“ WATTS RIOT OR REVOLT? ” AUGUST, 1965 WATTS, LOS ANGELES RACE RIOTS SPECIAL REPORT PART 1 SM10075a

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This black-and-white 1965 CBS news report shows footage from the August 11-17 Watts Riots in Los Angeles, California and examines its causes. The riots, with 34 dead, stemmed from the Los Angeles Police Department’s racist practices and racial tensions and discrimination in the city. The film begins with gunshots and the sound of broken glass; bodies lay stretched out beside a curb (0:23). Police officers and National Guard members fire guns (0:45). Several Black men are interviewed, saying riots are the only way to get people to listen (1:00). Chairman John McCone hands Governor Edmund Brown a report on the riot’s causes, saying the reasons are unclear (1:50). African Americans and police officers outside the Central Spot Cafe (1:54); a 7Up logo on a door (1:59). The camera pans over burned and looted buildings (2:22). Signs for Watts Cleaners (2:30) and Equal Food Market. CBS News Correspondent Bill Stout walks down a Los Angeles street amidst damaged buildings as he reports (2:53). Shaky footage of the riots, starting at 3:50: a burning car; bystanders yelling, “Get the White man;” a mob in front of a drugstore; police officers run toward a building and handcuff a Black man. Signs from looted and damaged buildings (5:00); several indicating they are Black-owned (5:11). A policeman points a gun at Black men in front of an auto shop (5:23). Policemen forcing men out of a car; they stand with hands up against a wall (5:37). Firemen attempt to put out fires (6:18). Sign for police transmitters and receivers (6:27). An aerial view of the city burning (6:45); the riots affected 54 square miles. Graffiti on a brick wall: “Quite Village of Watts” (7:39). A line of people at a food bank (8:03). Black workers doing construction and (8:33). Stout stands on the street corner where the riots started (9:00) after Marquette Frye was pulled over by police officer Lee Minikus for drunk driving. Houses from the African American sections of Watts (9:45); housing discrimination was one cause of the riots. Muahmmad’s Mosque No. 27 (9:53), site of a 1962 gun battle between police and several Black residents. Bodies loaded onto stretchers (10:10). Black Catholics pray and march with signs supporting Priest William DuBay (10:53), who said race discrimination was immoral. DuBay speaks, advocating to remove Cardinal McIntyre from office (11:03). 1964 campaign signs for and against Proposition 14 (11:38), which nullified the Rumford Fair Housing Act and allowed ethnic discrimination. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in Watts on the referendum (12:00). A Herald Examiner newspaper headline: “LBJ All the Way” (12:04). A Los Angeles Times article from August 11, 1965: “Poor Wait Outside in Poverty War” (12:45). Black families attending the Church of Divine Guidance (13:14). Police Chief William Parker speaks at a press conference August 12 (13:40). Reverend H.H. Brookins, along with other ministers, speaks at a peace meeting at a Watts playground (14:40). A policeman patrols on the roof of the 7th Street Police station in front of a California flag (16:16). Brookins speaks to a reporter about his recommendation for less obvious policing to Deputy Police Chief Roger Murdock (16:22). A line of police cars; a smashed windshield; police arresting rioters (17:34). State Assemblyman Marvin Daimley speaks about the riots (18:00); White men at a gun store (18:35). Mayor Sam Yorty stands in front of a Southwest plane explaining his prior commitment in San Francisco (19:10). Parker speaks at a press conference on August 13 (19:54); he called in the National Guard later that day. Footage of looting and burning buildings (20:15). Guardsmen disembarking from a U.S. Air Force plane (21:51). Martin Luther King Jr. speaks after the riots on August 18 (22:23). Governor Brown speaks to residents on August 19 (23:34) about jobs and food assistance. City Councilman Gilbert Lindsay speaks on the fight over the War on Poverty program (24:50). Mayor Yorty says the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) cut off program funds (25:21). Sergeant Shriver from the OEO says Los Angeles does not have an effective program (25:35). A group of Black protest marchers (25:55); end Part 1.
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[@mistervacation23]

About 3 years after the riots a guy tried to sell me a toaster at a pool hall. I told him hell. No, that's something you had left over from the riots

[@yankeedoodle1963]

@@mistervacation23 Nobody tried to sell you a toaster in a pool hall; and even if they did, you’d have no reason to believe the toaster was looted. Unless, of course, the guy with the toaster was…. BLACK?!?

[@mistervacation23]

@@yankeedoodle1963 he was

[@yankeedoodle1963]

@@mistervacation23 So, to be clear, you were in a pool hall in Southern California 56 years ago - and by virtue of the guy being black, you were able to extrapolate from that fact the toaster has been looted three years previous during the Watts riot. Nothing far-fetched, racist or otherwise fictitious about any of that. Btw upvoting your own comment isn’t a good look

[@notsocrates9529]

@@yankeedoodle1963 Yes. And?

[@osochistoso]

2 years after this, LBJ came to LA, a 'police' riot ensued.. Hopefully I'll get the resources to finish my documentary on it..Thank you Periscope for keeping history alive...

[@ReggaeRedeemer]

Another Democrat That wasted resources and made the city unsafe! The Party of Slavery!

[@scottystiffchicken]

“THEY” ain’t changed a bit in 59 years!

[@williamwilson6499]

Yeah, the racists are exactly the same.

[@thomaslawson801]

Yes. 😢😢 Prepare for RIOTS again. It's election year.😢😢

[@chrismclaughlin-gt7ix]

You mean The blcks haven't Changed In... Forever......in Spite Of Numberous, , Infinite Considerations, Accommodations, Proclamations,Legislations, Gibs Me Dat....ations

[@QuestionAllHarmNone]

No. Behave yourselves. 💙🇺🇲💙

[@yankeedoodle1963]

@@scottystiffchicken meaning blacks. And what’s changed about you, whitey?

[@frankwafer6919]

Thank you - those were hard times for all of us!💯💫👍!

[@lindavick2646]

@frankwafer6919 this is not true so all that over a TRAFFIC stop ? Sorry my dad had 2 jobs ok we had a Lincoln a house my dad was a fireman that was putting out FIRES you black set ok dodgeing bullets ! Wish you could see what LOS ANGELES LOOKS LIKE NOW? STILL BURNED OUT BUILDINGS ! AND MY GRANDFATHER WAS A REALESTATE BROKER

[@Ks48778]

The 60’s were as chaotic as today

[@Dan-TheOracle]

they do the same thing about every 10 years, its no wonder they cant maintain a society.

[@user-zz8bv1pb9g]

But in 60's even jornalists had right to call the word-"Nigro", and not afroamerican

[@KoopaHigh]

What? Gee golly wiz Mr. Wilson, kids back then went to lovers lane and were havin a gas, and some would even hold hands only for girlfriends belly to be "expecting" 9 months later. THAT IS AS BAD AS BIG BAD OL 2024

[@terranceaddison4599]

​@@user-zz8bv1pb9g that is true...I clearly see how embedded this issue was in society..

[@rossriver75yukon27]

@@user-zz8bv1pb9g There was no such term as afroamerican at that time. “Negro”was the term everyone - white or black - used.

[@allenatkins2263]

The natives were restless.

[@user7up-ef5gq]

Says, the inbred redneck addicted to fentanyl. Keep dying Hnky

[@mikeks8181]

59 Years later We Still Haven't Learned Anything From History!!!!

[@gjd424]

Stop breaking the law! 😂

[@Dan-TheOracle]

they did it again just a few years back, they do it about once a decade. i learnt they have to go back...

[@gjd424]

@@Dan-TheOracle BLM “peaceful protest”🚽

[@JeromeWade-lm8jh]

​@@gjd424Stop police brutality,white boy!

[@JeromeWade-lm8jh]

​@FreiherrDinkelacker As if political party makes a difference,white boy!

[@Did.You.Forget]

So embarrassing. Don’t protest by burning YOUR OWN neighborhood.

[@jerrellnelson8167]

they were burning down white businesses

[@ChicoTheMan69]

People do tend to care more when they actually own something, Not while being oppressed. Widespread lynching went on through the 50's. What do you really expect? Who created the ghettos, Who put those people there ignored and systematically persecuted them? "Why are they like that?" Go to a trailer park and tell me you don't see the same things, But oh no let's ignore our own and ignore the fact that the biggest crime organizations are still people of Euro decent.

[@complexblackness]

Many of the buildings were burned by their owners.

[@devinagrace1999]

@@complexblackness thank you

[@JimmyCrackCorn_]

​@@complexblacknessmany of the buildings were not owned by us

[@justinhaase8825]

Poor impulse control…

[@freedomvideo995]

Watched the fires from Rolling Hills Estates. Visiting my uncle for summer.

[@yankeedoodle1963]

Enjoyed the spectacle from the ghettos of Rolling Hills. Oh the squalor, oh the deprivation

[@freedomvideo995]

@@yankeedoodle1963 and now it may slide into the ocean.

[@freedomvideo995]

Uncle was airline pilot.

[@ChadSimplicio]

Noone has learned from this incident. Noone has learned from the Rodney King Saga. We definitely have not learned from the George Floyd Saga.

[@mrsplanetmaster9]

No one has learned anything 🙃

[@ApartmentKing66]

Speak for yourself. I learned plenty from the Rodney King saga, as you call it. I learned not to drive 100 mph thru a residential neighborhood while high on PCP. I learned not to lunge at the cops when I got pulled over.

[@JohnJohn-zn8ib]

​@ApartmentKing66 that's not an excuse to assault someone when you have several other people egging you on, dumb, useless police officers, they are a liability to the public, their actions cause victims to receive high payouts for compensation and who fits the bill, the taxpayer.

[@Dansplaining2U]

Rioting literally does not get anyone on your side. It does the exact opposite. BLM had all the support in the world until they started burning cites and looting Nikes. BLM could have gotten the change it wanted but they encouraged “blacks get dey free shit” instead because BLM is disingenuous, stole your money, and propped street rats to make you look like fools. So if there is a lesson to be learned it is that the black man can’t even trust the black man. Until you fix that, you are not exerting any meaningful change on the world around you.

[@jebronlames7789]

What we all learned was stay off drugs. I lived in a suburb of LA and was alive during this and king and learned some people will never change or develop

[@robertiannello4924]

Perfect example of reactive vs pro-active from all involved.

[@sdrape4964]

12:30 holy shit! We *STILL* have that problem with our federal government! And it's only gotten worse!

[@dragonsoy4386]

The song remains the same at present time !!!!!

[@dandolphs]

sign sign everywhere a sign

[@rolo1955]

Things have not changed in these areas. Businesses are lost, the people that pool their money together and invest in these communities lose it all in one night! "No justice no Peace" means we are all held accountable. That's why non blacks would be foolish to invest in these areas. The arrest of a black person could spark another riot, so now, it's gotten to this, where smash and grab is the norm and businesses have to allow it!

[@JeromeWade-lm8jh]

Who smashed and grabbed,white boy?

[@Scotty2hotty-xc6gi]

FZ……TROUBLE COMING EVERYDAY✅✅✅✅✅

[@KimonSheri]

Who was there?? I was. I KNOW what happened. Im Irish and American Indian..they told me....Belive nothing, unless you can hold it in your hands

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

I was there on the edge of it, but I don't remember as I was 2. I do vividly recall the RK riots however. We don't seem to learn very well.

[@NealTeresa157]

I was there! A 9 year old Child.

[@MrJintensive]

What are Cherokee?

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

@@MrJintensive Mostly gone since the Trail of Tears. I am not pure blood, but I am more Cherokee (one of the "civilized" Native American tribes) than anything else (the rest of my bloodline was kicked out of every country in europe). In winter I look like a viking, in summer the "redman" takes over. We tried to live peaceably with the European invaders and were rewarded with suffering and death. Much of the scattered remains, like me, are still searching for peace.

[@user7up-ef5gq]

Worry about what’s going on in Ireland, you YT inbred

[@TimMonbrod]

Jobs, jobs, jobs, and Family will stop this.

[@jhlfsc]

Really?? Cops still to this day beat, raped and murdered pleanty of employed people who believe it or not, came from families.

[@terranceaddison4599]

Tolerance, enlightenment, clarity, humility and love will stop this..on BOTH sides ✊🏾✊🏻

[@justinfleming5119]

​@@terranceaddison4599There is no "both sides". Black tantrums of antiwhite slaughter caused whites to flee the urban spaces they created. What did blacks create of it in the absence of their supposed "oppressors"? Did they create New Wakanda there? No. It became what blacks are capable of. Blacks then look to flee their own creation to live among their "oppressors". They sought and were awarded federal laws which literally made it illegal to avoid them. So the cycle repeats: whites fleeing one more exit out from the city only to be chased by "diversity".

[@whoknows2054]

Welfare welfare welfare, that's the answer. More welfare. More white guilt government programs.

[@jhlfsc]

@@terranceaddison4599 I'm sorry, but what was the "other side" of systemic police violence again?

[@exex17]

KCET interviews with rioters afterwards said it best.... "it's all these juz down here gyping everybody" .

[@mjames4709]

Culture. Generation after generation……

[@keithdukes5990]

It's all in the DNA!!!🤔🧐🤨🙄😡

[@dracorpgroup]

The Watts riots were really an attack against the successful Korean people who built a strong community based on strong family families, education and hard work. These people came to USA with nothing. In the same part of Watts the black citizens were not as successful. There are a whole series of reasons for this. As result while the riots were spreading across the USA the frustrated black citizens attacked and destroyed the Korean businesses. Please, do not present these riots as black people against the white people of the USA. The other riots were a revolt against the privilege that existed for a long time across the country. The Watts riots were a revolt by blacks in Watts against Koreans in Watts.

[@michaelknowles4005]

WHY ??? GOVERNMENT ASK WHY

[@ChicoTheMan69]

Leaders of the free world we called ourselves, We never led by example. It's just like Russia pretending to have a president instead of a dictator.

[@mikedrown2721]

How savage

[@angelcram20]

They learn it from the so called superior race. They learned it from the best 😉

[@lizzapaolia959]

💯

[@HVACSoldier]

“We investigated ourselves, and found no wrongdoing.”

[@JimmyJohn60]

“kill my landlord” by Tyrone Green😂

[@saikyomogresurrect]

A police officer started this whole mess in Watts

[@kelvintorrence5994]

Stop killing us

[@20alphabet]

You first.

[@henrygomez7190]

Incompatible with civilization-read The Rising Tide of Color by Lothrop Stoddard.

[@thesheepdog]

Henry Gomez-Question,why is a taco chef such as you,an apparent racist? I’m a black man.Also,I’m an army combat veteran,just retired from the police department this past February.Additionally,I’m a registered republican who is voting for Trump this coming November.Your views puzzle me.

[@lizzapaolia959]

💯

[@thesheepdog]

@@lizzapaolia959 Is this an Italian surname?

[@jebronlames7789]

Born 62 in N Hollywood and all i can say is when bussing started school was no longer safe. Actually uprooted us to a much safer suburb and left the stabings and friends behind but many followed. Now we had black kids as friends and school mates but LA blacks were a whole different breed, way more hate and anger. Oh and my step brother was half black so this is not a racist thing to me.

[@yankeedoodle1963]

Really? Not racist? Then why bring it up?

[@panhead55]

@@yankeedoodle1963Because, every time someone brings up “their” brutal behavior, they are attacked…

[@yankeedoodle1963]

@@panhead55 Oh I see, so just like with white nationalist militia fruitcakes overrunning the Capitol, we can judge “all of THEM” whiteys by the behavior of a bunch of lop-eared, illiterate, inbred, gun-infatuated products of fetal alcohol syndrome? You idiots are cherry-picking the lowest and worst examples of behavior to justify your stupid bias against a demographic you don’t like. You know, like when Don Trump calls immigrants rapists, murderers, thieves and drug dealers- when the vast majority are people looking for better lives for their families and themselves. I’m not buying what you’re selling, not for an instant

[@patrickhenry2845]

Los Angeles 1965, Cleveland 1966, and Detroit 1967. All over the USA because of the MLK assassination. 1968.

[@DrMyEyes]

Since many well known brands have been licensed to use your "film", I assume it is copyrighted. So why must we view an annoying timer in the video? Thanks

[@chitoim2332]

Smells like spam and wet dog on the comments

[@higher_pwr8178]

Ppl revolted against horrible police brutality.

[@panhead55]

That’s fine, but what’s their excuse for rampant violence today? It’s overwhelming and all on camera…

[@higher_pwr8178]

​@@panhead55 There are plenty of platforms that celebrate your centuries old one-dimensional entitled racism.

[@djy69]

Riot. Of course

[@terranceaddison4599]

There's more meaning to this than what we see...

[@orbyfan]

"Mostly peaceful..."

[@trespasserswill7052]

Ha. You beat me to it. ​@@orbyfan

[@20alphabet]

Because that's what they do.

[@kelvintorrence5994]

Listen to the film its telling you.why people got sick of the b.s.wouldnt you if you where held down ever time you tryed to move forward

[@donaldperson948]

Same as the 80’s or 90’s

[@Kabong-d9e]

The Great Bunga-Bunga hath SPOKEN!

[@lizzapaolia959]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🤩👌

[@bluebirdgramma6317]

Never forget this! I'll Never Forget Bengazi either.

[@michaelknowles4005]

Nothing changes government has not change ..

[@lizzapaolia959]

Thanks for sharing. 1790 Immigration Act 🙏👌 Look at 2024

[@tylersheppard9601]

They were forcing themselves into nice areas they never worked for with violence. Different cultures exist for a reason. Malcom x and georgr lincoln rockwell were right.

[@buckshot6481]

Keep voting for the Democrats !

[@jaminova_1969]

Who else is there to vote for? Surely, you can't mean the Republican Party because as someone with a moral conscious and respect for the Bill of Rights I could not support the GOP and their hypocrisy .

[@HumanBeanbag]

Vote blue!

[@Barabel22]

You’d rather I vote for the fascist/r*pist/pedo/seditionist/traitor Trump and his MAGA goons….HELL NO.😝

[@Meow99999]

Vote socialism, government controlling the people.

[@panhead55]

And they will too! Whoever promisees more “free stuff” and goodies. What a shame, to rely on someone else or a government to provide handouts…

[@josephd2059]

This is why we need our police.

[@JeromeWade-lm8jh]

Who needs white cops?

[@dalanbronnenberg]

A point that I’m sure is completely irrelevant to all the people who lost their life’s work and businesses.

[@Lucky-wl1rx]

Rioting BOTH times!!

[@christopherconard2831]

I'm a fairly peaceful and mellow person that can put up with a lot of BS from other people. But if I woke up one day as a black man in the 1950's/60's, I'd probably be in the streets with a gun in my hand. Not justifying the riots, just saying that everyone has a snapping point where they don't care anymore. If you can't strike back at a legitimate source of stress, eventually any target will do.

[@ReggaeRedeemer]

Imagine watching this and still voting for Kamala Harris.

[@gartwilliams3347]

RIOT

[@michaelknowles4005]

REVOLUTION AND LIBERATION

[@rossy2976]

1965, 1993, 2020 and not a damn thing learned!

[@dennispeltier6142]

😊

[@wmryan9646]

We must free all African Americans.. freedom

[@terranceaddison4599]

Free the mind..

[@ossoduro7794]

meh

[@musicaltaco6803]

people cry over property before they get upset at police brutality

[@foxmulder7616]

The Muslims/(Farrakhan's)nation of Islam, were/are right.

[@gjd424]

Yeah segregation…

[@MoeLarrycurly1]

✌️

[@kelvintorrence5994]

Well since i was in long beach callly when rodeny king was beating. Andvi saw what happened. Me as a bkack person are just tied off being treat like 2nd class citizens when illegals cross the border and get treated much. Better then us and. Get cash housings benifits. For nothing i see no problem untill we get whats ours

[@AirplaneDoctor_]

When did you drop out of school, by your writing ability it must have been third grade...or you're just a foriegn troll.

[@20alphabet]

Maybe literacy would improve things for you, huh?

[@ossoduro7794]

Y'all won't get sheeeeit!

[@dragonsoy4386]

A pack of lies

[@johnnygalicia9828]

As the Whispers said, seems like I got do wrong before they notice me

[@franklinking2576]

Love this movie 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂