Maxprop wrote:

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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When the rioters burned a good portion of Chicago's ghettos. I don't think
just the cops had guns.

Please bring me up to speed on this event, Jon. I vaguely recall something
like that, but don't remember specifics. When and what was the stimulus?

Max

Here's a few for you Max:

June 12, 13 1966: Division Street. Puerto Ricans in the West
Town--Humboldt Park Area. In the wake of the Puerto Rican Day Parade
violence broke out after a youth was shot in the leg by police.

July 1966: West Side: Ogden to Pulaski to Lake to Cermak--Riots started
when police forcibly shut off a fire hydrant that area residents were
using to beat the heat.


April 6-8 1968: Widespread rioting on the West Side, and limited rioting
on the South Side in the wake of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
assassination: 9 deaths.

April 3, 1969: Minor riots in the West Madison and Cabrini Green areas
on the first anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death.
Efficient, well disciplined police response quickly controlled the
situation.

June 1977 Rioting--in and about Humboldt Park--again after the Puerto
Rican Day Parade. Fairly quickly controlled.

I was on the beach in 1963 and had the misfortune to witness Chicago
police with long clubs beating young blacks who had the audacity to come
down to the lake for a swim (among the white folks).

Cheers
Marty