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...townsfolk insist that the prison guards treated their charges with fair discipline and genuinely tried to help them. The residents feel strongly that the riot occurred because of the "permissiveness" of state officials?notably Oswald, who is as heartily detested as the inmates. "Oswald was at fault," said Frank Mandeville, for many years the owner of Timm's Hardware. "If he had gone in right away, some lives might have been lost, but not on the tragic scale we have now." Mandeville, who still doubts that the hostages were killed by police bullets rather than knife wounds, insists: "Political pressure...
...Oswald walked clown the "DMZ" to confront a prisoner delegation led by Clark. Brother Richard said he wanted more time; again he demanded "complete, total, unadulterated amnesty" and the removal of "that guy Mancusi." At 9:05 a.m., a convict shouted down the corridor through a mega phone that all hostages would be killed if state troopers tried to storm the compound. Replied Oswald's chief assistant, Walter Dunbar: "Release the prisoners now. Then the commissioner will meet with you." The fatal one-word reply was "Negative...
...Times Square. An "executioner" pulled back the head of each and held a knife to his throat. Elsewhere in D yard, grim convicts, taking up similar positions be side each of the other hostages, poised as if to kill them with either a knife or crowbar. Oswald turned to aides...
When the compound was secured an hour later, nine hostages lay dead. Also dead or fatally wounded were 26 prisoners (four convicts were later found dead of stab wounds, apparently inflicted by other inmates in factional fighting). Then, in the confusion of the aftermath, Oswald and Dunbar made a perhaps understandable but nonetheless inexcusable mistake. They announced that the hostages had all died by having their throats slit. Dunbar added that two hostages had been killed before the attack, and that one hostage had been found emasculated, his testicles stuffed in his mouth...
...state's credibility was not bolstered by the bumbling response that officials made to Dr. Edland's finding. At first they denied the medical examiner's report; then Oswald wearily admitted that the throat-slashing reports were erroneous. Other spokesmen tried to suggest that the deaths were really the prisoners' fault, claiming homemade zip guns had been found in the compound. Rockefeller finally said flatly that the hostages "had died in the crossfire." He insisted, though, that the attack was "morally justified" and that there had been no "indiscriminate shooting...