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...Oswald decided to negotiate. "My paramount concern was to save lives?hostages and inmates alike," he explained later. "We had to give the negotiations a chance." His first concession was to let into the compound a group of outsiders, chosen by the prisoners, to "oversee" the situation. They included New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, Bronx Congressman Herman Badillo, Republican State Senator John R. Dunne and Clarence Jones, black publisher of Manhattan's Amsterdam News. But they also wanted Radical Lawyer William Kunstler and the Black Panthers' Bobby Seale. At one point there were as many as 30 mediators...
...Oswald's moves. Rocky remained in Washington for the first two days of the rebellion, then spent the weekend at his Pocantico Hills estate north of New York City. He kept in touch, but played...
...first day of talks, Oswald made two other conciliatory moves that he hoped might gain release of the hostages. While insisting that he could not agree to amnesty for any criminal acts committed by the convicts, he signed a pledge that prison officials would take no administrative action against the rebels for their revolt and would not punish them physically (which is against state law anyway). He also supplied Attorney Schwartz with transportation to Manchester, Vt., where Federal Judge John T. Curtin put the prohibition against reprisals into the form of a highly unusual court injunction. The brief...
...bargaining continued, tensions grew. Oswald and Schwartz were bitterly disappointed when the inmates discarded the court injunction as worthless. Apparently the rebels feared both physical beatings by guards if they surrendered?despite the promises?and criminal prosecution. They also felt that if they released the hostages, they would lose their bargaining power...
...talking with inmates, most members of the committee of overseers gained the impression that a way out of the impasse could eventually be found. In fact, a settlement seemed imminent after Oswald surprised the visiting mediators by agreeing to 28 of the 30 prisoner demands. He balked only at complete amnesty, which he considered both unlawful and "nonnegotiable," and at the prisoners' insistence that Warden Mancusi be fired. Dumping Mancusi, Oswald contended, would undercut superintendents throughout the New York system...