Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only with the counting of the dead." Willwerth was joined by Mary Cronin and Leonard Levitt, who 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...
...know whether Rockefeller's arrival on the scene would have saved lives; yet it is hard to see how it could have made matters worse. A confident and able persuader, Rockefeller might have eased tensions by dramatizing the state's concern; he might even have given weight to Oswald's ultimatum. Theodore Kheel, New York's veteran labor negotiator, contends that the convicts found Oswald's quick acceptance of 28 prisoner demands "too good to be believed"; they feared that his promises were only a ploy to free the hostages and would not be kept. "It would have been...
...fatigue and delay often break down the prisoners' cohesion and will to resist. A prolonged stalemate endured in a wet, garbage-strewn yard and with inadequate food and water might have discouraged the rebels and convinced them that they must accept the Oswald concessions or seek some other face-saving...
Many of the demands that emerged in the Attica rebellion were first raised in July in a tough "manifesto" sent to Oswald and Rockefeller by a group of inmates called "the Attica Liberation Faction." The paper labeled Attica a "classic institution of authoritative inhumanity upon men," but added: "We are trying to do this in a democratic fashion. We feel there is no need to dramatize our demands...
...Dallas this week, another entrepreneur, named Aubrey Mahew, who bought the Texas School Book Depository last year, is opening the building to tourists. He has not yet decided how much to charge the tourists who want to see the sixth floor, where Lee Harvey Oswald fired his fatal shots. It is not entirely an ugly voyeurism that draws the public; no one objects to the tourists at Ford's Theater in Washington. Still, there is a certain obscenity about the enterprises that cash in on the Kennedy dead...