DETROIT RIOTS Part 1

Description

Summary: MS, soldier on guard in street. Ground views - demolished buildings and wrecked autos. Two soldiers patrol street. LS, ruined buildings. Pan shot - piles of rubble, smoldering ruins and store after store completely burned out. Troops board truck and move down street. LS, ruins with fires still burning (looks like bombed out city of WW II). Soldiers on guard in jeep. MS, CU, ruins. Traffic moves thru destroyed street. MS, broken water pipes and piles of rubble. Int, LTG John L Throckmorton and MG Charles P Stone in conference. Col Creel, PIO, talks with Police Superintendent and Police Commissioner. Shots of military and civilians in communications office. Newsmen on phone, on typewriter and at desks. CU, MP on duty at door of press room. Soldiers on guard duty in street. MS, Detroit Police Department 10th Precinct bldg.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection