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Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley was hopping mad. Mulling over the massive damage caused by black rioters on the city's West Side after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Daley came to the conclusion that he had been badly let down by his police. The toll: 162 buildings gutted by arsonists, 22 more partially destroyed; 268 businesses and homes looted; $9,000,000 in property losses; eleven lives lost. Yet, of the 2,900 Negroes arrested, only 19 were charged with arson. Last week Daley's ire erupted with nationwide reverberations...
...very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting." As for young looters, Daley favored the use of Chemical Mace as "safer." Rapping his top cop, James B. Conlisk Jr., for failing to apply "deadly force" to stop the burning and looting that erupted in the Windy City, Daley appointed a nine-man "blue ribbon" investigating committee to determine, among other things, if a conspiracy...
...Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago and boss of the Illinois party, had pledged his 118 votes to the President. After Johnson withdrew, the two men talked about the race, and Daley reported that neither of them even mentioned Humphrey. The mayor has been extremely close to the Kennedys, and he is expected to throw his support to RFK just before the convention...
...looked like a bombed city. A three-mile reach of Chicago's Negro West Side erupted in pillage and cataclysmic flames that left an eight-block area in a state of devastation as severe as that of Detroit's ghetto last summer-yet at first Mayor Richard Daley failed, inexplicably, to impose a curfew. In Har lem, gleeful mobs cavorted and Mayor John Lindsay, though unharmed as he walked among them, was powerless to halt the orgy. Sniping, the most feared of ghetto tactics in summers past, was rare; by week's end, riot-connected deaths...
...pros to deliver him the nomination. For one thing, the bosses today are fewer and less potent than of yore. The Democratic machinery in key states is either barnacled or defunct. Perhaps the only major old-line boss on whom Johnson can rely is Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, who predictably issued an effusive-and rather offensive-defense of the President by declaring: "Even the Lord had skeptical members of his party. One betrayed him, o'ne denied him and one doubted...