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Against All Tides

The Untold Story of the USS Kitty Hawk Race Riot

by Marv Truhe
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Simmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engaged in air strikes off the coast of North Vietnam.
The US Navy charged Black sailors with rioting and assaults on White sailors in an incident referred to as a race riot, while totally ignoring violent unprovoked assaults committed by White sailors and Marines.
Author Marv Truhe was a Navy JAG defense lawyer seeking justice for the accused Black sailors. Truhe possesses one of the most complete collections, personal or institutional, of original source documents of the Kitty Hawk incident and its legal aftermath—trial transcripts, investigation reports, hundreds of sworn statements and medical reports, federal court pleadings, and case files and witness interviews.
How could virtually all official and unofficial accounts of the incident have placed blame for the incident solely on twenty-three Black sailors? How could they have been subjected to blatant racial injustices without their story being told until now?
It is time to reveal the uncomfortable answers to these questions and expose the injustices perpetrated against these twenty-three young men.

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    October 11, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781641607858

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      • ISBN: 9781641607858
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    • English

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      October 1, 2022
      Fifty years ago, the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk was in the South China Sea for an unprecedented length of time while the crew conducted intense bombing missions over Vietnam. Everyone was worn out, tensions were high, race relations were strained, and for about five hours on October 12, 1972, sporadic fights broke out between white and Black sailors. Truhe, then a navy JAG officer, defended a group of Black sailors against charges of assault and rioting. As he chronicles here, he discovered that the investigation was slanted to make his clients appear to be the sole perpetrators. This was part of an extensive campaign of injustices that made a mockery of equal justice under the law. Against All Tides is the extensively sourced story of that legal battle for justice in the courtroom and with the navy brass. Truhe's account of the facts and legal processes make it clear that the incident was hardly a race riot. In all, an excellent analysis of an ugly military episode that has important bearing on the ongoing travesties of structural racism.

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