Posted on 07/23/2020 12:41:01 PM PDT by justme4now
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, April 5 -- President Johnson ordered 4,000 regular Army and National Guard troops into the nation's capital tonight to try to end riotous looting, burglarizing and burning by roving bands of Negro youths.
The arson and looting began yesterday after the murder of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis.
The White House announced at 5 P.M. that because the President had determined that ``a condition of domestic violence and disorder'' existed, he had issued a proclamation and an Executive order mobilizing combat-equipped troops in Washington. Some of the troops were sent to guard the Capital and the White House.
Reinforcements numbering 2,500 riot-trained soldiers - a brigade of the 82d Airborne Division from Ft. Bragg, N.C. _ were airlifted to nearby Andrews Air Force Base, to be held in reserve this weekend.
It was the first time regular Army troops had been ordered into Washington for a civil disturbance since 1932, when cavalry under the late Gen. Douglas MacArthur drove hundreds of protesting bonus marchers from a squatters' encampment on the Anacostia River.
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The pics brought back some vivid memories, and some I hadn’t seen before.
Yes, LBJ was our president.
Some people have short memories of how many bad things happened under LBJ and Carter.
Thanks again.
BOL!
Everybody knows its OK for the Rat Party to sic armed soliders on roving bands of Negro youths.
Raciss for evil Republicans think about it or post on social media even the suggestion.
All it takes is COJONIES...a condition sadly lacking in today’s politicians and so-called leaders.
-PJ
To be clear, it was the 82nd that was called out.
The 101 was my unit.
WASHINGTON, April 5 -- President Johnson ordered 4,000 regular Army and National Guard troops into the nation's capital tonight to try to end riotous looting, burglarizing and burning by roving bands of Negro youths.
Now there's a sentence you'd never see in the NYT today!
You're right. Which reminds me that Obama's birth certificate lists the race of his father as "black", way before that was common terminology.
My mother, a newspaper reporter during the 1920s, was in a besieged police station in Washington, D.C., when the cavalry from Fort Meyer dispersed race rioters using the backs of their sabers.
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