 22:34:43 - 22:47:38 1968 USA COL SIL
White House and Riots
in D.C. following assassination of Martin Luther King
South side of White House, fountain
in foreground, flag flying at half mast on White House. Various shots White House. Looking up
driveway to front of White House. Press setting up lights, cameras and Television cameras near West wing
of White House in circular drive.
22:36:14 CU Lush Cherry blossoms and tulips in full bloom.
22:36:35 CU Police, some wearing army helmets, and civilians
passing camera
Park policeman in middle of street directing traffic. Riot police standing on sidewalk across street,
22:37:03 MLS Smoke rising from burning buildings in far BG somewhere in
Washington, DC during 1968 riots;
several small shops seen in FG.
22:37:08 Filmed off television screen - riots and aftermath.
22:39:05 Two firemen standing on fire truck next to smoking building. Firefighting on smoking building Rear view, riot policeman standing on
street corner, Black children leaning against lamp post .
22:40:24 CU Save More Supermarket burned out and gutted. Cash register sitting out in street.
S Fire hoses strung across street, policeman wearing gas mask walks past,
police car drives around corner. Fire engine with CU red lights spinning.
22:40:46 Interior view, burned out building still smoldering;
22:41:08 Rear view National Guard
jeep with patrol aboard moving down street. Nationial Guard jeeps with armed guards in back up and
past.
22:41:20 Tall ladder extended from fire truck, two firemen in FG; one man seen
hold ing guy line, smoke.
Several National Guardsmen grouped on sidewalk outside Safeway Store. Tracking shot past military vehicles
and National Guard marching down street. Tracking shot past buildings, empty street.
22:42:06 Firemen fighting severe blaze inside paint store in shopping
district. Second fire truck moving
L to R past camera, smoke pours from front of building.
22:42:50 National Guardsman standing in middle of street with rifle. Riot
policemen with riot guns standing near group of black people. Good firefighting scenes at various
locations.
22:44:38 MS 6X truck loaded with National Guardsmen moving off, burned out
buildings seen across street, National Guard ambulance moves and trucks down
street. Various shots aftermath of
fires, gutted shops and buildings, some still smouldering.
National Guardsmen standing at crossroads. Various shots round streets showing National Guard in
evidence and aftermath of riots. Shopping area with traffic and pedestrians, guard in evidence.
DETROIT “RIOTS”
Detroit riots 67
220307 09:24:25
- 09:26:33 1967 USA B/W Si
Riots Decried -
President calls for Law and Order - Civil Rights
Racial violence in Detroit - 36
killed
Various shots of buildings on fire and fire brigade trying to put out
fires; Shots of apartments and
shops that have been wrecked and looted; people walking up streets carrying
looted goods; tracking shot car along street showing devastation (President Johnson’s speech about
racial violence over pictures)
220788 04:22:50
- 04:31:20 1967 USA COL SIL
Detroit Riots 26th
Jul. 1967
Summary: Jeeps loaded with soldiers
and police pass by camera. CU, South East High School entrance. Int, briefing
session of colonel and staff in conference room. Sign 3rd Brigade conference room. Army cameraman filming session. CU various officers.
04:28:45 Soldier kneeling down laughing with two young black boys on
street. Police search car.
CU, damaged dry cleaning store with broken glass.
04:30:55 MS, CU, burned out house.
220788 04:31:21 - 04:39:40 1967 USA COL SIL
Detroit Riots 26th
Jul. 1967 Part Two
04:31:21 Troops pass in jeep.
Various shots aftermath of riots, burned out shops etc. Tracking shot along damaged
street. Soldiers on street corner
detour civilians.
04:34:40 Crowds and Police outside of County Jail. Prisoners are taken from jail, loaded onto buses for
transfer to another jail. Shots of
Wayne County Police standing by.
04:38:43 Detroit Police Dept, 7th Precinct. 82nd Abn soldiers on guard duty at
precinct - sniper on roof.
220791 09:10:07
- 09:21:37 1967 USA COL SIL
Aftermath of Detroit
Riots Part 1
Soldier on guard in street, traffic
passing. Various shots demolished buildings and burned out cars. Shots of church from inside burned out
building. Two soldiers patrol
street. Girders from remains of
building. Traffic passing. Delivery to building.
09:13:00 Tracking past smouldering ruins of building and burned out shops. Shot from inside of burned out shop
through window grills of passing traffic.
09:14:37 Soldiers in truck,
military vehicles down street. Black women walking slowly past ruined shops. Rubble
and single wall left standing in building. Destroyed telephone box. Small fire burning in ruins of building. Two soldiers on guard duty in
jeep. More shots
devastation.Various shots destroyed buildings.
220791 09:21:38
- 09:32:12 1967 USA COL SIL
Aftermath of Detroit
Riots Part Two
Interior offices, LTG John L
Throckmorton and MG Charles P Stone in conference. Col Creel, PIO, talks with
Police Superintendent and Police Commissioner. Shots of military and civilians in communications office. 09:24:32 Newsmen on phone, on
typewriter and at desks. Newspapers strewn around office. Policeman talking to military
officer. CU, Black MP on duty at door of press room.
09:27:26 Portacabin, temporary offices? Soldier enters. Sign
Bruesser and Co. Theatrical
make-up. CU Michigan Bell
Telephone Company badge on van. Blocked alleyways, barbed wire, sign restricted area.
09:28:54 Soldiers on guard duty outside portacabin, sign re Detroit
Operations.
09:29:45 Soldiers on guard duty in street, traffic passing.
09:30:24 Young man talking to soldier, various street scenes with troops.
09:31:09 MS, Detroit Police Department 10th Precinct bldg, troops on guard
duty.
221340 14:45:09
- 14:47:17 1967 USA B/W SD
Riots Decried -
President Calls For Law And Order
Night & aerials over Detroit
& fires burning. Street &
firetrucks arriving & fighting fires as blocks are burning. 14:45:52 Night & Army soldiers in front of looted buildings w/
broken windows & debris on streets.
14:46:05 Day & POV from car of
looters throwing goods out windows of large shop w/ Yukon Club Beverages sign
in window. Others walking on
sidewalk some blacks picking up & carrying goods. Day & firemen hosing down destroyed building w/ LBJ
speech about the riots behind.
14:46:29 POV past skeletons of
destroyed ghetto buildings, some still burning.
221300 09:00:04
- 09:11:22 1967 USA COL SIL
[Detroit Riot
Aftermath 28Jul67] Pt. 1 of 2
Soldier w/ rifle watching traffic
past. Sunny day & burned out
wreckage of cars & building from outside & inside. Church in background. Troops patrol stret past burned out
buidings, two kids walk past, traffic on street. Charred wood dangling. Army vehicles in fornt of building, soldiers guarding, delivery men w/
handtrucks & boxes.
09:02:42 Pan across smoking
wreckage of collapsed gutted brick buildings. Pan along street front of still standing businesses w/
signs, plywood over windows. Passing traffic seen from inside burned buildings. Sidewalk shot of burned
awnings. Soldiers w/ rifles
boarding army truck, several moving down street w/ traffic. Jeep down street, Blacks on sidewalk;
burned buildings & pedestrians, blue sky above. Burned telephone booths.
09:05:36 Flames of burning debris
in collapsed building. Soldiers in
jeep watching traffic, one talking on radio; MCU w/ microphone of walkie
talkie; soldier at wheel in MCU w/ rifle at ready. Traffic shots. Jeep patrolling.
09:08:37 Traffic & Black
pedestrians past collapsed buildings. Views from inside buildings. CUs deformed metal gates & beams. Bottles in ashes. Burned out Laundromat w/ sign. Water spray from burst pipe & burned washing machine in rubble. Traffic. Continued...
Note: Rioting started by police
raid on Blind Pig afterhours club where return of Vietnam veterans was being
celebrated, lasted from 23-28Jul67 43 killed, 1189 injured, 7200 arrested.
221300 09:11:22
- 09:21:56 1967 USA COL SIL
[Detroit Riot
Aftermath 28Jul67] Pt. 2 of 2
Continued... National Guard or 82nd Airborne Officers at desk on
telephones & filling out papers in front of map. Major General & Lt. General of Army at desk
talking. Army officer talking w/
two civilian officials in office. CU Army Officer talking (MOS); CU civilian nodding & civilian
listening. CU signs: Communications; Intelligence taped to
wall & personnel at work at desk looking at papers & talking. Civilians in white shirts & ties
wearing headsets.
09:14:17 Man on telephone beside
large manual typewriter. Newspapers on desk, civilian man laughing on phone. Man (journalist?) w/ pipe typing on
manual typewriter. MCU glass office door w/ signs: Press Room. Three 82nd Airborne officers talking. Policeman in motorcycle helmet w/ rifle
talking of seated. Black Military
Police MP standing outside office door.
09:17:10 Ext. w/ trailer house
offices behind barbed wire coils; soldier enters. Sign: F.
Bruesser’s Col Masquerade Theatrical Costumers Make Up seen thru barbed wire.
Michigan Bell Telephone van parked, CU of logo. Soldiers walking. Sign: Restricted area. Guards outside trailer offices w/
sign: TF Detroit Operations.
09:19:28 Army soldiers w/ rifles
blocking side street, traffic past on major street. Soldier w/ rifle talking to teenage boy outside Wayne County
building. Jeep patrolling. LS Detroit Police Department building,
10th Precinct. CU sign on
side. MCU poldier w/ rifle. Others outside 10th Precinct building.
Note: Rioting started by police
raid on Blind Pig afterhours club where return of Vietnam veterans was being
celebrated, lasted from 23-28Jul67 43 killed, 1189 injured, 7200 arrested.
221300 09:22:16
- 09:34:57 1967 USA COL SIL
[Detroit Riot,
26Jul67] Pt. 1 of 2
82nd Airborne beside jeeps, leaving
building in riot area w/ rifle fitted w/ bayonets. Officer talking to them. Jeeps down residential street, past business shot from on
jeep. Down alley, soldiers off
& covering buildings w/ rifles. Soldier getting Blacks to move out of car; POV past burned storefronts,
w/ signs. Debris on sidewalk. Past burned Salvation Army store.
09:26:14 Jeep arrives at corner,
crowd beyond. Soldiers guarding
fire truck in residential area. Kids watching. Burning building beyond soldier w/ rifle. Soldier on radio standing by jeep;
crowd beyond watching. Kids on
bicycles men walking looking, people on porches watching. Troops in street in MCU. Soldiers climbing onto jeeps, POV down
street.
09:28:37 Troops inside school
sleepign, resting. White soldier
reading Holiday magazine. Soldiers
sleeping. Playing cards. CU Airborne patch. Soldier sleeping in jeep.
09:30:37 Army vehicles parked in
park seen from helicopter taking off. Aerials over undamaged residential area & buildings where military
is based. Army vehicles parked in
center of school cinder track. Residential area, light smoke in distance. No damage seen. Continued...
Note: Rioting started by police
raid on Blind Pig afterhours club where return of Vietnam veterans was being
celebrated, lasted from 23-28Jul67 43 killed, 1189 injured, 7200 arrested.
221300 09:34:57
- 09:44:35 1967 USA COL SIL
[Detroit Riot,
26Jul67] Pt. 2 of 2
Continued... Aerials from
helicopter over burned out buildings & residences. Circling around heavy white smoke
from smouldering business, light traffic on street, no fire fighting, buildings
alongside gutted. Other
smouldering buildings among gutted buildings. Sign: Honest
Joe’s seen on building w/ much smoke.
09:38:04 Aerial over block of
burned out residences. LS of
smoking neighborhood. Several
areas of fires seen w/ smoke, some flames still burning.
09:41:25 View over undamaged
middle class neighborhood w/ affluent homes & swimming pools. Cameraman in doorway of helicopter. Helicopter landing at Air Base w/ many
UH-1B helicopters & planes on tarmac.
Note: Rioting started by police
raid on Blind Pig afterhours club where return of Vietnam veterans was being
celebrated, lasted from 23-28Jul67 43 killed, 1189 injured, 7200 arrested.
Chicago Riots
LN 501-676 01:00:05 - 01:09:31 7Apr68 COL SIL
[Riots - Chicago, Illinois - Martin Luther King Jr.
Assassination Aftermath, 07Apr68] Pt. 1 of 2
MS Chicago Tribune headline: US Troops ?? Here, newspaper blowing on
ground, tilt up, sign: Welcome to
Chicago in median divider, light traffic both directions.
01:00:56 Base entrance sign: O’Hara
928th Tactical Airlift Group Air Force Reserve.
01:01:12 Soldiers eating from fender of jeep ambulance parked w/ others. Rinsing mess kits in galvanized buckets
of soapy water; MCU.
01:02:22 Black soldiers in helmts eating at wooden tables outdoors, daytime. Inside mess tent, white soldiers
serving others. CUs.
01:05:05 Ext. Officer speaking into
loudspeaker briefing troops standing by jeeps.
01:06:34 Int. Large gymnasium w/
mattresses on floor & people standing around. MCU polishing boots; reading Chicago Sun-Times newspaper w/
headline: The Worst Appears Over
in Chicago...” Soldiers on
blankets; playing cards, sleeping,
Military Riot Control; National Guard Reserve Units;
Note: all sound wild & not related to picture. No rights to radio broadcasts. Clearance responsibility of users.
LN 501-676 01:09:31
- 01:19:20 7Apr67 COL SIL
[Riots - Chicago, Illinois - Martin Luther King Jr.
Assassination Aftermath, 07Apr68] Pt. 2 of 2
01:09:31 Knealing at church service w/ priest & others.
01:10:54 POV from vehicle past troops on pavbement in parking lot near lake w/
jeeps, trucks & standing. Large domed building behind. Troops boarding trucks w/ rifles & ponchos. In jeeps w/ whip radio antennas.
01:13:59 Convoy thru Chicago intersection w/ skyline behind.
01:14:27 Band shell in park; civilians standing around, sitting on grass. MS crowd in sun, Black man at
microphones. Traffic on expressway
in background. Man applauding,
walking up to camera. Field Museum
in background.
01:15:37 Police in jeep by street (dark). With binoculars looking down wide street.
01:16:19 Firemen, fire trucks & heavy smoke. MS of burned out apartment building smoking heavily &
flames visible in roof. CU fire
hydrant & leaking hose connections. Firemen under entrance awning. Soldier w/ rifle on street, fire trucks visible (brief). Smoking burned out three-story house,
pan across others. Kids playing in
street & yard (brief).
01:17:33 Building burning, fireman in raised bucket but far away. Tilt down to people (very dark,
unusable).
01:18:04 Night - Soldiers talking on sidewalk, traffic behind.. Talking on radio; rifle at ready. Neon lights across street.
Military Riot Control; National Guard Reserve Units;
Fires; Arson;
Note: No
sound this part.
LN 501-682 06:00:10 - 06:10:30 1968 COL SIL [Chicago,
Illinoise - Martin Luther King Rioting Aftermath, 07-08Apr68] Pt. 1 of 2
Slate: 08Apr68 Cameraman H. Bowen. CU painted brick wall sign: Entrance Open Sunday & pan to show burned out building;
pedestrians on sidewalk & man in BG sweeping street. Smoking rubble of collapsed tenement
buildings. Street signs: N. Roosevelt & Spaulding Av
(?). No Right Turn. Tilt down to smoky view of burned,
destroyed houses; pan across smoking bricks.
06:01:36 Soldiers up sidewalk w/
rifles, Black pedestrians behind; past burning building remains. CU flames and iron reinforcing,
rebar. Army truck w/ troops past,
semi-truck following on deserted street w/ some parked cars. Pan w/ jeep & soldiers past burned
out blocks. POV riding in jeep
past military sentries. VERY GOOD.
06:04:00 Blacks walking past
burned out building. Boys throwing
stones into rubble. View looking
at boys throwing stone from from across smoking rubble; others walking past;
soldiers patrolling.
06:05:13 Low angle of soldier w/
rifle on rubble, others marching past.
06:05:38 LIne of soldiers of 2nd
Bn, 129th Inf from Elgin, Illinois on grass at edge of Douglas Park (?). Reverse angle & traffic passing,
including jeep w/ wire protection & truckload of soldiers. Black teenagers etc playing baseball
& or softball in park, traffic behind, no soldiers visible. GOOD.
06:07:14 Jeep & army trucks w/
troops past.
06:07:30 Modern First Methodist
Church building, tilt up & pan over plaza w/ US, County & State flags
at half mast. Large
sculpture. Tall buildings
surrounding square & pedestrians.
06:08:22 CU of sculpture &
flags behind (overexposed?). Pan
around buildings from center of square. Flags on poles, waving in breeze.
06:09:45 Street signs: E. Wacker Dr., N. State St., Route 20
& buildings behind.
0610:30 Slate: 07Apr68. Troops of 4th Bn, 46th Armored from Fort Hood, Texas patrol
streets in late afternoon outside stores & ?? Police car under elevated, pedestrians. POV walking behind patrolling
soldiers. CU face of soldier w/
rifle walking. Black soldier
standing chewing gum; another patrolling.
Military; Riot Aftermath; Poverty; Race; Ethnic; African-Americans; 1968;
1960s;
LN 501-682 06:10:30 - 06:21:23 1968 COL SIL [Chicago,
Illinoise - Martin Luther King Rioting Aftermath, 07-08Apr68] Pt. 2 of 2
Slate: 07Apr68. Troops of 4th Bn, 46th Armored from
Fort Hood, Texas patrol streets in late afternoon outside stores & ?? Police car under elevated,
pedestrians. POV walking behind patrolling
soldiers. CU face of soldier w/
rifle walking. Black soldier
standing chewing gum; another patrolling opposite damaged buildings. Group patrolling past stationary
camera; jeep w/ soldiers down street. MCU of shiny boots, rifles w/ bayonets.
06:12:33 CU sign: S. Dorchester Ave., E. 63rd St, below
elevated railway. Black teenagers
walking, on bicycles; White policeman directing traffic as others watch. Windows of burned out brick
building. View from inside burned
out building. Black men standing
on street outside. Kids look at
camera. CU Black policeman or
fireman w/ insignia on hat. Soldiers patrolling; black women w/ Black policeman outside store w/
cans on shelf but windows broken out.
06:14:08 Black policemen w/ batons
walk up street in front of police truck; White policeman w/ rifle
alongside. Stores w/ lights on on
opposite side of street. POV up
street following policemen, past soldiers in doorways, Blacks on sidewalk
walking. Helmeted white police
moving them along. White soldiers
outside burned out storefront.
06:15:42 View from inside thru
grates of soldiers patrolling. Still photo of Martin Luther King in window w/ reflection. Pan from photo to soldiers.
06:16:27 CU hanging sign: Woodlawn Urban Progress Center. CU two Black men in elevated w/ soldier
standing guard behind. CU movie
sign: Joan Crawford “Berserk”, pan
down to soldiers on street w/ rifles lining up. Soldier in jeep w/ radio microphone, another standing eating
c-rations (?). CU talking, opening
C-ration can.
06:17:46 Large group of Black
youth marching under elevated tracks toward camera on vehicle. Black photographers. Group into Joyland. Firetrucks past, police cars. Joyland sign re available for parties.
06:19:00 Blacks on balcony of
building w/ ornate carved stone decorations.
06:19:15 Graffiti on
brickwall: Blackstone Prince
Killers.
06:19:26 Dusk & shots of 4th
Bn. 46th Armored troops encampment area, tents, water trailers. Troops standing smoking by pup tents
blowing in the wind. Beside jeep
w/ bayonetted rifles. POV past
tents near dusk.
Military; Riot Aftermath; Poverty; Race; Ethnic; African-Americans; 1968;
1960s;
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