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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

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

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

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

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
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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

, 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

, 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

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

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

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

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