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William Burkhard assaulted
The assault on Burkhard was the first in a cluster of attacks on or near 7th Avenue north of 116th Street and later up around 125th Street by 1am, suggesting the presence of crowds in this area in the hours immediately after the disorder spread from 125th Street. He was one of only two individuals assaulted off the avenues, although it seems likely the attack originated on 7th Avenue.
Burkhard appears in the record of hospital attendances, and in lists of the injured in four papers. The New York Herald Tribune unusually provided the same details as the hospital records, that Burkhard had been “assaulted by some unknown colored persons.” The New York Daily News, New York Evening Journal and New York Post listed only his injuries to his cheek.
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- “List of Victims," New York Evening Journal, March 20, 1935, 1, 3.
- "Injured," New York Daily News, March 20, 1935, 3
- “List of Casualties in Riots,” New York Post, March 20, 1935, 6.
- “1 Dead, 7 shot, 100 Hurt as Harlem Crowds Riot over Boy, 16, and Hearse," New York Herald Tribune, March 20, 1935, 1.