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...outline of the riot was known before the Kitty Hawk docked: a six-hour-long melee in which sailors attacked each other with chains and pipes, resulting in 46 injuries and 28 arrests. The full details of the violence will probably not be known until the end of the current court-martial proceedings against 22 black crew members, if then. However, TIME Correspondent Donn Downing interviewed several crew members of the Kitty Hawk after it docked and pieced together much of the atmosphere that led to the riot. One inevitable conclusion to be drawn from those interviews is that...
...report that the whites had hired a karate expert to intimidate them. They also took umbrage at a rumor that two blacks who had slugged whites had been thrown into the brig, while a white who had beaten up a black was given only a warning. Just before the riot, frequent fights flashed through an enlisted men's club in Subic Bay, where the ship was docked for resupply and recreation...
Whatever small spark started the conflagration, there was plenty of brittle tinder lying about to keep it going. A preliminary investigation report, put together by Navy officers and obtained by Downing last week, states that the riot really began when 30 or 40 blacks, screaming and yelling on the mess deck, were confronted by Marine guards with their nightsticks at the ready. According to the report, by the time the captain arrived, a couple of the blacks were holding chairs over their heads, and a white was exhorting the Marines to attack them with inflammatory remarks like, "Kill those niggers...
...this place." As for the judge, he addressed the defendants with irony and invective. Besides being almost unbelievably chaotic, the trial lasted five months and cost at least $2,000,000. One of the main charges against the seven antiwar activists: conspiring to cross state lines to create a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In the view of many legal scholars, the law involved is unconstitutional. Last week the trial's futility was further demonstrated as a three-judge federal appeals panel in Chicago threw out the last convictions remaining against the defendants...
...their lawyers. Said the opinion: "The demeanor of the judge and prosecutors would require reversal [even] if other errors did not." The court thus overturned the convictions of Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman for crossing a state line with intent to start a riot. The trial jury had found the five, plus Lee Weiner and John Froines, innocent of the more controversial conspiracy charge...