Los Angeles Times' Cartoonist Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale

On the eve of the BART verdict in Oakland (and the beefing up of police for race riots), Los Angeles Times' writer Larry Harnisch reflects on a 100 year old LA Times cartoon.July 7, 1910: Times cartoonist Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale comments on the race riots that followed Jack Johnson’s defeat of James Jeffries in the Fight of the Century. Many cities barred theaters from showing film of the