Word: attica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RAINED THE night before New York state troopers and corrections officers attacked D Yard of Attica Correctional Facility and ended the prisoners' four day uprising One inmate later said that God must have been crying...
...attack, the police killed ten hostages and 29 Attica inmates. The inmates had killed one guard in their takeover. The Grand Jury considering the matter in session from November 1971 to September 1974, indicted no one for the killing of the ten hostages, no one for the killing of the ten hostages, no one for the killing of the 29 inmates, no state official or trooper or guard for indiscriminate firing or carelessness or man slaughter, no one for failing to provide medical care--although the authorities knew the attack was coming--or for failing to prevent reprisals after...
...Wicker was an evewitness during most of the four days' uprising at Attica. The inmates knew of him as a New York Times columnist who offer supported civil rights and prison reform in his writing. And they requested that he and 13 others, including radical lawyer William Kunstler and Black Panther Party leader Bobby Scale, form an observers' committee through which the inmates might negotiate with the state. Four years later the Grand Jury has finished its work, and Wicker anger and despair have culminated in A Time To Die, his personal chronicle of the Attica weekend September 9 through...
...addition to his minute by minute account of the perceptions, tensions negotiations, and rhetoric on all sides at Attica Wicker presents his autobiography. It serves as a perfect corollats to the grim recital of events and speeches. When he needs to express the observers and inmates in tense fears of a police assault for instance, he tells a story from his childhood. Sitting on his front porch one hot summer evening, he felt an eerie tingle in his backbone, a rasping ominous sound that grew and grabbed his ears and shrieked Wicker was petrified with fear even after...
...ATTICA CAME at a turning point in Wicker's life. His marriage was breaking up, a shattering of stability he had come to depend upon. He was fat, 45, and frustrated in his ambition to be a great writer. Indeed, he was afraid that nothing he had ever written would last, that in his columns he was preaching only to those already converted. His aloof, critical onlooker's ethic, valid professionally, no longer could sustain his life. As he himself says, in the third-person prose that achieves objectivity. "His sense of self had finally required of him that...