New York BlackOut 1977: James Baldwin - Jim Lehrer, Herman Badillo, Syl Williamson, Robert MacNeil

This episode features a discussion of the looting that occurred during the New York blackout. The guests are Herman Badilla, James Baldwin, and Syl Williamson. Byline: Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer- New York City returned to something like normal business today after suffering an electrical power failure that lasted in some areas for twenty-seven hours. While federal, state, and city agencies began urgently investigating the cause of the blackout, New Yorkers are still counting the economic cost of the city from one day of lost business. But more painful, is the task of surveying large areas of the city where the blackout brought an orgy of looting. More than three thousand people were arrested Wednesday night and Thursday in the act of pillaging hundreds of large and small businesses in poorer areas of the cities Brooklyn, Harlem, and the South Bronx. In many cases police were powerless to stop the looting because the crowds helping themselves were too large to control. Every kind of business suffere