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The McCone Commission  

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  • In the late summer of 1965, a predominantly black neighborhood of Los Angeles known as Watts descended into 6 days of massive rioting. California Governor Edmund “Pat” Brown, reeling from the political impact of the unrest, tapped John A. McCone, former director of the CIA and a well-known conservative, to conduct an impartial study of the unrest. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement; Mccone Commission, The]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-DR4RTTFM-N

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