Civil Disturbances in Washington: Hearings...90-2, Investigating the April 1968 Rioting, Looting, Damamges and Losses, and Police Actions, and H.R. 16941, H.E. 16948, H.R. 18541, H.R. 17647, H.R. 17607, and H.R. 18149, May and July, 1968 |
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... Department of Defense : STATEMENTS Hon . David E. McGiffert , Under Secretary of the Army .. District of Columbia government : Galotta , Henry A. , Chief , Fire Department .. Layton , John B. , Chief , Metropolitan Police Department ...
... Department of Defense : STATEMENTS Hon . David E. McGiffert , Under Secretary of the Army .. District of Columbia government : Galotta , Henry A. , Chief , Fire Department .. Layton , John B. , Chief , Metropolitan Police Department ...
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... Department and Mr. McGiffert , and the Department of Justice , in expressing that appreciation . I have not prepared a formal statement , Mr. Chairman , but I would like to point out that shortly after my appointment to the new posi ...
... Department and Mr. McGiffert , and the Department of Justice , in expressing that appreciation . I have not prepared a formal statement , Mr. Chairman , but I would like to point out that shortly after my appointment to the new posi ...
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... Department and the Fire Department and the Federal Govern- ment were most cooperative in giving us the assistance we needed . We have learned things , and not everything was done perfectly , obviously . It is awfully difficult to be ...
... Department and the Fire Department and the Federal Govern- ment were most cooperative in giving us the assistance we needed . We have learned things , and not everything was done perfectly , obviously . It is awfully difficult to be ...
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... Department as a responsibility and the Office of Civil Defense , as well ; but I can say to you , Mr. Chairman , that there is no policy in the Police Department , and there was not during the disorder any policy , about not interfering ...
... Department as a responsibility and the Office of Civil Defense , as well ; but I can say to you , Mr. Chairman , that there is no policy in the Police Department , and there was not during the disorder any policy , about not interfering ...
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... Department on law- ful use of force has been well established , has been in writing at least since 1954. I have reviewed that policy , Mr. Abernethy , and it is a sound policy it seems to me . It corresponds very closely with the policy ...
... Department on law- ful use of force has been well established , has been in writing at least since 1954. I have reviewed that policy , Mr. Abernethy , and it is a sound policy it seems to me . It corresponds very closely with the policy ...
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ABERNETHY action American Insurance Association April arrests arson authority basic property insurance BROYHILL buildings businessmen Chairman Chief Layton Citizens Associations civil disorders civil disturbances Commissioner Committee Congress Congressman costs Court crime criminal damage District government District of Columbia Dowdy FAIR Plan fire force Friday going guns HARSHA House Industry Placement Facility inspection insurance companies insurance industry KALAVITINOS large numbers law and order legislation liability looters looting losses Mayor McGIFFERT MCMILLAN ment Metropolitan mob action mob violence municipal MURPHY NANGLE National Guard Negro O'KONSKI operation parade Park permit persons Police Department police officers policeman Poor People's Campaign Prince George's County problem property insurance property owner protection Public Safety question request response riot shoot SISK situation Stat statement statute streets tion troops United Washington Washington Evening Star Washington Star WHITENER WINN
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Page 69 - ... provisions") herein and in the policy to which this extended coverage is attached, including riders and endorsements thereon, the coverage of this policy is extended to include direct loss by windstorm, hail, explosion, riot, riot attending a strike, civil commotion, aircraft, vehicles, and smoke.
Page 85 - The State is the creator of subordinate municipal governments. It vests in them the police powers essential to the preservation of law and order. It imposes upon them the duty of protecting property situated within their limits from the violence of such public breaches of the peace as are mobs and riots. This duty and obligation thus...
Page 120 - Civil liberties, as guaranteed by the Constitution, imply the existence of an organized society maintaining public order without which liberty itself would be lost in the excesses of unrestrained abuses.
Page 71 - NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, including Chapter 15 of Title 10 of the United States Code, particularly Sections 332, 333 and 334 thereof, do command all persons engaged in such obstruction of justice to cease and desist therefrom, and to disperse forthwith.
Page 72 - NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America...
Page 96 - Such a regulation has a tendency to deter the lawless, since the sufferer must be compensated by a tax burden which will fall upon all property, including that of the evil doers as members of the community. It is likewise calculated to stimulate the exertions of the indifferent and the law-abiding to avoid the falling of a burden which they must share with the lawless. In that it directly operates on and affects public opinion, it tends strongly to the upholding of the empire of the law.
Page 94 - He shall have power, when necessary, to call on every male inhabitant of the city over the age of 18 years, to aid in enforcing the laws and ordinances, and to call out the militia to aid in suppressing riots and other disorderly conduct, or carrying into effect any law or ordinance, subject to the authority of the governor as commander-inchief of the militia.
Page 47 - ... of the day following the service of such notice, in which to commence the securing or removal of the same ;and he or they shall employ sufficient labor and assistance to secure or remove the same as expeditiously as the same can be done.
Page 71 - Title 10, particularly sections 332, 333 and 334 thereof, and section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. The Secretary of Defense is authorized and directed to take all appropriate steps to...
Page 71 - Into the active military service of the United States, as he may deem appropriate to carry out the purposes of this order, any or all of the units of the...