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9 9, my 5 “oy : 4 “syst SB CONEID POSSIBLE RACIAL VIOLENCE MAJOR URBAN AREAS RACIAL MATTERS VIII. REACTION OF LEADERS AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO MINORITY DEMANDS LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA In the "Los Angeles Times" of March 5, 1968, II-3,; was an article reporting that John etor, Beverly Hills businessman, had announced plans to hold a summer camp for 500 Watts youngsters in the San Bernardino Mountains this Summer. He stated youths would be recruited from a Watts organization called "young Men For Total Democracy" having stays of one to two weeks during the summer. He also announced he had purchased land on El Segundo Boulevard, when community protests precluded him from building a youth center at El Segundo Boulevard and Lou Dillon Avenue as originally planned. Factor also commented upon the report by the National Advisory Commission on civil disorders, agreeing tnat 4t wasai'indictment of white people, and... we have failed to really do anything ." Factor stated lack of action by white people had ‘created Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown." On December 26, 1962, John Factor was granted a full pardon by the late President John F. Kennedy relieving Factor from possible depor- tation proceedings as an alien who had been convicted in 1943 for mail fraud. VENICE, CALIFORNIA Venice is a section of Los Angeles immediately adjacent to Santa Monica, California, which 41s policedby the LAPD. In the Santa Monica "Evening Outlook" newspaper of March 11, 1968, Page 15, was an article reporting that the West Area Welfare Planning Council was already making plans for summer programs to "Keep Venice cool" during the summer. -15-