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THIS DAY IN HISTORY 03/03/91 RODNEY KING BEATING: Home video footage of the Rodney King beating (LIMITED RIGHTS)

As the jury acquits the police officers charged with using excessive force in arresting Rodney King a year earlier, Reverend Cecil L. Murray sheds a tear with other religious leaders following the announcement of the verdict inÊLosÊAngeles, California.

Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visit Jamaica

Interview Re: Rodney King, LAPD

Highway patrol officer Melanie Singer describes witnessing the beating of Rodney King after pursuing him for a traffic violation as she gives testimony at a Semi Valley court for the trial of the Los Angeles police officers who killed King. Singer recalls King being shot down by taser guns and then brutally beaten by police officers for not complying. Security camera footage of police officers beating Rodney King as he lays defenseless on the ground. Brief clip of officer Laurence Powell as he stands trial for the murder of King. PLEASE NOTE News anchor and reporter image and audio, along with any commercial production excerpts, are for reference purposes only and are not clearable and cannot be used within your project.

'Tunisian Victory' shows preparations during World War 2. Film opens showing a sailor in the crow's nest of a ship in a convoy of American warships. Aerial glimpse of the convoy. Sailors working on teletype machines in s communications center aboard an American warship. Ships exchanging light signals at night. Scene shifts to a British naval convoy moving across the sea. View from bridge of forward guns on British King George V-class battleship. A single stack Navy destroyer ship. HMS Rodney with 3 over 3 forward gun turrets leads another warship protecting the convoy. The aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious in camouflage paint. An American Navy Douglas Dauntless dive bomber seen from a ship. A U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft over the convoy. Brief view of a four-engine bomber flying over the convoy. Scene shifts to sailors on ship's deck in the American convoy. The British flag on one of its convoy ships. Scene shifts to the White House on June 18, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arriving with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a car. Lights burning at night in the White House. Closeup of hats of the British and American staff officers on a rack. World Globe showing German army thrusts to the North by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock into Ukraine and the Caucasus, and another by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel South toward Egypt. In Asia, the conquests of Japan are shown. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are seated at a desk. Behind them are Roosevelt's assistant, Harry Hopkins and two uniformed officers. View of relief map showing planned joint offensive. British and American staff officers seated at a planning table. Pertinent maps being printed for the offensive. A teletype tape coming across a machine that reads "ANFO GAZE ACROBAT RE NO K" A typist at a teletype machine with tape being made. A busy military communications center. A plan marked "secret" moving across a sliding document mechanism or slide. Defense workers arriving at production factories for work; large groups of war production workers. Workers at military equipment plants and factories in the the U.S. and the U.K., including many women workers involved in war production. A document labeled "SECRET OCSigO" Staff officers in planning session. U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George C.Marshall, seated with British Field Marshal Sir John Dill. More views of the Combined Chiefs of Staff at work. Steel mills in operation. American army troops training and preparing in battle drills, firing machine guns, battlefield advance training, leaping into water, practicing paratrooper jumps. New ships including Liberty Ships and warships being launched at American shipyards. Workers inside a plant building B-17 bomber aircraft. An early version of Sherman tank (external bolts showing). Shipboard twin anti aircraft guns being test fired. Yards filled with newly manufactured weapons.War materiel and troops moving on railroad trains in America and Britain. A Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft being towed. Ships being loaded at docks. Troops and war materiel being loaded aboard ships in the U.S. and Britain. Crowd on dock (mostly women) waving goodby to soldiers on a ship. Soldiers on troop ships underway. The entertain themselves. Soldier playing piano on deck of ship as fellow soldiers listen and stomp feet. Closeup view of hands on piano and a soldiers boot nearby on the piano case. Location: Washington DC USA. Date: June 18, 1942.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

KING INSISTED TO A JURY TUESDAY THAT DESPITE HIS EARLIER UNCERTAINTY IN PREVIOUS TESTIMONY, RACIAL SLURS WERE UTTERED WHEN HE WAS BEATEN BY POLICE OFFICERS. ONE OF KING'S ATTORNEYS, JOHN BURRIS, SAID KING MODIFIED HIS TESTIMONY DURING THE CRIMINAL TRIAL BECAUSE ``HE WAS UNDER A LOT OF PRESSURE.'' ON DIRECT EXAMINATION, KING TESTIFIED HE COULD IDENTIFY THE POINT ON THE VIDEO SOUNDTRACK WHEN THE SLUR WAS UTTERED. HE IS SUING IN FEDERAL CIVIL COURT FOR OVER NINE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS...

00:09:06:12 Atty. Steven Lerman makes statement before intro of Rodney King at outdoor P.C. where Rodney makes plea for peace. (0:00) /

RODNEY KING LA RIOTS #2

Forth Bridge, River Clyde, Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. <br/> <br/>Heavily camouflaged battleship HMS Rodney at anchor in Clyde. LS HMS Rodney in foreground with Forth Bridge in background. LS from ship's side of Royal launch approaching. LS King George VI, Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother) and Princess Margaret boarding a naval vessel, taken from the upper deck. CU.Queen chatting with a group of Naval officers. O/H of King walking through ranks of paraded Royal Marines. L.S.Princes Street Edinburgh with crowds and large parade marching along. L.S.the tower of St. Giles cathedral Edinburgh pans down to entrance. LS. Statue on top of the art gallery or museum in Princes Street Edinburgh. VS of crowds near the entrance to the art gallery and with cathedral in background, <br/> <br/>LAV. MUTE.

Jamaica. Home movies from a trip to Jamaica in the 1930's.. 1930s, Caribbean, Jamaica, Gem of the Antilles, sunrise over Caribbean Sea, ship deck traveling through Caribbean Sea, Kingston, port, docked ocean liners, car driving on rural road, foliage, coast, palm trees, people wading in water and small boats docked on beach under palm trees, men carrying sails to boats, woman swinging in tire swing over water, people in swimsuits near water, trees permanently bent from trade winds, Divi Divi trees, Caesalpinia coriaria, Spanish Town, St. Jago de la Vega Cathedral, St. James Cathedral, Rodney's Memorial, vendors sleeping on street, market, female vendors, woman chopping, native woman smoking, Hope Gardens, banana tree, man climbing coconut tree, men breaking up coconuts, King Street, traffic, pedestrians, men standing on sidewalk shaking hands and smiling, Charley's Punch Bowl, people seated at tables drinking, horse drawn cart carrying crates, people crossing street while policeman directs traffic, street scenes, park, people walking through sidewalk arcade, buildings, women waving from horse drawn carriage, people leaning against ship deck railing, harbor, docked sailboats, boat with Nazi flag departing harbor, people standing on pier, pointer on map pointing from Jamaica to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, boat pov Caribbean Sea, woman holding cigarette smiling and talking, woman waving out of ship window, man and woman tipping safari hats to each other and kissing, men holding woman by ankles and arms and pretending to throw her overboard, people sitting on ship deck, woman sitting and sleeping on ship deck bench

RODNEY KING VERDICT: APRIL 29, 1992 Outside courthouse on day of verdict in Rodney King beating trial.

01:09 Cold Open from ""This Week in Joe's Basement,"" a cable access show in Chicago. A man on the street is asked what he thinks of black people. ""I got a difference between black people and niggers. Niggers are gang bangers. Black people are people who have respect for other people...I like black people. Niggers, I don't like."" A friend comes up and is asked what he thinks of black people. He replies, ""I don't like 'em"" and walks away. The first man explains his friend's views, ""Some people have different opinions. He don't have a difference. He don't like blacks period... It's just the way I was raised -- my mom and dad. Well, really my dad, he was like that. I always heard 'nigger' come out of their mouths. I pretty much ran into that."" 02:50 ""This Week in Joe's Basement"" by Joe Winston. A man-on-the-street interviewer asks African Americans what they think about white people. The first, a half black, half white University of Chicago student laughs at the fact that the interviewer assumed he was black. A second man explains his trouble respecting white people due to persisting racial inequalities. 04:13 ""On the street in Los Angeles."" A woman in Los Angeles comments on the impact the publicity surrounding the Rodney King beating will have on black children. ""Which is the child going to be more afraid of -- the cop or the crack dealer on the corner?"" 04:36 More from ""This Week in Joe's Basement"". A black woman comments, ""To me there's nothing wrong with the white people. I love them just as I love the blacks."" 09:05 Excerpt from 1940's Anti-German propaganda film. The film depicts a distinguished-looking professor addressing a class of young German students: ""There is no scientific proof that there's any correlation between a man's racial characteristics and his native ability or character... We must judge each man as an individual..."" As he relays this controversial information, soldiers burst into the room to remove him. As they approach, he remains defiant: ""And remember that there is no master race. That is a scientific truth! Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying!"" 11:16 ""La Conversacion"" by Deep Dish TV. A phone call between Guillermo Gomez-Pena in San Diego and Coco Fusco in New York who talk about the societal concept of the American melting pot. ""The problem is that the blacks, Latinos, and the Native Americans have never been part of this cooking project."" 12:34 ""Mohawk Crises at Oka"" by Robbie Leppzer & Sara Elinoff. In Kanehsatake, Quebec, the Mohawk Indians have resisted the government's attempt to take away a part of their sacred burial ground in order to build a nine hole golf course... A spokeswoman for the tribe says: ""This is a community. This is not a house under siege. This is a whole community... Canada has violated international law, yet they condemn Iraq for the invasion of Kuwait. What kind of hypocritical government do you people agree to live under?""... Rick Hornung of the Village Voice comments on the crisis and its outcome with accompanying pictures of the Mohawk surrender depicting the unnecessary brutality executed by the Canadian troops. 19:38 ""Gil Scott Heron"" by Skip Blumberg. Gil Scott Heron explains the meaning of his famous saying: ""What that catch phrase - 'the revolution will not be televised' - what that was all about: The first change that takes place is in your mind. Your have to change your mind before you change the way you live... The thing that is going to change people is something that you can never capture on film."" 20:57 ""Rose Auger"" by Robbie Leppzer. Rose Auger, a medicine woman living Ecuador, urges Aboriginal peoples of the Americas to restore the spiritual balance to the world. ""The world is really messed up. If we do not begin to act on it, the we are all going to be destroyed. The people of the modern society... to me their spiritual God is money and power... That's not the way we're supposed to be."" 28:14 ""Prof. William King commentary"" by Jimmy Sternfield. ""Capitalism is predicated on the principle of exclusion. Democracy is predicated on the principle of inclusion. So you gotta decide which one. You can't have both."" 29:08 ""Drive Through Watts"" by Jim Mulryan. In a pickup truck driving through the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, James Woods, an African American man, and Matthew Lang, a white man, discuss racism in America. According to Woods, ""Racism in America is like a disease, like alcoholism."" He lists the stages of dealing with alcoholism, emphasizing the prevalence of denial, in order to imply that most Americans are racist yet do not realize it. He discusses the difficulties faced by young African-American men who are looking for jobs, insisting that a white man with the same qualifications will always be chosen over the black man. Lang does not believe that racism is as extreme a problem as Woods claims, instead attributing the rampant unemployment of African-American males to other issues, such as poor education. 32:08 ""Prof. Rudolph Acuna commentary"" by Nancy Cain. Prof. Rudolph Acuna of California State University at Northridge refers to the recent act by the U.S. Government of forgiving 70% of Poland's debt. He claims that at the same time that the U.S. was being so generous to this European country, services for minorities within the U.S. were suffering. He finds this to be part of a larger system of injustice against minorities. ""It's a white on white game."" 39:30 More from ""Driving Through Watts."" Lang and Woods argue about the importance of names and political correctness. Lang: ""I'm not going to call you African-American... It's a pseudo-statement."" Woods replies, ""I call you what you want to be called."" ""Call me Baby Doll,"" says Lang, to which Woods says, ""Baby Doll, I don't mind that at all."" 40:03 ""Black Memorabilia Show"" by Eddie Becker. A visit to a convention of black memorabilia collectors in Washington, D.C. Collectors debate the issue of whether painful representations of African Americans should be buried or saved as reminders of the past struggle. A black woman points to a collection of ""colored"" restroom signs and says, ""We need to have these up in our home so our children know."" 49:35 ""Mandela in America"" by Globalvision. Betty Shabazz (Malcolm X' s wife) and Winnie Mandela (Nelson Mandela's wife), talk about the legacy of Malcolm X. 50:24 ""El Dorado Park, South Africa"" by Andrew Jones. A piece about El Dorado Park, S.A., a ""colored"" township where blacks (and other ethnic minorities) were forced to live under apartheid. There are currently 300,000 residents. Jones interviews various ""colored"" individuals (who may be black, Indian, Chinese, or any combination), who describe the indignities of apartheid. One man points out the racial codes listed in every passport. ""Black to us is not a skin color, it is a political position."" A black man concludes, ""I have outgrown apartheid. I am a man. Period."" 54:43 ""Fran and Tak"" by Skip Blumberg. Fran Korenman talks about her mother's reaction to her husband Takayoshi Yoshida. She says it was easier for her Jewish mother to deal with their interracial relationship when Tak demonstrated a minimal knowledge of Yiddish. 55:46 ""Charles Cooke"" by Jay April. Charles Cooke, a Chumash Indian Chief, is asked about his feelings about involving whites in his struggles for Native American rights. He replies, ""You have to have the camaraderie, that fellowship, that brotherhood. That creates this type of thing where people have to come together."

SOME GOOD FILE PICTURES OF RODNEY KING.

RODNEY KING LA RIOTS #1

This Day In History: LA Riots erupt after jury acquits police officers in Rodney King beating (4/29/92). Rodney King trial scene, Aerial of men busting windows of Volvo as it goes by, burning bldg

newsreel - Part 2 of 2 - Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, California 1992 - police cars - police in housing project - helicopter with searchlight - African American gang members are disbursed - Rodney King billboard We Can Get Along in the foreground

00:00:00:00 A CNN special focusing on Rodney King and his life almost three years after his famous beating by Los Angeles police officers. Bernard Shaw interviews King. NOTE: This tape is the 8-9 ...