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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
Folder, "Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) - Miscellaneous, 1966 - 1968," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 18 (Item)
  • . 128. How should our defense of a town! ti-001ls be dispc.~~ 150 Questions tor a Guerrilla 79 for the necessary to de.fond a block. They i'an recruit others for the cause, encourage the timid, distiibute ammunition and load weapons. _135. What
Folder, "Disturbances - Spring 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 84 (Item)
Folder, "History I. A Short Narrative History," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 84 (Item)
  • 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
Folder, "Final Profiles - Working Copy," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)
  • 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
Folder, "Conot Profiles - Work Copy with Comments [1 of 2]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)
  • 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
Folder, "Conot Profiles - Work Copy with Comments [2 of 2]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)
  • 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
Folder, "Interim Report - Office of Investigations - Reports of Investigations [Cities]: Detroit [3 of 3]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 2 (Item)
Folder, "FBI - Disturbances and Racial Disturbances," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 84 (Item)
  • 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
Folder, "Interim Report - Office of Investigations [Weapons, Fires (2 of 2)]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)
Folder, "Summary Analysis: December 20, 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Series 7, Box 3 (Item)
  • a small fire that fin a lly spread into a blaze con­ suming a block of Negro businesses , Their -inaction sten~ed in part from a fear of a plot to trap fir e department equip­ ment in the Negro area thus leaving the downtown area . to be burned
Folder, "Interim Report - Office of Investigations - Reports of Investigators 1967-1968 [Cities]: Detroit [1 of 3]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 2 (Item)
  • taught how to make Molotov cocktails. The incident took place on Detroit•s East Side, about a block from the Afro­ American headquarters. Youths intentionally provoked an incident by insulting the police. As the police dragged them off, thirty youths
Folder, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [1964 - 1967]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)
Folder, "Riot Chronology, 1965-1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)
  • were ehurgeJ with Inciting lo riot; Carmlch~el said when arrested: .. We eamc here to tear this town up and \\:e•rc going to tear ii up... Tampa, Fla., Jmll' 11-12 •· Negmes rioted in a 6-block area aftN a white policeman shot and killed a Negro
Folder, "Detroit - FBI Reports, July 23, 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 22 (Item)
  • block. I also Loui::;E. Lomax is onr::or America·s forcmcst Negro nr.~ws-learned that ·other salesmen had Independent S tar-Nei·m pa.permrn, broadcastors and authtirs ("The Negro Revolt" and •The called on friends I haYe many Pasadena., Calif
Folder, "Buffalo - FBI Reports, July 27, 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 21 (Item)
  • , several blocks north of Sycamore Street. The number ot shops and buaines~ establishments attacked· with rocks ~nd tire bombs or ~olotov Cockta~ls increased. .• · On Juile 29, •1967 ,···netecti ve Sergeant GEORGE .. WITTMAN;·Buffalo Police Department
Folder, "City of Detroit - Presentation," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 77 (Item)