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Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

were looking after the cars got them around to the rear of the building, so that we could go to the jail that day. It wasn't far away, about two blocks or something like that. When we got downstairs to get in the cars to scoot over
the Nuremberg trial; Storey’s work on the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Route; Storey’s work on a President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice; his acquaintance with the Kennedys and Herbert Hoover.

, It was mentioned attempts will be made to block the flow of all traffic in and out of the Pentagon and thereby impede Pentagon operations. 16 students from Duke University are planning Approximately to attend the demonstration. As previously reported

Folder, "Homicide," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 79 (Item)

Guardsmen SP-4 Peter Alan Putala and SP-3 John c. Almli while ignoring command to Jto9 the automobile he was driving at a ro~d-block located at Mack and E. Gd Blvd., and then drivinP, the auto at the Guardsmen. Homicide File #7167. Assigned to Everett

SCHNEIDER, a photographer, parked about one-half block west of the Muslim Temple, 2329 East 28th Avenue, Denver, for the purpose of observing and photographing it. Re said pictures of arriving members were taken and their license numbers recorded

of the ghetto is tu organize for black power. He urged Negroes to set up their own political machines and make demands for legislation at all levels and to vote in a block. He urged Negroes to attend precinct meetings and to take over. He stated if the precinct

. RITZER, in regard to the racial situation in the Harlem area or New York: . She attended a number ot mee1;1ngs in the Ha:dem area, the purpose of which was to orgm1ze groups, block by block, in Harlem, tor the purpose.of fighting crime. At one ot

employed to keep order at the races. At 5:30 P.M., a block from the waterfront, a photo supply warehouse was broken into. Forty-five minutes later, as gather ing clouds were shadowing the sun, two police officers spotted . three Negro youths

police . . were continually on the alert to keep marches and counter- . .·'' marches of civil rights and -white supremacist organ1z.ations · * A block is considered to have been "busted" when one Negro family has been sold a home . in a previously

the tension. laughed. People Soon they began to drift home. The foilowing day tensions in the area mounted again as police patrolle_d the 36 square blocks with . 220 men, some ·o f them stationed ·on rooftops. · Early in the evening the mayor ,~e

that the speakers had B■ completed, he got back into his car and started moving away. At this point a clf'owd surged around his car compl~tely ai■ki blocking it. The Attorney G eneeral then got out of the c a r ~ to speak to the crowd. He told them

approximately 60 persons, a number of whom wore clerical garb, participated in a march from the 500 block of James Street to the Civic Auditorium in downtown Grand Rapids. At the Civic Auditorium the city commission was holding an open hearing regarding

Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

is awfully hard to say. We just were never able to get very good evidence about that. B: This book published by the Washington Post staff, Ten Blocks from the White House, indicates that there were some people who at least after the fact said they were

or four blocks along Baltimore Street : ••and a large crowd continued to foll_ow them. Finally, the police arrested two teen-age boys in the crowd, who refused to obey the order of a police officer and the Spartacists were placed in police c~rs and removed

in Chicago.marched four blocks in the area of. the school yesterday to express sympathy for the three Negro students who were slain at Orangeburg, South Carolina, during a disturbance on February 8, 1968. The same group will. conduct a memorial ceremony _at Crane

: SELECTEDRACIAL DEVELOPMENTS ANDDISTURBANCES juveniles were arrested when a large group gathered in the vicinity of Gompers Junior High School to complain about student suspensions. About 200 youths blocked traffic and threw rocks and bottles at passing motor

clasped, extended themaelTea in a line across the intersection of 12Sth Street and Seventh ATenue and effectiTel7 blocked traffic in all directions. This demonstration was to call attention to the need for pO'V'ert7 monq and the need for jobs in Harlem

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

relations. B: ~{no are the leaders of those three groups you just outlined? Are they the obvious ones--McClellan, Dirksen, and Hart? c: \~ell, Se;J.ator Eastland is the chairman of the committee--is the leader of that southern block on judicial

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- 15 House; it is very exposed. They don't block off the street when you get in the limousine; they hold people at bay while you climb down the stairs and into the limousine, so that they don't actually cross in front of you. They don't clear

on that. The President went up and down on this block grant approach that the Republicans had. I remember he called me one day and said, ''Well, what's wrong with their approach?" Well, my feeling at the time was that it was wasteful to funnel money through a state

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