The Riot Report

When US inner cities erupted in violence in 1967, LBJ created a commission to investigate. More

When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence during the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to determine what happened, why it happened, and what could be done to keep it from happening again. The bi-partisan commission’s final report offered a shockingly unvarnished assessment of American race relations that would doom its finding to political oblivion.

AIR DATE 4/23/24