Riots & Protests
The city in conflict. Watts in 1965, the 1992 uprising after the King verdict, the Zoot Suit riots, the immigration marches and the recent protests, and the policing that runs through all of it.
Part of Los Angeles
25 moments in this segment.
- - Photos 86679 large WPA 401 West Los Angeles Police substation. West L.A. Police Station at 1653 Purdue Ave. in West Los Angeles, October 1936.
- - After the police raids on Alameda Street (1938). Crowds gather after a 1938 police raid, the city’s harder edge.
- - Servicemen stop a streetcar, Zoot Suit Riots (7 June 1943). Sailors searching a streetcar for zoot-suiters during the 1943 riots.
- - 1965 Watts aftermath - rare 8mm colour footage. Amateur colour film of the Watts aftermath.
- - Watts Riots 1965 - Universal Newsreel footage. The original newsreel of the six-day Watts uprising.
- - Watts Riots, 1965 (AP archive). The six-day Watts Rebellion of August 1965.
- - Rare footage of the 1965 Watts Riots (NBCLA archive). Archive news film of Watts, August 1965.
- - "Watts - Riot or Revolt?" CBS special, 1965 (part 2). More of the 1965 CBS Reports footage.
- - Watts Festival Next door to the Towers of Simon Rodia Allows an Ascension of Another Kind. Taken the same day as the photographs of the Towers of Simon Rodia, just a few hundred feet away, was the mechanical, moving equivalent of the Towers for all to ride to get that same sense of flight and escape as Simon Rodia no doubt experienced as he built his Towers.
- - KTLA News on the Watts Rebellion (UCLA Archive). KTLA news footage preserved by the UCLA archive.
- - Raw footage as the 1992 riots erupt (NBCLA archive). Unedited news footage of the city in chaos, April 1992.
- - LA riots - live coverage as it happened, 4/29/92. The live TV coverage on the day the verdict dropped.
- - LA riots - the first 24 hours after the verdict (1992). News footage of the first day of the uprising.
- - 1992 riots - live KABC reports. Live local-news coverage of the riots.
- - O.J. Simpson trial - January 24, 1995. Opening days of the trial.
- - O.J. Simpson trial - February 22, 1995. The trial that transfixed America.
- - O.J. Simpson trial - July 12, 1995. The trial nears its verdict.
- - O.J. Simpson trial - August 15, 1995. Footage from the "trial of the century."
- - L.A. Burning: the riots, 25 years later (A&E). Los Angeles, 1992.
- - LA 92 (full documentary, National Geographic). The definitive documentary on the 1992 unrest.
- - George Floyd protests, downtown LA (2020). Los Angeles, 2020.
- - George Floyd protests at City Hall (2020). Los Angeles, 2020.
- - Zoot Suit Riots erupt, 3 June 1943. Period coverage of the 1943 riots.
- - LA '92 - the aftermath of the riots. Los Angeles, 1992.
- - The Rodney King beating - 1991 news footage. The 1991 news report on the King beating.
