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State Corrections Commissioner Russell G. Oswald, a chunky, earnest man who, before moving to New York as a top parole officer, had won high praise from penologists for modernizing Wisconsin's prisons, rushed to Attica from his Albany office. He arrived...
Governor Rockefeller was attending a Washington meeting of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board when aides telephoned him about the Attica uprising. He quickly agreed...
...ambiguous?and irresponsible?reference to the hundred or so demonstrators, both black and white, who had arrived in Attica. It could have been taken by the inmates as a reason to hold...
...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...