It's depressing, really. Ever since this incident, a city that once thrived, has never been able to recover, even 53 years later.

My grandfather had a billiards parlor at.. 257 Springfield Ave..in 1914. My grandparents raised 11 children in Newark. Our family lived on South Orange Ave. My grandmother, who was 80 years old in 1967, went to St. Rocco's Church on Hunterdon St.(our family church, a few blocks from Springfield Ave.) and prayed for peace.

Who’s here after watching the Many Saints of Newark!?

I was 10, & we lived on the outskirts of the rioting. What I remember most is the weirdly sweet smell of extinguished fires in the air. They used good wood when those houses went up.

I listened to all the black radio station.what great music.i could feel the pain in the music.i jointed a few groups and sang with white and black singers in Newark.

I remember growing up in Newark (Ironbound) and going downtown and everything smelled burnt.

My great grandfather was killed in this riot rip Issac Harrison Sr❤

I lived in Newark at the time and I was going to work that morning towards springfield ave.i didn't know there was a riot was going on until I got to work.

My late father lived in Newark from 1967-71 and was there during the riots. At 4:50, he's in the background in the upper left corner. If you're wonder why they're two microphones with the CBS eye it's because one is for Channel 2 News and the other was for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.

It’s amazing that no one in this clip even mentioned Police Officer Detective Frederick W. Toto. Who was murdered by a faceless coward who was never brought to Justice. Detective Frederick Toto was shot and killed by a sniper at the intersection of Broome Street and Springfield Avenue during the Newark Riots. Detective Toto was standing at the corner with other officers when shots were fired from a nearby apartment building. Detective Toto was struck in the chest and sustained a fatal wound. He was transported to St. Michael's Hospital where he died of the wound.

The aerial view at 6:30 is post riot. It gives you some idea of how desolated the western part of the central ward had become. I can remember being able to see 10 blocks away over empty block after block. At one time Newark was the most densely populated city in the US. If the Mayor hadn't called in the state the real trouble would most likely not have happened. Damn shame, because entire unique close knit neighborhoods were lost. Newark died that July and it will never be as vibrant as it was.

A lot of blacks moved North without two nickels to rub together. Farm workers looking for opportunity. A lot of competition.

I was born and raised in Newark 1944 St Barnabas Hospital in 1967 I was living on James St around the corner frpm the library amd Washington Park during the riots we were terrified that our. Building so close to High St the begining of the riot area we were afraid we would be burnt out Im also Gay and we had a vibrant Gay Community in. Newark hanging out at the Waldorf Cafeteria on Broad St and Newarks two Gay Bars Skippies and Murphys both downtown off of Market and Mulberry Sts one block away on Edison Pl All these places shut dpwn after the riots

After the riot Newark went down hill.

It wasn't a riot, it was tourists, just showing their love

i was a year old at the time, my parents and grandmother got stuck in a traffic jam in the middle of the riots, a few cars ahead of us was a cop car which was attacked by the rioters they pulled the cops out of the car, and beat the shit out of them! soon back up came, and the traffic started moving again thank god! we lived in newark and didnt move out until 77,moved to belleville next door to newark,also my uncle and his friend had a browning 8mm film projecter, which was taken from them by the national guard, they were also beat up by the national guard, and they took my uncles necklace luckily a newark detective showed up and saved them, but they still didnt get the 8mm projecter back! i would ve liked to see the footage on that camera, my uncle told me they were shooting up abandoned buildings i hope,with a tank they had. i heard many stories though the years!

Long live Newark Brick city

Sharpe James was a real piece of work as Mayor....much later after this event....

To those who are making racist comments. Do some research. Read why this riot took place. Better yet come to Newark and talk to a few people who were actually there back in 1967 to get a better understanding as to why it happened then come to your own conclusion and comment. Peace and God Bless

What I have a hard time understanding is the people who live in the area of Newark where the riot is taking place, seem to view it as a spectator sport. It's NOT!!... When one takes it upon him or her's self to go into area were the looting, burning and shooting is going on, how are the Police, both State Police and National Guardsmen to KNOW wether or not you are part of the PROBLEM?....You run the risk of being arrested, hurt or worst killed. STAY off the streets, STAY out of the area!!

At 6:20 you see the Central Ward after the riots. Block after block of emptiness.

I remember seeing that guy William Furr in a photograph coming out of liquor store and was shot and killed and fragments of the bullet traveled at the end of the block and hit this little boy. I never knew if he survived or not.

It was the year movies like Guess who's coming to dinner, In the heat of the night and To Sir with Love were released.

And this still going on today

EO nj here - i was 8-9 years old i forgot

Give me a break diamond king !! Just walk two blocks from Pru center and your in deep doo-foo ! Not recovered, will never recover unless the people who moved out came back !! An't going to happen !!!!

I lived in Hillside I was a young kid when they tried to come towards Hillside everybody in a town got together with shotguns and quitting given kids guns to protect the city lines even the police were there with us I remember like it was yesterday

Dr. Umar Johnson talked about the riots of Detroit and Newark

Pro tip You best not fuckin' run from the cops

I had a 2 family house in a white section of East Orange. My new tenants moved in from Newark during the riots...The husband tried to go back for lamps and pictures he didn't trust the movers to handle...He couldn't get into Newark; blacks were not allowed to enter...We were from Montclair and so were the tenants. .Montclair had a significant % of blacks so we were used to that and didn't think anything of renting to them...in spite of the fact that many of our white neighbors were families of cops and firemen who were required to live in town. My husband and I were in our early 20's and not exactly liberals....We weren't trying to be "good guys"; we just didn't see any big deal about renting to a lovely black couple with a baby...especially since they were also from Montclair. When I think back, I am amazed the neighbors never said a thing to me...Of course, I didn't hang out with them; I had little in common with them. We had more in common with our tenants.......At the time, I didn't even know anything much about the riots; riots were happening all over the country. My head was into my Literature studies; I was going to Rutgers Newark at night and raising 3 kids. PBS did a special on the Newark riots 30 years later: it was then that I actually learned about the terrible conditions in Newark. The conditions of black Americans still shocks me. I was hoping that when Hillary won, somethings would change. There's a joke for you.

God help that mother in Oakbrook illinios you could not only see her pain but feel it because his life could have been saved know she as a white mother who has lost her son whose life could have been saved and the police knew he had a mental disease and the depths of his disorder yet them killed him yes ha had a knife in his hand but was he going after someone with it or had he used it on anyone welthat poor mother has experienced what countless of black and brown mothers have been going through for years and centuries may God open her eyes

Same still happening today. "People moving in people moving out just because of the color of their skin". Get out and vote. And remember this place. Stay put and don't let another, government or otherwise put you down.

I had to live through the ashes. Unfortunately l still am. The New Jersey government hold every black person responsible for a city they never torched. Ask me how l know.

Hey you made the mess now

NOT A RIOT, A REBELLION!

That’s why u don’t start riots

my aunt and uncle lived on 14 th ave in newark! i heard about the riots in my youth! it was a crime against blk ppl!!!!!!

No comment. __Hughes

I get the "last straw" argument, but funny how nobody tells us what the original taxidriver was arrested (and beaten) for. No mention of it at all, as if that was irrelevant, and black people weren't responsible for their actions, and aren't now. Anybody know what he did to provoke/contribute to the beating and arrest-did the cab driver assault the police, for example?? Why would someone say he was murdered when he wasn't, if not out of a victimhood complex and self-fulfilling prophecy that led them to provoke the authorities until they got what they were looking for?? Or an intentional desire to piss people off and provoke riots and violence, which is what actually happened. Looting and arson by blacks after a lie was spread about a murder that never happened... = "misbehaving citizens"??? NO, dude.... those are CRIMES, which makes the people who did those things CRIMINALS. The desire to instill terror in white people and the government by looting and rioting provokes the violence they complain about later, and justifies the Marxist victim/oppressor mindset... police are obviously not perfect and exceeded their authority at times, but the black community were co-creators in what happened.

*Rebellion...not Riot

Ptsd sux

This is so disgusting

Oh please I was raised in the north ward and it was an opportunity to take shit and basically ruin where they lived we had broad and Bloomfield ave park ave and everything sealed off we had about a thousand people with guns waiting for them to come up to the north ward , the cab driver was the excuse

Lincoln wanted them returned to Africa too bad he died before he could they are not good for anything

Lost me at loot and riot...stay dumb lol

All that damage all over a worthless nog.