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Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Chicago from 1955, and the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party from 1953, until his death.
Aug 13, 2020 · April 7, 1968 – Chicago, Illinois mayor Richard J. Daley announces his “Shoot To Kill” order, ordering The Chicago Police Department to shoot to kill any ars...
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Apr 4, 2002 · The riot inspired Mayor Richard J. Daley to issue his famous order, “shoot to kill arsonists” and “shoot to maim looters.” But the order was not what it seemed.
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(15 Apr 1968) 04/16/68 a0052071 - c0002652 Chicago, Illinois: Angry Mayor Daley of Chicago announces that his police force is to shoot to kill any arsonist...
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- Introduction
- Daley: An Irish American
- Background and Career
- Ethnic Politics
- Irish Relations – Political Homogeny
- Daley in Ireland 1964
- Civil Rights Disturbances in Chicago
- The Democratic National Convention of 1969
- Irish Eyes Are Watching
- Daley’s Proposed Visit in 1969
A particular day on the mayor’s calendar was March 17th– St. Patricks day. Daley enjoyed the celebrations, and the present-day parade owes much to his mayoralty. It was in his time that the parade was moved from its south side heartland to downtown Chicago.His third term saw the Chicago River dyed green, and this has endured. The parade offered vis...
Richard J. Daley’s ancestors hailed from the counties of Waterford and Limerick. The famine of the 1840s had triggered a steady influx of Irish immigrants. The Daleys like numerous Irish Catholics came to the U.S with little more than their political perspectives, traditions, and a determination to make a better future. Throughout the next few deca...
Daley’s youth resembled that of a boy growing up in Catholic Ireland. He attended Catholic elementary school, enlisted as an altar boy, and was enrolled in the Christian Brothers De LaSalle High School. Yet Daley was very much a child of the Chicago stockyards who spoke with what was said to be a dogged style and a back-of-the-yards accent. Later t...
Black, and white conflict intensified in the 1930s and racial violence was evident in Daley’s first term, notably as the Black Belt spread west and south, and as blacks moved into white neighbourhoods. The Democratic ‘machine’ in which Daley operated was based on patronage, which was traded for political loyalty. This was open to all groups in soci...
President Kennedy made his historic trip to Ireland in June of 1963; greeted by Taoiseach Sean Lemass as a long-lost son of Eire. Lemass would be in America soon afterwards and Daley rolled out the green carpet for the Taoiseach. A contingent of Black Horse Troop of colourfully uniformed horsemen escorted his limousine and the lampposts of Chicago’...
A month later America was shaken by the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas Texas. Daley was saddened by the death of the man he had backed so resolutely. During his second term in 1964 and while touring in Ireland Daley and his wife Sis called upon the ancestral home of the fallen president at Dunganstown, Co. Wexford. Alongside this, they ...
In January 1966 the black civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther king brought his movement to the north and made Chicago his headquarters. Initially his campaign was focused on access to social housing but was soon expanded to other issues. Mayor Daley, who did not want to be targeted as the enemy of black Chicago, heaped praise on King and his work...
Daley was no supporter of the American war in Vietnam. Nevertheless, he publicly supported its chief proponent, President Lydon B. Johnson and when Johnson asked Daley to hold the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he agreed. However, on August 23, three days before the convention began, an advance guard of ‘’Yippie’’ (Youth International P...
The events of Chicago were endlessly rebroadcast and are now a fixture of 1960s iconography. Indeed, they are part of every single documentary about America in the 1960s.We are perhaps desensitised to these images today. Yet the public at the time experienced an onslaught of horrific images including ones from the ongoing Vietnam war, the assassina...
Yet it was not until Daley’s proposed visit in July of 1969 and the decision to confer the freedom of the city of Waterford on him that things heated up in southern Ireland. In opposition to Daley’s visit was the Labour Party, Sinn Fein, and the Civil Rights Association. Agitation mostly comprised of debates, protest, public meetings, and the newsp...
This short video provides context to Richard J. Daley's famous 1968 "Shoot to Kill" order._____Subscribe to our channel! Follow Media Burn Archive on Fa...
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