Re: [ARSCLIST] Zoot suit riots audio search

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, what goes around comes around!

Now it would be called the "pants halfway down yer butt riots"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Zoot suit riots audio search


> 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