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Revisiting South Los Angeles, 20 years after deadly race riot

Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened just last week. History won’t allow him to forget it. It was a day that marked the beginning of one of the deadliest, most destructive race riots in the nation’s history, and one in which Watson’s decision to take part made him one of the enduring faces of the violence.

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