baltimore riot of 1968

The prisoners we arrested were fed but there was nothing offered the cops on the streets. The Eastern Police District runs short of men. A luncheonette is set on fire, and two blocks north a deli and three houses are burned. 1430 Personnel on alert at demonstration were returned to staging area. 0904 Bomb scare 229 North Franklintown Road. These Entries should in no way be interpreted as representing an all-inclusive account of the activities, which occurred in Baltimore during that period. 1604 The Commissioner asked Col. Lally to use his influence in getting more aggressive action initiated repressive patrol and total commitment by the National Guard. This view is a section of East Baltimore. 0846 Bomb scare at Junior High School, Pratt and Ellwood. . I took the radio car by myself because I didn’t know just how many firemen were there and I needed room for them. Nearly 300 angry youths throw stones and bricks at passing cars. 1805 Chief Wett of the Fire Department said all fires were under control as of 6:00 p.m. 1901 In the 36-hour period from 0700 hours Saturday, April 6, 1968 to 1900 hours Sunday April 7, 1968 the Baltimore Police Department received 7, 647 calls for police service. . Sunday’s police reports include 400 episodes of looting, for a two-day total of 600. Hospitals on the west side ask for police protection. There are 6,000 Guardsmen on duty in the city. • Midnight—Fresh gunfire at Flag House Housing Project draws police back. Baltimore becomes the first city to plot this information as the riots are going on. The greatest number of calls during the entire disturbance came at approximately 2:00 p.m. on Monday, April 8, 1968. The walls around the elevator area were all of white Italian marble, floor to ceiling. A list of affected merchants will be compiled, and taxpayers will be allowed to file after the April 15 deadline without penalty. It is anticipated that additional reports will be prepared and submitted to the Commanding General. • 2.30 p.m.— Flare up at city jail between 250 prisoners. Baltimore's 1968 riots (Screenshot) A half-century later, a reporter remembers the fiery chaos and devastation of the April 1968 riots in Baltimore. 2110 (Delayed entry) 1715 General Ogletree has National Guard companies in following locations available for assignment. Unit 724 will make an M.I. Around that time, a block away at McHenry and Payson, a fight breaks out between several whites and two blacks. Kerosene Fire Burns Along Lombard Street” – April 8, 1968. I approached and handcuffed both of them and brought them back to the car. Looting is seen in the 3500 block of Park Heights Ave. City jails are filled to overflowing within two hours after curfew. No alcohol is sold in Baltimore, Anne Arundel and Howard counties. 0810 A large crowd was reported in the 1400 block of Milton Avenue. July 1, 1966 • King cancels a visit to Baltimore where he was to speak at the convention of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE). Between 4 p.m. and this time, 30 store lootings and five fire bombings are called in to police. The handout stated reason for the march was “To confess the guilt of white racism and to pledge ourselves to the cause for which Dr. Martin Luther King lived and died.” The plans are to assemble 1200 hours at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, NFI, at 1230 hours, proceed to Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, NFI, then to Grace Methodist Church, NFI, and back to the Cathedral. 0220 Major Armstrong reports incident recorded on 0120 was accidental fire – no fire bomb; 1 dead and 1 injured. Gen. York, the mayor and Pomerleau spend more than two hours traveling through the city. A search by police and fire crews found nothing. 1435 A car was dispatched to the Fifth Regiment Armory to bring Lt. Gen. York to Lafayette Sqaure. Friday, April 5, 1968 •National Guard on standby •No significant occurrences •Heavy violence in other cities including Detroit and Washington, D.C.The unrest begins in Baltimore: Saturday, April 6, 1968 • National Guard on standby during day • Riots begin in earnest in Baltimore. The building is looted and burned on Gay St. five blocks below North Ave. Major looting is reported on Lamont St. and Harford Ave. By this point more than 30 have been arrested in the Western District alone. 2 radio cars assigned to 12-hour shifts. 1011 Fines accepted at City Jail. Maryland license 2660 EV. Frank X Gallagher, Baltimore City Councilman, third district, furnished a copy of a printed handout that is currently being passed around in his area. By this time we had arrested about 1700 people. Agnew announces that conditions are improved, enough to possibly modify or remove entirely the ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages in the city and five counties • 8 p.m.—Fires are limited to a few vacant houses and previously looted stores, most of them in or near the west side. 1923 Old 2-½ ton Army surplus truck was reported in the area of Chase and Eager Streets carrying persons throwing bricks. • 7:30 p.m.—By this time, the conflict has spread across the city, especially to the west, with 95 percent of the offenders estimated to be teenagers. .LM. The Baltimore riot of 1968 was a period of civil unrest that lasted from April 6 to April 14, 1968, in Baltimore. Complainant is blind and he stated that his 13 year old son told him a police car drove by and threw tear gas bomb at him causing burning of the eyes. 1943 Four Cars from the Northwestern District were dispatched to handle rock throwers on Harford Road and North Avenue. There was a guard shack usually manned by a traffic officer who was on light duty, recovering from injury, sickness, etc. • 2 p.m.—Gov. Dozens of police raids take place on this morning. This was to protect vandals from hitting the downtown shopping area with its large department stores. Spiro Agnew and the addition of regular Army troops by Pres. Firemen refuse to fight the fire until the sniper is located. 2245 Mr. C. P. Stackhouse, 109th Military Intelligence, stated that the 82nd Airborne units were deployed on the west side of Jones Falls Expressway, and the National Guard on the east side. Task Force 200 troops at Kirk Field. An Army trooper stands guard against future rioting as victims of four days of fires and destruction line up for food. • After midnight—2200 block North Calvert St., a report of trouble. • 2 p.m.—Curfew hour is ordered advanced to 4 p.m. Student attendance rises but remains below normal. At midnight, Lt. Col. George Davidson of the Maryland State Police reported that all State Police Personnel were on 1010 alert, meaning they were in readiness to be called on short notice. In 2008, the 40th anniversary of King's death, the University of Baltimore The Central Records Division was activated in accordance with the Department’s emergency mobilization plan and furnished from that time until the present, statistical information to Headquarters Command Post 2500. • 6:14 p.m.—Pres. State, city and county offices close. Once police leave an area, looters swoop in and start anew. • 11:10 p.m.—Fire truck returns, but the buildings are lost. 0850 1 arrest throughout city between 0800 and 0900. Eastern High School is repurposed as a refugee center. Both the Judiciary of this City (Supreme Bench and Municipal Courts), the State’s Attorney’s Staff and the Attorney General’s Office, displayed a great sensitivity to the problems that were generated by the emergency to the extent that the administration of justice was carried out in a very expeditious and efficient manner. Looters take to the streets again shortly after that, raiding 18 stores and lighting nine 9 fires. By this point, large sections of Federal, Gay, Monument, Aisquith, and Pennsylvania above Biddle St. have been cleaned out. The fire department received five bomb threats, four in city schools. The foot patrolman reached our car and the Lieutenant asked, “What’s happening?” The officer said, “I don’t know. In the 200 block of E. Preston, a food market is broken into. Looting and burning sweeps up Greenmount Ave. and crosses North Ave. • 10:10 p.m.—Gov. Attorney General Burch said this was required and that the Governor announced that his emergency proclamation was precautionary. Please continue to exercise your good judgment and restraint as demonstrated during this period of stress as there are some few tensions remaining. 2310 States Attorney Charles Moylan was notified of the Curfew order. City-wide area #4 dispatching office. Riot type shotguns were also issued by the Armory to police officers acting in the capacity of security guards at detention facilities, power substations and guarding prisoners in transport, etc. The most worrisome political outcome of Baltimore’s 1968 riots would prove to be the meteoric rise of Agnew into national prominence. Four looters are arrested at Laurens and Stricker. (Napoleon K. Slay). 2045 Gene Noble of the Community Relations Commission was requested to have the colored clergy who had volunteered their services, to attempt to quiet crowds on Gay Street. The company had been called and our predicament explained. 0138 A recapitulation showed 41 fires reported but many of these were repeat reports. 1705 Total arrest 5759. Where exact information is not known within the time available, best estimates will be submitted. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images Mrs. Krukowski was advised by Major Pomrenke to have radio dispatch another car to 1135 West Saratoga to explain the investigation to Mr. Williams. They take over the area from 25th St. to North Ave. Baltimore officers and Maryland State Police patrol the area south of North Ave. • 11:30 p.m.—Baltimore Mayor D’Alessandro appears on television. The Emergency Headquarters Command Post was opened at 11:00 p.m. on Friday, April 5, 1968. More than a thousand businesses had been looted or burned, many of which never reopened. The intersection of Fulton Ave. and Baker St. is cordoned off. • 7 a.m.—The curfew is lifted, and motorists from outside the city are allowed in. – Lee Albright, 6. Boundaries of violence extend from Greenmount, North Ave., Chester and Baltimore. A two-alarm fire is reported at Federal St. and Milton Ave. Two fires break out two blocks apart—at Federal and Holbrook Sts., and Harford Rd. Lyndon Johnson orders 1,900 Army soldiers into Baltimore. At North and Linden, a crowd of 150 people witness three stores and several vacant buildings burn. Looting takes place at Guilford Ave. and Lanvale St. and on Harford Ave. from Federal St. to North Ave. Two liquor stores in the 800 and 900 blocks of Caroline St. are burned. We stopped and I got out and stepped into the shop to see if anyone was still inside. Gov. The area is evacuated. At 1900 hours, 6 April 1968, the Armory dispatched a loaded van, which was on stand-by in the Headquarters Garage and containing helmets, gas masks, riot batons, tear gas and ammunition, to command Post 2501, Gay and Aisquith Streets. • 2:10 p.m.—A liquor store is burned at Chase and Wolfe. Firing first reported between police and rioters in the west side of the city. . Looter shot by a police officer in self-defense. • 1:30 p.m.—State’s attorney Charles Moylan Jr. is quoted as saying, “The looting in the eastern half of Baltimore has reached terrible proportions.” Large crowds gather on Baltimore St. in “the block area.” They break up by 3:30 p.m. as the police K-9 corps moves in. Homicide 1 c/m dead in burned building 400 block Myrtle – Doddie Hudson. From 1800 hours, 6 April 1968, 1600 hours, 12, April 1968, there was a total of 5, 950 arrests made. Police guard hub corners of Calvert and Fayette, Baltimore and South streets, and Calvert and Baltimore. Information passed to Major Gaeng at 0925 upon his return to CP who handled situation. The area was one of the hardest hit by looters during the riot-filled day. 1420 Chief Thomas of the Fire Department reported that every fire in the city was under control at 1400 hours. Operations Bureau Manpower Strength Report. The opening game of baseball season which had been delayed one day was played without incident on Wednesday. During the remainder of the early morning hours, a relatively small number of fires were reported. Rioting reported near the Murphy Homes at Myrtle Ave. and Hoffman. 1053 1 arrest throughout city between 1000 and 1100. In the Lower Broadway area, a crowd gathers and heads towards stores in Forest Park, where rioters do damage. The security force was recruited from the Property Division, Planning and Research Division, Laboratory Division, Recruitment Unit, Central Records Division, and Police Trainees form the Education and Training Division. 2 Radio Cars are assigned on 12-hour shifts. 1145 Headquarters and Field Command Posts activated. 1907 Commissioner Pomerleau and Deputy Commissioner Polle briefed Mayor D’Alesandro and Eugene Feinblatt at the Command Post Headquarters. Pupil absences of more than 50 percent are reported in elementary schools and 50 percent in secondary schools, with many teacher absences. Indications of unrest in Baltimore on Friday appeared at Coppin State College and Northwestern High School where students refused to follow regular academic routine. To date, there have been six deaths, 1,075 lootings, and 1,032 fires. . 1705 Commissioner Pomerleau visited the Emergency Headquarters Command Post. Looting in the 900 block of Whitelock St. is reported, and troops cordon off the area. 0209 706 Car investigated report of sniper fire at 1800 W. Fairmount Avenue __ unfounded. The total complement of troops in the city is 10,848. 1600 The curfew was put in effect from 4:00 p.m. Monday, April 8, until 6:00 a.m., Tuesday, April 9, 1968. A fire is reported in a tailor’s shop in the 2300 block of Greenmount. • Night—Troops ordered to tuck away bayonets, a sign of easing tension. 1950 Major Pomrenke was dispatched as Baltimore Police liaison with Captain Collister at the Maryland State Police staging area at the State Office Building. 1844 All off-duty personnel contacted to report to their respective divisions and districts. The same thing happens at Gay from Chase to Orleans. Speculation had that it was contrived to disrupt the cities, but why we will never know. Six occupants were arrested at Madison and Forrest Streets. Statistics on reports of fires, looting, deaths, and arrests were reported to Task Force Baltimore on an hourly basis and summarized daily. 1530 State’s Attorney Moylan requested that prisoners be sent immediately to the Criminal Court where judges were waiting to give them a prompt hearing. We saw the people were pilfering as they walked along. Colored soldier states that he is an undercover man and could not give name. General Ogletree activated the National Guard and reported to the Guard would be on the streets in two and three hours. Looting begins on Pennsylvania Ave. in the 1200-2000 blocks • 11:15 p.m.—National Guard troops move from the 5th Regiment Armory on trucks. Crowds chant “We’ve got the key to the city” and “We shall overcome.” At Lafayette and Fulton avenues, and in the 900 block of Fulton, police respond to sniper warnings. With that, I fired one round in the air, which caused people to scatter. The windows were all knocked out but the cash register was still intact. Another two are burned. 2025 Deputy Attorney General Robert Sweeney called on behalf of Governor Agnew to instruct that Danny Gant of CORE should be released on his own recognizance. Agnew releases a statement on the control of city’s looting. 2020 A group of twenty-five white men on East Baltimore Street between Calvert and St. Paul Streets was dispersed. A firebomb attack is rumored in the Guilford area. type stockade facility. Problems are reported on Pennsylvania Ave. running past the 2000 block of Edmonson Ave. A black church in Catonsville is burned. On April 6, 1968, two days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Baltimore, like many other cities across the country, found itself engulfed in riots. 0120 Colored Soldier, 121st Eng. 0650 No Arrests reported between 6:00 A.M. and 7:00 A.M., Grand total 5,704 April 11, 1968. It was then that I saw there was a bullet hole in his back. By 9:30 p.m. it is a four-alarm fire, with onlookers throwing stones and bottles. • Noon—Peaceful gathering of 300 at memorial service for King • 2 p.m.—Service ends, city is peaceful • 4 p.m.—Commemorative interdenominational service • 5 p.m.—First reports of store windows being smashed and disturbances in the 400 block of N. Gay St. on the east side • 5:30 p.m.—Violence breaks out in Gay Street “ghetto” area • 5:40 p.m.—All policemen in Central district ordered to posts • 6 p.m.—First reports of looting at drycleaners, Gay and Monument streets. Many more fires break out, at Frederick Road and Willard St., in the 1200 block of Central Ave., on Franklin St., and Allendale Road. In the 1700 block of Harford Road, and on Eden and Gay streets there are fires, the latter being a huge one. 1630 Information from Lieutenant Rawlings, an employee of a Doctor Edel, stated she received information from a minister that there would be trouble tonight on North Gay Street. 2200 General agreement was reached to ask the Governor to bring in the National Guard, and Attorney General Burch called Governor Agnew. . Information passed to Sergeant Bowen, Inspectional Services Division. Donald Sutton who located a civilian in a parked automobile which had a bullet hole – bullet was found in car, sniper not located. By the time the riot was over, 6 people would be dead, 700 injured, 4,500 arrested and over a thousand fires set. orders of Gov. • Late morning/early afternoon—Police cars are lined up at Gay and Aisquith expecting calls. Although the recovery of the loot has been extensive, the capacity of the building has not been exceeded, nor has the loot been categorized as yet. Agnew became Nixon’s Vice Presidential running mate in 1968. 2. 2057 Robert Osborne, Director of Baltimore Civil Defense, said his unit was fully activated. In the 3500 block of Edmondson Ave., a sandwich shop is broken into. National Guardsmen respond to hundreds of fires where they protect firefighters. With all the police and troops on the streets, things began to calm down. 2030 252 Troopers of the Maryland State Police were in position at the State Office Building, 35 were assigned to guard the State Office Building, and 200 were available for deployment. There are 1,150 fires, 1,150 lootings and nearly 5,000 arrests since the riots’ beginning. 1115 Commissioner Pomerleau requested Major Wilbur Conroy of the Maryland State Police to provide 300 troopers in the State Office Building Staging Area at 1700 hours for use until at least 0100 hours. Entered 0714. Present in Headquarters Command Post at activation: Deputy Commissioners Poole and Murdy, Directors Morrisey, Norton and Deems. It was always said that the riots were not coordinated but you can see word was passed along so that things were in turmoil up through the eastern seaboard. • 2 a.m.—Guardsmen protect firefighters. Looting takes place on Division St. Now, therefore, by virtue of the foregoing and because I am informed and persuaded that the following dictated by the improvement in the conditions of the public crisis which heretofore existed and now exist to a lesser degree, I do hereby proclaim and issue the following order…. The media regularly used terms such as, “Negro” and “Negress” to describe African American Males, and Females. On the second night, the Governor called in the Maryland State Police and activated the National Guard to help us. A call came in to assist an officer at Gay and Hillen Street at the location of the old Bel Air market. Mayor D’Alesandro designated Monday as a city-wide day of mourning for Dr. King. I pulled in adjacent to the fire engine and as I got out of the car, someone in the crowd that was milling around, threw a large number tin cans of tomatoes through the windshield of my radio car. This site should be considered a work in progress: Its only constant will be The 1968 rioting began in East Baltimore, as supermarkets, furniture stores, taverns and other shops were ransacked and burned. Scattered looting is reported at Baltimore and Pine streets. General Gelston was ordered to return from Atlanta, Georgia, to Silver Spring, Maryland by the Governor. On North and Patterson Park, the 100 block of E. Lanvale St., the 2100 block of Normandy Ave., the first block of N. Hilton St., the 600 block of Mt. Someone had apparently seen what was happening, grabbed the whiskey and ran off. 0829 Bomb reported to be in Douglas High School, Gwynns Falls and Pulaski – unfounded. Another 1,900 Army troops are called into Baltimore. There are further reports of problems at 42nd St. at York Road and at Walbrook Junction. The uprising included crowds filling the streets, burning and looting local businesses, and confronting the police and national guard. A few policemen arrive to reinforce a few Guardsmen who are pushing back the white crowd. Homes burn on N. Broadway. Rioting spills out from “Negro Slums east and west of Downtown area along main streets in all directions,” according to one newspaper headline. Woman Pleads for People to “Stay Out” – Eager Street at Broadway – April 8, 1968, Baltimore and Lloyd Sts. 0945 Sniper reported by fireman firing at passing motorists – unfounded, believed to have been noise from breaking bottle, at 1500 Aisquith Street. From the 900 to the 1200 block of W. Baltimore St., stolen taxi cabs are used to transport stolen goods. The department called in everyone who wasn’t already on duty. 1900 Curfew in force from 7:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. 1935 Danny Gant of CORE called Commissioner Pomerleau to request that he locate 6 civil rights workers who had been arrested. 1310 Entered following executive order received. 1045 Chief Battaglia opened up Field Command Post 2 at Pennsylvania Avenue and Laurens Street, 1050 Captain Mello reported that he had not observed a large crowd in the vicinity of the Western District. 0425 Field Force Commanders reported city relatively calm. Submitted to Deputy Commissioner Keyes. It is recommended that the Federal government stock pile these portable radio transceivers so the other municipalities not having an adequate communication system could be provided with same in the event of an emergency or civil disorder. The rest of the walls in the hallways were white marble halfway up. • Summary: Arrests from midnight to 1 p.m. number 105, bringing the total to 5,316. 0950 Lieutenant Harry Frantz, Baltimore Police Department Liaison Officer with Civil Defense, advised of the following food distribution points. Deputy Commissioner Poole left in command. He and Lieutenant Franz can be reached at their respective homes. Fire Department requested assistance at Lanvale Street and Guilford Avenue. Another group jumps on the car and kicks in the hood and windows. 2340 Anonymous telephone call received in Communications form intoxicated person, believed to be a male Negro. Sniper fire breaks out at night for the first time since disturbances began on Saturday. Elsewhere, the Pope plans a statement on racism. 1355 (Delayed entry) State Police were relieved at 0500 but will remain on 1010 alert per request of Lt. 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