A Midsummer's Nightmare

A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHTMARE Glenville, lying near the northeast corner of Cleveland, is a neighborhood of two- and three-story homes with brad front porches and small front lawns. In the 1940's Glenville was a largely Jewish area; today it is predominately black. Although similar today, in the 1960's it stood in tidy contrast to the Hough area, lying to the west. For Police Officer William Kehoe, performing traffic duty on the East Side, July 23, 1968, was a …

…came down peacefully. He came down the left side of the street and when he turned the corner, that's when all hell broke loose. Ahmed had admitted that he did not have total control of the situation. There were many nationalists involved and he was only one. "I had come to be the leader. But the night of the 23rd, there was no leader. After we got our guns, it was every man for himself."