Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their hands... And so we have Warren Burger in place of Earl Warren. And so we almost had George Harold Carswell. We have the Southern strategy and benign neglect...we have the Commander-in-Chief going out of his way to support both William Calley at My Lai and Nelson Rockefeller at Attica...
...helped reconstruct what had happened behind the walls and how the towns people of Attica viewed the conflict. Levitt, an experienced police reporter, obtained a private interview with Corrections Commissioner Russell Oswald. Roger Williams, as signed to analyze the political impact of Attica, obtained a special interview with Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Joseph Boyce, a policeman turned journalist, assayed the mood in New York City's black neighborhoods, home to many of the Attica inmates...
...York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who had approved subordinates' decision to storm the prison, was defended by President Nixon, who said that the "painful, excruciating" action was "the only thing he could possibly do . . ." At the same time, Rockefeller was also widely denounced for needlessly risking lives by using so much firepower, and derided for initially being too soft on the prisoners...
...drafted by a prisoner who provided an odd element in the largely black cast of rebels: Jerome S. Rosenberg, 34, a slight, round-shouldered son of a middle-class Jewish Brooklyn merchant. After a career of lesser crimes, Rosenberg was convicted eight years ago as a cop killer. Governor Nelson Rockefeller commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment in 1965, giving Jerry Rosenberg a chance to become a skilled jailhouse lawyer...
...been nearly everywhere and done nearly everything-from catching monster squid in the ocean off Peru to recording the home life of Picasso. He has been shot at by Japanese ack-ack gunners, Korean snipers and Vietnamese rocketeers. All this is documented in a retrospective show now at the Nelson-Atkins Galleries in Kansas City, Mo., which happens to be his home town...