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Folder, "Conot Profiles - Work Copy with Comments [1 of 2]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)
  • be a diversionary tactic. Belle Isle, the recreation area in the Detroit River that had been the scene of the 1943 riot, was sealed off. In an effort not to attract people to the scene, _some broadcasters cooperated by reporting no news of the riot. As a · result
Folder, "[July-August 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • - l August 5, 1967 NOTES OF MEETING OF PRESIDENT WITH MEL ELFIN, NEWSWEEK: JOHN STEELE OF TIME: JACK SUTHERLAND OF U.S. NEWS, JULY 28, 1967 The President had a general discussion with these three magazine writers on the Detroit riot and civil
Folder, "History I. A Short Narrative History," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 84 (Item)
  • to be desegregated with all deliberate speed. On December 1, 1955, a Negro seamstress named Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a M~ntgomery, Alabama, bus. When the news spread through the community, a young Negro minister
Folder, "August 2, 1967 - 12:09 p.m. Cabinet Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • % involvement by non-Negroes in Detroit. There was a 5% involvement by non-Negroes in Newark. The Attorney General said that the Crime Control Act is the best thing the administration has to fight this problem now. He said we do need a gun control bill. National
Folder, "Conot Profiles - Work Copy with Comments [2 of 2]," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)
  • in the aOllmlWlity which does IQOst of the riotinq. Again, experience in such cities aa New York and St. Louis suggest ■ that theae step• are bot.b feasible and important. But the experience of Detroit •uggesta that these efforts by themaelves, without effort
Folder, "Final Profiles - Working Copy," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 85 (Item)
  • map across the room. Curvin 10 & 11 p. 40 - Last paragraph. The carloads of police officers were not reinforcements; they were officers reporting in for a new shift. Melchior 8 p. 41 - First full paragraph. The molotov cocktails were thrown just
Folder, "Volume I, Narative History Part IV [2 of 2]," Department of Transportation Administrative History, Box 2 (Item)
  • DCT and of the Part is the Development the of New Conununi ties Federal response Act· of 1968. New Cornmuni ties provides for developers a revolving fund Act necessitates the cooperation ments, the Department 18,· 1968
Folder, "Homicide," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 79 (Item)
  • Shop. To DGH (CB). 1:25 PM 7/24 (Looter) ROBERT BEAL, 49/N/M of.8857 Treadwell, a looter, shot_by Detroit Police Patr. ERNEST GILBERT, #2 Task Force, at the Oakland Auto Parts, 9325 Oakland. Homicide File #71! Assigned to - Bowron. Report on Case
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Investigations - Detroit - General"
  • Detroit (Mich.)
  • Detroit Police Department
Folder, "[September 1967 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • of the Detroit News asked about the complaint that the Joint Chiefs are being held down. The President said that's a correct statement. The President pointed out that he and Rusk and McNamara never leave the room without agreement. The Joint Chiefs have
Folder, "1964 Task Force on Metropolitan and Urban Problems," Task Force Reports, Box 2 (Item)
  • Foundation Jerome P. Cavanagh ftkyor ot the C:t.ty ot Detroit Mt.rtin Meyerson University ot California at Berkeley •than Glazer University ot California at Eerkeley • RaymondVernon Harvard University BormanKennedy tbiversity of California at Eerkeley
Folder, "Disturbances - Spring 1967," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 84 (Item)
  • , THROUGH AUGUST31, 1964, AND YOUTHDISTURBANCES SEPTEMBER 4, 1964 1 THROUGH SEPTEUBER7, 1964 STA'£E OF NEW YORK New York City July 17 2 1964, through July 31, 1964 • Following the shooting of fifteen-year-old James :>owell, a Negro, in New York City
Folder, "1966 Task Force on Cities," Task Force Reports, Box 4 (Item)
  • . C. .. N. Ylvi~ker l MEMBERS or THE TASK FORCEON CITIES Paul N. Ylvisaker State of New Jersey Chairman Julian Levi University of Chicago Vice Chairman Anthony Downs Real Estate Research Honorable Ivan Allen Mayor Atl~nta, Georgia John
Folder, "FBI - Disturbances and Racial Disturbances," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 84 (Item)
  • , 1964 . 'SUl~JARY_ANALYSI~ OF THE RACIAL : DISTURBANCES ANDRIOTING DURING : THE PERIOD FROMJULY 17, 1964, THROUGH AUGUST31, 1964, AND YOUTHDISTURBANCES SEPTEMBER 4, 1964 1 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 7, 1964 STATEOF NEWYORK New York City ~uly 17, 1964, through
Telephone conversation # 12808, transcript, MARVIN WATSON and RICHARD DALEY, 3/13/1968, 12:25PM (Item)
  • ask a question or two while I've got you. What did you think about New Hampshire? DALEY: Well I think it was a warning to us. I don't think it is going to let anyone phoh-phoh it or - you know - it's something that no one expected to happen
  • WATSON TELLS DALEY THAT LBJ IS IN A MEETING AND WILL CALL DALEY BACK LATER, THEN ASKS DALEY'S VIEWS OF OUTCOME OF NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY AND RUMORS THAT RFK WILL ENTER PRESIDENTIAL RACE; DALEY SAYS THAT IS WHAT HE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT
Telephone conversation # 12815, transcript, MARVIN WATSON and RICHARD DALEY, 3/14/1968, 12:35PM (Item)
  • . Kennedy, Democrat:. - from New York, will announce on Monday his candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nomination, the Herald Examiner said today. The report from the Paper 1 s political editor in Sacramento, Phil Hanna, added that Democrat Jesse M
Telephone conversation # 12816, transcript, LBJ and RICHARD DALEY, 3/14/1968, 5:57PM (Item)
  • as happened." · What I am saying is it's always when a man puts a new man into a department like you do the Secretary of Defense, there is always the implication that he comes in with the idea of not -6­ necessarily following what's been there, but . he
  • MONETARY CRISIS; CLARK CLIFFORD'S MEETING WITH RFK TODAY; RFK'S DEMAND FOR REAPPRAISAL OF VIETNAM POLICY; DEAN ACHESON'S ADVICE TO LBJ; DALEY SUGGESTS LBJ APPOINT HIS OWN COMMITTEE TO STUDY POLICY; RFK'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY; NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY
Telephone conversation # 12001, transcript, LBJ and RICHARD HUGHES, 7/14/1967, 12:22PM (Item)
  • DISCUSSION OF RIOTS IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY; LBJ OFFERS FEDERAL ASSISTANCE; HUGHES REPORTS HE IS SEEKING INDICTMENTS OF VIOLATERS OF THE LAW; LBJ ASKS FOR FULL REPORT ON SITUATION
Folder, "[June 26, 1968 Meeting with Equity Managers)," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • during the New Deal. He said he thought that perhaps. the most significant development in the past generatioJJ was the new social conscious­ ness of business. Who could have imagined their leaving their own work behind to get into cities efforts? Who
Folder, "[September 1, 1967 - 1:40 p.m. Meeting with Business Leaders]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • significant developments. The President commended Secretary Fowler for the international monetary agreement, referring to it as 11 the best news since Bretton Woods. " On cities, the President said re is trying to take federal properties and lease them or give
Folder, "[January-March 1968 Meetings with Correspondents]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)
  • shot. 11 # # # MEETING OF THE PRESIDENT WITH MR. ST. CLAIR MCKELWAY OF THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE ON FEBRUARY 15, 1968. Mr. McKelway: I have been on the New Yorker since 1933. These days I am a free writer on the staff. A lot of our people have been
Folder, "Volume I - Narrative History, Part III [2 of 2]," Department of Transportation Administrative History, Box 2 (Item)
  • the key determinant of the leyel of consumer demand·for transit (and more important than price). While th~ purchase of new equipment through mass transit grants may help achieve service ·improvementsin these area~, it wilLnot do so automatically
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/16/1964 (Thursday) (Item)
  • thinking that s omehow she has r i s e n l e s s to the tide of o p p o r t u n ity ,th a n Diana, and MEMORANDUM THE WHI TE HOUSE W A S H I N G T ON T hu rsd ay, A p r il 16, 19 6 4 Page 3 me Dr. Blake Smith brought m ethe unw elcom e news which I
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 8/25/1966 (Thursday) (Item)
  • New York
  • Not a successful day; breakfast with LBJ; Lady Bird to New York on clothes-shopping trip; meeting with Robert Dowling about Sterling Gardens; Lynda Johnson interviews for job; Lady Bird returns to White House; physical exercises; Lady Bird views
  • New York City
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/10/1967 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • T U ESD A Y , JANUARY 10, 1967 p ag e 1 T u e s d a y , J a n u a r y 10th w a s th e S ta te of th e U nion. N ot u n til .it ;' ■„ .^ i t is o v e r do you r e a l l y f e e l th e New Y e a r h a s b eg u n . It i s a n o b s ta c le , a m o u n
  • of Congressman John Fogarty; impeachment of Adam Clayton Powell; new African-American Senator, William Brooke; Lady Bird describes reaction to speech; Lady Bird answers press questions; Johnsons to Speaker's Room & White House with guests for supper
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/15/1964 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • ^ t h e s e days. w n We t a l k e d a b o u t ^ i s t i c a , and the f ir s t p la ce I e v e r saw C . that odd G reek w ord,^ a new c ity a r isin g in the d e s e r t /^ o m e 15 or ZO m ile s from K arach i, w h ere the sc ie n c e of how
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/26/1967 (Thursday) (Item)
  • ^ .^Somehow f o r m e h e j u s t f its th e d e lig h tfu l S ta te of V e rm o n t th a t he r e p r e s e n t s ! b r a n d new G o v e rn o r of M a ry la n d an d M r s , A gnew , I b e lie v e t h e i r I n a u g u ra l i s th is w e e k en d , Sol L
  • New York
  • Carlyle Hotel, New York City
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 7/13/1967 (Thursday) (Item)
  • s w h i l e M a r i l y n w a l k e d u p a n d down b e s id e m e r e la y in g q u e s tio n s and new s a n d m e giving h e r a n s w e r s u ntil I finally said, thrilled. " W h y d o n 't you g et in a n d s w im ?" S he w a s s o It a l w
  • draws a crowd; Lady Bird has tea for Mrs. Alexandros Matsas, wife of departing Greek ambassador; tea & tours for five new ambassadors' wives; discussion about Shah of Iran; LBJ greets group; John Macy meeting about Fine Arts Commission; bowling
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 9/8/1967 (Friday) (Item)
  • g t h e r e . The p a i n t e d w o o d e n c h a n d e l i e r in the li ttl e s ittin g r o o m h a s gone up, a n d I lik e it v e r y m u c h . I s p e n t the m o r n i n g stuffing a l b u m s a n d b o o k s into the new b o o k c a s e s
  • Lady Bird works with Herbert Wells & Roy White on LBJ Ranch house renovations; Lady Bird fills bookcases and decorates; good news about Nellie Connally's surgery in Houston; John Connally flies to LBJ Ranch for visit & meeting with LBJ; LBJ, John
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/26/1968 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • r e and:ajcciBix a r c h i t e c t u r e . I ’ve h a r d l y w o r k e d a s h a r d on a s p e e c h a n d i t w a s the l o n g e s t one I th in k I‘v e e v e r d e l i v e r e d . I spoke of the new c o n s e r v a t i o n w h ich m e a n s f
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 1/17/1968 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • c o u ld h a v e a r e a l d e d ic a tio n c e le b r a tio n th e r e . c B u t th e u r g e n t n e e d -w a s to g e t a c l o s e r w o rk in g r e la tio n w ith th e new h e a d of th e W a s h in g to n S c h o o l S y s te m to c u e h im
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 2/4/1965 (Thursday) (Item)
  • Congressional Prayer Breakfast; Lady Bird does office work; LBJ has television news conference; story about Adlai Stevenson's birthday cake; Stevenson discusses the Soviet Union, the United Nations, the Congo and China; Lady Bird meets with Barbara