--- title: Newark Riots at 50: What One Photographer Saw in 1967 description: A LIFE magazine cover story boasted of unparalleled access to those behind the riot, but it would take longer for the full story to emerge. canonical: https://time.com/4848976/newark-riots-1967-photographer/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-12T13:30:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:50:19.972Z og:title: Newark Riots at 50: What One Photographer Saw in 1967 og:description: A LIFE magazine cover story boasted of unparalleled access to those behind the riot, but it would take longer for the full story to emerge og:url: https://time.com/4848976/newark-riots-1967-photographer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c9ef3168eb66cc9/6988d4d50b72e3c8f06ee89f/newark-riot-1967-08.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2405 og:image:height: 1353 og:image:alt: Newark Riots 1967 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Newark Riots at 50: What One Photographer Saw in 1967 twitter:description: A LIFE magazine cover story boasted of unparalleled access to those behind the riot, but it would take longer for the full story to emerge twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8c9ef3168eb66cc9/6988d4d50b72e3c8f06ee89f/newark-riot-1967-08.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # What One Photographer Saw During the Deadly Newark Riots of 1967 > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) Jul 12, 2017 1:30 PM UTC  Caption from LIFE. Suspects line a wall at police headquarters. They had come over from Brooklyn and were arrested by Newark police. Officers said gun held by policeman at left was in their car. Caption from LIFE. Suspects line a wall at police headquarters. They had come over from Brooklyn and were arrested by Newark police. Officers said gun held by policeman at left was in their car. Frank Dandridge—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/) and [Liz Ronk](https://time.com/author/liz-ronk/) Jul 12, 2017 1:30 PM UTC It wasn’t easy to tell the story of the rioting that broke out 50 years ago Wednesday in Newark, N.J., and continued over several chaotic and destructive days during which more than two dozen people were killed. As the [editors’ note](https://books.google.com/books?id=1lUEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false) in the issue of LIFE magazine dedicated to the riots explained, the photographers and reporters who had been sent to cover the news “faced danger and death in the riot-torn city, ducking sniper fire, skirting angry mobs, wondering if the jittery Guardsmen and trigger-happy police might not next open up on them.” LIFE devoted particular attention to the sniper fire, which was widely — and as it turns out, erroneously — believed at the time to have been directed toward law enforcement. Despite the danger and challenges on the ground, LIFE’s journalists — among them Frank Dandridge, the photographer behind the images seen in this slideshow — got access to a side of the story that might otherwise have gone unseen, as the editors’ note explained: --- > “” --- For all of its emphasis on the role of snipers, the magazine’s reporting hinted at what we now know to be true: the fear of organized snipers among the rioters was unfounded. Indeed, the story accompanying Dandridge’s images noted that “it was puzzling why so few police and Guardsmen were hit” if such gunmen were really active in the area. And, when Dandridge was taken to a “clandestine meeting” on the “outskirts of the riot zone,” the men he met there told him that while they had given up on nonviolence as a concept, they were not in fact shooting at people. Instead, they used the sound of gunfire to influence where the police went during the rioting. “Five or six shots in the air are enough to draw cops thick as fleas on a dog,” one told the magazine. By 1968, those hints in LIFE were confirmed in the official [report](https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/8073NCJRS.pdf) of the presidential commission appointed to investigate the matter. The policemen and Guardsmen present _believed_ that they were under fire from snipers, the commission found, but after three hours of searching during which “four truckloads of National Guardsmen had arrived and troopers and policemen were again crouched everywhere looking for a sniper” the only actual gunshot came from law enforcement. And, the report continued, the belief that snipers were nearby led the Guardsmen and state troopers to direct “mass fire” at a housing project, killing several bystanders. The heavy emphasis on sniper fire in LIFE’s coverage of the events in Newark may not reflect an accurate retelling of what happened, but the story remains valuable for how it sheds light on the widely circulating misinformation of the time — and Dandridge’s photographs remain as stirring as ever.  July 28, 1967 cover of LIFE magazine. Bud Lee—LIFE Magazine  Caption from LIFE. On Springfield Avenue, the section's main street, police duck and answer fire from two directions. Frank Dandridge—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images  During the Newark riots, an armed police officers holds a trio of suspects against a fence outside a looted store, Newark, New Jersey, 1967. Frank Dandridge—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. The targets were Negro snipers, who holed up in apartments and on roofs and carried on sporadic rifle exchanges with Guardsman, state troopers and city police. Frank Dandridge—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images  During the Newark riots, pedestrians walk past an undamaged beauty salon where a window sign reads 'Negro Owned, Black Power, Soul Brother,' Newark, New Jersey, 1967. Frank Dandridge—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images  A police officer holds a handgun as he takes cover behind a parked car on Springfield Avenue, Newark, New Jersey, 1967. Frank Dandridge—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Holding him with a pistol and a bayonet pressed into the neck, two wary Guardsmen search man they caught running away after a clothing store in the neighborhood had been looted. They questioned him, let him go. Frank Dandridge—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images  Caption from LIFE. Suspects line a wall at police headquarters. They had come over from Brooklyn and were arrested by Newark police. Officers said gun held by policeman at left was in their car. Frank Dandridge—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images   LIFE coverage of the Newark riots from the July 28, 1967 issue. Photos by Bob Peterson and Frank Dandridge. LIFE Magazine  LIFE coverage of the Newark riots from the July 28, 1967 issue. Photos by James Pickerell and Bud Lee. LIFE Magazine  LIFE coverage of the Newark riots from the July 28, 1967 issue. Photos by Bud Lee. LIFE Magazine  LIFE coverage of the Newark riots from the July 28, 1967 issue. Photos by Bud Lee. LIFE Magazine  LIFE coverage of the Newark riots from the July 28, 1967 issue. Photos by Frank Dandridge and Bob Peterson. LIFE Magazine  LIFE coverage of the Newark riots from the July 28, 1967 issue. Photos by Frank Dandridge and Bud Lee. LIFE Magazine  LIFE coverage of the Newark riots from the July 28, 1967 issue. Photo by Frank Dandridge. 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