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Newark Police Dept Report on Willie Wright (Capt Charles Kinney)

Report submitted by Newark Police Captain Charles Kinney, regarding his “Investigation Into Possible Criminal Conspiracy During Riots of July 1967.” Wright was one of several figures under surveillance from the Newark Police Department before and after the 1967 Newark Rebellion. The report relied mostly on word-of-mouth accounts from informants, with little hard evidence to support its allegations. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries

Witness Testimony of Harry Wheeler- Dec 8, 1967-ilovepdf-compressed

Testimony of Harry Wheeler, director of the Committee Against Negro and Puerto Rican Removal, before the Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorder on December 8, 1967. The Commission was held following the 1967 Newark rebellion to investigate the causes of the rebellion and called witnesses to testify like a Grand Jury. –Credit: Rutgers University Digital Legal Library Repository

thumbnail of Statement by Governor Richard J Hughes to the Governor’s Select Commission for the Study Civil Disorder in New Jersey (1)-ilovepdf-compressed

Statement by Governor Richard J Hughes to the Governor’s Select Commission for the Study Civil Disorder in New Jersey (1)-ilovepdf-compressed

Transcript of address given by Governor Richard J. Hughes to the Governor’s Select Commission for the Study of Civil Disorder in New Jersey on August 8, 1967. The Commission was convened by Governor Hughes to study “the causes, the incidents, and the remedies” for the 1967 Newark rebellion. The Governor’s Commission, also known as the Lilley Commission after its chair Robert Lilley, held months of hearings from Newark residents and later published its findings in Report for Action. — Credit: New Jersey State Archives

Statement to Gov Commission Committee-ilovepdf-compressed

Address given to the Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorders by an unidentified member of the Commission, about a year after the publication of the Commission’s findings in Report for Action. In this address, the speaker criticizes the city of Newark and State of New Jersey for failing to implement the vast majority of the recommendations of the Commission, “the fulfillment of which it considered mandatory to the establishment of order and justice.” Only 26 of the Commission’s 99 recommendations were implemented. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Ken Gibson Comments on Gov Commission Report

Draft article by Newark Evening News reporter Doug Eldridge describing Ken Gibson’s comments on the report issued by the Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorders. Gibson, a member of Newark’s Business Industrial Coordinating Council (BICC) and 1966 mayoral candidate, became the first African-American mayor of Newark in 1970. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Letter from Kim Jefferson to Robert Lilley- February 26, 1968

Letter from Rev. Kim Jefferson, Executive Secretary of the Greater Newark Council of Churches, to Robert Lilley, chairman of the Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorder, on February 26, 1968. The Commission was convened by Governor Hughes to study “the causes, the incidents, and the remedies” for the 1967 Newark rebellion. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Newark PBA Press Release on Gov Commission Report- Feb 12 1968

A February 12, 1968 press release from the Newark Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) issued in response to the report of the Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorder. The Commission was convened by Governor Hughes to study “the causes, the incidents, and the remedies” for the 1967 Newark rebellion. The press release, prepared by Anthony Giuliano and Raymond Bossert, claimed “The accusations and allegations made [in the report] are without any proof, unsubstantiated and Un-American.” — Credit: Newark Public Library

NJ State PBA Press Release on Gov Commission Report, Feb 19 1968

A February 19, 1968 press release from the New Jersey State Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) issued in response to the report of the Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorder. The Commission was convened by Governor Hughes to study “the causes, the incidents, and the remedies” for the 1967 Newark rebellion. In response to the Commission’s recommendation to establish a civilian police review board in Newark, the PBA stated “the creation of a civilian police review board will be fought with every weapon at the command of the State PBA.” — Credit: Newark Public Library

Members of the Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorder

Photograph of members of the Governor’s Select Commission on Civil Disorder. Governor Richard J. Hughes established the commission to study the causes of the 1967 Newark rebellion and issue a comprehensive report. Seated left to right: Governor Richard Hughes, former Governor Robert Meyner, Robert Lilley (Commission Chairman and president of NJ Bell Telephone Co.), and former Governor Alfred Driscoll. Standing from left to right: Oliver Lofton (director of Newark Legal Services Project), Raymond Brown (Commission Vice-Chairman and Jersey City lawyer), Ben Z. Leuchter (editor of Vineland Times-Journal), and Reverend Prince Taylor (Methodist Bishop of New Jersey). Absent are William A. Wachenfeld (former New Jersey Supreme Court justice), John J. Gibbons (president of New Jersey Bar Association), Bishop John Dougherty (president of Seton Hall University), and Sanford Jaffe (Commission Executive Director and US attorney). — Credit: Newark Public Library

Draft of Mr Lilleys Opening Remarks, Report for Action press conference

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