Word: attica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exorcised all his demons in public. Apart, they reveled in the sort of vocational excesses they had once checked in each other. Lennon collaborated with his wife, Yoko Ono, on a series of noisome avant-garde records, then switched to abrasive social protest on subjects as various as the Attica killings and the oppression of women. McCartney wrote about the undemanding pleasures of farm life and domestic bliss, going so far as to record a version of Mary Had a Little Lamb four years...
...seems like so much quibbling, albeit understandable quibbling. What Collier and Horowitz are trying to do is to create a grand, novelistic family epic where personal sins and relationships have an exact coincidence with the world the Rockefellers dominate. Thus the Ludlow massacre, and its strikingly similar grandchild at Attica, are made to seem as if they hover over the family consciousness like a dark cloud--but in a world as protective and as solipsistic as the one the Rockefellers inhabit, that may very well not be the case at all. Collier and Horowitz make a convincing argument for wealth...
...took three separate investigations--the McKay Commission, the prosecution and the Meyer Report released last December--before the state of New York would finally admit that the inquiry into the Attica massacre was biased, that the prosecution was "one-sided" in taking out 42 indictments on 62 inmates for 1289 alleged crimes and only one indictment on a state trooper. It took almost four and a half years for the truth to emerge: that, according to the Meyer report, state troopers committed "criminal acts of brutality to inmates," that troopers and corrections officers failed to act as courageously and legally...
...Attica massacre and the subsequent attempts to cover it up are not the fault solely of the state troopers and corrections officers involved. A large part of the responsibility for Attica lies with the man who ordered the police into the prison to begin with--Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. Even the McKay Commission concluded that Rockefeller "should not have committed the state's armed forces against the rebels without first appearing on the scene and satisfying himself that there was no other alternative and that all precautions against excessive force had been taken." Rockefeller never visited Attica to deal with...
...investigation of the Attica massacre should continue at all levels--especially at that of the governor and his advisors. And because, as the Meyer report says, members of the two recently-disbanded grand juries from nearby Wyoming County displayed "partiality and emotion...in considering charges against enforcement personnel who were their friends and neighbors," a new grand jury should be formed in another county to consider more justly the charges brought before it. Finally, the inmates convicted for their roles in the Attica uprising should be retried...