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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, "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, "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, "Liaison - FBI - Miscellaneous Reports [1964 - 1967]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 3 (Item)

Folder, "City of Detroit - Presentation," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 77 (Item)