Detroit 1967 Riot

Are there any updated books on the 1967 riot which give reports and eyewitness had accounts of things that weren't reported by mainstream media and texts at that time including in recent time. I had heard from people who worked in emergency that more than the reported 43 were killed

An interesting new way to bring up the yearly "discussion" of the 1967 riots.

I've been trying to forget it for 48 years now.

I had not thought about it until I read this thread...:[[

I'm with Ray. It was sad. It was destructive. No good came from it. Deaths and broken dreams.

Has this got anything to do with the above?

http://www.freep.com/story/news/2015...ries/30572689/

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Discussions from the old forum can be found via this Google Search link: https://www.google.com/search?q=1967...Aatdetroit.net

I have to post this every year. Only in Detroit would this go on during a major civil disturbance!

My parents 1967 riot experience was very different from most. Residing on our block on Harvard in East English Village was Joe Muer. Mr. Muer threw a Champagne and Alaskan King Crab party every night of the curfew for anyone who could avoid the police and 82nd Airborne. My parents left my sister and myself with baby sitters who lived two doors away while they hopped fences and kept in the shadows as they made their way down the block and had a grand time with the others who in some instances drove in from Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham for the most outrageous party that I have ever heard of in the City of Detroit's history.

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Originally Posted by p69rrh51

I have to post this every year. Only in Detroit would this go on during a major civil disturbance!

My parents 1967 riot experience was very different from most. Residing on our block on Harvard in East English Village was Joe Muer. Mr. Muer threw a Champagne and Alaskan King Crab party every night of the curfew for anyone who could avoid the police and 82nd Airborne. My parents left my sister and myself with baby sitters who lived two doors away while they hopped fences and kept in the shadows as they made their way down the block and had a grand time with the others who in some instances drove in from Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham for the most outrageous party that I have ever heard of in the City of Detroit's history.

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I get your story and find it amusing, but for most Detroit residents, the '67 Riots really sucked. Detroit, to this day hasn't recovered from it.

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Originally Posted by p69rrh51

I have to post this every year. Only in Detroit would this go on during a major civil disturbance!

My parents 1967 riot experience was very different from most. Residing on our block on Harvard in East English Village was Joe Muer. Mr. Muer threw a Champagne and Alaskan King Crab party every night of the curfew for anyone who could avoid the police and 82nd Airborne. My parents left my sister and myself with baby sitters who lived two doors away while they hopped fences and kept in the shadows as they made their way down the block and had a grand time with the others who in some instances drove in from Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham for the most outrageous party that I have ever heard of in the City of Detroit's history.

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That reminded me of the hurricane parties in New Orleans. As long as everyone's safe for the moment and hunkered down with nothing else to do, you may as well throw a party! I think the purpose of this custom is to give folks a morale boost by defying the hurricane.

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Originally Posted by p69rrh51

I have to post this every year. Only in Detroit would this go on during a major civil disturbance!

My parents 1967 riot experience was very different from most. Residing on our block on Harvard in East English Village was Joe Muer. Mr. Muer threw a Champagne and Alaskan King Crab party every night of the curfew for anyone who could avoid the police and 82nd Airborne. My parents left my sister and myself with baby sitters who lived two doors away while they hopped fences and kept in the shadows as they made their way down the block and had a grand time with the others who in some instances drove in from Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham for the most outrageous party that I have ever heard of in the City of Detroit's history.

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That has a ring of somewhere between "Let them eat cake" and Nero fiddling. Was the continual popcorn crackle of gunfire that filled the background around me [Warren and Woodward] audible at the parties?

I wasn't around then, but anyone remember when someone tried to blow up the Southgate Korvette's and how this was related to the riots?