Tom Snyder Radio Show Los Angeles Riots Day 2 April 30 1992

It's Day 2 of rioting in Los Angeles following the Rodney King verdicts. In one of the darkest times in LA history, Tom is trying to hold things together and during this hour-plus, has a handful of brief interviews:
0:00 Local news and start of the program
6:52 An anonymous juror of the Rodney King case
19:35 Ted Koppel of ABC News, moments before Nightline went on the air
30:28 Jonathan Alter of Newsweek magazine
48:52 Mark Ridley-Thomas, then a member of the Los Angeles City Council
59:32 Listener calls
1:06:44 Lt. John Duncan of the LAPD

It's interesting to hear the listeners' take of an event taking place far away. Throughout this entire clip, Tom (while maintaining his professionalism) just sounds devastated.

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This file was originally posted on a site called "Isn't Life Terrible" run by a man named Don. He stopped updating it in 2011, and I'm not sure what happened. Nevertheless, I'm glad I saved this as I couldn't find it anywhere else online. It comes from WICC in Bridgeport, CT.

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