Army Troops in Capital as Negroes Riot

archive.nytimes ^ | April 6, 1968 | BEN A. FRANKLIN

[Grampa Dave]

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.

[Grampa Dave]

BOL!

[Gasshog]

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.

[GoldenPup]

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.

All it takes is COJONIES...a condition sadly lacking in today’s politicians and so-called leaders.

[Political Junkie Too]

But the National Guard are state units, not federal. Even when called to federal control, they are still state units.

-PJ

[justme4now]

But not the airborne units!

[justme4now]

To be clear, it was the 82nd that was called out.

The 101 was my unit.

[libertylover]

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.

Now there's a sentence you'd never see in the NYT today!

[justme4now]

Bet you wont see the word negro either! 8)

[libertylover]

Bet you wont see the word negro either! 8)

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.

[Hiddigeigei]

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.