It promises to be interesting and will probably bring back some ugly memories.

Just read a lengthy article in the New Jersey magazine.
Riots began on Wednesday night July 12, 1967.

This was Forty years ago. Many of the reporters weren't even born yet, what do they know? I will read with interest to see if there stories match with what I was told by members of the 4th & 5th Precient who were serving at that time.

Dan...My father was a captain at the time and was lucky enough to be working Command post the night the riots broke out. We didn't see him for 5 days.

A film about it is set to be aired on Tuesday on pbs...
P.O.V.
Revolution `67
Tuesday, July 10, 10:00pm
CHANNEL 13 (WNET)
The insightful "Revolution '67" exposes the flip side to the "Summer of Love": race riots in several American cities, including Detroit and, as spotlighted here, Newark.

Yeah, '67 was a crazy summer -- first Sgt. Pepper, then the riots (excuse me -- "civil disturbances").

bull cr-p! It was riot. Citizens broke the law and destroyed what was left of a city on the delcine.

RIOT.

I recently was checking out CD's and found one titled "1967 Summer of Love" and my mind short circuited. Summer of Love? why didn't that strike a chord with me? I would have been 16 and into music so ? When I looked up the phrase on the internet it suddenly clicked. Right about the time the west coast was celebrating the Summer of Love, we in Newark were experiencing the Riots. Funny, how selective the collective conscious is because everywhere the Summer of Love phrase is popping up in the media. In Newark we have a different memory of that summer.

I have always been intersted in Newarl. I was born their in 1959 and lived there while attending RUtgers-Newark from 1978-1982. What a shame thjat not only a nice city, but a truly happening city at the time went into such decline., I heartens me to seee what is going on today.

I missed it all -- Sergeant Pepper, the "summer of love" and the riots. Didn't get home from Vietnam until the end of August 1967. Ironically, July was a quiet month in my area over there. It was odd reading papers and magazines about war in Newark.