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The Kerner Commission Report
The kerner commission report was dramatically different in its scope and its tone from other reports that had been produced in the ninet sixties related to some of the same topics. President johnson realized that its work was not going the way that he had hoped, and eventually cut its funding. He did appoint atto kerner to the federal court of appeals, but he blamed lindsey for the direction the commission had taken. And then, just as a side note, kerner's career came to an end thanks to a corruption scandal. His way outside the scope of this episode, but i thought if I didn't mention it, people would say, why didn't you mention auto ker