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in terms of generationally did not prepare us for the work that needs to happen today. that s the critique i was making about trading on individual success without a sense of social responsibility. who are your parents? my parents are both retired professionals. one was a school teacher and administrator of the chicago public schools for 35 years and my father recently retired was photojournalist. he worked for johnson johnson publishing in the early days, charlotte observer, news day, for past 20 years, new york times staff photographer. are they retired from new york. my mother always lived in chicago. my parent were divorced when i was young. my father lived in new york for over 30 years. what is your lineage? the famous part of my lineage, the part i know as opposed to distantly, i m great-grandson of the founder of elijah mohammed founder of nation of islam. my mother never converted but very much formative to my early years my first cousins aunts a ....
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 wasn t 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 a ....
spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. there are lingering questions and issues that led to the writing. we are here with the detroit pre - detroit free press. joined by heather and thompson and detroit page editorial editor. taking your calls, tweets and facebook posts. can we start with definitions in the sense that the event is described as a riot. you go first. that term connotes chaos and it is suggested everyone showed up and destroyed city for no reason. we prefer to think about it like i rebellion because all of the energy and anger and act this and that went into that moment had long been predicted. the economic discrimination, that is frustration. it was a rebellion. the word i have come to realize that was the buildup to what happened in 1967. you also have lots of other kinds of pushback. people looting stores were pushing back against the economic depression. they were pushing back against the housing discrimination. one of the thi ....
spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. there are lingering questions and issues that led to the rioting. we are here with the detroit free press. and we are joined by heather and thompson and detroit page editorial editor. we will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets, and facebook posts. can we start with definitions in the sense that the event is described as a riot. would you describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened? that term connotes chaos and it is suggested everyone showed up and destroyed city for no reason. it also suggests how we should understand what happened and the impact it had. we prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger at that went into that moment had long been predicted. the economic discrimination, that frustration cannot be understood as chaotic and incoherent. it was a rebellion. the word i have come to over some time is uprising which c ....
earlier today, american history tv was live from detroit to look back 50 years. our guests joined us at a detroit free press room to talk about what happened and why and to answer viewer questions. this is about two hours. you are watching american history tv on c-span3. 50 years ago today, riots erupted in the city of detroit, michigan, sparked by a police raid on an illegal bar known locally as a blind pig. five days later, 43 people are dead and 7000 have been arrested. president lyndon b. johnson sent 5000 federal troops. property damage was estimated at more than $30 million. the affected areas still bear the scars of the riots today. green spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. there are lingering questions about how far detroit has come addressing the issues that led to the rioting. we are here with the detroit free press. and we are joined by professor heather ann thompson a detroit editor.ss we will be live for the next two hours taking ....