Next on American History tv, the discussion on policymaking commissions inl American History. This talk from Purdue University was part of the conference called making American History. I am the associate professor of instructions, a legal historian who has written about president ial commissions and Administrative Law from law reform. We look forward to you can tell, todays session is being filmed by cspan, so do with that information as you will. Frank will be first. Yes, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning. Increasingly i take an historical approach to city planning. I do that with rutgers. The reason i am here, nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th entry fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city, on president ial commissions and its one of the very few sources, i think, on them, and a they dug my ago, 49 yearold book they dug my 49yearold book. They asked if i would participate. President ial commissions have a long history in the United Sta
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Get your hands up high. Absolutely incredible scene. Gunbattle in the middle of broadway. A small army of policeman carrying shotguns, National Guardsmen writing jeeps. Bodies of several negroes who had been shot already stretched out beside the curb. A great sent acres of broken glass. Now, this hunt, like something out of a bad war movie, a western perhaps heard policeman on the rooftops. The streets. They found the men they were after trade\ \. That was part of the civil war fought on the streets of los angeles this summer. I think it started 400 years ago. They kept telling us we were nothing. You could not talk to anybody the only way to get anybody to listen to us is to start a riot. Lordvernor, and you the prepared i had you the report prepared by your commission. I cannot tell you anyone particular reason why it took place in august for los angeles. Reexamine the question of watts. What started it, what stopped it, and will there be another . They have just presented governor e
8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Look backcontinue our at the 1965 watts riots in los angeles. At our guest is gerald anden horne, professor author of fire this time. He joined us earlier on washington journal to field questions from viewers. This is about 45 minutes. Host this month marks the 50th anniversary of the riots outside of los angeles known as the watts riots. 40 million in damage at the time. More than three dozen deaths. Cbs put together a documentary that focused on the riots. It was released in december of 1965. In a moment, gerald horne is going to be joining us to talk about the significance of the events 50 years later. But first, this from cbs news. [video clip] [yelling] it was the most widespread racial violence in American History. White people driving through the area were considered fair game whether young, old, or women. Their cars were battered and burned. The mobs might grow in disappointment when a white got away and sheer like a football and then che
Pack aipac to join us anytime to discuss this as well. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the riots outside of los angeles known as the watts riots. 40 million in damage at the time. More than three dozen deaths. Cbs put together a documentary that focused on the riots. It was released in december of 1955. In a moment, gerald horne is going to be joining us to talk about the significance of the events 50 years later. Put first, this from cbs news. [video clip] [yelling] it was the most widespread racial violence in American History. People driving through the right area were considered fair game whether young, old, or women. Their cars were battered and burned. In mobs might grow disappointment when a white guy way and sheer like a football crowd when a car went up in flames. The burning and looting, the shooting and beating, went on for nearly a week. 34 persons were killed. All but five negroes. More than 1000 persons injured or wounded. More than 200 business places destroyed