‘The mayor saw it with his own eyes:’ Reporter chronicles 1968 chaos of DC riots - WTOP Morning Headlines - Tuesday, April 03, 2018

In the 1960s, 14th and U was the pulsing center of black life in Washington. So when the first bricks went through store windows at a Peoples Drug store there after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Washington Star reporter Paul Delaney knew there was only one place to be. This story is part of the series, “DC Uprising: Voices from the 1968 Riots.” [Logo](#) MORNING HEADLINES - April 03, 2018 [mobile-header-ad]( [alt text here]( [mobile-img]( [alt text here]( [‘The mayor saw it with his own eyes:’ Reporter chronicles 1968 chaos of DC riots]( In the 1960s, 14th and U was the pulsing center of black life in Washington. So when the first bricks went through store windows at a Peoples Drug store there after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Washington Star reporter Paul Delaney knew there was only one place to be. 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