I was 14 in July of 1967 - we lived near Hubbell and Grand River. Being we were close to a Michigan Bell switching station, our streets were patrolled by National Guard tanks. It was pretty frightening - espeically the sniper fire in the evenings from the block behind us. My aunt and uncle lived in the Livernois/Puritan area and watched some looting of businesses on Puritan from their upstairs window. I've never forgotten how we first heard about what was going on. I had walked up to the local store and changed my transistor radio station to CKLW because I didn't like the song playing on Keener 13. Byron McGregor started telling everyone about "wide spread looting and arson on Detroit's west side". I turned around and ran home to let my parents know. That was how we found out.