Rodney King Trial
Sergeant Stacey Koon spoke to reporters at the National Press Club to discuss his new book Presumed Guilty: The Tragedy of the Rodney King Affair, on the trial of four Los Angeles police off…
2,983 viewsSergeant Stacey Koon spoke to reporters at the National Press Club to discuss his new book Presumed Guilty: The Tragedy of the Rodney King Affair, on the trial of four Los Angeles police off…
2,983 viewsMembers of the California Assembly Special Committee on the LA Crisis convened in Los Angeles as part of a series to examine the riots that occurred last spring. The hearings have focused on…
590 viewsFMR. Chief Daryl Gates, Los Angeles, CA Police Department discussed the controversy surrounding recent events in Los Angeles, including riots and police brutality, on a radio show. He talked…
269 viewsThe media organization Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference cosponsored a forum in Los Angeles entitled, “Race, Lies and Videotape: Los Angeles…
317 viewsA panel of community leaders heard statements and questions from an audience of Los Angeles youth on their reactions to the riots in Los Angeles and their proposals for cleaning up the devas…
129 viewsClose Up Foundation held a Forum on Community Youth Action in Los Angeles.
45 viewsThe Heritage Foundation sponsored a forum on the conservative viewpoint concerning the social crises in urban America entitled, “Reading America the Riot Act: The Moral and Economic Lessons …
236 viewsKABC Radio and the Advertising Club of Los Angeles sponsored a radio broadcast forum on the proposals for rebuilding Los Angeles after urban riots occurred there in late April and early May …
214 viewsThe Justice Department began an investigation into possible civil rights violations by the Los Angeles Police Department after the acquittal of four white Los Angeles police officers charged…
38 viewsMayor Richard Flynn discussed urban crime and other issues that arose out of the Los Angeles police trial verdict. Flynn in the president of the United States Conference of Mayors and co-cha…
53 viewsPresident Bush briefly responded to questions from reporters during his visit to Los Angeles to inspect the damage caused by riots the previous week. He said the damage caused by the riots h…
461 viewsRepublican presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan toured the area surrounding the Los Angeles Coliseum a few days after riots erupted in the area. The riots began following the acquittal of…
135 viewsGuests Fraternal Order of Police President Gary Hankins and Wayne Curry of Superintendent’s Committee on Black Male Achievement responded to questions from the audience of international hig…
81 viewsPresident George H.W. Bush toured a south central Los Angeles neighborhood during a visit to the city one week after riots raged through the area resulting in several deaths, hundreds of inj…
347 viewsPresident George H. W. Bush, accompanied by the mayor of Los Angeles, Sen. John Seymour, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan, addressed a gathering at the Challengers B…
2,076 viewsGovernment officials responded briefly to reporters' questions following their meeting with President Bush in the Ronald Reagan State Office Building. The meeting took place during the presi…
123 viewsDemocratic leaders held a news conference in Los Angeles, California to respond to the presidents’s visit to Los Angeles to examine the areas hit hardest by urban rioting the previous week. …
178 viewsPresident George H. W. Bush met with Korean-American leaders in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles and discussed the devastation in the area caused by the riots one week earlier. The riots oc…
279 viewsReligious leaders responded to questions from reporters following the visit of President Bush to the riot-torn neighborhoods of Los Angeles one week after the worst of the violence. Cardinal…
68 viewsIn this viewer Call-In segment Rep. Craig Washington(D-TX) discussed the racial tensions in American cities that recently erupted in violence in Los Angeles, and his participation in a suit …
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