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...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...
Perhaps no other incident better symbolizes the division of American thought and feeling about the Attica tragedy than a dedication ceremony held last week for Georgetown University's new law center, a few blocks from the Supreme Court building. The guest speaker was Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. Preceding him, Alfred F. Ross, president of Georgetown's student bar association, reflected the somber mood of Burger's audience by making an impassioned reference to the prison riot and its aftermath. "What happened at Attica," he said, "was not merely a senseless and brutal massacre of men whose...
Burger rose impassively to deliver a sober and reflective speech. Where Ross had spoken of "human beings" locked in prisons, the Chief Justice-without specific reference to Attica-described convicts as the "delinquents and misfits" of society. He cautioned the students that law was not the path to social reform, although he admitted to being intrigued by the "alluring prospect that our world can be changed in the courts" rather than by legislators. It was a moderate enough speech by a man who cares deeply about prison reform, but the students were not in a frame of mind for moderation...