Re: [ARSCLIST] Zoot suit riots audio search

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Hodge wrote:

> Hi Jeanette,
>
> My curiosity has got the best of me, so I need to ask what the zoot suit riots were about. I know what a zoot suit is , but a riot ?
>
> Best !
>
> Bob Hodge

Look here:
http://web.mala.bc.ca/davies/H324War/Zootsuit.riots.media.1943.htm

And there was a show on PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/zoot/

dl

>
>
> >>> JBERARD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/14/2005 4:27 PM >>>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question just in from a production assistant looking desperately for any news radio coverage of the zoot suit riots in Los Angeles, 1943.  She'd settle for newsreel footage with audio.
>
> She has already contacted us, the American Radio Archive, the Museum of TV and Radio, UCLA, and several long-standing LA radio stations.
>
> If there's anyone out there with actual audio or a solid lead, she'd be extremely glad to hear of it.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeanette
>
> Jeanette Berard, MLS, CA
> Special Collections Librarian
> Thousand Oaks Library System
> (805) 449-2660 xt228
> jberard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx