It was on Sept 9, 1971 prisoners seized control of the maximum security Attica prison in upstate New York. The five-day uprising became the worst prison riot in the history of the U.S. with 43 people killed including 39 that were killed in the bloody Sept. 13th raid that saw helicopters flying over dropping tear gas while state police and corrections officers storming the prison shooting some 3,000 rounds killing 29 inmates, ten hostages and wounding 89. Even after the raid, the prisoners were tortured by the police in the form of reprisals; the wounded inmates barely received any medical help.
Authorities stated the inmates slit the throats of the 10 hostages who died during the raid. In fact, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who never visited the prison during the uprising, stated: they “carried out the cold-blood killings they had threated from the outset.” Autopsies proved, though, that the dead hostages had been shot by the police. Outrage...
Authorities stated the inmates slit the throats of the 10 hostages who died during the raid. In fact, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who never visited the prison during the uprising, stated: they “carried out the cold-blood killings they had threated from the outset.” Autopsies proved, though, that the dead hostages had been shot by the police. Outrage...
- 12/19/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Tom Wicker, the New York Times reporter who covered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy for the paper before moving on to become the Times' Washington bureau chief and a columnist for 25 years, died at his Rochester, Vermont, home on Friday, the Times reports. According to his wife Pamela, Wicker died of an apparent heart attack. He was 85. Wicker was in the presidential motorcade on Nov. 22, 1963, when Kennedy was shot. His coverage of the assassination catapulted him to prominence in the journalistic field. Less than a year later,...
- 11/26/2011
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Not long ago I had occasion to revisit an article I wrote for Spy magazine in 1993, in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of J.F.K.’s assassination. The piece was a look at what life in America was like in the last month before Dallas, the intent being to subvert the soggy trope about Kennedy’s death marking “the end of innocence” in America. As I’d suspected, I found that the fall of 1963 was less innocent than it was festering with corruption, cynicism, and sex scandals—just was America was in September of 2001 when we lost our “innocence” again. But one thing I found which I hadn’t expected was a surprising weariness and disappointment about Kennedy himself, even bitterness that the promise of his rhetoric and youthful vigor and been lost in grimy reality of actual governance. Sound familiar? A few examples: “Dispassionate analysis is needed to...
- 12/10/2009
- Vanity Fair
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