Peace Riot–79 years ago today, San Franciscans poured onto Market Street to celebrate Victory Japan Day (VJ Day). World War II was over. By the next day, August 15, the celebration had turned into a riot, leaving 11 dead, a thousand hospitalized and *at least* six women raped. No one was prosecuted.
This is the starting point for my next novel, AN UNLIKELY PROSPECT, which comes out next August, on the 80th anniversary of these events.
Here is one of Gary Kamiya’s pieces about the event in the SF Chronicle: https://tinyurl.com/2y3hw4ks.
The photograph is by Virginia de Carvalho/The Chronicle.