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Detroit Riot Aftermath 28Jul67 Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221300-02

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1967

Country: USA

Location: Detroit,Michigan

TC Begins: 09:11:22

TC Ends: 09:21:56

Duration: 00:10:34

Detroit Riot Aftermath 28Jul67 Pt. 2 of 2 Continued... National Guard or 82nd Airborne Officers at desk on telephones & filling out papers in front of map. Major General & Lt. General of Army at desk talking. Army officer talking w/ two civilian officials in office. CU Army Officer talking (MOS); CU civilian nodding & civilian listening. CU signs: Communications; Intelligence taped to wall & personnel at work at desk looking at papers & talking. Civilians in white shirts & ties wearing headsets. 09:14:17 Man on telephone beside large manual typewriter. Newspapers on desk, civilian man laughing on phone. Man (journalist?) w/ pipe typing on manual typewriter. MCU glass office door w/ signs: Press Room. Three 82nd Airborne officers talking. Policeman in motorcycle helmet w/ rifle talking of seated. Black Military Police MP standing outside office door. 09:17:10 Ext. w/ trailer house offices behind barbed wire coils; soldier enters. Sign: F. Bruesser’s Col Masquerade Theatrical Costumers Make Up seen thru barbed wire. Michigan Bell Telephone van parked, CU of logo. Soldiers walking. Sign: Restricted area. Guards outside trailer offices w/ sign: TF Detroit Operations. 09:19:28 Army soldiers w/ rifles blocking side street, traffic past on major street. Soldier w/ rifle talking to teenage boy outside Wayne County building. Jeep patrolling. LS Detroit Police Department building, 10th Precinct. CU sign on side. MCU poldier w/ rifle. Others outside 10th Precinct building. 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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