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SUMMARY:"Seaside’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Riots 1964: Operation Seaside" With
  R.J. Marx
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DESCRIPTION:“Seaside’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Riots 1964: Operation Seaside
 ” With R.J. Marx at the Seaside Public Library\nSat. Sept. 19th 2 pm –
  3 pm\nSeaside Public Library\, 1131 Broadway St\, Seaside\, OR 97138\n\n
 On Saturday\, September 19th\, 2026 the Seaside Public Library will welcom
 e back R.J. Marx\, who will be giving the final in a series of presentatio
 ns titled\, “Seaside’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Riots – 1964: Operation Sea
 side.” This event will take place at 2:00 p.m. in the Community Room. Th
 is event is made possible by the generous support of the Seaside Library F
 riends & Foundation. \nMilitary on the streets and on rooftops. Young peop
 le swarming into Seaside. A national crisis brewing as cities everywhere f
 elt the pressures of Civil Rights unrest and the Vietnam War. By 1964\, Se
 aside was reeling from two years of Labor Day violence that Mayor Maurice 
 Pysher characterized as a “Holy War” against “lawless\, godless” y
 outh. Authorities coordinated ”Operation Seaside\,” a massive security
  plan involving 100 National Guardsmen and 44 state troopers\, while movin
 g the popular Pypo Club to a new location to isolate teenagers from the be
 ach. \nIn “Seaside’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Riots 1962-1964\, How a Coastal
  City’s Labor Day Riots Heralded a Decade of Unrest\,” author R.J. Mar
 x chronicles how the weekend’s events pitted over 1\,000 youngsters agai
 nst well-drilled forces utilizing modern tactics like undercover walkie-ta
 lkie surveillance and Polaroid cameras for booking arrests. \nThe riots ga
 ined national infamy when Seaside was featured in Barry Goldwater’s camp
 aign film “Choice” to portray an American “mobocracy\,” and was of
 ficially listed in an FBI report as one of nine major national riot locati
 ons that year. While the overwhelming force effectively broke the annual r
 iot cycle\, it eventually led to the replacement of the city’s “wretch
 ed” detention facilities. \nR.J. Marx is an author\, editor and journali
 st specializing in culture\, music and local history. He served as editor 
 of the award-winning weekly The Record-Review\, covering the politics and 
 personalities of the Westchester County\, New York communities. In 2015\, 
 he relocated to the Oregon Coast\, as the editor of the Seaside Signal and
  the South County reporter for The Astorian. He retired in 2023. When he
 ’s not writing\, Marx is a gigging saxophonist.
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