The American Jewish Committee urged Gov. Otto Kerner, chairman of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, to reconvene the commission to “place into sharp and dramatic focus those preconditions to riot which are laying loose and perhaps unattended in our communities and which you so eloquently warned against after studying the disorders of 1967.” Bertram H. Gold, AJC executive director, said that a new meeting “would automatically communicate to the Negro community the Commission’s intentions to keep the report alive, and to save it from a file-and-forget destiny.”
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