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^* These notes have been developed as part of the writer's continued collaboration with David J. Olson in a study of the politics of riot commissions in American cities. Our extensive research on the Kerner Commission, the New Jersey (Lilley) Commission, and post-riot politics in Newark, Detroit and Milwaukee has provided the underlying perspective for these comments. I am grateful to Murray Edelman for comments on the first draft.

¹ See Fogelson's, earlier statement, “White on Black: A Critique of the McCone Commission Report on the Los Angeles Riots,” Political Science Quarterly, LXXXII (Sept., 1907), 217-47Google Scholar.

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