Word: oswalds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, Oswald sent a personal message to one inmate leader, "Brother Richard" Clark (see box, page 21). Oswald reminded him of the demands that had been granted, insisted upon the release of all hostages, and asked the inmates to "join me in restoring order to the facility." Clark was given one hour in which to reply...
...Sunday afternoon, preparations were under way for an assault by state troopers and National Guardsmen; indeed, many of their commanders had for days been pressing Oswald to let them attack. Fearful relatives of the captive guards, waiting wearily in the rain, saw powerful fire hoses carried into the prison, truckloads of gas masks unloaded. A Catholic priest asked them to pray for the hostages...
...state's course had been set. Oswald, consulting with Rockefeller by telephone and with his aides on the scene, had decided that two final ultimatums would be delivered to the prisoners; if there was no favorable response, the attack would come on Monday morning. The prisoners, they felt, were intransigent, and their mood was turning uglier. The inmates had dug trenches up to 200 feet long and flanked by mounds of dirt to provide protection against attack. Gates were being wired to make them electrically hot. Metal tables were upended along the catwalk leading to the "Times Square" intersection...
...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...