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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-01-06 (remove)
  • Subject > Civil disorders (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Graduate of MIT, Harvard Law School; active duty with the Army from 1961-63, served as a staff director of the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces; Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia; Deputy General
  • ; comparison of police and military units in controlling civil disturbances; the Chicago riots of 1968; police relations with the black community; The D.C. riots following the MLK assassination; reluctance to use federal troops; difficulties in planning the use