Get your hands up high. Absolutely incredible scene. Gunbattle in the middle of broadway. A small army of policeman carrying shotguns, National Guardsmen writing jeeps. Bodies of several negroes who had been shot already stretched out beside the curb. A great sent acres of broken glass. Now, this hunt, like something out of a bad war movie, a western perhaps heard policeman on the rooftops. The streets. They found the men they were after trade\ \. That was part of the civil war fought on the streets of los angeles this summer. I think it started 400 years ago. They kept telling us we were nothing. You could not talk to anybody the only way to get anybody to listen to us is to start a riot. Lordvernor, and you the prepared i had you the report prepared by your commission. I cannot tell you anyone particular reason why it took place in august for los angeles. Reexamine the question of watts. What started it, what stopped it, and will there be another . They have just presented governor edmund brown the report seeking the answers to just such questions. These are part of the problems nightmare of watts . International Business Machines presents cvs reports. Watts riot or revolt . Now, from the moment it began. Three months ago violence produced all this. And local riot or a revolt . Part of a National Social for the product of a festering social illness . If it was a riot, why did it communitye, in the least caught up in racial tensions. Some insight. He said the evils which can be injured patients as long as they are inevitable seem intolerable as soon as a whole can be entertained of escaping them. On the night of wednesday august the 11th, that patience ran out. Did the white man. Read,was the most wives descriptive racial violence in history. White people were considered. Air game might ruin incurs a disappointment when i wiped it away, and then cheer like a Football Ground when a car went up in flames. Validity looting, burning, shooting, meeting went on for nearly a week. 34 persons were killed, all that five of the negro. More than 1000 Person Injured or than 200n more business places destroyed by fire. 700 or smashed, looted, damaged. Negro merchants sought to protect themselves with her the appeals. Dly scrawled get out of the car with your hands up. The one in the back seat too. Get your hands up. Drop that person get your hands up. Did your hands up. Come on. Right this way. Sibling giovanni variety of social ailments. All of that ends up to discrimination. But for most of all, police utility. The mobs agreed. But the police were not the only targets. Cityen rushing about the were showered with rocks and bottles and sometimes found themselves under heavy gunfire. The lots hated authority, but more generally they hated all whites. Finished, the mobs before they spent themselves, by the time the writing had run its course, the police had plotted their action over 54 square miles in the nations largest city. More than twice the size of the entire island of manhattan. Harlem, or South Chicago seems the most likely to produce those northern explosions that were predicted and white americas anxiety over the room negro revolution. No one expected the flashpoint of discontent to be in this 400 Square Square miles of los angeles. It happened there, in an area 1 6 of of the the negroes. They are streets of trim the lower middle class homes and there are squalid areas of condemned houses. Two thirds of the adults have less than a high school education. One in eight is illiterate. Of every 10 homes, nine were built before 1939. One in five has deteriorated. Lowest average income right, 4000 a year, compared to 8,000 a year for the white community. Almost 60 receive some sort of welfare against an unemployment rates that holds around 30 one out of every three teenagers comes from a broken home. The School Dropout is more than twice that of the city overall. Tot residents are newcomers, join the gold rush of the past 25 years and many are most from have come from the most awkward parts of the deep south. They have no desire for classroom learning. No knowledge of how to live in urban surroundings and not evenly knowledge of how to use plumbing. Thousandd together, new ones every month. It began as many race rights of the gun with the rest of a negro by white officers and right here at this corner. Two young negroes were stopped by california Highway Patrol and and charged with drunk driving. There was a scuffle and they crowd gathered. The mother of the two joined in and she and another woman were pushed and shoved right the Highway Patrol and were on the scene 40 minutes, which some suggested was overlong in the face of the hostile crowd. They found no basis for criticizing the conduct or judgment of officers on the scene. But no one questions this is the incident, nothing more that sparked the fuse. Is a longkground chronicle of defeat and disappointment, of grievances, a pure hate for the white man. 1962 aspring of gunbattle between negroes and , the sex that belie ved all whites were in full. Civilizationses believed that it crystallize the feelings, that from that point big trouble was inevitable. There were other humiliations, distantly noted i whites resoundingly a slap in the face. As theatholics prayed head of the catholic archdiocese declaring the growth to be better treated los angeles leg. Chris christie a line that racial problems were to be treated as political rather than moral issues. Theung priest challenged cardinal, insisting race discrimination is a moral and therefore a direct concern of the church. Heroes watched while dispatched an appeal to the pope in rome. All of those concerned with our negro congregation, in their yearning for full protection under the law from equal opportunity for janet and education jobs and cannot work under the nullifying policies of the cardinal. I urge you therefore to remove Arnold Mcintyre from office. Negroes watched through the long Political Campaign of 1964 the Biggest Issue was fair housing. His blog wiring the sale of homes to any person able to pay, regardless of color was under attack. Collectedoups signatures for an a referendum that would repeal the law. The great majority of california voters rejected the law enforced on the crustacean and housing enforced nondiscrimination in housing. There were other factors as well. They can see things in other they arethe city, and more educated. They know what is going on in rockets overseas to other countries and their own countries. There was haggling over the Poverty Program. The very day the rights being, this was the headline in the Los Angeles Times. Poverty pop funds were used to give jobs and money to thousands of young negroes but in los angeles not one cent was put into the negro area. Of freedomstory had created a false sense of wellbeing. So when violence did interrupt, its violence seemed many times magnified. Peas losthe lessons of angeles had been cited around the country by the chief of release, and man known for his integrity and the bluntness of his opinions and after the first night of violence, embarrassed and understandably edgy he faced newsman. What do you want the policeman to do . Lanem simply asking you to what the thinking of the police is. To protect. A city those 400 itet square miles be open season to learn who are in town to every burglar in town. There are some local negroes here that are in these situations. We would assume that they have some influence, or they would not be represented. Go down and talk to the baseball and tell them this is inordinate and should not continue. Ministers of politicians go black and white, called a peace meeting in a neighborhood playground. We should not see a homeland butegister or new york, they themselves do not understand their people, did not know the intensity of their rage, and could not love the depth of their hate a. This can be another one, whether you like it or not. People have gotten completely fed up. Ghty are not going to find anymore. Proves to continue violence with violence is the wrong way. Pure and simple. I believe we talk about people staying off the street. Every Citizens Rights to walk the street. But we must want to in dignity and respect. There is not to be in a concentration of police power in this community tonight. After this meeting, the county human relations commission, a group with a record of success took the recommendations that there be less obvious policing of the area thursday night to Deputy Police chief roger murdock. The Police Department indicated to us that theyre going to run the city their own way and they would prove who runs the city of los angeles and his attitude was one i would jim clark in alabama. We want to work with the police, with elected officials is not against them. 100 100returned to eight st, we had to report what we found. It was like lighting a fuse. They said we told you the your leadership did not amount to much. Ec what they think. Now let us do it our way. About six police cars moved in a black sirens with about 500 people on the street and it was just like an explosion. Everything went haywire. Why and what is behind it. From the quarrel over the performance of leadership was beginning of march 1 of the great unpalatable truths of the right, that there were and are groups in the Negro Community for whom nobody spoke. Most of the negro to hold elected office stayed out of the area. Area resident of the right was there constantly, and he spoke the truth no one wanted to hear. Incident . Elate to an iout 4 00 p. M. Friday morning went up to a group that was throwing bottles and i said lets cool it. Avalon. Id i live on i live with the people. If you are with us here, throw it. He had to be the bottle. I said i have for peace. Said you were with the man, the white man or the police. I said we do not want to hear you, we dont want to hear Martin Luther king will we dont want here from things, we just want to talk with him and ourselves. Striking, but was the white man responses also less distinguished they began to crowd in white got asked from guns to protect decided to call regard to the riot worsened. We have advertise this beach for a long time. They have hundreds of reservations. And do myup commitment, but if it was not made i would not go. Came for his he absence for the city. Let for his legendary luncheon date in san francisco, chief parker, the manager at an man on the spot from the beginning now had hard words for the peacemakers he had earlier encouraged. I am not going to play games with wellmeaning people who lack expertise. The people are getting hurt her police and innocent citizens, and the writers are prevailing. Character of the writing change. Says, major looting became general. In one shopping area, thousands of negroes stole everything they could carry and number and what was left. What had been skirmishing before between police and hit run negro groups became a wholesale exercise in dealing and burning, with evidence of organized efforts in the manufacture and use of molotov cocktails. The estimate was 3000 people filled the streets. That estimate seems conservative indeed. At one point chief parker was firm throughout. He is going to ask for the National Guard in the negro explosion was too much to handle. He had agreement Governor Brown do that. Fore to but the guard had been called in a civil disorder only ones in california history. At 10 50 a. M. , declaring the situation out of control, ask for the National Guard. It was 5 00 p. M. Friday afternoon when they signed the proclamation. Cardys delay in calling the guard proved costly damage and lives. He hesitated when he shut have acted. Further escalation could have been avoided since the commission, integra hope herdsman available on a few miles we had been deployed as they might have an by midafternoon on friday. Then the guard came in. The same time the first writer was killed. By 8 00 off the streets p. M. , and the brute force of 14,000 armed men finally broke the back of the riot. As the shooting died down, the soulsearching and blame shifting began. Martin luther king did not cut short his vacation in puerto rico, but went after the rioting and found the efforts there less friendly than i would have expected. In all know i believe firmly nonviolence. Maybe you do not agree with it, but i want you to be willing to say that. Our Negro Community leaders, where are they . They are not here, and they are not representing us. Being told this. Wait a minute. We want a job. We get jobs, we dont bother nobody. Thehe police, we will burn two. M too. Governor brown found the area prior from tranquil. What does your husband do . I dont have a husband. We are separated. Published in get from the program . 234 a month other places to get a job . If i could go to work, i would be proud to go to work in i would love to go to work. To three days before all this happens, people were starving to death, waiting until the first leg of their paycheck. They get the money from welfare . They need jobs. That is what they need. Didhe creation of jobs to on the settlement of the city dispute with the federal government over administration of the property program. The city councilman, one of the negro officials after the riot hit hard at the party angle. I am ashamed that we, squabbles and thought over the Poverty Program , which is almost scandalous. He denied that he earned but he also los angeles had been playing politics. He blamed washington. I tried for months, as you know. To end the senseless controversy and so far as i know this is the only city where the office of Economic Opportunity actually taxes. Ongarm. Hey made 13 to take washington, the sergeant replied in kind a. 500 23 cities and towns in all counties having organized effective, but, antiPoverty Programs in los angeles, unfortunately, is the only major city in United States which has failed to do this. The political shuffling of the Party Program was only one factor. The larger causes of the ones explosion will be examined in just a moment. Cbs reports, walks, riot horrible, continues. As the tension continues, we asked the muslim leader more violent as an prospect. I certainly believe it will happen again unless some steps are taken to avoid it. I have my year to the ground of this community. . Hat has changed i would rather call people who started this thing. They have done nothing to stop it massive support was brought into for this. Heres been nothing themselves the former head of Central Intelligence agency was named chairman. The Committee Hearings have not been public that principal witnesses are known and so are some of their views. The chief of police. Encourage that these writers possess, continue to track by their fellow organizations from the police, constant harassment,. Olice brutality you do not have to. Please. , you have what i call the political pandering, trying to reach these groups or political balance of power by catering to the emotions. Your dislocated, you are abused because of your color. Your progenitors were oppressed. Given theot been share of materialistic things that you are entitled to. Im going to do something for you. I am going to raise you out of this position of postslavery to economic of fluency. And of course many people in our present system are not in the affluentto become unless someone just hands it to them. Many negro leaders agree with me finests angeles is the place in the world for the negro people because he will have the most opportunity on a broad basis than anywhere else in the world. You have this paradox where things are the best is where the worst riots are. I think you have to go back to civil disobedience. You dont have to obey the law if you think it is unjust area if it is unjust. Is a law unjust because i want a pair of shoes in that store and i do not have the money to go by them so i go steal them . Why were these people shot . They were only stealing. So, they rationalize this. Erodesil disobedience respect for all law. That has been proved in this nation by now. If we have not learned the lesson now, we never will. Do you think it was a criminal method station manifestation of disrespect for the law or a loss of station . I think all of those things are involved. The most important recognition we can give to the situation, for all of the negroes who live in los angeles, the watts riots represent lesson 1 . It is a mistake to lump all of these people together. It is inaccurate. Reporter is it the responsibility of the schools . Try toink it is wrong to find the failure other than in the people themselves. This is dangerous. Their acts on the basis of you did something because of something we failed these a great number of people came from areas of the country where they were much more seriously dislocated than they are here. And flooded a community that was not prepared to meet them. We did not ask these people to and certainly you need the community to adjust itself to a small segment that has suddenly come in and taken over a section. I think that this is unreasonable. I think we are almost sadistic in the way we are trying to publisher punish ourselves over this thing. What we have destroyed is the sense of responsibility for our own action. We have developed a materialistic society where everybody is a victim, and therefore they are not held responsible and if you continue to live in that society, good luck to you. Parkers anger is shared by many, if not most whites. His position is supported by many, many of whom have addressed letters to him, 99 favorable. Parker believes that disrespect for the law imperils the nation. But so says the Negros Community who can respect law that is . We have heard constant references to respect for law and order, and more particularly, what they mean is respect for Law Enforcement. To understand the problems of these people, you have to understand what Law Enforcemen