1968 - Color, USA Martin Luther King Assassination Riots: Fires & Arrests, Washington, DC. 06Apr68

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1968 - Color, USA Martin Luther King Assassination Riots: Fires & Arrests, Washington, DC. 06Apr68 Men shovel debris into dump truck. 00:01:01 Kids and adults carry stolen goods out of back door of smoking store. Firetrucks in front of Safeway grocery store w/ smoke & firemen; CU reflection of firetruck; firemen in & out of store / building. Police car down alley; people in front of store. 00:02:27 Firemen hosing roof of burning building. 00:02:49 Slate: Camera Lamanna Roll 2; 06Apr68 Flag at half-staff, pan over rooftops of Washington DC, some smoke to large burning building, billowing smoke & flames from rooftop; firemen arrive, helicopter overhead. People watch from street. Sign: Head Start. People putting goods in trunk of car. 00:06:08 High angle / HA Police fire tear gas in intersection. 00:06:27 Soldiers out of back of army truck; tear gas fired, crowd moved down sidewalk. Injured man on sidewalk treated. CU soldier opening tear gas canisters (?) in jeep, talks on radio, police car in background. 00:07:56 Illegible writing on boards over window. Ext sing: Peaceway Temple, Prophet Omega Townsend, pan to nearly empty sidewalk & street w/ smoke & fire burning in next block; Army trucks past. 00:08:25 Cu cafe window w/ newspaper of Martin Luther King’s Assassination. View over shoulder of soldier w/ rifle to men talking on street corner; MS soldier stopping pedestrians; shadows. Traffic on street. 00:09:30 Sign: NW Florida Ave., Army truck & troops past. Soldiers wearing gas masks, carrying bayoneted rifles walking along sidewalk past burned out cars / vans. Walking up middle of street. Woman walks past burned out car. Soldiers move up street; medic MS. Military police; 00:12:22 Burning pile of bricks from collapsed building; flames & heavy smoke behind sign: 7th & P Store. Fire hoses onto building w/ church steeple behind. 00:13:32 Soldiers behind fire truck, across street. Alley w/ firemen, climbing small ladder & in second floor window. Soldiers on street; march past storefronts. 00:15:33 Slate: 06Apr68 Camera: Goddard. Roll 3. View from behind men watching firemen & trucks w/ hoses; in front of people watching; CU firemen. Line of soldiers w/ fires burning in next blocks & traffic past. Traffic along street; people past broken windows of store. 00:17:30 Police frisking man beside car, searching trunk of car & arresting men, into patrol wagon. Civil Unrest Aftermath; Poverty; Ghetto; National Guard (?); Military Riot Control; Fires; Arson; Destruction; NOTE: Entire sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk