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...repeated. The rioting, burning of buses and looting of stores badly damaged the great political ambitions of the county's chief executive, Judge Todd Hollenbach, who delayed calling on city and state police for help until after the rampaging crowds were out of control. U.S. District Court Judge James Gordon, who had originally ordered an exchange of 22,600 students between the largely black schools in the city and the predominantly white schools of suburban
...spread, antibusing forces, most of them teenagers, began gathering at other nearby schools. At Southern High, they smashed the windows and slashed the tires of 40 school buses and set fire to two more, built bonfires and chanted: "We don't want niggers in our schools" and "Send Gordon [James Gordon, the U.S. district judge who had ordered the busing] back to Moscow." Elsewhere in the suburban area, street signs were torn down, stores looted, and gas-station pumps ripped out. Only after 350 state troopers were called in to aid the beleaguered 400-man county police force...
...week's end many of Louisville's whites remained adamant in their opposition to busing. But officials seemed even more determined that the law would be carried out. Jefferson County School Superintendent Ernest Grayson announced that on Monday buses would roll as scheduled, and Judge Gordon backed him up. Declaring that the rioters had "violated the tolerant attitude of the court and insulted the dignity of the community," he banned demonstrations in or near public schools and barred gatherings of more than three persons along school bus routes while the buses were operating...
...summer storm of old-fashioned indignation. Dr. W.A. Criswell, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the largest Southern Baptist congregation, declared himself "aghast" and added: "I cannot think that the First Lady of this land would descend to such a gutter type of mentality." Mormon Elder Gordon B. Hinckley called a press conference to support "chastity before marriage and fidelity after marriage." New York's Governor Hugh Carey, a Roman Catholic with twelve children, unctuously observed: "I guess I believe, in the words that Frankie [Sinatra] sings, 'Love and marriage go together like a horse...
Quinn blames almost everyone in the chain of command at CBS for the fiasco. "I suppose you'd have to say that Gordon Manning made the most mistakes, but they were mostly sins of omission, just not doing anything. But [Richard] Salant was president of CBS News: he knew what was going on. They all knew what was going on. And they must not have done something for a reason...