Army Hits F.B.I. on Riot Inquiry (1970)

[endicom]

New York Times
WILLIAM BEECHER
DEC. 12, 1970

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11—High Pentagon officials said recently that an usuccessful attempt was made in the spring of 1969 to have the Federal Bureau of Investigation take over from Army investigators the task of looking into the prospects of riots in major American cities.

“The Amy was willing to provide manpower during ac tual crises,” one official said, “but we felt advance investiga tions involving civilians be longed to a civilian agency. We weren't successful in getting them to do it.”

Mother Defense Department ‘source said, “The Justice De partment was unable to get the F.B.I. to be sufficiently respon sive.”

More... http://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/12/archives/army-hits-fbi-on-riot-inquiry.html


Perhaps some insight into what the military can do domestically.

[truth_seeker]

That was when the National Guard went to Kent State May 1970.

People have debated that episode, from which the song lyric "Four Dead in Ohio," came.

[dfwgator]

That was when the National Guard went to Kent State May 1970.

People have debated that episode, from which the song lyric "Four Dead in Ohio," came.

Kent State happened because the Left wanted to ramp things up to convince people that Vietnam was Nixon's War and not LBJ's War.

[Smokin Joe]

Perspective: https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/exhibits/Intelligence/RockComm_App5_Disorders.pdf

The FeeBIes arrested a guy from my (first) High School for his associations with H Rap Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, and Stokeley Carmichael. The race riots continued until I transferred to a private school (Thanks, Mom and Dad!, but also because I had placed 5th in an eighth grade Math contest in Southern Maryland a couple of years before.)

[Smokin Joe]

Kent State happened because the Left wanted to ramp things up to convince people that Vietnam was Nixon's War and not LBJ's War.

That was part of it. The desired results were achieved: to make 'the man" look like the oppressor, to malign the military (even at the National Guard level), and to provide martyrs for 'the movement'.

All provided visual impact 'evidence' for the various flavors of Communists of The New Left, and, ostensibly, reasons to rebel against traditional American Values.

[endicom]

That was when the National Guard went to Kent State May 1970.

People have debated that episode, from which the song lyric "Four Dead in Ohio," came.

Ah, but this is Regular Army and not National Guard.