1968 POST MLK ASSASSINATION RIOT RESPONSE NATIONAL GUARD IN BALTIMORE & WASHINGTON D.C. XD30961

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This silent 1968 footage documents civil unrest in the United States in the days following the April 4th assisination of Martin Luther King Jr., showing the deployment of the National Guard to urban centers of Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. in response to the week’s mass uprisings or race riots, as they were variously described in over 100 affected cities. The events depicted are also known as the King assasination riots, or the Holy Week Uprising (TRT: 40:53). Baltimore. April 10th. A marker reads. “Daspo Conus, Garris” (Department of the Army Special Photographic Office). Armed guards and white onlookers watch as arrested black men disembark from a yellow GMC school bus, their hands on their heads. (0:06). Elderly spectators, Baltimore City Police hold shotguns, smiling. Black elders. Military crowd control (1:45). A door for the 2nd Battalion Airborne,