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I was 12.
One minute I was listening to the Beatles. In the next I saw riots in Watts on the news.
And there was something I couldn't quite understand...
The riots began on August 11, 1965, in Watts, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, when Lee Minikus, a California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer, pulled over Marquette Frye, who Minikus believed was intoxicated because of his observed erratic driving.
Frye failed to pass sobriety tests, including walking in a straight line and touching his nose, and was arrested soon after. Minikus refused to let Frye's brother, Ronald, drive the car home, and radioed for it to be impounded. As events escalated, a crowd of onlookers steadily grew from dozens to hundreds.
The mob became violent, throwing rocks and other objects while shouting at the police officers. A struggle ensued shortly resulting in the arrest of Marquette and Ronald Frye, as well as their mother.
Though the riots began in August, there had previously been a buildup of racial tension in the area. Finally, tension broke and violence spilled onto the streets of Watts for four days.
34 people were killed, 2,032 injured, and 3,952 arrested.
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Photos below are from Life Magazine, August 25, 1965.
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Ad for Tareyton cigarettes, 1965 (Life).
"Join the unswitchables. Get the filter cigarette with a taste worth fighting for"
"Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch"
"Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch" was an enduring slogan which appeared in magazine, newspaper, and television advertisements for Tareyton cigarettes from 1963 until 1981. It was the American Tobacco Company's most visible ad campaign in the 1960s and 1970s.
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| Leonard Cohen by David Boswell |
Tiny Tim's first album: God Bless Tiny Tim, released on Reprise RS 6292, 1968.
Tracks:
Welcome to My Dream / Tip-Toe Thru the Tulips With Me / Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight / On the Old Front Porch / The Viper / Stay Down Here Where You Belong / Then I'd Be Satisfied With Life/ Strawberry Tea / The Other Side / Ever Since You Told Me That You Love Me (I'm a Nut) / Daddy, Daddy, What Is Heaven Like? / The Coming-Home Party / Fill Your Heart / I Got You, Babe / This Is All I Ask |
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