A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of
Research Collections in American Politics
Microfilms from Major Archival and Manuscript Collections
General Editor
William E. Leuchtenburg
Records of the National
Commission on Violence
Part 1: Executive Files
A UPA Collection
from
RESEARCH COLLECTIONS IN AMERICAN POLITICS
Microfilms from Major Archival and Manuscript Collections
General Editor: William E. Leuchtenburg
RECORDS OF THE NATIONAL
COMMISSION ON VIOLENCE
PART 1: EXECUTIVE FILES
Project Editor
Robert E. Lester
Guide compiled by
James Henry Shields
Microfilmed from the Holdings of
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas
A UPA Collection from
4520 East-West Highway • Bethesda, MD 20814-3389
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Records of the National Commission on Violence [microform] / project editor, Robert E. Lester.
microfilm reels.
“Microfilmed from the holdings of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas.”
Accompanied by a printed guide compiled by James Henry Shields.
Contents: pt. 1. Executive files
ISBN 1-55655-953-4 (pt. 1)
1. Violence—United States—History—20th century—Sources. 2. Violent crimes—United
States—History—20th century—Sources. 3. United States—Social
conditions—1960–1980—Sources. 4. United States. National Commission on the Causes
and Prevention of Violence—Archives. I. Lester, Robert. II. Shields, James Henry.
III. United States. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.
IV. University Publications of America (Firm)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction ............................................................................................................................... v
Scope and Content Note ......................................................................................................... xi
Source Note ............................................................................................................................... xiii
Editorial Note ............................................................................................................................ xiii
Abbreviations ............................................................................................................................ xv
Reel Index
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Reel 19 ................................................................................................................................... 12
Principal Correspondents Index ............................................................................................ 13
Subject Index ............................................................................................................................ 15
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INTRODUCTION
During the turbulent spring of 1968, two political assassinations jolted American society.
On April 4, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis, Tennessee. Two months
later, on June 6, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in Los Angeles after he won
the California Democratic primary. In the wake of Kennedy’s death, President Lyndon
Baines Johnson created the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence,
with Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower at its head. That body, whose work extended into the next
administration of President Richard M. Nixon, became an important forum for understanding
the historical roots of violence and its place in the United States of the 1960s.1
In the process, the commission compiled an impressive amount of documentation about
violence. The files of the panel, housed at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library
and Museum in Austin, Texas, are made available now to researchers in this microfilm
collection. The sources that the collection contains are a fascinating guide to the role of
violence in American society and the efforts of politicians, attorneys, and scholars to come to
grips with this issue in the heated context of a presidential election and the start of a new
administration in 1969.
To head the commission, Johnson approached Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of the former
president, who was a distinguished educator and long-time government troubleshooter. The
twelve other members included two senators, two members of the House of Representatives,
and such prominent private citizens as Archbishop Terence J. Cooke, Patricia Harris, and
Leon Jaworski. The group leaned more to the conservative side of the political spectrum than
had previous commissions of the Johnson years. When he called Eisenhower to ask him to
serve as chairman of this commission, Johnson told him “we need to make a deep study of
the causes of violence in our society, and we must be wise enough to find solutions.”
Johnson repeated the theme on June 10, 1968, when he announced the formation of the
commission. Its task was “to undertake a penetrating search for the causes and prevention
of violence—a search into our national life, our past as well as our present, our traditions as
well as our institutions, our culture, our customs, and our laws.”2
The White House disclosed that Lloyd N. Cutler, a Washington attorney, would be the
executive director of the panel. Cutler named another lawyer from the Department of
Justice, James Campbell, to serve as general counsel and a kind of de facto manager of the
commission’s work. At the outset of its deliberations, the commission recognized the
magnitude of its assigned task. With the Johnson administration winding down and their time
limited to one year of work, the commission members sought to find ways to get at the
complexities of violence as a social and legal problem.3
The answer they devised was to pursue their findings in seven related areas through
specific task forces specializing in each of the problem subjects. The topics to be
investigated were:
1. Assassinations
2. Group Violence
3. Individual Acts of Violence
4. Law and Law Enforcement
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5. Media
6. Firearms
7. American History and Character
When the protests against the Democratic National Convention erupted in violence in
Chicago in August 1968 and urban rioting occurred in Cleveland, the commission established
another separate task force to examine these events. Thus the materials in these records
provide not only a wide-ranging look at what Americans knew and thought about violence in
1968–1969, but they also shed light on several of the most controversial outbreaks of social
unrest during the traumatic year of 1968.4
The only way that the commission could accomplish its work during the year that it had
been given was to involve academics in the process of creating and analyzing information
about violence. James F. Short Jr., a sociologist at Washington State University, and Marvin
E. Wolfgang, a criminologist from the University of Pennsylvania, served as co-directors of
the research effort. Their task was not an easy one because of the tight schedule within
which they had to operate, as well as the severe budgetary constraints that faced them
during the transition from the Johnson White House to the Nixon presidency.5
Nonetheless, Short and Wolfgang assembled an impressive list of scholars to probe the
role of violence in American life from a number of perspectives. The records in the project
document the vigorous debates and intellectual interchange that touched on the historical
roots of violent protest, the legacy of firearms, and the reasons for dissent in the 1960s.
Researchers interested in all these topics and more will find fresh information on the state of
thinking about violence, as well as a plethora of primary materials about the personal and
professional views of those on the commission and its staff.6
The leadership role of Milton Eisenhower comes through with clarity in these microfilm
reels. As Short later wrote, “he was the hardest working of the Commissioners, who
undoubtedly read every word of every document published by the Commission in draft as
well as in final version.” Short’s analysis is borne out in the careful and balanced letters that
Eisenhower wrote, all of which sought to lead the diverse commission members toward
mutual understanding and agreement. In his memoirs, Milton Eisenhower wrote that he had
“the unhappy task of heading a commission to study a social problem so critical that, in the
words of a famous psychiatrist, it might well lead to the end of the grand experiment in
democracy.” These records disclose how well the sixty-nine-year-old Eisenhower rose to the
occasion.7
The Eisenhower Commission operated in the wake of the Commission on Civil Disorders,
known as the Kerner Commission after its chairman, Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois.
Created in 1967, that panel had recommended in February 1968 large increases in
government spending on social programs to address the domestic unrest. More important, it
had identified “white racism” as the major underlying cause of the nation’s problems. An
angry Johnson, who saw the report as a personal rebuke, disowned the Kerner document at
first and only accepted grudgingly the value of its ideas weeks later. Milton Eisenhower did
not want to see the report of his commission suffer the same fate or experience the
presidential disdain that the Kerner document had encountered. 8
As a result, the commission turned to academics for the information about violence and its
impact that the panel required. In writing the actual report, however, they relied on attorneys
who could process a great deal of facts quickly and present them in a coherent form. The
ensuing process functioned in a productive manner during the second half of 1968 when most
of the actual work of the commission was done. Participants remembered the work as
intense and constructive, and that feeling of mutual cooperation appears in these records. 9
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By the end of 1968, however, it was evident that the commission could not complete its
assigned task before the end of the Johnson presidency in January. Eisenhower and the
commission decided to prepare an interim report that would bring the president up-to-date on
the activities that had been completed. By that time the commission had held public hearings
from mid-September to mid-December. These events helped publicize the issues the
commission had under review, even though some staff members had doubts about the
usefulness of the proceedings. There is ample coverage of these disagreements and the
preparations for the hearings in the files.10
After the controversial rioting at the Democratic National Convention in August,
commission members decided that they had to investigate that spectacular eruption of
violence. Daniel Walker, an Illinois attorney, led a task force that probed the events and
wrote a report within two months. Rights in Conflict, as the report was titled, attracted
much attention for its depiction of the excesses of the Chicago police force under Mayor
Richard Daley. 11
Despite these accomplishments, President Johnson was disappointed that the commission
had not finished all its assignments by December 1968. He was glad to receive the Interim
Report as the best that could be done under the circumstances. Persistent problems of
funding and rumors of presidential displeasure with the panel tested Eisenhower’s ability as a
mediator and leader. Reading these records demonstrates that the magnitude of the task of
studying violence in America in detail could not have been finished in five or six months no
matter how hard the commissioners, staff, and outside experts labored.12
The Interim Report gained some time for the commission to proceed to write its report,
but that process encountered more obstacles. It did not prove possible to finish the document
by June 1969. Milton Eisenhower was hospitalized during the spring, which delayed the final
agreements among the commissioners on what the report should say. He asked the Nixon
White House for an extension, and the president signed an executive order in late May to
that effect. The commission now had until December 1969 to finish its report.13
These records reveal the varying commitments that some members of the panel brought to
their duties. There is a fascinating letter from Houston attorney Leon Jaworski, a future
Watergate prosecutor, about his personal encounters with violence in Texas as a young man.
Archbishop Terence J. Cooke of New York, later elevated to cardinal, contributed thoughtful
reflections about the thorny issues before the group that illuminate his social attitudes. The
question of race runs through all these documents. Judge Leon Higginbotham, who became
the vice chair, and Patricia Harris played pivotal roles in providing an African American
perspective and ensuring that ideas from black academics were represented.14
For specific topics, the files supply valuable historical background. On firearms and gun
control, the attitudes of the 1960s come into sharp relief as the commission and its scholars
grapple with how to engage that political hot potato. There are equally rich discussions of
campus rioting, political violence, and the history of protest movements. The documents also
provide a close look at how lawyers, sociologists, and political scientists appraised these
trends. Such prominent academics as Ted Robert Gurr, Irving Louis Horowitz, and James Q.
Wilson, and many others, are well represented in letters, reports, and memoranda. Most
important, the scholarly study of violence in the United States clearly received a strong
stimulus as the participants in the commission worked in the heated atmosphere of the late
1960s.15
After all the months of work, the final report of the commission was prepared and ready
in December 1969. Eisenhower went to the White House with Lloyd Cutler and James
Campbell on December 10 to present the report officially to the president before its public
release. President Richard Nixon listened as Eisenhower expounded on the panel’s findings
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for forty-five minutes. The chairman of the commission laid out an ambitious agenda of
increased spending on social programs, measures to fight violence and crime, and, close to
Eisenhower’s heart, gun control. The president thanked them for “eighteen months of
difficult and time-consuming work.”16
The commission report came out under the title “To Establish Justice, to Insure Domestic
Tranquility.” The findings of the panel were contained in a single volume; fifteen volumes of
printed reports, containing the work of the scholars for the commission, accompanied the
report itself. The document said that “we believe we have identified the causes of much of
the violence that plagues contemporary America,” and the commissioners warned that
violence “is corroding the central political processes of our democratic society—substituting
force and fear for argument and accommodation.”17
Any hopes that Eisenhower and his fellow commissioners had that the Nixon
administration might follow up on their recommendations were disappointed. Nothing
happened for eighteen months, and Eisenhower eventually testified before Congress in 1971
about the need to act on what his project had recommended. That did not happen, and
memories of the work of the commission faded as other events took precedence during the
years that ensued.18
The report, in the estimation of its participants, did have a constructive effect in some
areas. James F. Short Jr. recalls that the report of the commission on how to handle mass
demonstrations “helped to shape U.S. Secret Service and National Parks handling of such
demonstrations in order to prevent violence.” The reports that the commission disseminated
and scholars used also shaped two generations on how violence was seen and analyzed since
1970. When the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation looked at the changes in the United States
in 1999–2000, thirty years after the report, it found that crime levels had not dropped, many
of the approaches to crime and violence were not working, and in many respects the
problems of violence and disorder were no better and perhaps even worse than when the
Eisenhower Commission released its findings.19
These sobering judgments indicate why the records of the violence commission have a
relevance beyond their appeal as a valuable historical record of a key social problem of the
era of Lyndon B. Johnson. As investigators in the future look to understand how the United
States developed its policies on crime and violence, they will find in these records a wealth
of evidence about how the society engaged these issues and sought solutions. In the debates
and intellectual interchange that marked the work of the Eisenhower Commission could well
lie important clues for resolving the dilemma of violence in the twenty-first century. The
records of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence await the
same kind of scrutiny that the members of the panel gave to these issues several decades
ago.
Lewis L. Gould
Eugene C. Barker Centennial Professor Emeritus in American History
and Fellow of the Center for American History,
University of Texas at Austin
1. For the historical context in which the commission was created, see Robert Dallek,
Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973 (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1998), pp. 547–549.
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2. Milton S. Eisenhower, The President Is Calling (Garden City, New York: Doubleday
& Co., 1974), p. 3; Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B.
Johnson, 1968–1969, 2 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1970),
p. 697.
3. Eisenhower, The President Is Calling, pp. 435–439. James F. Short Jr., “The National
Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence: The Contributions of Sociology and
Sociologists,” in Mirra Komarovsky, ed., Sociology and Public Policy: The Case of the
Presidential Commissions (New York: Elsevier, 1975), pp. 61–91, is the best short history
of the commission’s work.
4. Short, “The National Commission,” pp. 68–71, 74–77.
5. For the budgetary constraints on the commission, see Thomas D. Barr, “Administrative
Memorandum No. 1,” July 16, 1968, Reel 1.
6. For examples, see Ted Gurr to Milton S. Eisenhower, November 22, 1968, Reel 3;
“Notes on Black Student Protest,” Reel 2; James F. Short Jr. to Sheldon Levy, May 10,
1969, Reel 1.
7. Short, “The National Commission,” p. 63; Eisenhower, The President Is Calling, p. 9.
Eisenhower’s close involvement is evident in Eisenhower to James Campbell, July 26, 1968,
and August 9, 1968, Reel 2; Eisenhower to Lloyd Cutler, January 16, 1969, Reel 3; and
Eisenhower to the commission, November 15, 1968, Reel 8.
8. On the impact of the Kerner Commission, see Dallek, Flawed Giant, pp. 515–517;
Eisenhower, The President Is Calling, pp. 6–7. For the commission’s report, see Report of
the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (New York: Dutton, 1968).
9. Short, “The National Commission,” pp. 71–74, looks at this process.
10. For internal discussions about whether or not to hold hearings, see James F. Short Jr.
to Lloyd Cutler, September 30, 1968, Reel 3; and Marvin Wolfgang and Short to Cutler and
Thomas N. Barr, no date, Reel 3. On the decision about the Interim Report and the politics
behind it, see Eisenhower, The President Is Calling, pp. 440–443.
11. Information on Daniel Walker’s role in the commission’s work can be found in Daniel
Walker to Richard J. Daley, October 5, 1968; Walker to James F. Short Jr., October 13,
1968; and Eisenhower to Daley, October 22, 1968, all in Reel 10. Daniel Walker, Rights in
Conflict: Report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
(New York: Bantam Books, 1968).
12. Eisenhower, The President Is Calling, pp. 440–441. The Interim Report to Lyndon
Johnson is available in Reel 9.
13. On Eisenhower’s illness, see Milton Eisenhower to Richard Nixon, April 9, 1969;
Kenneth Cole to Eisenhower, April 25, 1969; and Lloyd N. Cutler to Robert P. Mayo, April
29, 1969, all in Reel 1.
14. Leon Jaworski to Lloyd Cutler, March 10, 1969, Reel 2; Terence Cooke to
Eisenhower, September 13, 1968, Reel 8; and Cooke to Eisenhower, January 29, 1969,
Reel 3.
15. On the issue of gun control, see Milton Eisenhower to James Campbell, January 7,
1969, Reel 2. Reels 2 and 3 have much information on this very controversial topic. The
James F. Short essay previously cited is excellent on the contributions of social scientists to
the project.
16. Eisenhower, The President Is Calling, p. 454.
17. To Establish Justice, to Insure Domestic Tranquility: The Final Report of the
National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (New York: Prager,
1970), p. xxv.
18. Eisenhower, The President Is Calling, pp. 455–458.
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19. For information about the reaction to the commission’s report and materials that
flowed from its work, see Elliott Currie, “Violence and Ideology: A Critique of the Final
Report of the Violence Commission,” in Anthony Platt, ed., The Politics of Riot
Commissions, 1917–1970: A Collection of Official Reports and Critical Essays (New
York: Macmillan, 1971), pp. 452–469; Harry M. Clor, ed., Civil Disorder and Violence:
Essays on Causes and Cures (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1970); Hugh Davis Graham and
Ted Robert Gurr, eds., Violence in America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
(Beverly Hills: Sage, 1979); Lynn A. Curtis, ed., American Violence and Public Policy: An
Update of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1985); American Youth Policy Forum, “National Commission
on the Causes and Prevention of Violence—A Forum Brief—October 27, 2000,” http://
64.226.111.21/forumbriefs/2000/fb102700.htm. See James F. Short to Lewis L. Gould, April
13, 2004, for the quotation.
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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
This collection from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas, presents
records of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, formed in
1968 to study the basic causes underlying violence in America and to advise on actions for
removing these causes. President Lyndon Baines Johnson created the commission in the
aftermath of two assassinations during the spring of 1968: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and
Robert F. Kennedy. The establishment of the commission also reflected the public’s concern
with the significant increase in violent crime, student disruptions of college campuses, and
spreading urban disorder and destruction.
With an executive order on June 10, 1968, President Johnson charged the commission to
investigate and make recommendations regarding “causes and prevention of lawless acts of
violence in our society.” To membership in the commission, Johnson appointed Congressman
Hale Boggs, Archbishop Terence J. Cooke, Ambassador Patricia Harris, Senator Philip A.
Hart, Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Eric Hoffer, Senator Roman Hruska, Albert E. Jenner
Jr., and Congressman William M. McCulloch. The commission chairman was Dr. Milton
Eisenhower, brother of the former president. From the beginning, the demographically
diverse body recognized the importance of research in analyzing the many facets of violence
in America. There were three major levels of the commission’s research pursuit:
1) summarizing the state of present knowledge and clarifying the ideas where more or new
research needed to be encouraged; 2) accelerating known, ongoing research so as to make it
available to the various task forces; and 3) undertaking new research within the limits and
funds available.
The commission divided its research work into the following seven basic areas of detailed
inquiry by task forces:
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The Task Force on Assassination studied violence directed toward politically prominent
individuals
The Task Force on Group Violence analyzed the nature and causes of the violence
accompanying student unrest, opposition to foreign war, and racial militancy, and it
considered the responses of social and political institutions to these phenomena
The Task Force on Individual Acts of Violence examined the patterns of violent crime
and other individual acts of violence, as well as the role of biological, psychological, and
sociocultural factors
The Task Force on Law and Law Enforcement assessed the strengths and weaknesses
of the American system of justice, as well as the steps that could be taken to increase
respect for the rule of law
The Task Force on the Media investigated the effects of media portrayals of violence
upon the public and of the role of the mass media in the process of violent and
nonviolent social change
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The Task Force on Firearms investigated the role of firearms in accidents, suicides, and
crime, and it evaluated alternative systems of gun control
The Task Force on American History and Character outlined the causes, processes,
and consequences of violence in American history and present society
An additional task force, consisting of a number of study teams, was formed to inquire into
the riots at the Democratic and Republican national conventions and the civil strife in
Cleveland, Ohio, during the summer of 1968.
A large group of documents in the collection covers the portrayal of violence in the media,
primarily television. Documents address the violent content in television news and
entertainment, as well as its impact on the audience. Other materials cover the “catharsis
theory” on observed violence and causal links between television violence and aggressive
behavior in children.
Other materials in the collection present 1967 survey results on crime victims and
offenders, by demographic characteristic, with detail on weapon use, for seventeen cities
(Reel 4, Frame 0001). From the 1968 presidential campaign, the collection includes the
position papers of Richard Nixon with transcripts of his radio addresses on current political,
economic, and social issues (Reel 7, Frame 0454). The collection also contains reports on the
police response to the Counter-Inaugural Protest in Washington, D.C., in 1969 (Reel 17,
Frame 0522); the shoot-out between black militants and police in Cleveland in 1968 (Reel 17,
Frame 0598); and the campus protests at San Francisco State College (Reel 17, Frame
0659).
This collection consists generally of memoranda, correspondence, news articles, press and
media releases, and drafts of the final report chapters. The materials are organized
chronologically by year.
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SOURCE NOTE
The materials microfilmed for this publication are from the Federal Records collection,
Record Group 220: Temporary Commissions, Committees, and Boards: Records of the
National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, from the holdings of the
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas.
EDITORIAL NOTE
This microform collection consists of the various documents accumulated and/or produced
by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence during its tenure from
June 1968 through January 1969. The records of the commission consist of material arranged
into nine subject or task groupings. These groupings encompass General Files and separate
task force file groupings on assassination, group violence, individual acts of violence, law and
law enforcement, the media, firearms, American history and character, and special
investigations. The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library has retained the original organization of
the files.
This LexisNexis microfilm publication, Records of the National Commission on
Violence, Part 1: Executive Files, includes select subseries of the General Files: the
Subject File of the Executive Director, Subject Files of Research Directors, Commission
Statements, and Commission Publications. LexisNexis has microfilmed the selected
subseries, with all of their corresponding folders, in their entirety and as they are arranged at
the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. There are loose documents (without folders) in Box 8 of
the subseries, Subject File of the Executive Director. LexisNexis has microfilmed these
documents as they appear in the box. The remaining subseries, entitled Hearings of the
Commission, Records of the Mass Media Conference, Final Report, Press Clippings, and
Press Releases, have not been microfilmed in Part 1. The Press Releases and Press
Clippings subsections consist of duplicates of the Commission Statements and Final Report
subsections.
Subsequent parts to the LexisNexis microfilm collection Records of the National
Commission on Violence will include the hearings of the commission, Records of the Mass
Media Conference, and the separate task force file groupings on assassination, group
violence, individual acts of violence, law and law enforcement, the media, firearms,
American history and character, and special investigations.
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following acronyms and initialisms are used throughout this guide.
ABC
American Broadcasting Company
CBS
Columbia Broadcasting System
D.C.
District of Columbia
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FSM
Free Speech Movement
HEW
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
MOBE
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NBC
National Broadcasting Company
NIMH
National Institute of Mental Health
SDS
Students for a Democratic Society
TWLF
Third World Liberation Front
UFM
United Freedom Movement
U.K.
United Kingdom
VISTA
Volunteers in Service to America
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REEL INDEX
The following is a listing of the folders that compose Records of the National Commission on the
Causes and Prevention of Violence, Part I: Executive Files. The four-digit number on the far left is the
frame at which a particular file folder begins. This is followed by the file title, the date(s) of the file, and
the total number of pages. Substantive issues are highlighted under the heading Major Topics, as are
prominent correspondents under the heading Principal Correspondents.
Reel 1
Frame No.
0001
0066
0147
0161
0478
0557
0635
0768
0794
0797
0887
Administrative Memoranda [1968] [on Commission staff and office procedures]. 65 pp.
Principal Correspondent: William G. McDonald.
Advisory and Informal Advisory Panels [1968–1969]. 81 pp.
Major Topics: Membership; Task Force on Aggression and Violence; talk on civil
disobedience at American Bar Association meeting; commission lack of representation by
state police.
Principal Correspondents: Marvin E. Wolfgang; Lloyd N. Cutler; Terence J. Cooke; Barefoot
Sanders.
Airlie House Meeting—Dec. 6–8, 1968. 14 pp.
Assassinations Task Force [1968–1969]. 317 pp.
Major Topics: Assassination; study on political violence; jurisdictional issues for trial of
presidential assassins; President’s Commission on the Assassination of President
Kennedy; U.S. Secret Service.
Principal Correspondents: Sheldon G. Levy; James S. Campbell; James F. Kirkham.
Budget [1968–1969] [funding authorized for extension of commission activities]. 79 pp.
Principal Correspondent: Lloyd N. Cutler.
Church and State [1968]. 78 pp.
Major Topics: East Greenbush v. Allen; constitutional violation by New York State’s loan of
textbooks to parochial school students; U.S. Supreme Court; Flast v. Cohen;
constitutional violation by public funds used for sectarian and religious schools.
Correspondence File [1968]. 133 pp.
Principal Correspondents: Lloyd N. Cutler; Thomas D. Barr; Milton S. Eisenhower.
Co-Directors of Research [1968]. 26 pp.
Major Topics: James F. Short Jr.; Marvin E. Wolfgang.
FBI Liaison [1968]. 3 pp.
Major Topic: Robert H. Haynes.
Comments on Firearms Task Force Report [1969]. 90 pp.
Major Topics: Firearms ownership and production; criminal use of firearms.
Principal Correspondent: Milton S. Eisenhower.
Flyers for Government Printing Office Publications [1968]. 9 pp.
Major Topics: Assassination and political violence; political protest.
1
Frame No.
0896
0909
D. D. Gray v. A. C. Powell (Eisenhower named as defendant) [1969]. 13 pp.
Major Topics: Dorothy Delores Gray; Milton Eisenhower.
Firearms Task Force [1968]. 56 pp.
Major Topics: National Rifle Association position on gun legislation; gun ownership.
Reel 2
0001
0419
0836
Firearms Task Force [1968–1969]. 418 pp.
Major Topics: Firearms, violence, and civil unrest; firearms in homicides; gun control laws in
Toledo, Ohio; statistics on firearms; gun ownership restrictions of King County,
Washington; subpoena power of commission.
Principal Correspondents: Milton S. Eisenhower; James S. Campbell.
Group Violence Task Force [1968–1969]. 417 pp.
Major Topics: Political violence; political protest; racial unrest; militant white groups; police
response to mass protest; courts; impact of riots and disorders; African American
militancy; antiwar demonstrations; student activism at colleges and universities; origins of
violence in African American communities.
Principal Correspondent: Jerome H. Skolnick.
Task Force [on Group Violence, 1969]. 156 pp.
Major Topics: African American militancy; NAACP; civil rights demonstrations; African
American student protest; student activism on campuses; SDS; police response to protests
(student, racial, antiwar).
Principal Correspondents: Leon Jaworski; James F. Short Jr.; David Reisman.
Reel 3
0001
0185
0235
0247
0614
0618
0641
Task Force [on Group Violence, 1968]. 184 pp.
Major Topics: Counterinsurgency operations; guerrilla activities against the government;
antiwar movement; Vietnam War; peace demonstrations; police; Jerome H. Skolnick.
Principal Correspondent: Jerome H. Skolnick.
Comments on Group Violence Task Force Report (1st draft) [1969]. 50 pp.
Major Topics: Jerome H. Skolnick; James S. Campbell.
Principal Correspondents: Lloyd N. Cutler; James S. Campbell; Jerome H. Skolnick.
Hatch Act [1968]. 12 pp.
Major Topic: Exemptions from restrictions on political activity of federal officers and
employees.
Hearings [1968]. 367 pp.
Major Topics: Leon Radzinowicz; violence and crime; Ramsey Clark; J. Edgar Hoover;
organizations advocating violence; Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom.
Principal Correspondents: Katherine L. Camp; Lawrence E. Robertson; James S. Campbell.
Commission Draft—Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Violence in America
[1969]. 4 pp.
Commission Members’ Comments on History Task Force Report [1969]. 23 pp.
Principal Correspondents: Terence J. Cooke; Lloyd N. Cutler.
Hubert H. Humphrey Speeches [1968]. 10 pp.
Major Topic: Presidential campaign proposals for community redevelopment and federal
bureaucracy reorganization.
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An Assessment of the Task Force Report on Violence in America in Historical and
Comparative Perspective, June 25, 1969. 41 pp.
Major Topics: Brotherhood-in-Action; urban violence; Charles H. Tuttle; Bernard Botein;
Whitney North Seymour Sr.; Percy E. Sutton; John Spiegel; Carlos Russell; Ted Robert
Gurr.
Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Violence in America [1968–1969]. 322 pp.
Major Topics: James P. Comer; race relations; slavery; southern states; homicide; suicide;
C. W. Tazewell; proposal of new statewide educational system to prevent crime and
delinquency in Virginia; racial violence; Robert F. Kennedy; police brutality; publication
of correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud on prevention of war;
American Bar Association; John W. Gardner; Ben W. Heineman; William J. Brennan;
lawyers and legal services.
Principal Correspondents: Lloyd N. Cutler; Milton S. Eisenhower.
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Victim-Offender Survey [1967, 1969]. 337 pp.
Major Topics: Homicide; rape; assault; robbery and theft; guns; knives; blunt instruments;
poison; juvenile delinquency in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; police.
Commission Draft—Individual Acts of Violence. 1 p.
Task Force—Individual Acts of Violence [1968–1969]. 371 pp.
Major Topics: Crime and violence; victim compensation; law enforcement; police-citizen
relations; crime and criminal justice in Chicago, Illinois; organized crime; applications of
technology to control of violence.
Comments on Individual Acts Task Force Report. 1 p.
Interim Report, Folder 1. 1 p.
Draft—Oct. 29, 1968. 38 pp.
Draft—Oct. 30, 1968. 28 pp.
Major Topic: Francis A. Allen.
Draft—Oct. 31, 1968. 46 pp.
Draft—Nov. 2, 1968. 29 pp.
Draft—Nov. 4, 1968. 30 pp.
Major Topics: Courts; police; juvenile delinquency.
Draft—Nov. 6, 1968. 70 pp.
Major Topics: Courts; police; juvenile delinquency; media and violence; adoption of Omnibus
Firearms Control Act.
Memoranda to Commission and Staff [1968]. 15 pp.
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Interim Report, Folder 2. 1 p.
Recommendations [1968]. 81 pp.
Major Topics: Federal-state revenue sharing plan for strengthening the administration of
justice and law enforcement; firearms legislation; protest and violence by whites; juvenile
delinquency.
Miscellaneous Material [1968]. 618 pp.
Major Topics: Civil disobedience; Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968; law
enforcement; Higher Education Act; student loan programs; National Defense Education
Act; Higher Education Facilities Act; National Vocational Student Loan Insurance Act;
Higher Education Amendments; work-study programs; Ramsey Clark; freedom of speech.
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Comments on Law and Law Enforcement Task Force Report [1968–1969]. 19 pp.
Principal Correspondents: James S. Campbell; Milton S. Eisenhower.
Mass Media Task Force [1969]. 282 pp.
Major Topics: Media content and the audience; newspapers; television; violence in comic
books and strips; children and aggressive behavior; “catharsis theory” of viewing violence
in the media; emotional effects of observed violence.
Principal Correspondents: James S. Campbell; Robert K. Baker.
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Mass Media Task Force [1968]. 230 pp.
Major Topics: Hearings on the media and violence; NBC; CBS; television shaping the
attitudes of the urban poor; Bradley S. Greenberg; Joseph T. Klapper; Alfred R.
Schneider; ABC; Robert D. Kasmire; Leo Bogart.
Principal Correspondent: Lloyd N. Cutler.
Memos to Co-Directors [1968]. 6 pp.
Major Topic: Schedule of Task Force reports.
Meetings of Commission: Executive Sessions [1968–1969]. 196 pp.
Major Topics: Hugh Davis Graham; Ted Robert Gurr; historical perspectives on American
violence; publication of the commission’s reports; civil disobedience; Harris Wofford Jr.
Principal Correspondents: Milton S. Eisenhower; Lloyd N. Cutler; James S. Campbell.
Meetings [1968]. 96 pp.
Principal Correspondents: Alyce Estrada-Palma; James S. Campbell; Milton S. Eisenhower;
Lloyd N. Cutler.
Miscellaneous Correspondence [1967–1969]. 470 pp.
Major Topics: A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.; Lloyd N. Cutler; juvenile gang violence; organized
crime; Civil Service Commission; racial discrimination complaint against U.S. Air Force;
investigation of racial discrimination complaints against the federal government; Judd
Marmor; Leonard S. Brown Jr.; racial equality; causes of racial riots; Aaron Wildavsky.
Principal Correspondents: James S. Campbell; Milton S. Eisenhower; Helen Williams;
Charles Dubose; Nettie V. DuPree; Gilbert A. Schulkind; W. Walter Menninger; Leonard
S. Brown Jr.; Jean Brownlee.
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Miscellaneous Correspondence [1968]. 212 pp.
Major Topics: Peter Rossi; race relations; race riots; Karl Menninger; prisons; police;
neurophysiology and violence; José M. R. Delgado.
Principal Correspondents: James S. Campbell; Milton S. Eisenhower.
Names for Staff and Consultation [1968]. 226 pp.
Principal Correspondents: James S. Campbell; Samuel Z. Westerfield Jr.; John P. Conrad.
Negro Vietnam Veterans [1969]. 15 pp.
Major Topic: Attitudes of returning African American veterans.
Nixon Position Papers [1968]. 190 pp.
Major Topics: Richard Nixon’s radio addresses and public statements on political, economic,
and social issues, including the current political blocs; opportunities for blacks; gun
control legislation; disorder and crime in D.C.; volunteerism; drug addiction; campus
unrest; U.S. Supreme Court decisions; organized crime; prison system; youth; crime rate;
military draft; and the war in Vietnam.
Preface to Task Force Reports [1968]. 15 pp.
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People’s Park (Tempo) (Sahid has file) [1969]. 4 pp.
Major Topic: Campus disturbance at Berkeley, California.
Principal Correspondent: Warren T. Weber.
Operational Outline [1968]. 28 pp.
Press Releases [1968–1969]. 197 pp.
Major Topics: Disagreement over report on civil disobedience; address by Attorney General
John Mitchell; violence in television broadcasting; handgun registration; protest and
violence; address by Ramsey Clark; statements by President Lyndon B. Johnson on
establishment of the commission.
First Version [of commission program plan, 1968]. 88 pp.
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Program Plan—Final Draft [1968]. 198 pp.
Major Topics: Assassination; group violence; individual violence; law enforcement; media
portrayals of violence; firearms.
Program Plan [1968]. 125 pp.
Major Topics: Assassination; group violence; individual violence; law enforcement; media
portrayals of violence; firearms.
Progress Reports Edited by [Marvin] Wolfgang [1968]. 126 pp.
Major Topics: Firearms; media portrayals of violence; law enforcement; group violence.
[First draft, loose material, 1968]. 158 pp.
Major Topics: Individual violence; assassination; firearms; law enforcement.
Progress Report [1968–1969]. 91 pp.
Major Topics: Group violence; individual violence; assassination; firearms; media portrayals
of violence; law enforcement.
Principal Correspondent: James S. Campbell.
[Second draft, loose material, 1968]. 210 pp.
Major Topics: Assassination; individual violence; law enforcement; firearms; media portrayal
of violence.
#8188 Hot [commission progress report, 1969]. 90 pp.
Major Topics: Group violence; individual violence; assassination.
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#8188 Hot [commission progress report cont., 1969]. 49 pp.
Major Topics: Firearms; media portrayals of violence; law enforcement.
Civil Strife and the Law: An Overview, Sept. 6, 1968. 19 pp.
Major Topics: Urban violence; law enforcement.
[Drafts of commission progress reports, 1968–1969]. 387 pp.
IV. Individual Acts [of violence, draft report, 1968]. 24 pp.
V. Law & Law Enforcement [draft report, 1968]. 25 pp.
VI. Firearms [draft report, 1968]. 11 pp.
Introduction and Summary [draft report, 1968]. 24 pp.
Mr. [James S.] Campbell [1968]. 34 pp.
Principal Correspondents: Milton S. Eisenhower; James Q. Wilson; John P. Spiegel.
Contents [comments on progress report, 1968]. 40 pp.
Principal Correspondents: James Q. Wilson; Milton S. Eisenhower; Patricia Harris.
Comments on Second Draft of Progress Report (Dec. 14, 1968). 18 pp.
Principal Correspondents: Terence J. Cooke; Roman L. Hruska.
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VII. Media [draft report, 1968]. 16 pp.
II. Group Violence [draft report, 1968]. 38 pp.
III. Assassination [draft report, 1968]. 7 pp.
I. History [draft report, 1968]. 21 pp.
Publications Policy (Folder One of Two). 1 p.
Publications and Copyright Policies of the Commission. Vol. II of 2 [1967–1969]. 201 pp.
Principal Correspondents: Phillip S. Hughes; Lloyd N. Cutler; James S. Campbell.
Publishers’ Agreement [1969]. 26 pp.
Principal Correspondents: James S. Campbell; Edward T. Chase.
Walker Subpoena [1968–1969]. 45 pp.
Major Topics: Daniel Walker; John Linstead; news media; urban violence.
Berg, Skolnick and Sherman vs. Judge W. J. Campbell, Commission On Violence, Albert
Jenner and Ramsey Clark [1969]. 31 pp.
Major Topics: Affidavit of James S. Campbell; Daniel Walker report on Chicago
demonstrations.
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Publications Policy: Folder Two of Two [1968–1969]. 142 pp.
Major Topics: Private copyright by Jerome H. Skolnick of a task force report; report on
violence in Chicago during Democratic National Convention; Daniel Walker.
Principal Correspondents: James S. Campbell; James F. Short Jr.; Marvin E. Wolfgang.
Schematic Outline [of final report, Sept. 1968]. 56 pp.
Major Topic: Civil disobedience.
Principal Correspondent: Lloyd N. Cutler.
Seminar Reports (Revised) [1968]. 134 pp.
Major Topics: Violence prevention; causes of violence; administration of criminal justice.
Principal Correspondents: Donald R. Cressey; John P. Spiegel; James S. Campbell.
[Software Systems Inc. offer of services to commission, 1968]. 99 pp.
Principal Correspondent: Harry J. Older.
Special Investigative Task Force (Cleveland) [1969]. 212 pp.
Major Topics: Anthony E. Neville; racial violence; publication of report on Cleveland shootout between police and black militants; Jerome R. Corsi; operation of the jury system;
selection of jury members from voter registration lists; automating jury clerical work.
Principal Correspondents: Irving R. Kaufman; Robert G. Newbold; Louis H. Masotti; Lloyd
N. Cutler.
[Shoot-out in Cleveland: black militants and the police, July 23, 1968]. 160 pp.
Major Topics: Racial violence; urban violence; Fred “Ahmed” Evans; UFM; Carl Stokes;
National Guard; S. T. Del Corso; looting.
Special Investigative Task Force (General) [1968]. 21 pp.
Major Topics: Urban violence; riots during Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Principal Correspondent: Mrs. Stephen Weiss.
Special Investigative Task Force (Miami) [1969]. 7 pp.
Major Topic: Report on riots during Republican National Convention in Miami.
Special Investigative Task Force (Chicago) [1968]. 129 pp.
Major Topics: Riots during Democratic National Convention in Chicago; urban violence;
police response to disturbances in Lincoln and Grant Parks.
Principal Correspondents: David E. McGiffert; James S. Campbell; Lloyd N. Cutler; Milton
S. Eisenhower; Daniel Walker.
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Mr. [James S.] Campbell [1968]. 38 pp.
Major Topics: Riots during Democratic National Convention in Chicago; black militancy;
report on police-community relations.
Principal Correspondent: Gordon E. Misner.
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Mr. [James S.] Campbell [1968] cont. 95 pp.
Major Topics: Report on police-community relations; juvenile delinquency; gang violence;
urban violence; racial violence.
Task Force No. 8: San Francisco State Investigation [1969]. 71 pp.
Major Topics: Student unrest at San Francisco State College; Black Student Union.
Principal Correspondents: James Brann; William H. Orrick Jr.; Sterling F. Green.
Task Force No. 8: Campus Investigations [1969]. 56 pp.
Major Topics: Conflict resolution at Wayne State University; black students.
State Department Liaison [1968]. 11 pp.
Major Topic: Frederick York.
Task Force Reports—Format [1969]. 7 pp.
Theories of Violence (Campbell’s draft of Humphrey speech included in file) [1968]. 67 pp.
Major Topics: James S. Campbell; Hubert H. Humphrey; law enforcement; crime and race;
proposal for national police force; urban violence.
University Conference (Miscellaneous and Extra Copies) [1969]. 35 pp.
Major Topic: Violent aspects of student protest.
Principal Correspondent: Lloyd N. Cutler.
Vice Chairman—Judge Leon Higginbotham [1968–1969]. 8 pp.
Principal Correspondent: A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
Ronald Wolk—Report Writer [1968]. 4 pp.
Miami Report [1968]. 49 pp.
Major Topics: Urban violence; racial riots; Republican National Convention; police response
to disorders; news media; Walter Headley.
General. 1 p.
Reading File, Aug. 1968. 20 pp.
Principal Correspondents: James F. Short Jr.; Marvin E. Wolfgang.
Reading File, Sept. 1968. 37 pp.
Principal Correspondent: James F. Short Jr.
Reading File, Oct. 1968. 33 pp.
Principal Correspondent: James F. Short Jr.
Reading File, Nov. 1968. 32 pp.
Principal Correspondents: James F. Short Jr.; Marvin E. Wolfgang.
Reading File, Dec. 1968. 33 pp.
Principal Correspondents: James F. Short Jr.; Marvin E. Wolfgang.
Reading File, Jan. 1969. 60 pp.
Principal Correspondent: James F. Short Jr.
Reading File, Feb. [1969]. 33 pp.
Principal Correspondents: Marvin E. Wolfgang; James F. Short Jr.
Reading File, Mar. 1969. 45 pp.
Principal Correspondents: James F. Short Jr.; Marvin E. Wolfgang.
Reading File, Apr. 1969. 8 pp.
Principal Correspondent: James F. Short Jr.
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Reading File, May 1969. 31 pp.
Principal Correspondent: James F. Short Jr.; Marvin E. Wolfgang.
Reading File, June 1969. 6 pp.
Principal Correspondent: James F. Short Jr.
Reading File, July 1969. 1 p.
Chron File, Aug. 1969. 8 pp.
Principal Correspondent: James F. Short Jr.
Reading File, Sept. 1969. 1 p.
Reading File, Oct. 1969. 26 pp.
Major Topic: Assassination.
Principal Correspondent: Marvin E. Wolfgang.
Reading File, Nov. 1969. 5 pp.
Principal Correspondent: William G. McDonald.
Reading File, Dec. 1969. 2 pp.
Principal Correspondent: William G. McDonald.
Catholic Charities [1968]. 148 pp.
Major Topics: Child abuse and neglect; prisoners and offenders with mental disabilities.
Dr. Marvin E. Wolfgang [1968–1969]. 97 pp.
Major Topic: Commission on Obscenity and Pornography.
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Edited Progress Reports [1968]. 376 pp.
Major Topics: Firearms and violence; firearms control; media portrayals of violence; group
violence; law enforcement; juvenile delinquency; juvenile courts; crimes of violence;
antiwar protest; student protest.
Principal Correspondent: Marvin E. Wolfgang.
Tapes 1–8: Comments by Marvin E. Wolfgang on Firearms Task Force [1968]. 446 pp.
Major Topics: Firearms ownership; firearms and violence; firearms control; accidents;
suicide; homicide; urban violence; federal and state legislation on firearms control;
foreign firearms laws; home burglaries and robberies; law enforcement; firearms and
extremist groups; U.S. Constitution; firearms licensing and registration; public relations
campaign and firearms.
Chapter III [1968]. 111 pp.
Major Topics: Student protest; antiwar protest; SDS; University of California, Berkeley;
Columbia University; crimes of violence.
Original Progress Reports [1968]. 52 pp.
Major Topics: Presidential assassination; crimes of violence; firearms and violence.
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Original Progress Reports [1968] cont. 93 pp.
Major Topics: Media portrayal of violence; group violence.
Introduction Drafts (James Short and Marvin Wolfgang) [1968]. 122 pp.
Budget [1968]. 3 pp.
Principal Correspondent: Stanley F. Yolles.
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Commission Statement—“Assassination” (Vol. 1) [draft, 1968–1969]. 136 pp.
Major Topics: Political violence; Abraham Lincoln; John Wilkes Booth; James A. Garfield;
Charles J. Guiteau; William McKinley; Leon F. Czologosz; Theodore Roosevelt; John
Shrank; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Giuseppe Zangara; Harry S. Truman; Oscar Collazo;
Griselio Torresola; John F. Kennedy; Lee Harvey Oswald; presidential assassinations;
congressional resolution to authorize Secret Service to protect presidential and vicepresidential candidates; personality and background of political assassins.
Commission Statement—“Assassination” (Vol. 2) [drafts and final report, 1969]. 64 pp.
Major Topics: Political violence; presidential assassinations.
Principal Correspondent: Milton S. Eisenhower.
Commission Statement—“Firearms and Violence” (Vol. 1) [draft, 1969]. 143 pp.
Major Topics: Firearms and crime; firearms ownership; firearms control; state legislation for
firearms control.
Commission Statement—“Firearms and Violence” (Vol. 2) [draft, 1969]. 67 pp.
Major Topics: Firearms ownership; firearms and crime; firearms and self-defense; firearms
control.
Principal Correspondent: Milton S. Eisenhower.
Commission Statement—“Firearms and Violence” (Vol. 3) [draft and final report, 1969].
277 pp.
Major Topics: Firearms safety campaign; CBS television network program guide for 1969–
1970; motion picture code and rating system; progress report of the Commission on
Obscenity and Pornography; television portrayal of violence; Michigan State University
report “Mass Communication Among the Urban Poor”; television usage among lowincome population; racial and class differences in teenagers’ use of television; television
viewing impact on child behavior; “catharsis” theory; HEW legal services program for
poor.
Congressional Presentation: Economic Opportunity Programs, Fiscal 1970. 99 pp.
Major Topics: Office of Economic Opportunity; Legal Services Program; Terry F. Lenzner;
Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellowship Program; lawyers as VISTA
volunteers; police.
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Commission Statement—“Violence and Law Enforcement” (Vol. 1) [draft, 1969]. 177 pp.
Major Topics: Legal aid in United States and Canada; police; courts.
Commission Statement—“Violence and Law Enforcement” (Vol. 2) [draft and final report,
Oct. 1969]. 80 pp.
Major Topic: Courts.
Commission Statement—“Campus Disorder” (Vol. 1) [draft, 1969]. 222 pp.
Major Topics: Student protest; Tom Hayden; S. I. Hayakawa; Harry Edwards; Edgar
Friedenberg; Buell Gallagher; Christopher Jencks; Philip Abbott Luce; Linda Morse;
Ewart Brown; Columbia University vs. SDS; Procaccino and Smith v. Gallagher; federal
legislation in response to campus unrest; antiwar protest; FSM; black student protest; San
Francisco State College; University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University.
Commission Statement—“Campus Disorder” (Vol. 2) [draft, 1969]. 312 pp.
Major Topics: Student protest; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; reorganization of
Illini Union Board; University of California, San Francisco; use of injunctions against
campus disorders; unrest at San Francisco State College; remarks by President Richard M.
Nixon on campus revolutionaries; Federal Civil Rights Act.
Principal Correspondents: Milton S. Eisenhower; Leon Jaworski.
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University Administrators Conference. James S. Campbell [1967, 1969]. 128 pp.
Major Topics: Response to campus disruptions; legislation withholding federal student
benefits; civil disobedience and the law.
Principal Correspondent: Lloyd N. Cutler.
Commission Statement—“Challenging Our Youth” (Vol. 1) [1969]. 77 pp.
Major Topics: Lowering of voting age; proposal for lottery draft system; involvement in
public service; reform of marijuana laws; juvenile delinquency.
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Commission Statement—“Challenging Our Youth” (Vol. 1) [1969] cont. 114 pp.
Major Topics: Juvenile delinquency; African Americans; gang violence; organized crime;
campus violence; urban violence; poverty and violence.
Commission Statement—“Challenging Our Youth” (Vol. 2) [Nov. 1969]. 52 pp.
Major Topics: Juvenile delinquency; marijuana use.
Commission Statement—(Vol. 2) “Violent Crime: Homicide, Assault, Rape, Robbery”
[1969]. 139 pp.
Major Topics: Urban violence; African Americans; juvenile delinquency; juvenile court.
Commission Statement—(Vol. 3) “Violent Crime: Homicide, Assault, Rape, Robbery”
[1969]. 46 pp.
Major Topic: Urban violence.
Commission Statement—(Vol. 4) “Violent Crime: Homicide, Assault, Rape, Robbery”
[1969]. 62 pp.
Major Topics: Urban violence; poverty; manpower programs.
Commission Statement—“Group Violence” (Vol. 1) [1969]. 198 pp.
Major Topics: Black militancy; Ku Klux Klan; antiwar protest; white extremism; southern
states.
Principal Correspondent: Lloyd N. Cutler.
Commission Statement—“Group Violence” (Vol. 2) [1969]. 18 pp.
Major Topics: Paramilitary groups; Minutemen group; white extremism.
Commission Statement—“Group Violence” (Vol. 3) [1969]. 318 pp.
Major Topics: Black militancy; urban violence; poverty; roster of black elected officials in the
southern states; Plessy v. Ferguson; comments in the press on racial riots; sniping
incidents; police; Black Panthers.
Commission Statement—“Group Violence” (Vol. 4) [1969]. 51 pp.
Major Topics: Kerner Commission; urban riots; demonstrations and protests.
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Commission Statement—“Group Violence” (Vol. 4) [1969] cont. 64 pp.
Major Topics: Demonstrations and protests; urban riots; news reporting.
Commission Statement—“Group Violence” (Vol. 5) [1969]. 150 pp.
Major Topics: Demonstrations in Chicago and D.C.; address by Attorney General John
Mitchell.
Commission Statement—“Group Violence” (Vol. 6) [1969]. 79 pp.
Major Topics: Deaths from urban violence; National Guard deployed in response to urban
violence.
Commission Statement—“Civil Disobedience” [1969]. 95 pp.
Major Topics: Riots and disorders; civil rights protests; Martin Luther King Jr.
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Proposed Statement on News Media (Commission decided not to issue statement on this
subject) [1969]. 152 pp.
Major Topics: News coverage on television; reactions from Frank Stanton, Lew
Schollenberger, George Reedy, Joe Loftus, and Eric Sevareid to the commission paper on
the news media; response of Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to the CBS
documentary “Hunger in America.”
Principal Correspondent: Roman L. Hruska.
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Violence in America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Vol. I [a report to the
National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence prepared by Hugh Davis
Graham and Ted Robert Gurr, June 1969]. 166 pp.
Major Topics: Group violence; political violence; frontier violence; vigilantism; violent
themes in literature and folklore; labor protest and violence.
Violence in America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Vol. II [a report to the
National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence prepared by Hugh Davis
Graham and Ted Robert Gurr, June 1969]. 201 pp.
Major Topics: Racial violence; urbanization and crime in nineteenth-century Massachusetts;
southern violence; domestic violence as response to America’s wars; government
response to violence in Cuba under Battista and Venezuela under Betancourt;
overpopulation and aggression.
The Politics of Protest: Violent Aspects of Protest and Confrontation [a report to the
National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence prepared by Jerome
Skolnick, 1969]. 154 pp.
Major Topics: Political violence; antiwar protest; student protest; black militancy; racism;
white militancy; police and mass protests; judicial response to urban disorders.
Rights in Concord: The Response to the Counter-Inaugural Protest Activities in
Washington, D.C., Jan. 18–20, 1969 [a Special Staff Study submitted by the Task Force on
Law and Law Enforcement to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of
Violence]. 76 pp.
Major Topics: Police response to demonstrations; Richard M. Nixon; MOBE.
Shoot-out in Cleveland: Black Militants and the Police [a report to the National Commission
on the Causes and Prevention of Violence by Louis H. Masotti and Jerome R. Corsi, May
1969]. 61 pp.
Major Topics: Racial violence; Fred “Ahmed” Evans; National Guard; PRIDE Inc.; looting;
Carl Stokes; UFM; urban violence; S. T. Del Corso.
Shut It Down!: A College in Crisis, San Francisco State College, Oct. 1968–Apr. 1969 [a
report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence by William H.
Orrick Jr.]. 95 pp.
Major Topics: Black students; racial protest; John Summerskill; George Murray; Black
Students Union, San Francisco State College; campus strike; Ronald Reagan; S. I.
Hayakawa; TWLF.
Firearms and Violence in American Life [a staff report to the National Commission on the
Causes and Prevention of Violence prepared by George D. Newton and Franklin E.
Zimring, 1969]. 150 pp.
Major Topics: Firearms ownership; firearms and violence; accidents; suicide; firearms and
crime; group violence; firearms control; U.S. Constitution; foreign firearms laws; firearms
and extremist groups; state legislation on firearms.
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Assassination and Political Violence, Vol. 8, a Report to the National Commission on the
Causes and Prevention of Violence, by James F. Kirkham, Sheldon G. Levy, and William J.
Crotty [Oct. 1969]. 334 pp.
Major Topics: Political assassinations and assaults; presidential assassination attempts;
foreign assassination attempts; Ku Klux Klan; political violence and terror in Russia and
Eastern Europe; assassination and political violence in France and Germany; political
assassinations in China, Japan, Latin America, Middle East, Canada, Great Britain,
Australia, Finland, and Sweden.
Mass Media and Violence. Vol. IX: a Report to the National Commission on the Causes and
Prevention of Violence by Robert K. Maker and Sandra J. Ball [Nov. 1969]. 328 pp.
Major Topics: Press and the black community; news coverage of civil disorders; journalism
education; codes and policies for news coverage; media violence impact on social
learning; television portrayal of violence; catharsis effect of observing violence; television
broadcasting standards.
Law and Order Reconsidered: a Staff Report to the National Commission on the Causes and
Prevention of Violence Prepared by James S. Campbell, Joseph R. Sahid, and David P.
Strang [Undated]. 327 pp.
Major Topics: Courts and the poor; black militancy; political elections; Congress; family
violence; public education and poor children; church response to urban crisis; university
reform; criminal justice system; police; response to civil disorders in Chicago and D.C.;
citizen involvement in law enforcement; bail system; constitutional rights of the accused;
“overcriminalization”; prisons.
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Crimes of Violence: A Staff Report to the National Commission on the Causes and
Prevention of Violence prepared by Donald J. Mulvihill and Melvin M. Tumin, with Lynn
A. Curtis [Vol. 11, Dec. 1969]. 256 pp.
Major Topics: Individual violence; FBI crime reporting; crime rates by city size, region, age,
sex, and race; suicide; auto fatalities; organized crime; victims of crime; aggravated
assault; rape; robbery; homicide.
Crimes of Violence: A Staff Report to the National Commission on the Causes and
Prevention of Violence prepared by Donald J. Mulvihill and Melvin M. Tumin, with Lynn
A. Curtis [Vol. 12, Dec. 1969]. 250 pp.
Major Topics: Individual violence; biological explanations for violence; psychological
explanations for violence; psychiatric and psychoanalytic explanations for violence;
anthropological explanations for violence; sociological and cultural explanations for
violence; recidivism; prisons; juvenile delinquency; alcohol- and drug-related violence;
urban violence; recommendations for prevention of crime and violence.
Crimes of Violence: A Staff Report to the National Commission on the Causes and
Prevention of Violence prepared by Donald J. Mulvihill and Melvin M. Tumin, with Lynn
A. Curtis [Vol. 13, Dec. 1969]. 413 pp.
Major Topics: Criminal activities of women; organized crime; family violence; biological
bases for violent behavior; critique of theories of violence; psychiatric and psychoanalytic
theories of violence; cross-cultural comparison of aggression and violence; critique of
sociological theories; violence and religious zealotry; behavior control technology;
correctional programs for juveniles; juvenile gang violence; drug-related violence;
accidents and violence; crime victim compensation.
12
PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENTS INDEX
The following index is a guide to the major correspondents in this microform publication. The first
number after each entry refers to the reel, while the four-digit number following the colon refers to the
frame number at which a particular file folder containing correspondence by the person begins. Hence,
5: 0720 refers to the folder that begins at Frame 0720 of Reel 5. By referring to the Reel Index, which
constitutes the initial section of this guide, the researcher will find the folder title, inclusive dates, and a
list of Major Topics and Principal Correspondents, listed in the order in which they appear on the film.
Eisenhower, Milton S.
1: 0635, 0797; 2: 0001; 3: 0692; 5: 0701;
6: 0237, 0433, 0529; 7: 0001; 9: 0540,
0574; 10: 0832; 13: 0355, 0562;
14: 0480
Estrada-Palma, Alyce
6: 0433
Green, Sterling F.
11: 0096
Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr.
11: 0343
Hruska, Roman L.
9: 0614; 16: 0389
Hughes, Phillip S.
9: 0715
Jaworski, Leon
2: 0836; 14: 0480
Kaufman, Irving R.
10: 0432
Kirkham, James F.
1: 0161
Levy, Sheldon G.
1: 0161
Masotti, Louis H.
10: 0432
McDonald, William G.
1: 0001; 11: 0779, 0784
McGiffert, David E.
10: 0832
Menninger, W. Walter
6: 0529
Misner, Gordon E.
10: 0961
Baker, Robert K.
5: 0720
Barr, Thomas D.
1: 0635
Brann, James
11: 0096
Brown, Leonard S., Jr.
6: 0529
Brownlee, Jean
6: 0529
Camp, Katherine L.
3: 0247
Campbell, James S.
1: 0161; 2: 0001; 3: 0185, 0247; 5: 0701,
0720; 6: 0237, 0433, 0529; 7: 0001,
0213; 8: 0608; 9: 0715, 0916; 10: 0001,
0199, 0832
Chase, Edward T.
9: 0916
Conrad, John P.
7: 0213
Cooke, Terence J.
1: 0066; 3: 0618; 9: 0614
Cressey, Donald R.
10: 0199
Cutler, Lloyd N.
1: 0066, 0478, 0635; 3: 0185, 0618, 0692;
6: 0001, 0237, 0433; 9: 0715; 10: 0143,
0432, 0832; 11: 0308; 14: 0792;
15: 0414
Dubose, Charles
6: 0529
DuPree, Nettie V.
6: 0529
13
Spiegel, John P.
9: 0540; 10: 0199
Walker, Daniel
10: 0832
Weber, Warren T.
7: 0659
Weiss, Mrs. Stephen
10: 0804
Westerfield, Samuel Z., Jr.
7: 0213
Williams, Helen
6: 0529
Wilson, James Q.
9: 0540, 0574
Wolfgang, Marvin E.
1: 0066; 10: 0001; 11: 0405, 0495, 0527,
0620, 0653, 0706, 0753; 12: 0001
Yolles, Stanley F.
13: 0216
Newbold, Robert G.
10: 0432
Older, Harry J.
10: 0333
Orrick, William H., Jr.
11: 0096
Reisman, David
2: 0836
Robertson, Lawrence E.
3: 0247
Sanders, Barefoot
1: 0066
Schulkind, Gilbert A.
6: 0529
Short, James F., Jr.
2: 0836; 10: 0001; 11: 0405, 0425, 0462,
0495, 0527, 0560, 0620, 0653, 0698,
0706, 0737, 0744
Skolnick, Jerome H.
2: 0419; 3: 0001, 0185
14
SUBJECT INDEX
The following subject index is a guide to the major topics in this microfilm publication. The first
number after an entry refers to the reel, while the four-digit number following the colon refers to the
frame number at which a particular file folder containing information on the subject begins. Hence,
6: 0001 directs the researcher to the folder that begins at Frame 0001 of Reel 6. By referring to the Reel
Index, which constitutes the initial section of this guide, the researcher will find the folder title, inclusive
dates, and a list of Major Topics and Principal Correspondents, listed in the order in which they appear on
the film.
American Bar Association
1: 0066; 3: 0692
American Broadcasting Company
see ABC
Anthropology
19: 0257
Antiwar demonstrations
2: 0419, 0836; 3: 0001, 0001; 12: 0001,
0823; 14: 0258; 15: 0414; 17: 0368
Assassination
1: 0161, 0887; 8: 0001, 0199, 0450, 0608,
0699, 0909; 11: 0753; 12: 0934;
13: 0219, 0355; 18: 0001
Assault
4: 0001; 19: 0001
Australia
political assassinations 18: 0001
Automation
jury clerical work 10: 0432
Ball, Sandra J.
18: 0335
Biology
19: 0257, 0507
Black militancy
Cleveland shoot-out with police 10: 0432,
0644; 17: 0598
general 2: 0419, 0836; 10: 0961; 15: 0414,
0630; 17: 0368; 18: 0663
Black Panthers
15: 0630
ABC
6: 0001
Accidents
12: 0377; 17: 0754; 19: 0507
Administration of justice
5: 0002; 10: 0199
see also Courts
Advocacy of violence
3: 0247
African Americans
general 7: 0454; 15: 0001, 0167
origins of violence in communities 2: 0419
press coverage 18: 0335
roster of black elected officials in southern
states 15: 0630
student protest 2: 0836; 14: 0258
students 11: 0167; 17: 0659
Vietnam War veterans 7: 0439
see also Black militancy
Aggression
children 5: 0720
overpopulation and 17: 0167
violence 19: 0507
Air Force, U.S.
complaint of racial discrimination 6: 0529
Airlie House
retreat 1: 0147
Alcohol use
violence and 19: 0257
Allen, Francis A.
4: 0750
15
Child abuse and neglect
11: 0786
Children
aggression 5: 0720
television viewing impact on behavior
13: 0629
China
political assassinations 18: 0001
Citizenship
involvement in law enforcement 18: 0663
Civil disobedience
1: 0066; 5: 0083; 6: 0237; 7: 0691;
10: 0143; 14: 0792; 16: 0294
Civil disorders
general 2: 0001, 0419
news coverage 18: 0335
police response 2: 0836
Civil rights
2: 0836; 16: 0294
Civil Service Commission
6: 0529
Clark, Ramsey
3: 0247; 5: 0083; 7: 0691
Cleveland, Ohio
shoot-out between police and black militants
10: 0432, 0644; 17: 0598
Collazo, Oscar
13: 0219
Colleges and universities
reform 18: 0663
see also Columbia University
see also Michigan State University
see also San Francisco State College
see also Stanford University
see also University of California, Berkeley
see also University of California,
San Francisco
see also University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign
see also Wayne State University
Columbia Broadcasting System
see CBS
Columbia University
12: 0823; 14: 0258
Comer, James P.
3: 0692
Comic books
violence 5: 0720
Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
11: 0934; 13: 0629
Black Student Union
San Francisco State College 11: 0096;
17: 0659
Bogart, Leo
6: 0001
Booth, John Wilkes
13: 0219
Botein, Bernard
3: 0651
Brennan, William J.
3: 0692
Brotherhood-in-Action
3: 0651
Brown, Ewart
14: 0258
Brown, Leonard S., Jr.
6: 0529
Budget
1: 0478; 13: 0216
California
San Francisco State College student protest
11: 0096
Campbell, James S.
3: 0185; 9: 0987; 10: 0961; 11: 0001, 0241;
14: 0792; 18: 0663
Campus violence
15: 0001
Canada
legal aid 14: 0001
political assassinations 18: 0001
“Catharsis theory”
5: 0720; 13: 0629; 18: 0335
Catholic Church
charities 11: 0786
CBS
Freeman, Orville, comments on
documentary “Hunger in America”
16: 0389
general 6: 0001
program guide for 1969–1970 13: 0629
Chicago, Illinois
civil disorders 18: 0663
criminal justice system 4: 0339
Democratic National Convention riots
10: 0001, 0804, 0832, 0961
demonstrations 16: 0065
police response to disturbances in Lincoln
and Grant Parks 10: 0832
Walker report on demonstrations 9: 0942,
0987
16
Cuba
government response to violence in Battista
regime 17: 0167
Curtis, Lynn A.
19: 0001, 0257, 0507
Cutler, Lloyd N.
6: 0529
Czologosz, Leon F.
13: 0219
D.C.
civil disorders 18: 0663
crime and disorder 7: 0454
demonstrations 16: 0065
general 17: 0522
Del Corso, S. T.
10: 0644; 17: 0598
Delgado, José M. R.
7: 0001
Democratic Party
National Convention violence in Chicago
10: 0001, 0804, 0832, 0961
Demonstrations and protests
Chicago and D.C. 16: 0065
civil rights 2: 0836; 16: 0294
general 15: 0948; 16: 0001
police 17: 0368, 0522
Walker report on Chicago demonstrations
9: 0987
see also Antiwar demonstrations
Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare (HEW)
legal services program for poor 13: 0629
Department of State
11: 0223
Disabled and handicapped persons
prisoners and offenders with mental
disabilities 11: 0786
Drug addiction
7: 0454; 19: 0257, 0507
Eastern Europe
political violence and terror 18: 0001
East Greenbush v. Allen
1: 0557
Education
crime and delinquency prevention in
Virginia 3: 0692
journalism 18: 0335
poor children 18: 0663
Edwards, Harry
14: 0258
Commission Task Force on Aggression and
Violence
1: 0066
Community redevelopment
3: 0641
Congress
18: 0663
Constitution, U.S.
12: 0377; 17: 0754; 18: 0663
Constitutional law
violation and religious schools 1: 0557
Copyright
task force report by Jerome H. Skolnick
10: 0001
Corsi, Jerome R.
10: 0432; 17: 0598
Counterinsurgency operations
3: 0001
Courts
automation of jury clerical work 10: 0432
bail system 18: 0663
general 2: 0419; 4: 0853, 0883; 14: 0001,
0178
injunctions against campus disorders
14: 0480
jury selection from voter registration lists
10: 0432
jury system 10: 0432
and poor 18: 0663
Crime and criminals
Chicago, Illinois 4: 0339
D.C. 7: 0454
FBI reporting 19: 0001
firearms 13: 0419, 0562; 17: 0754
general 3: 0247; 4: 0339; 12: 0001, 0823,
0934; 18: 0663
mentally retarded offenders 11: 0786
nineteenth-century Massachusetts 17: 0167
racial issues 11: 0241
see also Homicide
see also Organized crime
see also Rape
see also Robbery
Crime rates
7: 0454; 19: 0001
Criminal justice system
4: 0339; 18: 0663
Crotty, William J.
18: 0001
17
Einstein, Albert
correspondence with Sigmund Freud
3: 0692
Eisenhower, Milton S.
1: 0896
see also Principal Correspondents Index
Elections
18: 0663
Evans, Fred “Ahmed”
10: 0644; 17: 0598
Families and households
violence 18: 0663; 19: 0507
FBI
see Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
1: 0794; 19: 0001
Federal Civil Rights Act
14: 0480
Federal-state relations
revenue sharing for strengthening the
administration of justice and law
enforcement 5: 0002
Finland
political assassinations 18: 0001
Firearms
control 12: 0001, 0377, 0377; 13: 0419,
0419, 0562; 17: 0754
crime and criminals 13: 0419, 0562;
17: 0754
criminal use 1: 0797
extremist groups 12: 0377; 17: 0754
foreign laws 12: 0377; 17: 0754
general 2: 0001; 4: 0001; 5: 0002; 8: 0001,
0199, 0324, 0450, 0608, 0699; 9: 0001;
12: 0001, 0377, 0934; 17: 0754, 0754
homicides 2: 0001
licensing and registration 12: 0377
ownership 1: 0909; 12: 0377; 13: 0419,
0562; 17: 0754
ownership and production 1: 0797
ownership restrictions of King County,
Washington 2: 0001
public relations campaign 12: 0377
registration 7: 0691
safety campaign 13: 0629
self-defense 13: 0562
statistics 2: 0001
see also Gun control
Flast v. Cohen
1: 0557
Florida
Miami riots 10: 0825; 11: 0355
Folklore
violent themes 17: 0001
France
assassination and political violence 18: 0001
Freedom of speech
5: 0083
Freeman, Orville
comments on CBS documentary “Hunger in
America” 16: 0389
Free Speech Movement (FSM)
14: 0258
Freud, Sigmund
correspondence with Albert Einstein 3: 0692
Friedenberg, Edgar
14: 0258
Frontier violence, U.S.
17: 0001
FSM
see Free Speech Movement
Gallagher, Buell
14: 0258
Gang violence
general 11: 0001; 15: 0001
juvenile delinquency 6: 0529; 19: 0507
Gardner, John W.
3: 0692
Garfield, James A.
13: 0219
Germany
assassination and political violence 18: 0001
Government employees
political activity restrictions exemption
3: 0235
Government reorganization
3: 0641
Graham, Hugh Davis
6: 0237; 17: 0001, 0167
Grant Park, Chicago
police response to disturbances 10: 0832
Gray, Dorothy Delores
1: 0896
Greenberg, Bradley S.
6: 0001
Group violence
8: 0001, 0199, 0324, 0608, 0909; 12: 0001;
13: 0001; 15: 0414, 0612, 0630, 0948;
16: 0001, 0065, 0215; 17: 0001, 0754
see also Task Force on Group Violence
18
Japan
political assassinations 18: 0001
Jencks, Christopher
14: 0258
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
7: 0691
Journalism
codes and policies 18: 0335
coverage of civil disorders 18: 0335
education 18: 0335
news reporting 16: 0001
see also News media
see also Newspapers
Juvenile court
12: 0001; 15: 0167
Juvenile delinquency
3: 0692; 4: 0001, 0853, 0883; 5: 0002;
6: 0529; 11: 0001; 12: 0001; 14: 0920;
15: 0001, 0115, 0167; 19: 0257, 0507,
0507
see also Gang violence
Kasmire, Robert D.
6: 0001
Kennedy, John F.
13: 0219
Kennedy, Robert F.
3: 0692
Kerner Commission
15: 0948
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
16: 0294
Kirkham, James F.
18: 0001
Klapper, Joseph T.
6: 0001
Knives
4: 0001
Ku Klux Klan
15: 0414; 18: 0001
Labor
protest and violence 17: 0001
Latin America
political assassinations 18: 0001
Law enforcement
4: 0339; 5: 0002, 0083; 8: 0001, 0199, 0324,
0450, 0608, 0699; 9: 0001, 0050;
11: 0241; 12: 0001, 0377; 18: 0663
see also Police
see also Task Force on Law and Law
Enforcement
Guerrilla activities
3: 0001
Guiteau, Charles J.
13: 0219
Gun control
general 7: 0454
laws in Toledo, Ohio 2: 0001
National Rifle Association 1: 0909
see also Firearms
Gurr, Ted Robert
3: 0651; 6: 0237; 17: 0001, 0167
Hatch Act
3: 0235
Hayakawa, S. I.
14: 0258; 17: 0659
Hayden, Tom
14: 0258
Haynes, Robert H.
1: 0794
Headley, Walter
11: 0355
Heineman, Ben W.
3: 0692
HEW
see Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare
Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr.
6: 0529
Higher Education Act
5: 0083
Higher Education Facilities Act
5: 0083
History
perspectives on American violence 6: 0237
Homicide
firearms 2: 0001
general 3: 0692; 4: 0001; 12: 0377;
15: 0167, 0306, 0352; 19: 0001
Hoover, J. Edgar
3: 0247
Humphrey, Hubert H.
3: 0641; 11: 0241
Illini Union Board
reorganization 14: 0480
Individual violence
8: 0001, 0199, 0450, 0608, 0699, 0909;
19: 0001, 0257
see also Task Force on Individual Acts of
Violence
Instruments, blunt
4: 0001
19
Massachusetts
urbanization and crime in nineteenth century
17: 0167
McKinley, William
13: 0219
Media
“catharsis theory” 5: 0720
coverage of African Americans 18: 0335
hearings on violence 6: 0001
impact on social learning 18: 0335
Michigan State University report 13: 0629
violence 4: 0883; 5: 0720; 8: 0001, 0199,
0324, 0608, 0699; 9: 0001; 12: 0001;
13: 0001
see also Newspapers
see also Task Force on Mass Media
see also Television
Menninger, Karl
7: 0001
Miami, Florida
riots during Republican National
Convention 10: 0825; 11: 0355
Michigan State University
13: 0629
Middle East
political assassinations 18: 0001
Military draft
7: 0454; 14: 0920
Minutemen group
15: 0612
Mitchell, John
7: 0691; 16: 0065
MOBE
see National Mobilization Committee to End
the War in Vietnam
Morse, Linda
14: 0258
Motion picture industry
code and rating system 13: 0629
Mulvihill, Donald J.
19: 0001, 0257, 0507
Murray, George
17: 0659
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP)
2: 0836
National Broadcasting Company
see NBC
National Defense Education Act
5: 0083
Lawyers and legal services
general 3: 0692
HEW legal services program for poor
13: 0629
VISTA volunteers 13: 0906
Legal aid
in United States and Canada 14: 0001
Legal Services Program
13: 0906
Legislation
Federal Civil Rights Act 14: 0480
Hatch Act 3: 0235
Higher Education Act 5: 0083
Higher Education Facilities Act 5: 0083
National Defense Education Act 5: 0083
National Vocational Student Loan Insurance
Act 5: 0083
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1968 5: 0083
Omnibus Firearms Control Act 4: 0883
Lenzner, Terry F.
13: 0906
Levy, Sheldon G.
18: 0001
Lincoln, Abraham
13: 0219
Lincoln Park, Chicago
police response to disturbances 10: 0832
Linstead, John
9: 0942
Literature
violent themes 17: 0001
Loftus, Joe
comments on commission views of news
media 16: 0389
Looting
10: 0644; 17: 0598
Luce, Philip Abbott
14: 0258
Maker, Robert K.
18: 0335
Manpower
programs 15: 0352
Marijuana
14: 0920; 15: 0115
Marmor, Judd
6: 0529
Masotti, Louis H.
17: 0598
20
Orrick, William H., Jr.
17: 0659
Oswald, Lee Harvey
13: 0219
Paramilitary groups
15: 0612
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia 4: 0001
People’s Park, Berkeley, California
7: 0659
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
juvenile delinquency 4: 0001
Plessy v. Ferguson
15: 0630
Poison
4: 0001
Police
brutality 3: 0692
Cleveland shoot-out with black militants
10: 0432, 0644; 17: 0598
general 3: 0001; 4: 0001, 0853, 0883;
7: 0001; 9: 0942; 11: 0355; 13: 0906;
14: 0001; 15: 0630; 18: 0663
lack of representation 1: 0066
mass protests 17: 0368, 0522
national force 11: 0241
relations with citizens 4: 0339
relations with community 10: 0961;
11: 0001
response to disturbances in Lincoln and
Grant Parks 10: 0832
response to protests 2: 0419, 0836
Political protest
1: 0887; 2: 0419
Political violence
France 18: 0001
general 1: 0887; 2: 0419; 13: 0219, 0355;
17: 0001, 0368
Germany 18: 0001
Russia and Eastern Europe 18: 0001
study 1: 0161
see also Assassinations
Population
overpopulation and aggression 17: 0167
Poverty
courts 18: 0663
education for children 18: 0663
Freeman, Orville, comments on CBS
documentary “Hunger in America”
16: 0389
general 15: 0001, 0352, 0630
National Guard
general 17: 0598
response to urban violence 16: 0215, 0215
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
13: 0216
National Mobilization Committee to End the
War in Vietnam (MOBE)
17: 0522
National Rifle Association
gun legislation 1: 0909
National Vocational Student Loan Insurance
Act
5: 0083
NBC
6: 0001
Neurophysiology
7: 0001
Neville, Anthony E.
10: 0432
News media
9: 0942; 11: 0355; 16: 0389
Newspapers
5: 0720
Newton, George D.
17: 0754
New York State
constitutional violation by textbook loan to
parochial school students 1: 0557
NIMH
see National Institute of Mental Health
Nixon, Richard M.
general 17: 0522
radio addresses and public statements
7: 0454
remarks on campus revolutionaries 14: 0480
Observed violence
emotional effects 5: 0720
Office of Economic Opportunity
13: 0906
Ohio
Cleveland 10: 0432, 0644; 17: 0598
National Guard 10: 0644
Toledo 2: 0001
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
of 1968
5: 0083
Omnibus Firearms Control Act
4: 0883
Organized crime
4: 0339; 6: 0529; 7: 0454; 15: 0001;
19: 0001, 0507
21
riots 6: 0529; 7: 0001
whites 5: 0002
Racism
17: 0368
see also Ku Klux Klan
Radzinowicz, Leon
3: 0247
Rape
4: 0001; 15: 0167, 0306, 0352; 19: 0001
Reagan, Ronald
17: 0659
Recidivism
19: 0257
Reedy, George
comments on commission views of news
media 16: 0389
Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer
Fellowship Program
13: 0906
Religious organizations
response to urban violence 18: 0663
see also Catholic Church
Religious schools
constitutional violation by New York State’s
loan of textbooks to students 1: 0557
constitutional violation by use of public
funds 1: 0557
Religious zealotry
19: 0507
Republican Party
riots during convention in Miami 10: 0825
Revenue sharing
federal-state plan for strengthening the
administration of justice and law
enforcement 5: 0002
Riots
Democratic National Convention in Chicago
10: 0804, 0832, 0961
general 2: 0419; 16: 0294
press comments on race riots 15: 0630
racial violence 6: 0529; 7: 0001
Republican National Convention in Miami
10: 0825
Robbery
4: 0001; 12: 0377; 15: 0167, 0306, 0352;
19: 0001
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
13: 0219
Roosevelt, Theodore
13: 0219
Poverty cont.
HEW legal services program 13: 0629
Michigan State University report “Mass
Communication Among the Urban
Poor” 13: 0629
television viewing 6: 0001; 13: 0629
Presidential campaigns
3: 0641
President’s Commission on the Assassination
of President Kennedy
1: 0161
Prevention of violence
4: 0712, 0750; 10: 0199; 19: 0257
PRIDE Inc.
17: 0598
Prisoners
mentally retarded 11: 0786
Prisons
general 7: 0001, 0454; 18: 0663; 19: 0257
juvenile delinquency programs 19: 0507
Procaccino and Smith v. Gallagher
14: 0258
Protest
7: 0691
Psychiatry
19: 0257, 0507
Psychoanalysis
19: 0257, 0507
Psychology
19: 0257, 0507
Race relations
3: 0692; 7: 0001
see also Black militancy
see also Civil rights
see also Racial violence
see also Racism
see also White militancy
Racial discrimination
Air Force, U.S. 6: 0529
investigation of federal government 6: 0529
Racial equality
6: 0529
Racial protest
5: 0002; 17: 0659
Racial riots
11: 0355
Racial violence
general 3: 0692; 10: 0432, 0644; 11: 0001;
17: 0167, 0598
press comments on riots 15: 0630
22
Strang, David P.
18: 0663
Student aid
5: 0083; 14: 0792
Student protest
African Americans 2: 0836
general 2: 0419, 0836; 7: 0454; 11: 0308;
12: 0001, 0823; 14: 0258, 0258, 0258,
0480, 0792; 17: 0368, 0659
police response 2: 0836
remarks by President Nixon 14: 0480
San Francisco State College 11: 0096
University of California, Berkeley 7: 0659
use of injunctions against campus disorders
14: 0480
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Columbia University 14: 0258
general 2: 0836; 12: 0823
Subpoena
2: 0001
Suicide
3: 0692; 12: 0377; 17: 0754; 19: 0001
Summerskill, John
17: 0659
Supreme Court, U.S.
1: 0557; 7: 0454
Sutton, Percy E.
3: 0651
Sweden
political assassinations 18: 0001
Task Force on Group Violence
2: 0419, 0836; 3: 0001, 0185; 9: 0648
Task Force on Historical and Comparative
Perspectives on Violence in America
3: 0614–0618; 9: 0693; 13: 0001
Task Force on Individual Acts of Violence
4: 0339–0710; 9: 0456; 12: 0934; 13: 0001
Task Force on Law and Law Enforcement
5: 0701; 9: 0480; 13: 0001; 14: 0001, 0178
Task Force on Mass Media
5: 0720; 6: 0001
Tazewell, C. W.
3: 0692
Technology
applications to violence control 4: 0339
Television
broadcasting standards 18: 0335
general 5: 0720; 7: 0691; 13: 0629; 18: 0335
impact on child behavior 13: 0629
influence on the urban poor 6: 0001
news coverage 16: 0389
Rossi, Peter
7: 0001
Russell, Carlos
3: 0651
Russia
political violence and terror 18: 0001
Sahid, Joseph R.
18: 0663
San Francisco State College
Black Students Union 17: 0659
general 14: 0258, 0480
student protest 11: 0096
Schneider, Alfred R.
6: 0001
Schollenberger, Lew
comments on commission views of news
media 16: 0389
SDS
see Students for a Democratic Society
Secret Service, U.S.
1: 0161; 13: 0219
Sevareid, Eric
comments on commission views of news
media 16: 0389
Seymour, Whitney North, Sr.
3: 0651
Short, James F., Jr.
1: 0768; 13: 0094
Shrank, John
13: 0219
Skolnick, Jerome H.
3: 0001, 0185; 10: 0001; 17: 0368
Slavery
3: 0692
Snipers
15: 0630
Sociology
19: 0257, 0507
Software Systems, Inc.
10: 0333
Southern states
3: 0692; 15: 0414, 0630; 17: 0167
Spiegel, John P.
3: 0651
Stanford University
14: 0258
Stanton, Frank
comments on commission views of news
media 16: 0389
Stokes, Carl
10: 0644; 17: 0598
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judicial response 17: 0368
nineteenth-century Massachusetts 17: 0167
Republican National Convention in Miami
10: 0825
see also Riots
Venezuela
government response to violence in
Betancourt regime 17: 0167
Veterans
African Americans in Vietnam War 7: 0439
Victims of crime
compensation 4: 0339
general 4: 0001; 19: 0001, 0507
Vietnam War
3: 0001; 7: 0454
Vigilantism
17: 0001
Violence
see Advocacy of violence
see Frontier violence, U.S.
see Gang violence
see Group violence
see Individual violence
see Observed violence
see Political violence
see Prevention of violence
see Racial violence
see Riots
see Urban violence
Virginia
proposal of new educational system to
prevent crime and delinquency 3: 0692
VISTA
see Volunteers in Service to America
Volunteerism
7: 0454; 13: 0906
Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
lawyers as volunteers 13: 0906
Voter registration
10: 0432; 14: 0920
Walker, Daniel
9: 0942, 0987; 10: 0001
War
Albert Einstein–Sigmund Freud
correspondence on prevention of war
3: 0692
violence in United States during wars
17: 0167
see also Vietnam War
Washington, D.C.
see D.C.
Television cont.
racial and class differences in teenager
viewing 13: 0629
viewing among low-income population
13: 0629
see also ABC
see also CBS
see also NBC
Third World Liberation Front (TWLF)
17: 0659
Toledo, Ohio
gun control laws 2: 0001
Torresola, Griselio
13: 0219
Traffic deaths
19: 0001
Trials
jurisdictional issues for presidential
assassins 1: 0161
Truman, Harry S.
13: 0219
Tumin, Melvin M.
19: 0001, 0257, 0507
Tuttle, Charles H.
3: 0651
TWLF
see Third World Liberation Front
UFM
see United Freedom Movement
United Freedom Movement (UFM)
10: 0644; 17: 0598
United Kingdom (U.K.)
political assassinations 18: 0001
University of California, Berkeley
7: 0659; 12: 0823; 14: 0258
University of California, San Francisco
14: 0480
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
14: 0480
Urban violence
church response 18: 0663
civil disorders in Chicago and D.C. 18: 0663
Cleveland shoot-out between police and
black militants 10: 0432
deaths 16: 0215
Democratic National Convention in Chicago
10: 0001, 0804, 0832, 0961
general 3: 0651; 9: 0050, 0942; 10: 0644,
0832; 11: 0001, 0241, 0355; 12: 0377;
15: 0001, 0167, 0306, 0352, 0630, 0948;
16: 0001; 17: 0598; 19: 0257
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Wolk, Ronald
11: 0351
Women
criminal activities 19: 0507
Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom
3: 0247
Work-study programs
5: 0083
York, Frederick
11: 0223
Youth
7: 0454; 13: 0629; 14: 0920
see also Juvenile delinquency
Zangara, Giuseppe
13: 0219
Zimring, Franklin E.
17: 0754
Washington State
gun ownership restrictions of King County
2: 0001
Wayne State University
conflict resolution 11: 0167
Weapons
blunt instruments 4: 0001
knives 4: 0001
see also Firearms
White militancy
2: 0419; 15: 0414, 0612; 17: 0368
Wildavsky, Aaron
6: 0529
Wofford, Harris, Jr.
6: 0237
Wolfgang, Marvin E.
1: 0768; 11: 0934; 13: 0094
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