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William Burkhard assaulted
If the assault took place where the ambulance attended Burkhard, he was one of only two individuals assaulted off the avenues. However, he likely made his way to that location after being attacked on 7th Avenue. 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 in the hours before 1 AM, suggesting the presence of groups of people in this area in the hours immediately after the disorder spread from 125th Street.
Burkhard appears in the record of hospital attendances, and in lists of the injured in four newspapers. 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 Daily News, New York Evening Journal and New York Post listed only his injuries to his cheek. Although the ambulance records did not include information on an individual's race, the description of his alleged attackers as "colored persons," together with his address, indicate that he was a white man.
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- "Injured," Daily News, March 20, 1935, 3
- "1 Dead, 7 shot, 100 Hurt as Harlem Crowds Riot over Boy, 16, and Hearse," New York Herald Tribune, March 20, 1935, 1.
- “List of Victims," New York Evening Journal, March 20, 1935, 1, 3.
- “List of Casualties in Riots,” New York Post, March 20, 1935, 6.
- "Medical Attendances, 19-20 March 1935," Subject Files, Box 167, Folder 5 (Roll 76), Records of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, 1934-1945 (New York City Municipal Archives).