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Folder, "Summary Analysis: December 20, 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Series 7, Box 3 (Item)

is necessary -- violence is occurring around the country -- both are reported side by side on TV and in the press ~ Such a recurrent linking of spokesmen for disorder and actual violence produces cause and effect associations which are dlfficult to dispel

Folder, "THE HARVEST OF AMERICAN RACISM: The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Series 7, Box 1 (Item)

dimension . That was Tucson , in_which a second night of -"rioting" seem~ to have been planned or ~taged for the press . There was even reported sniping at two or three media vehicles . POLICE-COMMUNITY RELATIONS IN CRISIS: THE PROBLEM _OF CONTROL

Folder, "1965 Task Force on Los Angeles Riots," Task Force Reports, Box 10 (Item)

are beginning to feel that riots are all they understand. This is the only way to talk to downtown." "There will be a holocaust if changes do not come fast." The one theme that emerged in every conversation was the pressing need for jobs. Many believed jobs