Stop all this. On july 23rd, 1967, detroit was hit by a riot. We said it couldnt happen but it did and the nation was shocked. Which left 43 dead, thousands injured and a city in flames. These films tell a part of that story. What do you think about all this . I think its kind of all. Do you blame anybody for all this . I dont know who to blame. Its really awful. Think that makes it right . No, it isnt right. You angry, mad at anybody . Well, no, not exactly. No . [ horn honking ] [ helicopter ] [ horn honking ] [ sirens ] burn, baby, burn. [ no audible dialogue ] when the Fire Department gets here, they will try. Hopefully they will succeed. That block of buildings is gone. Next to it is gas stations behind it. Homes, people. Tournament said, 20 minutes after 5 00. What are you doing . Going to montys house for a while then, look for some place else to live. Do you know how the fire started . No idea at all. The hardware store, my house. Just burned them all down. No ideas at all. We
Was sent back into the white house where the fbi and secret service conducted a thorough investigation of the vehicle, took many photographs, documented what they needed to for evidentiary purposes. After that the car was sent back to its modifiers in cincinnati. To be completely rebuilt as an armored vehicle. And people are always astounded to think that this car was put back into service after the assassination. You would assume either that it was destroyed or perhaps locked away in a warehouse somewhere. But no, the simple fact is the president needed to have a vehicle. President johnson at this point. There simply wasnt time to go back to the drawing board and build something from scratch. The most expeditious thing to do was rebuild this car. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all our video is archived. Cspan. Org history. In july 1967, five days of rioting erupted in detroit, sparked by a police raid on an illegal bar and fueled by longsim
Hours after the altercation between the people in the blind pig and the people in the Police Department occurred. People say, clearly in 1967 your 13yearsold or 14yearsold. What are you doing out at 4 00 in the morning . I was privileged time and always say, for four years i was a Detroit Free Press paperboy. On that sunday morning i was on my way and made it up to the paper station to get my papers and i was going to pay. I was going to pay the paper station manager, louis, for the papers from the previous week which was how we did it. I was picking up my sunday papers. I had my big airedale, hamlet, with me. That was our practice. I got there and i found louie, he had been beaten up. Robbed. I do not know how many paperboys had actually come in turned in their collections from the previous week, but at some point he had been beaten up and robbed. He was still there when i got there and he saw me come up and he said, do not worry about getting your papers today. There will not be any
Hours after the altercation between the people in the blind pig and the people in the Police Department occurred. People say, clearly in 1967 your 13yearsold or 14yearsold. What are you doing out at 4 00 in the morning . I was privileged time and always say, for four years i was a Detroit Free Press paperboy. On that sunday morning i was on my way and made it up to the paper station to get my papers and i was going to pay. I was going to pay the paper station manager, louis, for the papers from the previous week which was how we did it. I was picking up my sunday papers. I had my big airedale, hamlet, with me. That was our practice. I got there and i found louie, he had been beaten up. Robbed. I do not know how many paperboys had actually come in turned in their collections from the previous week, but at some point he had been beaten up and robbed. He was still there when i got there and he saw me come up and he said, do not worry about getting your papers today. There will not be any
Hours after the altercation between the people in the blind pig and the people in the Police Department occurred. People say, clearly in 1967 your 13yearsold or 14yearsold. What are you doing out at 4 00 in the morning . I was privileged time and always say, for four years i was a Detroit Free Press paperboy. On that sunday morning i was on my way and made it up to the paper station to get my papers and i was going to pay. I was going to pay the paper station manager, louis, for the papers from the previous week which was how we did it. I was picking up my sunday papers. I had my big airedale, hamlet, with me. That was our practice. I got there and i found louie, he had been beaten up. Robbed. I do not know how many paperboys had actually come in turned in their collections from the previous week, but at some point he had been beaten up and robbed. He was still there when i got there and he saw me come up and he said, do not worry about getting your papers today. There will not be any