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Sept. 9-13, 1971

warning: graphic / distressing

Law enforcement officials viewing some of the 39 prisoners and hostages

killed in the retaking of the Attica Correctional Facility by the state.

Photograph: From the Elizabeth Fink Papers

Prying Loose the Long-Kept Secrets of Attica

NYT

Aug. 23, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/
books/prying-loose-the-long-kept-secrets-of-attica.html

Inmates in Attica’s D yard

shortly after state troopers regained control of the prison,

Sept. 13, 1971.

Photograph from Bettmann Archive, via Getty Images

Attica, Attica: The Story of the Legendary Prison Uprising

NYT

Aug. 30, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/
books/review/blood-in-the-water-attica-heather-ann-thompson.html

Inmates of the Attica Correctional Facility negotiating

with Russell G. Oswald, lower left, the state prisons commissioner,

in September 1971.

Photograph: Associated Press

‘Blood in the Water,’

a Gripping Account of the Attica Prison Uprising

NYT

Aug. 18, 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/
books/blood-in-the-water-a-gripping-account-of-the-attica-prison-uprising.html

 Sept. 9-13, 1971

New York

Attica prison uprising

On Sept. 13, 1971,

inmates at the Attica state prison

in western New York State

surrendered after a raid,

ordered by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller,

that suppressed a four-day revolt

and killed 29 inmates and 10 hostages.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/nyregion/
rockefeller-initially-boasted-to-nixon-about-attica-raid.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/27/
1049295683/attica-prison-documentary-stanley-nelson

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/
opinion/attica-prison-torture.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/
books/review/blood-in-the-water-attica-heather-ann-thompson.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/
books/prying-loose-the-long-kept-secrets-of-attica.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/
books/blood-in-the-water-a-gripping-account-of-the-attica-prison-uprising.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/
nyregion/vincent-r-mancusi-attica-warden-during-riots-dies-at-98.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/
nyregion/rockefeller-initially-boasted-to-nixon-about-attica-raid.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/
opinion/the-lingering-injustice-of-attica.html

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