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Detroit Riot, 26Jul67 Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221300-04

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1967

Country: USA

Location: Detroit,Michigan

TC Begins: 09:34:57

TC Ends: 09:44:35

Duration: 00:09:38

Detroit Riot, 26Jul67 Pt. 2 of 2 Continued... Aerials from helicopter over burned out buildings & residences. Circling around heavy white smoke from smouldering business, light traffic on street, no fire fighting, buildings alongside gutted. Other smouldering buildings among gutted buildings. Sign: Honest Joe’s seen on building w/ much smoke. 09:38:04 Aerial over block of burned out residences. LS of smoking neighborhood. Several areas of fires seen w/ smoke, some flames still burning. 09:41:25 View over undamaged middle class neighborhood w/ affluent homes & swimming pools. Cameraman in doorway of helicopter. Helicopter landing at Air Base w/ many UH-1B helicopters & planes on tarmac. Note: Rioting started by police raid on Blind Pig afterhours club where return of Vietnam veterans was being celebrated, lasted from 23-28Jul67 43 killed, 1189 injured, 7200 arrested. Ghetto; Negroes; Civil Rights; Poverty; Economics; National Guardsmen; 82nd Airborne Troops;

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