Word: kowalewski
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...archsegregationist James Eastland, the Senate Judiciary Committee continued hearings on the causes of the disturbances, as it considered a House-passed antiriot bill, doing nothing to assuage critics' fears that it was more concerned with repressing slum violence than averting it. The committee called on Leonard Kowalewski, a Newark turnkey who hinted of a conspiracy behind the Newark riots and charged that federal anti-poverty workers helped to bring about the trouble. Nothing like proof was offered...
...true that these rioters have be come a privileged class in this country?" asked Arkansas' John McClellan, who will shortly lead his own subcommittee on a riot investigation. "Are they above the law?" Kowalewski assured him that they were. Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy, who has tried to induce the committee to call on urbanologists as well as policemen for explanations, was nonplused. "The quality of witnesses wasn't high to begin with," one of his aides said after Kowalewski appeared, "and it's retrogressed since." As if to underline the approach it intends to take, the Senate...