CABLE RE SELECTED RACIAL DEVELOPMENTS AND DISTUBRANCES PITTSBURGH, MEMPHIS, AND MIAMI
Agency: CIA
Originator: FBI
From: FBI, DIRECTOR
To: THE PRESIDENT
Document date: 08/16/1968
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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PRESIDENT

TITLE

: CABLE RE SELECTED RACIAL DEVELOPMENTS AND DISTUBRANCES

PITTSBURGH,

MEMPHIS, AND MIAMI

DATE: 08/16/1968

PAGES

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SUBJECTS : RACE DISTURB

RACIAL UNREST

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SELECIED RACIAL DEVELOPMENTS AND DISTURBANCES

DISTURBANCE, PITISBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA: THERE WAS TENSION IN

THE HOMEWOOD SECTION OF PIIISBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, YESTERDAY

FOLLOWING AN EARLY MORNING SCUFFLE WHICH BROKE OUT WHEN

POLICE ARRESTED A BURGLARY SUSPECT IN A PREDOMINANILY NEGRO

NEIGHBORHOOD. A DISORDERLY GROUP ATTACKED IHE ARRESTING

OFFICERS, TOOK CHEMICAL MACE FROM THEM, AND SPRAYED THE

OFFICERS WITH IT

SEVEN OFFICERS REQUIRED TREAIMENT, IWENTY

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SELECIED RACIAL DEVELOPMENIS AND DISTURBANCES

DISTURBANCE, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA: THERE WAS TENSION IN

THE HOMEWOOD SECIION OF PIIISBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, YESTERDAY

FOLLOWING AN EARLY MORNING SCUFFLE WHICH BROKE OUT WHEN

POLICE ARRESTED A BURGLARY SUSPECT IN A PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO

NEIGHBORHOOD. A DISORDERLY GROUP ATTACKED THE ARRESTING

OFFICERS, TOOK CHEMICAL MACE FROM IHEM, AND SPRAYED THE

OFFICERS WITH IT!

SEVEN OFFICERS REQUIRED TREAIMENI, IWENTY

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FIVE NEGROES WERE ARRESTED, AND ORDER WAS RESTORED. EARLY

THIS MORNING THERE WERE IWO FIRE BOMBING INCIDENTS IN THE

HOMEWOOD SECTION; HOWEVER, NO FURIHER ACIIVITY TOOK PLACE.

REPORTED PLOT TO KILL RALPH D. ABERNATHY: ON AUGUSI FOURTEEN,

NINETEEN SIXTY'EIGHT, SPEAKERS STRESSED NONVIOLENCE AT IHE.

OPENING SESSION OF IHE CONVENTION OF THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN

LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. THE MEMPHIS

POLICE DEPARIMENI RECEIVED A REPORI YESTERDAY INDICATING

THERE IS A PLOT TO KILL RALPH D. ABERNATHY, PRESIDENI, AND

ALEXANDER RICE; SECURITY OFFICER OF THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN

LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE.

THE MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARIMENT HAS

PLACED A GUARD AT THE CLARIDGE HOTEL WHERE ABERNAIHY IS

STAYING AND HAS ADVISED HIM OF IHE ASSASSINATION PLOT.

EARLY THIS MORNING POLICE WERE AITEMPTING TO LOCATE RICE TO:

ADVISE HIM OF THE ALLEGED PLOI. THIS BUREAU IS CHECKING

FURTHER TO IDENTIFY THE ALLEGED

ASSASSIN BOBBY DEW, A NEGRO,

AND IO DETERMINE IHE NATURE AND ACTIVITIES OF THE BLACK HAND

GANG OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, OF WHICH HE

IS REPORTEDLY

• A MEMBER:

SANITATION-WORKERS STRIKE, MIAMI, FLORIDA: ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, SONITATION WORKERS ARE

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ON STRIKE AND ABOUT IWO HUNDRED MIAMI BEACH SANIIATION

WORKERS HAVE REMAINED OFF THEIR JOBS IN SYMPATHY WITH THE

MIAMI STRIKERS. A NEWS ITEM IN A FLORIDA NEWSPAPER YESTERDAY

INDICATED THAI PANFILO JULIUS CIAMPA, A UNION ORGANIZER FROM

WASHINGTON

ARRIVED IN MIAMI AND ANNOUNCED THAI HE WAS

NO STRANGER

IO LABOR DISPUTES AND THAT HE PLAYED

A MAJOR ROLE

IN THE DISRUPTIVE GARBAGE STRIKE IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, THAT

BROUGHT MARIIN LUTHER KING, JR., TO MEMPHIS WHERE HE WAS

ASSASSINATED. IHE DADE COUNTY MANAGER ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD

BE AUTOMATICALLY ASSUMED THAI ANY WORKERS NOT REPORTING TO

THEIR JOBS ON AUGUST SIXTEEN, NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHT, HAVE

RESIGNED AND

WILL NO LONGER BE CONSIDERED EMPLOYEES.

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Date: 12/08/04

JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : CIA

RECORD NUMBER

: 104-10063-10192

RECORD

SERIES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

80T01357A

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

AGENCY ORIGINATOR : FBI

FROM : FBI,

: THE PRESIDENT

: CABLE RE SELECTED RACIAL DEVELOPMENTS AND DISTUBRANCES

PITTSBURGH,

MEMPHIS, AND MIAMI

: 08/16/1968

SUBJECTS : RACE DISTURB

RACIAL UNREST

US-DEMOS

DOCUMENT TYPE

CLASSIFICATION SECRET

POSTPONED IN FULL

DATE OF LAST REVIEW

COMMENTS

: JFK10 : F2 : 1993.07.13.14:31:21:150520 : FBI DENIED

IN FULL - 2/16/94; ARRB DENIED IN FULL 3/14/97.

[R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED

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16 AuG 68 IN 7 1 93 g

SELECTED RACIAL DEVELOPMENIS AND DISTURBANCES

DISTURBANCE, PITISBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA: THERE WAS TENSION IN

THE HOMEWOOD SECTION OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, YESTERDAY

FOLLOWING AN EARLY MORNING SCUFFLE WHICH BROKE OUT WHEN

POLICE ARRESTED A BURGLARY SUSPECT IN A PREDOMINANILY NEGRO

NEIGHBORHOOD • A DISORDERLY GROUP ATTACKED THE ARRESTING

OFFICERS, TOOK CHEMICAL MACE FROM THEM, AND SPRAYED THE

OFFICERS WITH IT.

SEVEN OFFICERS REQUIRED TREAIMENT, TWENTY

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FIVE NEGROES WERE ARRESTED, AND ORDER WAS RESTORED.: EARLY

THIS MORNING THERE WERE TWO FIRE BOMBING INCIDENTS IN THE

HOMEWOOD SECTION; HOWEVER, NO FURTHER ACIIVITY TOOK PLACE.

REPORTED PLOI TO KÜLL RALPH D. ABERNAIHY: ON AUGUST FOURTEEN,

NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHT, SPEAKERS STRESSED NONVIOLENCE AT I HE

OPENING SESSION OF THE CONVENTION OF THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN:

LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. THE MEMPHIS

POLICE DEPARTMENT RECEIVED A REPORT YESTERDAY INDICATING

THERE IS A PLOI TO KILL RALPH DO ABERNATHY, PRESIDENI, AND

ALEXANDER RICE, SECURITY OFFICER OF THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN

LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE.

THE MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS

PLACED A GUARD AT THE CLARIDGE HOTEL WHERE ABERNATHY IS

STAYING AND HAS ADVISED HIM OF THE ASSASSINATION PLOT•

EARLY THIS MORNING POLICE WERE ATTEMPIING TO LOCATE RICE TO:

ADVISE HIM OF THE ALLEGED PLOT. THIS BUREAU IS CHECKING

FURTHER TO IDENTIFY THE ALLEGED ASSASSIN BOBBY DEW, A NEGRO,

AND TO DETERMINE THE NATURE AND ACTIVITIES OF THE BLACK HAND

GANG

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, OF WHICH HE IS REPORTEDLY A MEMBER

SANITATION-WORKERS STRIKE, MIAMI, FLORIDA: ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, SANITATION WORKERS ARE

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CONFIDENTIAL

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CONFIDENTIAL

ON STRIKE AND ABOUT IWO HUNDRED MIAMI BEACH SANITATION

WORKERS HAVE REMAINED OFF THEIR JOBS IN SYMPATHY WITH THE

MIAMI STRIKERS. A NEWS ITEM IN A FLORIDA NEWSPAPER YESTERDAY

INDICATED THAI PANFILO JULIUS CIAMPA, A UNION ORGANIZER FROM

WASHINGTON

ARRIVED IN MIAMI AND ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS

NO STRANGER

TO LABOR DISPUTES AND THAT HE PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE

IN THE DISRUPTIVE GARBAGE STRIKE IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, THAT

BROUGHT MARIIN LUTHER KING, JR., TO MEMPHIS WHERE HE WAS

ASSASSINATED. IHE DADE COUNTY MANAGER ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD

BE AUTOMATICALLY ASSUMED THAT ANY WORKERS NOT REPORTING TO

THEIR JOBS ON AUGUST SIXTEEN, NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHI, HAVE

RESIGNED AND WILL NO LONGER BE CONSIDERED EMPLOYEES.

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