1968 Baltimore Riots | WJZ-TV Raw Footage Reel
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- WJZ Raw news footage of press conferences and interviews in the days following the uprisings that took place in Baltimore, MD following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968. Shared for historical purposes. From archive.org
1 Gov. Spiro Agnew discussing state of emergency in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, curfews, and executive orders
2 Street scenes in aftermath of riots
3 D'Alesandro press conference on the riots
4 General Gelston press conference on the riots
5 D'Alesandro press conference on the riots and proclamations
6 Traffic and street scenes, putting out fires, burned out buildings: Attman's Delicatessen
7 Unknown business owner interviewed
8 Supermarket owner or employee interviewed
9 Unknown man and woman interviewed about looting
10 Press conference with civil rights leader on his meeting with Spiro Agnew and the intent to divide the black community
11 Street scenes, people sweeping sidewalks
12 Unknown man on insurance coverage after looting
13 People in line for food distribution
14 Unknown man on hope for the future and lessons learned
15 Press conference with D'Alesandro and others on the restoration of law and order
16 Unknown man on agencies and disaster relief services for refugees
17 Press conference with D'Alesandro
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This happen after the death assassination of Martin Luther King . April 4, 1968
@Delove blam53 There were riots after King's assassination in cities across the country.
until this moment in the video 27:35 nothing anyone said meant anything to me…………….………………………………………………………………………………………..the national guard will keep people under control...……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..until that moment I don't trust in anything the politicians or community leaders are saying
I Lived in Chicago at that Time when I was 7 & the Westside of Chicago was Hardest Hit when King was Assassinated!
I was a student in elementary school, living in Washington DC. That Friday after Dr. King was assassinated, schools were evacuated early. Students were only released to a parent or guardian. The National Guard was called into service. Customers were buying up all the groceries they could pack into their cars as there was a curfew imposed. It was a strange sight seeing troops in military gear riding throughout our peaceful, suburban neighborhood. Singer James Brown was on TV urging rioters to get off the streets, go home and listen to his records. MLK killed in April, then RFK in June - those were scary times for a 12 year old.
Black store owners put signs on business saying Soul Brother, people would not loot their places.Some people had new shoes pants coats,anything you wanted you could get.Alot of black people tried to get people to calm down. Washington DC when up in smoke to.But it started on Gay ST in East Baltimore, I was there when it first started. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Raphael Walker wow I was on gay st when the looting for Freddie gray started happening
I was over near Arlington area but I remember the tanks and guards in the streets and the sirens going off that warned us to get inside. It was very scary. I was 4 and 5 then.
I was there too! Lived at 1804 N. Montford Ave. Pretty much where Montford and Gay St. meet. Man, they tore Gay St. up! I was only 6 years old at the time. It was frightening. The black community never really recovered from it. Not like we had a lot but what we were a little stronger.
@@greatidea7808 I was 18 at the time, i will never forget those days when it happen.
@@raphaelwalker6171 Man, up on our end of Gay st., guys from our block were breaking in stores, busting store windows out, just straight pillaging and rioting. Scared the crap out of me. I was only 6, but the memories are vivid.
Im from and live in Baltimore. My father and uncles witnessed this event. I've heard stories growing up and it's always intrigued me. These kinds of uploads are jewels for me especially old clips of how Baltimore was. Thanks for the upload but damn its like they never fixed up some of neighborhoods after 1968 . Some of the areas still look the same.
Yeah edmonson Ave here and west cold springs but now I live in philly
Well of course, lots of these business owners that got burned out, they collected their insurance money and purchased stores elsewhere. They weren’t going to reinvest in Baltimore at that point....
Few years ago I passed though Liberty heights and Gwenoak and the rows of those big homes were clean of trash and mowed . Nice to see .
Yeah My father told me as well about the 1968 riots and I was saying when " The Freddie Gray " riots happened it was history repeating itself. 😔
And you're absolutely right some of the areas never recovered after the "68" riots they still look like that til this day.
Wow, i was only 6 months old...its amazing to see how my hometown has changed over the years. I still remember some of the places in other videos. Thanks for posting this
I was 16; had just lost my mother.
Thank you for sharing some of my city history.......
Right
Thank you for posting this ♥️ WJZ, ♥️ the best and only news
Thank you for this! 93 baby from Baltimore
I can recall the sadness of these riots. People near the city as well for those that traveled into the city for work. I was riding the #19 bus line north near North Ave. I was on the left side of the bus reading a book. Suddenly someone shot out the back of the bus windows. The driver tried to pull over to the curb and more shots hit the bus. No one on the bus was hit by the bullets. I looked up from my book and glass was flying forward over the seats . We were scattered with glass. ( No cell phones then) Many of us were covered in glass. I knew my right eye was hurting and to my surprise I had glass in it. The police showed up and the people on the bus were siting on the curb. A police officer took me to John's Hopkins Eye Hospital. To this day I have the scar. I never found out if the police found the shooter. What was the purpose to shoot up a bus? Sad day Dr. King Jr was shot. Very sad day for Baltimore...
Lived in downtown Bmore at the time. Spent 3-4 days with old Post office friends guarding a friend's liquor store on Gay st
@@robertroselle9082 So glad you were able to help out a friend. I missed a couple days from work. There must be so many side stories like ours.As always time moves on. Have a good one, take care!
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I was 7 years old at the time and my family had moved to Boston just 5 months before
Now this is history 🙏
Thank you
Where do you get this stuff bro? Wow, I was 2 yrs old when this happened!
I was 5 when this went down. My grandfather made my grandmother stay with us in the county during the riot. My father worked for BGE at Spring Gardens the night of the riot. He said that kids looted liquor stores then came up to the fence there and sold the bottles to his coworkers. My father would never partake in such a thing of course.
Although this was the 1960's, people use to dress.....neat and clean. So were the streets, despite the roit that took place..... Compared to now...2019😞
So sad is the shape of Baltimore city
I agree and no pants way down to there ankles when there walking in public.
Melissa I agree👍
And it was a rude awakening no matter how we dressed, low pants, or suits, dirty streets or clean..it makes NO DIFFERENCE to the OPPRESSOR. People are tired of being treated worse than DOGS yet they call US violence..how much can we TAKE how much WILL we take...Fck Spiro Agnew ...He resigned under NIXON ADMIN...ANOTHER CORPORATE CROOK
Yes, so true. Women mostly wore dresses around the house or nice pantsuits when they came into style. It was a wonderful, hopeful time in light of the 1968 riots. After that, the hippies black and white, reached out to form an alliance but the powers that be worked harder to divide and keep the division going. Soros was behind a lot of that and still is. Commie pos. The hippies had the right idea.
Very good stuff!
I was there. The following day I went to work, and half the guys were absent. I didn’t realize that they were in the National Guard.
I lived just outside of the city at the time. At 12 years old I could not understand why people were destroying their stores. At 65 I still don't. There were tanks on suburban streets. Curfews outside of the city were enforced. Our lives changed.
They scared the shit outta white people. That's when white people realized they were never really the majority .
On April 3rd, A lot people probably did not even hear the "I Have Been to the Mountain Top", MLK gave the night before his death.
Facts
MLK,lead us into hell.
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YT Hating & CLEANING HOUSE. I Hope He Straight.
@@midiresurrectedagain9340 THEY HELLA SUCK....!!!
Aye!!!! Love from Bmore💪🏾💜
Fast forward 51 years, progress sure looks good in Baltimore now!
My thoughts exactly my dad stayed here. An seen these riots. He said the city used to be alot better watchin all these old videos. I'm so disgusted how things are now from back then. Smfh
Mob rules. You couldn’t do nothing in Baltimore without them whether it’s being a lawyer, politician, or a cop. The mob owned the ports. It caught it up to them like it did with Mr. Agnew and from many readings, Thomas D’Alessandro Jr. was not ready or fit to be mayor.
It would have been great had they identify people talking and locations.
I remember this like yesterday. Especially now with the current lockdown due to Corona virus
MY CITY ,DAMN MY MOTHER WAS ONLY 4YRS OLD THEN DAMN
I remember this roit of 1968 it was pretty bad.
"Good jobs, Good housing & Good education for those who have been denied in the past"....Hmm
It never ended.......since 1968 , every couple weeks , citizens march down city streets Talkin bout "stop the violence"..... seriously , every couple weeks , for decades . And it's getting WORSE !!!
Yup
You have to really understand when these gentlemen and women are talking in code and who these speeches are really for.
I was about to say the same thing. Look at how Spiro Agnew is talking in his State of Emergency address in the opening minutes of this vid. His euphemisms were killing me and it wasn't hard at all to read between the lines.
@@InazumaStudios1 the Jewish couple that owned the store at the end were interesting. They did not seem agitated by the "colored" youths around them, and when the lady was talking I wonder who she was talking about. Seems like whoever "wiped them out" was known to them. She called them "friends". I dont who they could be, but I think if these "friends" were "colored" the two of them would be more agitated amongst that group of people they are in the midst of.
Just like they do now about Covid 19
comment : She was happy that it happened because she was looking forward to collecting her insurance money and moving to Florida! Lots of those business owners took that as an opportunity to take their insurance money and move elsewhere.
And just think, had whites not shipped us over here as SLAVES. But invited us over here as equal citizens from another continent, none of these events would have never happened.
Just think , if blacks didn't sell their own brothers , things may look different all over
These whites you all attacked were not slave owners they were peasant factory workers, coal miners, etc. You guys attacked the poor ethnic white communities who had build something off crumbs and not the ones who enslaved you. Most those whites come from peons. Then we redlined you all because the shit we worked hard for was destroyed by you all.
The only thing that change are the prices Burn Baby Burn
Really I been in Baltimore 57 yrs Nothing has changed if that but .take a good look at white lock st. Sand town Winchester 1968 was a good yr. But for a price. That we must pay.
That's Spiro Agnew, probably seated in the office where he accepted the bribes that led to his eventual resignation as VP
Thank you for posting this. Time has changed very little in Amerikkka.
Does anyone know the name of the eloquent black minister who speaks about the meeting with Agnew?
Im in my 60s I disagree with you.. We now have black millionaires in the U.S and in congress and senate not to mention Obama election!!! Right out of the Blt city lives blacks that have million dollar homes. I think as more and more Blacks Dems leave the Democrat plantation and seeing they have been chumped living in Dems concentration camps "public housing and Dems ghettos. By blacks etc become more and more become free thinkers, America for all minorities will greatly improve and will overall make the country greater. The dems WANTS the minorities to feel like they are victims so they dont excel in mass and leave the Dem party wich HAS to have the Black vote to get in office.
@@johnknowing-zr8de Question: Are you offering your opinion on Reelblack TV as an over 50 y/o, Black man, born here, USN Veteran, who is LIVING in 2019 Amerikkka?
or.....
Are you just another Caucasian immigrant, trying to troll your opinion, based on your false sense of entitlement and privilege, on Reelblack TV, in a hilariously inept attempt to influence minorities, who you have
nothing racially or politically in common with, in a pathetic attempt to stir up something..... anything to give you a sense of worth?
My bet: You're just another grey guy, desperately trolling Black spaces, reaching for the rim of social relevancy, without the skills/intelligence required to elevate himself to play on that level: No Game!
*Unless you have LIVED Amerikkka in Black skin,
and your post makes it obviously clear that you have not, go make s'mores and turn on Friends cause grey guy you're not equiped to score points here..lololol.
@@johnknowing-zr8de I'm White, and it's Progressives who made what you speak of possible. YES-the High-Rise projects were a mistake and many on the Left opposed them.
thaddeus buttmunch What are you talking about "progressives" Balt has been run by Dems mayors since 1967.
until this moment in the video 27:35 nothing anyone said meant anything to me
…………….………………………………………………………………………………………..the national guard will keep people under control...……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..until that moment I don't trust in anything the politicians or community leaders are saying
The city never did fully recover
they never do in any riots.
I was a teen and recall that the uprising actually began in my neighborhood. It did not begin immediately on April 4 when Dr. King was slain. It began on April 6 in the afternoon
I was posted on Pennsylvania and pressman Street with the Maryland National Guard
Remember it all to well, i came from sandtown
So did I Fred... Pennsylvania Ave!!
How old were you Fred & Robert??
@@itsmewandamarie2448 8
@Fred Paige I was a 2 months young
Agnew took bribes.
I heard some stories from pratt/Monroe area.
Landlords gave up after the 68 riots, west baltimore stayed torn down with temporary bandaids until the 2000s some blocks still f ed up!!
This is what they should of done, the second time around
This will happen again................SOON..BUT I THINK IT WILL REALLY BE HORRIBLE
I think you're correct
Freddie Gray's Death was the Wake Up Call in 2015 & the City Burned & the 6 Cops who were involved in his Death were Acquitted by a Crooked Judge who Sided with the Cops & their Lawyers.
This time the suburbs will burn along with the cities. Anger and discontent is everywhere.
@@r.pres.4121 Very very true
@@waynewright2886 Before that ,The Jenna 6..remember that situation
It’s always great when people destroy their own neighborhoods. If racism is the real villain what does violence do to stop it? I remember extensive destruction in Balto. City around 1971 after a snowstorm came through.
Fairfaxcat who owned the neighborhood and the stores? What was the rent?
Davan Mani I believe that folks, principally young African American males, were hauling out TV’s and other items of real value from shopkeepers in or near downtown Balto. after a snowstorm in the early ‘70’s. There are many underlying causes, including discrimination, for young African American males’ committing a disproportionately high percentage of crime, particularly violent crime. The fact that that particular crime spree did not occur in the wake of a perceived act of injustice-we are talking about a snowstorm-tells me that the mainstream media and civil rights industry leaders have a credibility problem when they blame everything and everyone else (the police?) instead of crime’s actual perpetrators.
Fairfaxcat You wouldn’t be able to handle the truth, many people like you have been sticking your heads in the sand for Four Hundred years, I don’t agree with a lot of things when it comes to certain Black people but I get it.
Did the event happen mostly at night or during the day? I'm not from Baltimore so I don't know if snow is a common occurrence there.
The snowstorm that had the looting was the Presidents Day Blizzard in February 1979, also known as The Winter Olympics
Ahhhh... right around when the 1st class white flight was taking place amongst the so called "agitators"
I dunno, my family fled the area at least 10 years earlier. used to live on Mura Street. Moved out to Rosedale / Kenwood area. And guess what? Ya, outta there! The city has gotten bigger. Wish I had moved further out 20 years ago.
King Heroin
My stepfather had a store in the city all they had to do was fly the black green and red plus they were well known in the community. Me and my siblings was packed up and sent out to Woodlawn. My uncle and his friends lit the Jews up especially popular grove. It was a sad and ANGRY time.
Owners of Gwynne Oak amusement park closed up rather than allow blacks....I wonder why
No wonder Baltimore is such a mess
The current welfare recipients grandparents were out actin a fool even back then 🤷🏻♂️
80pct of welfare recipieants are white
Well over 50 years later and Baltimore is twice as bad
Baltimore is one of the most dangerous cities in the Western Hemisphere believe it or not. Even worse than both Detroit and Flint.
Most of these people r dead and gone.
How do you know that people in their 70s are still around
My city fuck all up rite now as I text this
Still is currently! Smh
Your city only cares about downtown and the waterfront. Just like most other older northern US cities.
This is long time ago now what not how wcery one quicklt hpme
21:00 that was stupid
Seymore Attman
Wow I never knew about this
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BODYMORE WE BEN A FUCKED UP CITY AND SHITT AINT CHANGED AND AINT GOING 2 CHANGE SAD BUT TRUE ONLY ALLAH CAN SAVE US
Nancy Pelosi's brother @6:30
And who's the most evil people on the planet Esau
Some how we must Restore Baltimore MAGA
DESTROY" MAGA" AND ALL ELEMENTS AND ENTITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS RACIST REFUSE !
@@MickyTubbs1985 u do now make America great again. U do know American means every American. Democrats were the party of the KKK. You think they had a change of heart? Nah my dude. MLK was a Republican. An how come nobody knows MLKs killer? Or y Al Sharpton told him to go on the balcony ? It's sad how dems have kept people mentally enslaved malcolm x warned against this wolves in sheeps clothing.
That'll never happen dems have instituted mental control. Look at how they had actual good food in the food pantry
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Just like Baltimore today. Look at the couple who's store was looted and destroyed and as they were relating their pain to the television interviewer, the locals (you can guess what they look like) are all smiling and grining and loving the fact that another white couple's finance were completely destroyed. That is how Baltimore operates today. I had enough of everything being stolen while I was up there, I left and I don't regret it one bit. Oh you should have seen it during the 2016 riots, twice I had two groups of assholes try to attack me randomly in the streets. Lottery, cigarillos, 40oz malt liqours, welfare and destruction are all these people known or care about! Don't even get me started about the opiate zombies that are everywhere you look!
@Ben Dover That sounds so dumb, illogical, and just plain nonsensical all I can say is thank you! YOU'VE PROVEN TO BE ONE OF THEM! THE SAME TOOLS THAT DEFENDS BERNIE SANDER'S 600 H.P. TWIN TURBO R-8 AUDI AND TELL US HOW MUCH HE CARES FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. OBVIOUSLY YOU BLOG FOR A PAYCHECK OR FOR LEFTARDS. BY THE WAY I WORKED FOR A GUY WHO OWNS AN R-8. EXCEPT AS A STREET LEGAL RACE CAR, IT'S USELESS. CAN'T HAUL A BAG OF GROCERIES IN IT.
Don't stop. Continue with the ass holes who's constantly flooding the opiods in hope to continue oppressing the good people black and white which was never a problem until it reached out of hand and grew when the white folks started overdosing and dying from the poison that was pumped. Grow up face reality. There's no growth with hate the same hate that killed a black leader who stood for good for everyone. Your kind of hate and comments is what kills lies. Do your homework on welfare. And who's on it. You might be surprised take that sheet from your eyes. Face truth.
And still you see good black folks with nothing still offered help. This world is sad and ain't much change
@@jasonbagnall4241 Well stop doing business and mooching off of poor people who don't have any. open a business with people who look like you since ur obviously too racist to be working around minorities.
8:45 smh
14:00 lol
15:00
20:35
BS!!!!
The stories my dad and mom told. Was like war right here in the state.
The young mayor (Nancy Pelosi’s brother) only served one term : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D%27Alesandro_III
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Baltimore