Reporter: Ed Guthman, August 22, 1965 |

Ed Guthman on the aftermath of the Watts Riots

Aug. 22, 1965–The late Ed Guthman writes in the aftermath of the Watts Riots:

"We have all seen enough to know we must make it possible for whites and Negroes to live in a large city in peace and human dignity or this city and this nation are for a very difficult and costly time."

Also in The Times Opinion pages: Theodore White writes, "What the four-day festival of hate taught was that too much current American thinking on civil rights, as they apply to our great cities, is dogma–and dogma so far out of touch with reality as to touch on absurdity."

And Robert Richardson’s first-person piece: "My legs are knocked out from under me, and my face is going straight to the pavement. I start to protest, but a knee goes into my back and my mouth opens in a cry of pain.

"Suddenly, my hands are behind my back — handcuffed."

Reporter: Ed Guthman, August 22, 1965

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