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News-May-11-1967.mp3
A day full of strife, this May 11th in 1967.
Rioting Black students seized control of the Jackson State College campus area, driving police back with a barrage of stones and bottles before burning barricades and looting at least one store. About 1500 students swarmed through the business area surrounding the state's largest Black college throwing up a barrage across Lynch street, a business street cutting through the campus. "People have been driving along throwing bottles and bricks at the students" one student said. "It's been going on about six months. About three months ago it happened to me and my girlfriend". "A group of white kids threw a bottle and a brick at us and then they sped off down the street in a car".
One student was reportedly injured, hit on the head by a bottle thrown from a dormitory window. The riot followed efforts 'by two Black policemen to arrest a Black man on charges of speeding on Lynch street. Student sources said there was resentment about the street running through the campus '.
And in other news - United States military headquarters reported today a sharp rise in American and enemy dead last week resulting from battles just below the demilitarized zone. The weekly casualty report said 274 Americans were killed in action, equalling the previous high recorded six weeks before. The U. S. Command said 1903 enemy were killed, 751 more than the week before although not a record.
A total of 1748 Americans were reported wounded last week, and 18 were missing or captured, the U. S. Command said.
And UN Secretary General U Thant said today that he was afraid "we are witnessing the initial phase of World War III." If the present trend in the war continues, he said, "a direct confrontation between Washington and Peking is inevitable." Thant made these statements to a crowded press conference after a United Nations Correspondents luncheon. He noted that the circumstances leading to World War I and World War II had involved long prologues. "What I mean," he said, "is the psychological climate, the creation of political attitudes, took some time and when conditions were ripe for some little, plausible excuse, then the global wrs were triggered.".
And while the unrest in Jackson continued, that's just a sampling of what else happened, this May 11 1967 as reported by the 11 pm News over WJR Radio in Detroit.
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