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Firsthand. he's now returned a half a century later. >> modern america had never seen anything like it. >> we're going to fire a few warning shots in the air to keep them back. we mean business. >> racial rage on a war zone scale. when the fires went out and the smoke cleared, watts became something else, a metaphor for black rage and white guilt. this was not supposed to happen in sunny southern california. suddenly watts was ground zero for millions of dollars for local and federal aid. a mandatory stop for activist politicians. i was new to nbc in those days. and these streets quickly becam...
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