The Attack on the Riders

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Reporter Herbert Caplow has been attacked by what he describes as 10 to 15 actively violent men. He pulls out the equipment that he and his crew were carrying when they were attacked to show viewers how badly everything was damaged. Now after we were forced away, that's when the attack on the riders themselves started. In other words, the mob first took care of the reporters and cameras, even the sound equipment, so nobody could record what they were about to do. And then they had at it. One of the riders was banged up pretty badly. Two other students were hurt and in trying to rescue off member of the group and aid to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, John Segan

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Featuring:

Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson, Michael and Denise ‘68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, author of Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, and co-host of the podcast This Day in Esoteric Political History.

WBUR reporter Gabrielle Emanuel, who has done groundbreaking reporting on the Reverse Freedom Rides.

Rev. Juan Carlos Ruiz, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.