Title Work

Title No: 3828

Title: City Police force becomes small army in Mississippi

Medium: Moving Image

Original Medium: Film

Dates:

28 Feb  1964 (Created)

22 Oct  1985 (Compiled)

2 reels of film (Roll A & B)
Reel A - Interview of Mayor Thompson with some footage of city police, dogs, etc.
Roll B - Footage of specially built armored car and riot police.

It is known that every time Mayor Thompson hears that African Americans may demonstrate, he sends out the armored car known as "Thompson's Tank."

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 8 min 20 sec 

Forms: Stock shot

Genres: News

Subjects: Tanks (Military science); Riots; Jackson (Miss.)--Race relations; Police dogs; Suffrage--Mississippi; Riot control

Name As Subjects: Thompson, Allen C.