Labor Day special
Seaside, Oregon, 1965: Is the cycle of violence broken for good?
Police contained 1964’s Labor Day riots in Seaside without serious incident. Officials wanted to keep it that way in 1965.
But the three years of unrest led to a sea change at city hall and town governance.
After three years…
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