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Less than a month after those six men died in San Quentin, a second drama of irrationality was performed in a prison a continent away. Unlike the California incident, much of what happened at Attica occurred in full view of reporters and television cameras. Nonetheless, there seems to be as much confusion about what happened at Attica and how it happened as there is about how the six men came to die on an afternoon in San Quentin...
...occurred. Similarly, New York officials changed stories with the impunity with which a snake sheds its skin. Alleging at first that the hostages who did not come out alive had been killed by inmates, the New York officials finally announced that all 40 of the deaths that day at Attica had resulted from gunfire by the invading forces of the state...
...Your feature article on Attica prison [Sept. 27] made me want to vomit. What do you think the troopers should have attacked with-ice cream cones...
...irony of the Attica slaughter is indeed apparent. The inmates, branded "animals" by many, were animals only by virtue of the conditions under which they were forced to live. For a fact, zoo animals live better than do these prisoners, and zoo animals are not even supposedly being "rehabilitated...
...your cover story on Attica, you say: "They passed around clandestine writings of their own; among them was a poem written by an unknown prisoner, crude but touching in its would-be heroic style...