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  • *TRANSCRIPT ONLY OF THIS CONVERSATION; THERE IS NO RECORDING; TIME FROM DAILY DIARY
  • 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
  • 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
  • 4, 1963, is:=;w3 of "The Richmonrl. News Leader", a Richmond, Virginia> daily newspaper, repor·:;ec1 that G~orge Lincoln Ro~k~·rell h.:id, on the previous day, again .. applied for the American Nazi ?arty to be charte:-ed in the State of Virginia
  • " indicated him to be a Negro, a new element of ·tension was injected into relations between the races. In December, 1966, a jazz musician named Posteal Laskey was arrested and charged with one of the murders. 1967 he was convicted and sentenced to death
  • will do so. .... S.., U.S. Sllfli•t,s BtmJs R11,tJMly tm tb, Pdpoll SMmt,s Pl1111 I 75 NEW BRUNSWICK All during the weekend that violence sputtered, · flared, subsided, then flared again in Plainfield, in New Brunswick, less than 10 miles away
  • . To New Grace Hosp._ Shot in front of 19218 Livernois. JOHNSONis a private guard. 1:26 AM 7/25 (Prsnr) ??/N. Shot r,un pellets upper portion of RONALDPOWh""LL, To DGF (CB). Refused to halt body & face, also rt hip. at Lycaste .& Goethe on orders
  • , 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
  • - 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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