“ WATTS RIOT OR REVOLT? ” AUGUST, 1965 WATTS, LOS ANGELES RACE RIOTS SPECIAL REPORT PART 1 SM10075a

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This black-and-white 1965 CBS news report shows footage from the August 11-17 Watts Riots in Los Angeles, California and examines its causes. The riots, with 34 dead, stemmed from the Los Angeles Police Department’s racist practices and racial tensions and discrimination in the city. The film begins with gunshots and the sound of broken glass; bodies lay stretched out beside a curb (0:23). Police officers and National Guard members fire guns (0:45). Several Black men are interviewed, saying riots are the only way to get people to listen (1:00). Chairman John McCone hands Governor Edmund Brown a report on the riot’s causes, saying the reasons are unclear (1:50). African Americans and police officers outside the Central Spot Cafe (1:54); a 7Up logo on a door (1:59). The camera pans over burned and looted buildings (2:22). Signs for Watts Cleaners (2:30) and Equal Food Market. CBS News Correspondent Bill Stout walks down a Los Angeles street amidst damaged buildings as he reports (2:53). Shaky footage of the riots, starting at 3:50: a burning car; bystanders yelling, “Get the White man;” a mob in front of a drugstore; police officers run toward a building and handcuff a Black man. Signs from looted and damaged buildings (5:00); several indicating they are Black-owned (5:11). A policeman points a gun at Black men in front of an auto shop (5:23). Policemen forcing men out of a car; they stand with hands up against a wall (5:37). Firemen attempt to put out fires (6:18). Sign for police transmitters and receivers (6:27). An aerial view of the city burning (6:45); the riots affected 54 square miles. Graffiti on a brick wall: “Quite Village of Watts” (7:39). A line of people at a food bank (8:03). Black workers doing construction and (8:33). Stout stands on the street corner where the riots started (9:00) after Marquette Frye was pulled over by police officer Lee Minikus for drunk driving. Houses from the African American sections of Watts (9:45); housing discrimination was one cause of the riots. Muahmmad’s Mosque No. 27 (9:53), site of a 1962 gun battle between police and several Black residents. Bodies loaded onto stretchers (10:10). Black Catholics pray and march with signs supporting Priest William DuBay (10:53), who said race discrimination was immoral. DuBay speaks, advocating to remove Cardinal McIntyre from office (11:03). 1964 campaign signs for and against Proposition 14 (11:38), which nullified the Rumford Fair Housing Act and allowed ethnic discrimination. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in Watts on the referendum (12:00). A Herald Examiner newspaper headline: “LBJ All the Way” (12:04). A Los Angeles Times article from August 11, 1965: “Poor Wait Outside in Poverty War” (12:45). Black families attending the Church of Divine Guidance (13:14). Police Chief William Parker speaks at a press conference August 12 (13:40). Reverend H.H. Brookins, along with other ministers, speaks at a peace meeting at a Watts playground (14:40). A policeman patrols on the roof of the 7th Street Police station in front of a California flag (16:16). Brookins speaks to a reporter about his recommendation for less obvious policing to Deputy Police Chief Roger Murdock (16:22). A line of police cars; a smashed windshield; police arresting rioters (17:34). State Assemblyman Marvin Daimley speaks about the riots (18:00); White men at a gun store (18:35). Mayor Sam Yorty stands in front of a Southwest plane explaining his prior commitment in San Francisco (19:10). Parker speaks at a press conference on August 13 (19:54); he called in the National Guard later that day. Footage of looting and burning buildings (20:15). Guardsmen disembarking from a U.S. Air Force plane (21:51). Martin Luther King Jr. speaks after the riots on August 18 (22:23). Governor Brown speaks to residents on August 19 (23:34) about jobs and food assistance. City Councilman Gilbert Lindsay speaks on the fight over the War on Poverty program (24:50). Mayor Yorty says the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) cut off program funds (25:21). Sergeant Shriver from the OEO says Los Angeles does not have an effective program (25:35). A group of Black protest marchers (25:55); end Part 1.

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