Various newspaper and magazine clippings of articles relating to JFK, Jim Garrison, individuals under investigation, Martin Luther King, and other topics that interested Garrison. Also, includes excerpts from books regarding the JFK assassination and some

A-Z LOS Angeles Herard-Examiner * Safurday, April 6, 1968 New York: Fires, Fury of Hate, Killings in Capital Midtown U.S. TROOPS RING Hit by WHITE HOUSE, MORE FLYING IN Looting NEW YORK (AP)-Crowds of ``ASHINGTON (UPI)-Pres- pers from a military post in Negroes moved into midtown 'd it Johnson called the Army Georgia were enroute. Manhattan Friday night, sma sh- into Washington Friday to In addition to the men who ing windows along Broadway, restore peace to this frightened were killed, police headquarters Sixth and Seventh Avenues and capital after a day of arson, said a Negro was shot and looting some stores. looting and violence that killed critically injured at 10:10 p.m. Helmeted police arrested five people. Special presidential at a liquor store at 15th and about 15 youths at Broadway adviser Cyrus Vance said early Isherwood streets N.E. and 42nd Street, part of a gr Jup Saturday the situation "ap- Burns said he felt all five of about 150 that gathered in peared to be under control. deaths were in connection with Times Square and refused to Vance announced an addition- the day's disorders. move. al 2000 to 2600 troops of the He said three of the Negro Another group of some 25 82nd Airborne Division were victims were still not identified youths raced through the inter- being flown here from Fort early Saturday. One was shot section at Eighth Avenue and Bragg, N. C., to back up the while looting a liquor store; one 4000 federal and National was found with his throat cut, 48th Street with police in pur- suit. Guard troops already on duty in apparently by glass, and one the city. The first of the was killed when a wall from a Police arrested about seven fire-gutted building collapsed more youths in front of the Al- airborne troops began arriving at Andrews Air Force Base atop him, Burns said. lied Chemical Building-former- outside the capital. Johnson's proclamation de- ly the Times Tower-at Broad- Mayor Walter Washington ployed troops on the streets of way and 42nd Street when they told newsmen in a post-midnight the capital for the first time refused to move. press conference he was "hope- since May 29, 1932, when The area was saturated with ful that the situation is settling President Herbert Hoover sent police. down." But he announced that Douglas MacArthur to rout Bands of teen-agers roamed the dusk to dawn u r f W World War I veterans who SMOKE BILLOWS OVER WASHINGTON, D.C. AS MOBS STRIKE OUT AFTER DR. MARTIN KING'S SLAYING -Associated Press Wirephoto streets in Harlem, taunting po- clamped on the city Friday squatted on government proper- Firemen fought at least 70 fires accountable to rioting action as arsonists took a heavy toll lice and tossing bottles. would go back into effect ty to demand bigger bonuses. Earlier, thousands of young Saturday night. ip n S-white and Negro- Vance, who toured the riot- marched six miles down Broad- scarred areas of the city with Chicago: way to City Hall in an angry Washington, said "the situation reaction to the assassination- of in all of these areas appeared to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. be under control. The situation About 1,000 of the demonstra- is quieting down and appears to Six Dead; tors surged through and over be in hand," Vance said. wooden barricades and massed Troops encircled the White on the lawn in front of City Hall House and the Capitol and a in late afternoon. machine gun post was set up on Capitol Hill after the President Fires and Most of the crowd slowly dis- persed when it became appar- issued a proclamation bringing ent that Mayor John V. Lindsay. at least 4000 federal and would not talk to them. National Guards troops into the city. Crews worked late into the night outside the White House Looting Detroit: stringing steel cables on metal stanchions to serve as a CHICAGO (AP)-National barrier. Guard troops moved into the Curfew- Police east of the Treasury rubble-strewn streets of a Chic- building sealed off the city's ago area Friday night after a chief downtown section to day of night of fires, looting and 1 Killed prevent a recurrence Saturday shooting which left six men of the looting which hit a dead. Guard troops, state police and number of major department More than 3,000 Illinois Na- city police clamped a curfew on stores. tional Guardsmen began patrol- the nation's fifth largest city Charles Burns, chief of the ling the streets in the glare of Friday night. One looter was District of Columbia detective flaming buildings along a 16- reported killed accidentally bureau, said four Negroes were block area some three miles during an arrest. killed during the looting. A west of downtown Chicago. Gov. G eorge Romney and white man was killed when he Fire and looters spread Mayor Jerome Cavanagh toured was robbed and stabbed by a through a large, predominantly the city after dark and reported group of Negro youths at a gas Negro area on Chicago's West relative calm. station. Side where two men were shot The number of arrested The other victims included 14- and killed by snipers. The body climbed to an timated 120 year-old Thomas Williams, shot of another man who had been well before midnight. Police by Police Pvt. David Thomkins shot was found behing a looted said the jail normally holds only, when he drew his gun and it store; another fatally shot man 100 prisoners. accidentally discharged, Burns A PRESIDENTIAL ORDER BRINGS IN FEDERAL TROOPS OF THE 3RD INFANTRY REGIMENT TO RING THE -Associated WHITE Press Wirephoto HOUSE was found in an alley. Police Cavanagh said the looter was said. Young Williams was in a group of youths that descended Looting is widespread in the nation's capital, sniper fire flares and scores of businesses have been set ablaze shot and killed a man eight shot accidentally by a police< miles distant from the disturb- man in Highland Park; a on police as they were taking ance area on the South Side (community completely sur-