ABC News: 1965 Watts Riots

[hadrons]

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Local reporting as the roits were occurring (I believe it was the second day) ... the first segment has a press conference that was held by various African-American leaders (comedian and activist Dick Gregory, California Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, and civil rights leader Robert Hall) ... the white reporters were really angry and one of them blamed all three for burning his car in an exchange with Hall (white reporters were beaten during the riots and they felt they were the object of the community's rage ... Gregory, Dymally, and Hall disagreed)

[libnnc]

1. hadrons, I don't know where you get these clips...

But they are invaluable. I'm a grad student (US History) and these network news video clips are wonderful primary sources. Thank you so much for posting them.