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...Blyden got out again in 1962. He had been trained in prison as a bookkeeper, but his record was against...
...married and had a son (named after him, now seven years old). Then he took a mistress, Greta lude, a beautician. On Aug. 19, 1965, Blyden parked a rented car, a blue 1965 Mustang, in front of his girl friend's house in The Bronx. That same afternoon, a black man walked into Alexander's Rent-A-Car agency, six blocks away, and stole $600. He rode off in a 1965 blue Mustang, which had been waiting with a driver at the wheel...
...police soon found Blyden's car and a witness who said he had glanced for a few seconds at the man sitting in the parked Mustang. At the precinct house, they made Blyden try on a hat and sunglasses while their witness observed him through a one-way glass. The witness testified at Blyden's trial that he had "no doubt" Blyden was the man he had spotted. Greta Jude testified that Blyden had been with her since midmorning, but the jury apparently did not believe her. Blyden was sentenced to 15-20 years. The actual robber...
Sent to Attica, Blyden began to study law furiously. He wrote his own petition for a rehearing, and after it was granted, he was transferred to New York's hideously overcrowded Tombs. When the Tombs erupted in the fall of 1970, Blyden performed a mediating role and spoke directly to Mayor John Lindsay on the telephone ("Promises, promises," he remembers scornfully). Blyden and six others were later indicted, however, on 72 counts of kidnaping, rioting and other charges...
Back to Attica, and then another rebellion. "We were at war. We were in a mental battle with these people, man!" Of the final attack by troopers, Blyden says: "Eerie was the word for it. You see the mist and gas. You say, 'Hey -what's that?' and then they are shooting all over the place. You put your hands on your head and go to the wall if you don't get shot. Guys are retching in front of you and going into convulsions. If they go into convulsions, they get shot for moving...