Summaries
and Witnesses:
Part
1: New York City Public Hearings, pages
761-840. Thomas Wicker, a writer from The New York
Times newspaper, continues his testimony from where
he stopped on April 18th. Wicker describes his meetings
in the prison yard with inmates.
Part
2: New York City Public Hearings, pages
840-877. Francis Joseph Huen, an inmate at Attica,
testifies to the commission. Huen discusses the atmosphere
of Attica months before the uprising. Huen discusses
what he was doing the morning of September 9th. He
details the beginnings of the uprising and the sequence
of the various gates being unlocked, which eventually
led to the take over of the prison.
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Hearings ~ April 20, 1972 (Afternoon)
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Summaries
and Witnesses:
Part
1: New York City Public Hearings,
pages 878-944. Mr. Luxemburg examines Louis
R. Jones, a District Attorney who represented
many criminals who were sentenced to serve
at Attica. James describes the duties of
a District Attorney. He also counseled cases
presented by the guards union at Attica presented
to him.
Part
2: New York City Public Hearings,
pages 944-961. Jose Paris is examined by
Mr. Sackett of the commission.. Paris served
a prison sentence at Attica until May 20th,
1971. Inmates and Governor Rockefeller requested
that Paris come to Attica during the uprising.
Paris discusses the negotiations between
prisoners and authorities, and some of the
prisoners' demands.
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