Word: attica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show that they were still alive, and allowed the captives to speak before the cameras. The hostages pleaded for more time, warned against an assault, and urged Rockefeller to come to the prison. "Unless Rockefeller comes here, I am a dead man," said Sergeant Edward Cunningham, a ten-year Attica employee. Next day Cunningham died in the attack...
Four of the observers (Wicker, Badillo, Dunne and Jones) telephoned Rockefeller and for 90 minutes pleaded with him to come to Attica and talk to them as a means of expressing concern and buying more time. "If we could just get two hours, three hours, more time . . ." said Badillo. "I can give you that, all right," Rocky replied. "We'll stretch this [the negotiations] out as long as anybody thinks there's a chance of settling it peaceably. But if I come up and talk to you, they [the prisoners] will demand that I come inside ?and that wouldn...
...families of the dead hostages, the news that police bullets had caused the deaths created a shocking sense of betrayal. One Attican charged emotionally that his relative "was killed by a bullet that had the name Rockefeller written on it." At week's end there were still many in Attica who would not or could not face up to the medical findings...
...some U.S. cities, there were sporadic demonstrations protesting the assault. From throughout New York and across its borders, prison officers, state troopers and other lawmen arrived in Attica to attend a solemn and trying round of wakes and funerals for the slain hostages. Dressed in trim uniforms and saluting sharply, but sometimes weeping, they helped the town mourn...
...least five investigations, including one by a congressional committee, began trying to find out just what went wrong at Attica. They threatened to get in each other's way and confuse matters even more. A single Warren-type commission commanding broad public confidence might be more useful?especially since many of the convicts have been shunted off to other correction centers and Robert E. Fischer, deputy attorney general, has imposed a total press blackout on the prison...