The Watts Riots began on Aug. 11, 1965 and ended on Aug. 16, 1965 — and that day Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown declared the riots were over. Here is a sampling of moments about the Watts Riots, or what ...

“ Almost all of them are dead now,” the Los Angeles Times’ Doug Smith began his story Wednesday evaluating his paper’s coverage of the Watts uprising of 1965. “When I joined The Times in 1970, they ...

WATTS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- In the summer of 1965, newscasts delivered the roiling distress of South Los Angeles into the living rooms of America. What was not so visible was the underlying ...