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Detroit Riot Aftermath 28Jul67 Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221300-01

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1967

Country: USA

Location: Detroit,Michigan

TC Begins: 09:00:04

TC Ends: 09:11:22

Duration: 00:11:18

Detroit Riot Aftermath 28Jul67 Pt. 1 of 2 Soldier w/ rifle watching traffic past. Sunny day & burned out wreckage of cars & building from outside & inside. Church in background. Troops patrol stret past burned out buildings, two kids walk past, traffic on street. Charred wood dangling. Army vehicles in fornt of building, soldiers guarding, delivery men w/ handtrucks & boxes. 09:02:42 Pan across smoking wreckage of collapsed gutted brick buildings. Pan along street front of still standing businesses w/ signs, plywood over windows. Passing traffic seen from inside burned buildings. Sidewalk shot of burned awnings. Soldiers w/ rifles boarding army truck, several moving down street w/ traffic. Jeep down street, Blacks on sidewalk; burned buildings & pedestrians, blue sky above. Burned telephone booths. 09:05:36 Flames of burning debris in collapsed building. Soldiers in jeep watching traffic, one talking on radio; MCU w/ microphone of walkie talkie; soldier at wheel in MCU w/ rifle at ready. Traffic shots. Jeep patrolling. 09:08:37 Traffic & Black pedestrians past collapsed buildings. Views from inside buildings. CUs deformed metal gates & beams. Bottles in ashes. Burned out Laundromat w/ sign. Water spray from burst pipe & burned washing machine in rubble. Traffic. Continued... 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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