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The McCone Commission
Definition
- In the late summer of 1965, a predominantly black neighborhood of Los Angeles known as Watts descended into 6 days of massive rioting. California Governor Edmund “Pat” Brown, reeling from the political impact of the unrest, tapped John A. McCone, former director of the CIA and a well-known conservative, to conduct an impartial study of the unrest. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement; Mccone Commission, The]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/The_McCone_Commission
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