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        dramatic music playing     

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      [Nieves]   Something always     
     was ready to happen at Attica. 

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       The population was tired.     

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      Tired of lies, of promises.    

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             We were tired.          

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         Someone hit the guard.      

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       And after you hit a guard,    
               it's over.            

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   But then all hell broke loose.   

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          [sirens blaring]          

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       I'm in the metal shop.       

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          We start hearing          
       these sirens going off.      

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               I said,              
   "Damn, what the hell is this?"   

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        I was in the shower.        

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    I came out, I'm soaking wet,    

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    and the place is going crazy.   

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        And all of a sudden,        

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        I seen the metal shop       
             door open,             

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    and I seen guys come running    
              in there              

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        with great big pipes        
             and knives.            

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       And before you knew it,      

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        everybody was running       
         all over the place.        

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       Then you started seeing      
     people sticking their faces    

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       through the broken windows    
              and saying,            

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          "Grab the guards!         
          Grab the guards!          

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           Grab the keys!           
           Get the keys!"           

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           There's guards           
      that are getting beat up.     

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          Anybody that fell         
     in your hand that was part     

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        of the administration       
      was gonna get a beatdown.     

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   Here's my opportunity to fight   
     those who beat me down now,    

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           'cause I'm with          
     a whole lot of killers now.    

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        It's us versus them.        

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       I just jumped in there.      
       I didn't plan anything.      

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   I wasn't that type of thinker.   

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   I was kicking the police's ass. 
        I felt good about it.       

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         It would have ended        
            right there,            

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          because they were         
         in a confined area,        

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   locks on the block, locks here, 
      Times Square was locked,      

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     but the prisoners went back    
        towards Times Square        

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   and began to yank on the gates. 

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   [Sheppard]   All the four blocks   
          met at Times Square.       

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      In the context of the layout   
             of the prison,          

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      Times Square is the hub,      

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   the central hub of the prison.   

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      suspenseful music playing    

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           [Quinn Miller]           
        The morning of the riot,     

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     my father was in Times Square. 

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              He had keys            
        to all of the doorways,      

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   and unfortunately, the inmates   
        that were in A tunnel       

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   continued to push against, uh,   

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           that cell door,          

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     and they began yelling, um,    

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   for my dad to unlock the gate.   

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    As Quinn jumped back, I said,   
        "Oh, shit, this is--"       

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        and he hit that horn,       
      and the foghorn, like...      

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          [imitating alarm]         

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    And then they started banging   
            on the gate,            

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        banging on the gate,        
        banging on the gate.        

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     And unbeknownst to anybody,    

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          one of the hinges         
      has been welded together,     

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     kind of jury-rigged during     
   the construction in the 1930s.   

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          That weld broke.          

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        The lock just popped.       

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     And they rushed out. Boom.     

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      When the gate came down,      
      they attacked my father,      

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       and they took his keys,      

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          which, of course,         
          gave them access          

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         to all of the doors        
        within Times Square.        

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        Um, and he was beaten       
           very severely.           

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           I double back,           

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       and I put two knuckles       
          on Quinn's neck.          

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        I could feel a pulse,       
       but it was very faint.       

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       It was like a flutter,       

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     and a minute or two later,     
          another flutter.          

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       There were some inmates      
          that knew my dad,         

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     four Muslim inmates who got    
      a mattress out of A block     

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             and put my dad          
            on the mattress,         

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          and they brought him       
           from Times Square         

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      and told them that they have   
          a correction officer       

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      that has been badly injured,   

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              and he needs           
           medical attention.        

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             At some point,          
        an ambulance did arrive.     

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           During that time,         
         my mother was notified      

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      that my father was injured.    

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           [siren wailing]          

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    After they got Quinn's keys,    
    they opened up all four sides   

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    and said, "We got the joint."   

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        And they hollered it.       
         "We got the joint!"        

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        [prisoners shouting]        

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     [Roche]   We took every block    
             in the joint.           

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             We took it.            

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      But we couldn't hold it.      

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      So we all retreated back      
             to D block.            

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    [helicopter blades whirring]    

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             [reporter]             
        The place is blowing up.     

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             Smoke pouring           
          from five buildings,       

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     the prison chapel and laundry   
           gutted by flames.         

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   [Harrison]   We only had control   
             of that yard.           

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            They had control         
             of the system.          

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    They had control of the gates   
   and the doors and the walkways. 

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     They was up on the walkways    
             with guns,             

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       where they can watch you.     

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             [reporter]             
     I'm panning now from B block,   

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          taking in the group        
        on the roof of C block.      

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         Now D yard and D block      
          is coming into view.       

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    [police officer]   Shooting now   
     through the .270 rifle scope.   

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       And there is the ugliest,     
        Blackest Negro gentleman     

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       I've ever seen in my life.    

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    [Sheppard]   We knew they were    
       out there on the catwalks.    

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     They would position themselves 
               in a way--            

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          although you knew         
          they were there,          

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     they positioned themselves     
            out of sight.           

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             [reporter]             
         Most of the prisoners       

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       have concealed their faces    
      by wearing scarves, towels,    

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           and what have you         
           over their faces.         

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    There was a way to guard your   
    identity from being exposed,    

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        and if they came in,        
    you know, you had protection.   

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        Or we thought we did.       

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        In Attica, New York,        
   about 1,000 long-term convicts   

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            today rioted,           
       and they gained control      

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   of the maximum security prison. 

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       They also seized 33 guards    
              as hostages            

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           and injured others        
            in the fighting.         

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       State police have regained    
     control of most of the prison, 

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            but the trouble          
            isn't over yet.          

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       [Sheppard]   When we got       
      to D yard with the hostages,   

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   we hollered, "We got hostages!" 

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          And you had about         
    1,000 men shouting that out.    

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       You know, and the hostages    
      keep the police from coming    

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         and bapping on us.         

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      You gotta have hostages.      

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          That's the only--         
     that's your only leverage.     

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         As long as they had        
           the hostages--           

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       they didn't have guns,       
     and they didn't have this,     

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     and they didn't have that,     

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       but they had hostages,       
      and they're your people,      

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       and you're responsible       
          for your people.          

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         You're responsible         
       to protect your people       

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          and do your job.          

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     "Sit down. Negotiate with us." 

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             [reporter]             
      You're getting into the area   

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         where the 21 hostages       
            are being held.          

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      They're in that main group.    
             In the center.          

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             [reporter]             
       We can't distinguish them     

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         because the prisoners       
               have taken            

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          their clothing away        
       and put prison clothes on.    

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        They were blindfolded       
            in a circle,            

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     in the middle of the yard.     

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        They also had guards,       
           inmate guards,           

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       that were around them,       
          protecting them.          

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              [Sharif]              
     And we seen them as captives.   

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       We seen them as people       
            who were in--           

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       under our supervision.       

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   So we couldn't do harm to them. 

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    My understanding of Islam was   
   that you don't harm a captive.   

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      Therefore, it was decided     

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    to allow the Muslim brothers    

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        to look out for them.       

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    I was so mad at them for not    
    letting us get to the police,   

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          because I wanted          
          to put my hands--         

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           I wanted to get          
         one or two of them         

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      and really fuck them up.      

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      These are the same police     
    that was talking down to me,    

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    dirty to me, and telling me,    

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           "Get over here,          
         do this, do that."         

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       So I said, "Yeah, now,       
   what do you think about me now? 

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            Yeah, yeah."            

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            And a good thing         
      that them Muslims was there,   

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      because a lot of them police   
         would have been hurt.       

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              Really hurt.           

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              [Brosig]              
         It's hard for somebody      

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         that has never been        
     incarcerated to understand     

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      how surreal everything is     
       at this point in time.       

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    We had nobody threatening us.   

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          We had--you know,         
          it sounds crazy,          

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      but it was--when you had      
          a little bit of--         

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       even this much control       
         over your own life,        

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      even for a short period,      

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    and you know it's gonna cost    
      you, you know, in spades,     

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      you know, it was a moment     
           of exuberation,          

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     of somehow doing something     

185
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        to have some control        
         over your own life.        

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      upbeat funk music playing    

187
00:10:28,502 --> 00:10:33,382
                                  

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              [Victory]             
     When you first got out there,   

189
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          it was total chaos.        

190
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     Guys are coming out with food, 
      clothing, setting up tents.    

191
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         It was a festive time.      
             We were free.           

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      [Sharif]   We came together     
            as a community.          

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      That's when there was not     
             such thing             

194
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     as Black, white, Hispanic,     
            or whatever.            

195
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    It was about we are inmates,    

196
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       and we need to be able       
   to survive whatever's going on. 

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            Power! Unity!           

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        [indistinct chatter]        

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            Come on, 38.            

200
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      -Tell 'em we ain't dead.      
      -Tell 'em we ain't dead.      

201
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      Yeah, get all this here.      

202
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             [laughter]             

203
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       Tell 'em we ain't dead.      

204
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    Ain't nothing dead about us.    

205
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         We ain't gonna die.        

206
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        -[prisoner] Nothing.        
      -We will not die in here.     

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         [Sheppard]   The guys        
       that had been to Vietnam,     

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             they said,             
        "Let's make hooches."       

209
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          Hooch was a tent.         

210
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           You took a stick,         
      and you put a sheet over it    

211
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          and pulled it back,        

212
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           and that was your         
           sleeping quarters.        

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    By the time guys started, uh,   

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   having to go to the bathrooms,   

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     it was--none were working.     

216
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       The guys that had been       
             to Vietnam             

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        and been in the army,       

218
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               they said,            
       "We gotta make a latrine."    

219
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     They knew what a latrine was.   

220
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            I didn't know           
         what a latrine was.        

221
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222
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        [indistinct chatter]        

223
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       Give him a little lap.       

224
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        All right, all right.       

225
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                Okay.               

226
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      There was this brother--      

227
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         and I say brother.         

228
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            He was white.           

229
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     His--they called him Tiny,     

230
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       and he was, like, a nurse     

231
00:12:36,839 --> 00:12:38,799
      before the Attica rebellion    
               happened.             

232
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        They set up the medical      
          section in the yard        

233
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          for anybody who had        
          any problems to go,        

234
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                and Tiny             
        would take care of them.     

235
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      And the medical attention     
     in the yard was much better    

236
00:12:53,355 --> 00:12:55,274
     than the medical attention     
    we got throughout the years.    

237
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             [Killebrew]            
      Oh, and we had a good time.    

238
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           We was making wine        
       and cooking food outside.     

239
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      It was like a big picnic,     
         like a shantytown.         

240
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       You know, like   Deadwood      
              when, uh,             

241
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   when, uh, Buffalo Bill was out. 

242
00:13:10,706 --> 00:13:13,667
      You ever--you ever watch      
               Gunsmoke?             

243
00:13:13,709 --> 00:13:15,669
            The Western?            

244
00:13:15,711 --> 00:13:19,799
          Well, Matt Dillon         
    was the marshal of   Gunsmoke.    

245
00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,176
           He kept order.           

246
00:13:22,218 --> 00:13:25,638
               In D yard,            
     we didn't have a Matt Dillon.   

247
00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:29,850
          Every man was a law        
             unto himself.           

248
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       You did whatever the hell     
           you wanted to do.         

249
00:13:32,728 --> 00:13:35,022
        And there was no order.      

250
00:13:35,064 --> 00:13:39,360
                                  

251
00:13:48,953 --> 00:13:51,872
        [prisoners shouting]        

252
00:13:53,415 --> 00:13:55,251
           [siren wailing]          

253
00:13:55,292 --> 00:13:58,128
         solemn music playing      

254
00:13:58,170 --> 00:14:03,133
                                  

255
00:14:03,175 --> 00:14:05,094
              [Johnson]             
      The assignment editor says,    

256
00:14:05,135 --> 00:14:07,721
         "There's this place        
           called Attica,           

257
00:14:07,763 --> 00:14:11,183
          and there's some          
        prison riot up there,       

258
00:14:11,225 --> 00:14:14,687
           and we want you          
         to go up and do it.        

259
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      We're not sure about any      
      of what the details are,      

260
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           specifically."           

261
00:14:21,110 --> 00:14:24,738
       And all five went, uh,       

262
00:14:24,780 --> 00:14:26,574
           up to Buffalo,           

263
00:14:26,615 --> 00:14:29,285
       and then on to Attica.       

264
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        This is John Johnson,       
     ABC News, Attica, New York.    

265
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      It was just an extremely,     

266
00:14:43,090 --> 00:14:45,259
        uh, fluid situation,        

267
00:14:45,301 --> 00:14:46,844
          to say the least.         

268
00:14:46,886 --> 00:14:49,388
           And it was hard          
         to get information.        

269
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                I mean,              
        we couldn't get inside,      

270
00:14:51,473 --> 00:14:53,767
         and all we heard was,       

271
00:14:53,809 --> 00:14:57,813
      these inmates want to talk,    
        and they have prisoners.     

272
00:15:00,274 --> 00:15:04,111
       And this was something       
   almost that had never happened   

273
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             in history,            
       this huge institution,       

274
00:15:07,573 --> 00:15:09,658
          where the inmates         
           had taken over.          

275
00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:10,659
          Oh, my goodness.          

276
00:15:12,953 --> 00:15:14,246
                [Dan]               
           "Attica, New York?        

277
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        I never heard of Attica,     
               New York.             

278
00:15:15,581 --> 00:15:17,625
           What's in Attica?"        

279
00:15:17,666 --> 00:15:20,544
     Quite frankly, I did not know   
             what to expect          

280
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         when I got to Attica.       

281
00:15:23,923 --> 00:15:26,258
           We parked right          
       in front of the prison.      

282
00:15:26,300 --> 00:15:29,637
   So consequently, we just set up 

283
00:15:29,678 --> 00:15:32,056
         and started filming        

284
00:15:32,097 --> 00:15:34,391
    as much as we possibly could    

285
00:15:34,433 --> 00:15:38,395
          of the activities         
       outside of the prison.       

286
00:15:38,437 --> 00:15:41,190
           We had no idea           
     what was happening inside.     

287
00:15:41,231 --> 00:15:43,192
          [police officer]          
        Your instructions are       

288
00:15:43,233 --> 00:15:45,819
          that your weapon          
         is not to be taken,        

289
00:15:45,861 --> 00:15:47,863
      nor are you to be taken.      

290
00:15:47,905 --> 00:15:50,407
        You're to meet force        
             with force.            

291
00:15:50,449 --> 00:15:52,576
           There have been          
    some of the prison personnel    

292
00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:55,371
        severely injured here       
            this morning,           

293
00:15:55,412 --> 00:15:58,457
     and we certainly don't want    
   to see any of our people hurt.   

294
00:16:00,417 --> 00:16:02,878
                [Dan]               
       The state police officers     

295
00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:07,299
     were being handed out weapons. 

296
00:16:07,341 --> 00:16:10,552
         They were making sure       
          they had gas masks.        

297
00:16:10,594 --> 00:16:14,181
        It looked to me like        
      they were ready to go in      

298
00:16:14,223 --> 00:16:16,600
       and retake the prison.       

299
00:16:16,642 --> 00:16:18,268
      [reporter] Sir, are there     
          any circumstances         

300
00:16:18,310 --> 00:16:19,687
        might you go inside?        

301
00:16:19,728 --> 00:16:21,313
             Pardon me?             

302
00:16:21,355 --> 00:16:23,023
   [reporter] Might you go inside   
      under some circumstances?     

303
00:16:23,065 --> 00:16:25,359
       Well, one doesn't know.      
     I'll have to feel this out.    

304
00:16:25,401 --> 00:16:26,860
          Have the inmates          
          made any demands?         

305
00:16:26,902 --> 00:16:28,320
    Do the prisoners want to meet   
           with you, sir?           

306
00:16:28,362 --> 00:16:29,947
     I don't know, they say that    
       they only want to speak      

307
00:16:29,989 --> 00:16:31,949
      with the governor or me.      

308
00:16:31,991 --> 00:16:34,868
   There seemed to be some sense,   
            at the time,            

309
00:16:34,910 --> 00:16:39,248
      that we're going to have      
       to negotiate something       

310
00:16:39,289 --> 00:16:42,418
          to save the lives         
          of the hostages.          

311
00:16:42,459 --> 00:16:47,047
        Because of the hostages      
            that they have,          

312
00:16:47,089 --> 00:16:51,927
         there's a possibility       
     that negotiations will begin.   

313
00:16:51,969 --> 00:16:54,805
         [indistinct speech         
        through loudspeaker]        

314
00:16:56,223 --> 00:16:59,018
             [reporter]             
         We're looking at a man      

315
00:16:59,059 --> 00:17:02,730
          using a loudspeaker,       
              a bullhorn.            

316
00:17:07,443 --> 00:17:10,404
      There appears to be a large    
     meeting going on in this area, 

317
00:17:10,446 --> 00:17:12,239
                although             
         we can't hear anything      

318
00:17:12,281 --> 00:17:14,408
           from that section.        

319
00:17:18,871 --> 00:17:20,831
         The inmates decided        
           that, you know,          

320
00:17:20,873 --> 00:17:23,625
       they're in a situation       
           that, you know,          

321
00:17:23,667 --> 00:17:26,670
            that required           
      a little bit more focus,      

322
00:17:26,712 --> 00:17:28,172
    a little bit more discipline.   

323
00:17:29,631 --> 00:17:30,924
        We asked the population,     

324
00:17:30,966 --> 00:17:33,761
            "Who do you want         
           to represent you?"        

325
00:17:33,802 --> 00:17:35,888
   Legal prosecution of any kind!   

326
00:17:35,929 --> 00:17:38,974
     [Sheppard]   We had elections    
            block by block.          

327
00:17:39,016 --> 00:17:42,519
          That's where we got        
           our leaders from.         

328
00:17:42,561 --> 00:17:46,523
     Now, some guys had some juice   
           in there already.         

329
00:17:46,565 --> 00:17:48,776
          The guys that had         
         been there a while,        

330
00:17:48,817 --> 00:17:52,738
    who other inmates respected.    

331
00:17:52,780 --> 00:17:54,073
        [Harrison]   What they        
         were saying made sense      

332
00:17:54,114 --> 00:17:57,159
           to most everybody         
         that was in that yard.      

333
00:17:57,201 --> 00:17:59,119
            They had a plan.         

334
00:17:59,161 --> 00:18:01,121
       And they had a plan about     
        making things different      

335
00:18:01,163 --> 00:18:03,916
     for the prison system itself.   

336
00:18:03,957 --> 00:18:06,502
            All we wanted           
      is the basic necessities      

337
00:18:06,543 --> 00:18:09,004
          of being treated          
         like human beings.         

338
00:18:09,046 --> 00:18:10,255
    Even though we're in prison,    

339
00:18:10,297 --> 00:18:11,590
         we're human beings,        
        and stuff like that.        

340
00:18:15,302 --> 00:18:19,098
       The prisoners in the yard     
         must have had a radio.      

341
00:18:19,139 --> 00:18:21,975
      They heard I was outside.     

342
00:18:22,017 --> 00:18:24,728
        So they asked for me        
             to come in.            

343
00:18:24,770 --> 00:18:27,147
            I said, "Sure."          

344
00:18:27,189 --> 00:18:29,608
          And they then said,        

345
00:18:29,650 --> 00:18:32,611
     "We would like Commissioner    
         Oswald to come in."        

346
00:18:32,653 --> 00:18:36,281
     And some of his assistants     
                said,               

347
00:18:36,323 --> 00:18:38,492
        "Don't go. Don't go.        

348
00:18:38,534 --> 00:18:41,578
   They'll--you can't trust them." 

349
00:18:41,620 --> 00:18:44,456
        And Oswald said, "Well,      
      of course I'm gonna go in."    

350
00:18:46,041 --> 00:18:47,543
              [Sharif]              
      We are glad to have someone    

351
00:18:47,584 --> 00:18:50,504
        from the administration,     
        point blank, coming in.      

352
00:18:52,589 --> 00:18:53,590
          We making some kind        
              of headway.            

353
00:18:53,632 --> 00:18:54,800
          We getting here.          

354
00:18:54,842 --> 00:18:56,760
         We got some contact        
           with somebody.           

355
00:18:56,802 --> 00:18:59,304
      We got some negotiations.     
       You're listening to us.      

356
00:18:59,346 --> 00:19:01,723
          I've never heard          
           of this before,          

357
00:19:01,765 --> 00:19:04,643
      negotiating with inmates,     

358
00:19:04,685 --> 00:19:08,772
         and I just assumed         

359
00:19:08,814 --> 00:19:12,943
      that this was going to be     
          a landmark moment         

360
00:19:12,985 --> 00:19:14,778
        in American history.        

361
00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:19,199
         I thought that this        
     was going to be negotiated     

362
00:19:19,241 --> 00:19:20,576
    to a decent humanitarian end.   

363
00:19:23,704 --> 00:19:27,583
       It seems to be a little      
     misunderstanding about why     

364
00:19:27,624 --> 00:19:29,668
       this incident developed      
           here at Attica,          

365
00:19:29,710 --> 00:19:32,838
      and this declaration here     
      will explain the reasons.     

366
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,007
         The entire incident        

367
00:19:35,048 --> 00:19:38,552
         that has erupted here       
      at Attica is not a result...   

368
00:19:38,594 --> 00:19:41,471
         serene music playing      

369
00:19:41,513 --> 00:19:43,140
                                  

370
00:19:43,182 --> 00:19:45,267
      There are college towns,      
     and there's factory towns--    

371
00:19:45,309 --> 00:19:47,227
     there's all kinds of towns     
          in this country,          

372
00:19:47,269 --> 00:19:49,062
    and this is Attica, New York.   

373
00:19:49,104 --> 00:19:50,314
         It's a prison town.        

374
00:19:52,858 --> 00:19:54,151
             [narrator]             
           Most of the people        

375
00:19:54,193 --> 00:19:55,986
        in the village of Attica     
           make their living         

376
00:19:56,028 --> 00:19:58,071
      working at the state prison.   

377
00:19:59,656 --> 00:20:01,408
     For 40 years, most have lived   

378
00:20:01,450 --> 00:20:03,827
              within sight           
          of the prison walls.       

379
00:20:03,869 --> 00:20:05,245
       They have never feared it.    

380
00:20:10,209 --> 00:20:13,712
        The village of Attica       
     was a great place to live.     

381
00:20:13,754 --> 00:20:16,673
        It was very typical,        

382
00:20:16,715 --> 00:20:19,051
        I think, small town,        

383
00:20:19,092 --> 00:20:22,429
      where you knew everyone.      

384
00:20:22,471 --> 00:20:24,932
    You were related to probably    
          half of the town.         

385
00:20:27,476 --> 00:20:29,686
     [local]   We'd ride our bikes    
             through town,           

386
00:20:29,728 --> 00:20:31,313
          we'd go to the park,       
            we'd go swimming         

387
00:20:31,355 --> 00:20:33,065
          at the public pool,        

388
00:20:33,106 --> 00:20:35,609
             we'd go hiking          
            up in the woods.         

389
00:20:39,404 --> 00:20:42,532
           [Quinn Miller]           
       Attica is a company town.     

390
00:20:42,574 --> 00:20:45,035
           Many of the people        
             who work there          

391
00:20:45,077 --> 00:20:46,703
       and had lived in our town     

392
00:20:46,745 --> 00:20:48,705
          worked as either          
         civilian employees         

393
00:20:48,747 --> 00:20:52,459
       or corrections officers      
             at Attica.             

394
00:20:52,501 --> 00:20:56,129
      My grandfather worked there,   

395
00:20:56,171 --> 00:20:59,258
          my dad worked there,       

396
00:20:59,299 --> 00:21:01,802
        and between six or eight     
             of the houses           

397
00:21:01,843 --> 00:21:03,470
        that were on our street      

398
00:21:03,512 --> 00:21:06,306
        had correction officers      
        or civilian individuals      

399
00:21:06,348 --> 00:21:08,058
            working in them          
          with their families.       

400
00:21:12,646 --> 00:21:15,607
         [Heath]   These were         
       the only jobs in the area.    

401
00:21:15,649 --> 00:21:18,986
     Dairy farming and the prison.   

402
00:21:19,027 --> 00:21:22,531
   So there was this culture clash 
    that came together at Attica.   

403
00:21:22,572 --> 00:21:26,493
      You had all white guards      

404
00:21:26,535 --> 00:21:29,288
    and a population of prisoners   

405
00:21:29,329 --> 00:21:31,832
     that was 70 or more percent    

406
00:21:31,873 --> 00:21:34,543
            Black and brown.         

407
00:21:34,584 --> 00:21:36,211
          What could go wrong?       

408
00:21:41,133 --> 00:21:43,927
         Attica's reputation        
     was called "the last stop."    

409
00:21:43,969 --> 00:21:46,346
   This was the most strict prison 
      in the state of New York.     

410
00:21:46,388 --> 00:21:47,639
            It was known.           

411
00:21:47,681 --> 00:21:49,766
         The word was there         
      that when you got there,      

412
00:21:49,808 --> 00:21:51,143
    you know what you was in for.   

413
00:21:51,184 --> 00:21:53,520
    A hard place. The last place.   

414
00:21:53,562 --> 00:21:56,356
           The last place.          
     Attica was the last place.     

415
00:21:56,398 --> 00:21:58,191
    That was--that was the last--   

416
00:21:58,233 --> 00:22:00,986
   and you had to really be there   
             to see why.            

417
00:22:01,028 --> 00:22:04,323
      There was no Black guards     
             in Attica.             

418
00:22:04,364 --> 00:22:07,701
    There was no Spanish guards.    
        They were all white.        

419
00:22:07,743 --> 00:22:10,954
       People, man, that come       
    from the local neighborhoods,   

420
00:22:10,996 --> 00:22:15,000
    that don't know nothing about   
   people who come from Brooklyn,   

421
00:22:15,042 --> 00:22:18,712
   people who come from Manhattan, 
   people who come from The Bronx. 

422
00:22:18,754 --> 00:22:21,548
        They don't know nothing      
          about this culture.        

423
00:22:21,590 --> 00:22:24,301
        Most of them don't even      
          want to talk to you.       

424
00:22:24,343 --> 00:22:25,302
       They're you giving you       
           the straight--           

425
00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:27,054
         "Don't talk to me."        

426
00:22:27,095 --> 00:22:29,222
        And it was like that.       
         "Don't talk to me."        

427
00:22:29,264 --> 00:22:31,892
   They would hit that stick--bop. 

428
00:22:31,933 --> 00:22:35,729
        And this is a metal--       
        a metal-tipped stick,       

429
00:22:35,771 --> 00:22:37,856
   and it rings out, and it--bop.   

430
00:22:37,898 --> 00:22:39,524
            And you walk.           

431
00:22:39,566 --> 00:22:42,861
     And then when they want you    
     to stop, they say bop-bop.     

432
00:22:42,903 --> 00:22:44,905
    That was their communication.   

433
00:22:44,946 --> 00:22:47,616
      The only thing was right      
          was being white.          

434
00:22:47,657 --> 00:22:49,826
           And I mean that          
          in all sincerity.         

435
00:22:49,868 --> 00:22:51,912
      Everybody was sort of, like,   

436
00:22:51,953 --> 00:22:53,580
           not so much mixing        
          with other cultures,       

437
00:22:53,622 --> 00:22:57,667
        but staying together        
        for the purpose of...       

438
00:22:57,709 --> 00:22:59,336
              survival.             

439
00:22:59,378 --> 00:23:02,881
            I was white,            
       so I got the best jobs.      

440
00:23:02,923 --> 00:23:05,926
           I was always given        
        a little bit more leeway     

441
00:23:05,967 --> 00:23:07,469
            than the Blacks.         

442
00:23:09,262 --> 00:23:11,932
       I could get an extra meal     
            if I wanted one,         

443
00:23:11,973 --> 00:23:14,434
       because I was a white guy.    

444
00:23:14,476 --> 00:23:15,769
          "I'm a white guy.         

445
00:23:15,811 --> 00:23:17,396
              You know,             
      give me a little extra."      

446
00:23:17,437 --> 00:23:19,189
            And I got it.           

447
00:23:19,231 --> 00:23:23,777
   I always was able to manipulate 
    the system inside the prison    

448
00:23:23,819 --> 00:23:25,570
     because I was a white guy.     

449
00:23:25,612 --> 00:23:27,864
      I'm almost ashamed to say     

450
00:23:27,906 --> 00:23:30,450
        that I took advantage       
         of that back then.         

451
00:23:30,492 --> 00:23:33,078
       But it was the only way      
             to survive.            

452
00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:34,329
       It really, really was.       

453
00:23:45,132 --> 00:23:46,758
             [Harrison]             
         A roll of toilet paper      

454
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,845
         would have to last you      
                a month.             

455
00:23:49,886 --> 00:23:52,597
      You have to be a magician     
      or tear up papers out of,     

456
00:23:52,639 --> 00:23:54,182
              you know,             
    the books and stuff like that   

457
00:23:54,224 --> 00:23:55,434
         to wipe your behind        
        and stuff like that.        

458
00:23:55,475 --> 00:23:57,477
        Guys were complaining       
         about basic things,        

459
00:23:57,519 --> 00:24:01,690
   like toothpaste, toilet paper,   

460
00:24:01,731 --> 00:24:05,527
         a change of sheets         
       more than once a month,      

461
00:24:05,569 --> 00:24:08,655
         things like that--         
       clothes being cleaned,       

462
00:24:08,697 --> 00:24:10,157
        personal hygiene things,     

463
00:24:10,198 --> 00:24:11,658
             being treated           
           like human beings.        

464
00:24:13,952 --> 00:24:17,414
         No school program.         
            Attica was--            

465
00:24:17,456 --> 00:24:20,167
        I can't describe it.        
              I mean...             

466
00:24:20,208 --> 00:24:21,626
              it was dead.           

467
00:24:21,668 --> 00:24:22,878
           It was just dead.         

468
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,675
        [Heath]   There was no        
           religious freedom,        

469
00:24:28,717 --> 00:24:30,302
            particularly for         

470
00:24:30,343 --> 00:24:32,512
             the burgeoning          
            Muslim movement.         

471
00:24:32,554 --> 00:24:36,349
          They were denied          
        the right to worship.       

472
00:24:36,391 --> 00:24:39,936
     They were fed pork because     
     the prison also had a farm     

473
00:24:39,978 --> 00:24:42,981
       where they raised pigs,      
       so that's what you got.      

474
00:24:43,982 --> 00:24:46,234
               [Roche]              
       They fed us on 63¢ a day,     

475
00:24:46,276 --> 00:24:48,153
         so that's 21¢ a meal.       

476
00:24:48,195 --> 00:24:51,072
      How can you feed somebody     
               on 21¢?              

477
00:24:54,284 --> 00:24:58,622
   I swear to God, one time I got   
    my head opened up by a guard,   

478
00:24:58,663 --> 00:25:01,958
            and I was put           
      into a segregation cell.      

479
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,585
        And the doctor came,        

480
00:25:03,627 --> 00:25:07,255
       you know, just out of--      
      I was bleeding all over.      

481
00:25:07,297 --> 00:25:09,341
        So I said, "I got a--       
        they cracked my head.       

482
00:25:09,382 --> 00:25:11,426
          It's wide open."          

483
00:25:11,468 --> 00:25:12,802
    He says, "Put it over here."    

484
00:25:12,844 --> 00:25:16,848
       They had a feeding hole      
            in the cell.            

485
00:25:16,890 --> 00:25:19,392
         So I put it there,         
   and he put a flashlight like--   

486
00:25:19,434 --> 00:25:21,895
      I swear to God, he hit me     
    with the fucking flashlight,    

487
00:25:21,937 --> 00:25:24,064
     right where the cut was...     

488
00:25:26,233 --> 00:25:27,567
         ...and walked away.        

489
00:25:27,609 --> 00:25:32,697
                                  

490
00:25:32,739 --> 00:25:34,407
              [Nieves]              
      They wait until everybody's    

491
00:25:34,449 --> 00:25:36,743
          locked up at night,        
      and then they come for you.    

492
00:25:36,785 --> 00:25:39,037
     Come for you as a goon squad.   

493
00:25:41,122 --> 00:25:44,292
              [Larkins]             
     These are the beat-up police.   

494
00:25:44,334 --> 00:25:47,629
           These the guys,          
      they come nine, ten deep.     

495
00:25:47,671 --> 00:25:51,341
            Real big guys           
        with real big sticks.       

496
00:25:51,383 --> 00:25:53,969
     Then they come in, and they    
      beat you up in your cell,     

497
00:25:54,010 --> 00:25:55,762
       and then they take you       
           to segregation,          

498
00:25:55,804 --> 00:25:57,347
           and sometimes,           
        you don't come back.        

499
00:25:57,389 --> 00:25:58,723
            Attica was...           

500
00:26:01,017 --> 00:26:02,769
             [stammers]             

501
00:26:05,188 --> 00:26:06,940
                Fear.               

502
00:26:06,982 --> 00:26:10,193
   They ran the prison with fear.   

503
00:26:10,235 --> 00:26:12,571
        Being scared of them        
           was their means          

504
00:26:12,612 --> 00:26:13,989
       of running the prison.       

505
00:26:18,702 --> 00:26:19,953
              [Victory]             
      You either shut your mouth,    

506
00:26:19,995 --> 00:26:21,788
      or you were in big trouble.    

507
00:26:23,248 --> 00:26:25,959
           Some people died.         

508
00:26:26,001 --> 00:26:27,794
          Some were crippled.        

509
00:26:27,836 --> 00:26:30,463
      Some were psychologically     
          damaged for life.         

510
00:26:33,633 --> 00:26:37,304
              And, uh,              
      it was a bad place to be.     

511
00:26:43,727 --> 00:26:47,439
      They wanted to institute      
        and instill that fear       

512
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,108
     and that they were in control, 

513
00:26:50,150 --> 00:26:52,652
         even though they knew       
       they were losing control.     

514
00:26:55,363 --> 00:26:57,115
       [Larkins]   My generation      
         that came into Attica,      

515
00:26:57,157 --> 00:26:59,242
             at that time,           

516
00:26:59,284 --> 00:27:01,411
   we felt that we wasn't broken.   

517
00:27:01,453 --> 00:27:03,705
           In other words,          
    we wasn't shuffling our feet.   

518
00:27:03,747 --> 00:27:06,166
            We would walk           
       with our heads up high.      

519
00:27:06,207 --> 00:27:08,043
   We would talk in our own lingo. 

520
00:27:08,084 --> 00:27:10,378
         We was rebellious.         
             That's all.            

521
00:27:10,420 --> 00:27:12,130
    We wasn't gonna take nothing    
            from nobody.            

522
00:27:13,256 --> 00:27:14,674
           We wanted respect.        

523
00:27:16,801 --> 00:27:20,055
       You had to give it to us,     
     whether you wanted to or not.   

524
00:27:20,096 --> 00:27:21,473
              [Asbury]              
      I'd read Eldridge Cleaver's    

525
00:27:21,514 --> 00:27:23,725
      Soul on Ice,   Huey Newton,     

526
00:27:23,767 --> 00:27:25,435
             and, you know,          
           the Panther Party,        

527
00:27:25,477 --> 00:27:27,395
    and the George Jackson story.   

528
00:27:27,437 --> 00:27:28,980
       I read all that stuff.       

529
00:27:29,022 --> 00:27:30,815
           George Jackson           
        was a revolutionary.        

530
00:27:30,857 --> 00:27:33,652
    He's the guy that got busted    
        for a ten dollar, uh,       

531
00:27:33,693 --> 00:27:36,529
         gas station robbery        
            and got life.           

532
00:27:36,571 --> 00:27:39,240
     He ended up in the system,     
       in the Soledad prison.       

533
00:27:39,282 --> 00:27:43,620
   He showed us--and I mean "us,"   

534
00:27:43,662 --> 00:27:46,373
          the younger guys          
       that came into Attica--      

535
00:27:46,414 --> 00:27:49,501
     that it was okay to say no.    

536
00:27:49,542 --> 00:27:53,046
    It was okay to be rebellious.   

537
00:27:53,088 --> 00:27:55,507
             Understand,            
      there may be consequences     

538
00:27:55,548 --> 00:27:58,093
            to saying no,           

539
00:27:58,134 --> 00:28:00,095
          but it was okay.          

540
00:28:00,136 --> 00:28:02,097
        And it was uplifting.       

541
00:28:02,138 --> 00:28:04,224
          It was uplifting.         

542
00:28:04,265 --> 00:28:06,726
   [George Jackson]   I think racism 
          is a control device,       

543
00:28:06,768 --> 00:28:08,937
           control mechanism.        

544
00:28:08,978 --> 00:28:12,524
          Create an atmosphere       
     whereby they can control you.   

545
00:28:12,565 --> 00:28:16,403
     Of course, here in prison,     
       we see the repression,       

546
00:28:16,444 --> 00:28:18,363
          the exploitation,         

547
00:28:18,405 --> 00:28:21,533
      the victimization of, uh,     

548
00:28:21,574 --> 00:28:23,410
        lower-class peoples.        

549
00:28:24,869 --> 00:28:26,287
             [Sheppard]             
        A lot of Black Panthers      

550
00:28:26,329 --> 00:28:28,206
      were coming into the prison.   

551
00:28:28,248 --> 00:28:29,708
         I started hanging out       
               with them,            

552
00:28:29,749 --> 00:28:32,210
        and they politicized me.     

553
00:28:32,252 --> 00:28:33,712
       The Black Panther Party      
          for Self-Defense          

554
00:28:33,753 --> 00:28:35,922
   calls upon the American people   
             in general             

555
00:28:35,964 --> 00:28:37,632
        and the Black people        
            in particular           

556
00:28:37,674 --> 00:28:40,885
        to take careful note        
    of the racist police agencies   

557
00:28:40,927 --> 00:28:43,847
       throughout the country       
    are intensifying the terror,    

558
00:28:43,888 --> 00:28:46,766
         brutality, murder,         
   and repression of Black people. 

559
00:28:46,808 --> 00:28:48,560
             Of course,             
     you had the Black Muslims,     

560
00:28:48,601 --> 00:28:51,479
   and his message to a Black man   

561
00:28:51,521 --> 00:28:55,567
     really awoke a lot of guys     
         that were in jail.         

562
00:28:55,608 --> 00:28:57,485
         We want one thing!         

563
00:28:57,527 --> 00:29:01,573
        We declare our right        
     on this Earth to be a man,     

564
00:29:01,614 --> 00:29:03,450
        to be a human being,        

565
00:29:03,491 --> 00:29:05,535
           to be respected          
          as a human being,         

566
00:29:05,577 --> 00:29:07,871
       to be given the rights       
          of a human being          

567
00:29:07,912 --> 00:29:11,207
          in this society,          
     on this Earth, in this day,    

568
00:29:11,249 --> 00:29:13,752
           which we intend          
       to bring into existence      

569
00:29:13,793 --> 00:29:16,629
       by any means necessary!      

570
00:29:16,671 --> 00:29:18,965
        [cheers and applause]       

571
00:29:21,217 --> 00:29:22,719
             [reporter]             
       Officials at California's     

572
00:29:22,761 --> 00:29:24,554
           San Quentin Prison        
            still are trying         

573
00:29:24,596 --> 00:29:27,015
          to piece together         
    exactly what happened and how   

574
00:29:27,056 --> 00:29:29,225
          in that attempted         
       prison break yesterday       

575
00:29:29,267 --> 00:29:32,395
       in which three convicts      
       and three guards died.       

576
00:29:32,437 --> 00:29:34,731
      One of the dead convicts      
         was George Jackson         

577
00:29:34,773 --> 00:29:36,900
           of the self-styled        
           Soledad Brothers.         

578
00:29:36,941 --> 00:29:38,985
            Jackson was 29.          

579
00:29:39,027 --> 00:29:40,987
      [Harrison]   George Jackson     
      was that final straw to say,   

580
00:29:41,029 --> 00:29:42,697
     "I don't give a fuck no more.   

581
00:29:42,739 --> 00:29:44,783
    They're gonna kill us anyway.   
          We can't get out.         

582
00:29:44,824 --> 00:29:47,160
     We're in this fucking cage,    
        so where we going at?       

583
00:29:47,202 --> 00:29:49,996
         So if we gonna die,        
         let's die as men."         

584
00:29:50,038 --> 00:29:51,664
            And brothers            
        just got frustrated.        

585
00:29:55,460 --> 00:29:59,964
     We'd go into the mess hall     
    with a Black band on your arm   

586
00:30:00,006 --> 00:30:01,174
         and just sit there.        

587
00:30:01,216 --> 00:30:03,301
   Take a spoon when you come in.   

588
00:30:03,343 --> 00:30:05,053
            Take no food.           

589
00:30:05,094 --> 00:30:09,349
           We didn't speak          
       during the whole time,       

590
00:30:09,390 --> 00:30:11,684
   and we didn't pick up any food. 

591
00:30:12,268 --> 00:30:15,313
           That, I think,           
   kind of alerted the institution 

592
00:30:15,355 --> 00:30:18,733
     that we was in solidarity.     

593
00:30:18,775 --> 00:30:22,737
     They'd probably never seen     
   that type of solidarity before. 

594
00:30:22,779 --> 00:30:25,615
      apprehensive music playing  

595
00:30:25,657 --> 00:30:29,786
                                  

596
00:30:29,828 --> 00:30:34,499
       There was a lot of talk      
      discussing the situation,     

597
00:30:34,541 --> 00:30:38,711
         because the inmates        
          were very upset,          

598
00:30:38,753 --> 00:30:41,422
           and things were          
          happening there,          

599
00:30:41,464 --> 00:30:45,218
    and there was great concern.    

600
00:30:45,260 --> 00:30:47,303
         It was a time bomb         
           ready to blow,           

601
00:30:47,345 --> 00:30:49,722
        and we lived with it        
       every day in my house,       

602
00:30:49,764 --> 00:30:52,058
           and every day,           
     I said good-bye to my dad,     

603
00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:54,394
         and I knew it might be      
        the last day I saw him.      

604
00:30:54,435 --> 00:30:56,437
       It was open conversation.     

605
00:31:01,025 --> 00:31:02,694
           [Quinn Miller]           
       Things were getting worse.    

606
00:31:02,735 --> 00:31:05,738
       And so they had a meeting     
        with the administration,     

607
00:31:05,780 --> 00:31:07,574
         and the administration      
         essentially dismissed       

608
00:31:07,615 --> 00:31:11,911
      their concerns and said,      
      "Everybody back to work.      

609
00:31:11,953 --> 00:31:13,913
          However, we think         
       maybe it's a good idea       

610
00:31:13,955 --> 00:31:15,748
      if you left your personal     
         belongings at home,        

611
00:31:15,790 --> 00:31:18,084
         like wedding rings,        
        wallets, et cetera."        

612
00:31:18,126 --> 00:31:21,713
    So my father absolutely knew    
    that something was going on.    

613
00:31:21,754 --> 00:31:24,716
   I was having breakfast with him 
      and he was talking to me.     

614
00:31:24,757 --> 00:31:26,634
     And I knew he was nervous.     

615
00:31:26,676 --> 00:31:28,136
              But he said,           
      "Something's gonna happen."    

616
00:31:28,177 --> 00:31:30,638
      He said, "I just don't know    
             what or when.           

617
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,473
       But I think I'll be okay."    

618
00:31:36,769 --> 00:31:41,399
      [Heath]   There was a fight     
      in A yard on September 8th.    

619
00:31:41,441 --> 00:31:42,567
        And the guards promised      
          nothing would happen       

620
00:31:42,609 --> 00:31:43,985
          as a result of this,       

621
00:31:44,027 --> 00:31:47,530
       because they could feel      
      the tension building up.      

622
00:31:47,572 --> 00:31:49,782
          Then that night,          
      they broke that promise.      

623
00:31:49,824 --> 00:31:52,994
      They came and pulled them     
       out of the cells, and--      

624
00:31:53,036 --> 00:31:56,456
    about three or four of them,    
             and then...            

625
00:31:58,583 --> 00:32:00,084
           Then we started          
          throwing bottles          

626
00:32:00,126 --> 00:32:01,753
          or whatever glass         
         they may have had,         

627
00:32:01,794 --> 00:32:03,546
        or cans, or whatever        
         they may have had,         

628
00:32:03,588 --> 00:32:05,590
      and it was a disturbance,     
             that there.            

629
00:32:05,632 --> 00:32:08,426
       So the inmates decided       
           at that moment,          

630
00:32:08,468 --> 00:32:10,929
       "Man, this is it, man.       
              We tired.             

631
00:32:10,970 --> 00:32:12,388
         I mean, they killed        
           George Jackson.          

632
00:32:12,430 --> 00:32:13,598
            They did this           
        throughout the years.       

633
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:14,891
             We tired."             

634
00:32:14,933 --> 00:32:16,601
    You know? And they went off.    

635
00:32:16,643 --> 00:32:19,562
          [sirens wailing]          

636
00:32:27,028 --> 00:32:29,614
      I was in school that day,     

637
00:32:29,656 --> 00:32:33,368
   and the whistle from the prison 
          just kept going,          

638
00:32:33,409 --> 00:32:35,328
        and we could hear it.       

639
00:32:35,370 --> 00:32:37,705
     [Jaime Valone]   We got calls    
     from somebody from the prison   

640
00:32:37,747 --> 00:32:39,165
              saying that            
          "Your dad, you know,       

641
00:32:39,207 --> 00:32:40,750
       is definitely being held."    

642
00:32:40,792 --> 00:32:43,127
       You know, I was scared.      
      I was worried for my dad.     

643
00:32:43,169 --> 00:32:44,921
           I loved my dad.          

644
00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:48,925
       But we didn't really know     
           what was going on.        

645
00:32:48,967 --> 00:32:50,426
          [Elliot Barkley]          
             It seems to be          

646
00:32:50,468 --> 00:32:53,221
       a little misunderstanding     
               about why             

647
00:32:53,262 --> 00:32:55,431
        this incident developed      
            here at Attica,          

648
00:32:55,473 --> 00:32:58,309
      and this declaration here     
      will explain the reasons.     

649
00:32:58,351 --> 00:33:03,022
         The entire incident        
   that has erupted here at Attica 

650
00:33:03,064 --> 00:33:05,858
           is not a result          
    of the dastardly bushwhacking   

651
00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:10,363
        of the two prisoners        
       September 8th of 1971,       

652
00:33:10,405 --> 00:33:12,657
       but of the unmitigated       
             oppression             

653
00:33:12,699 --> 00:33:14,826
        wrought by the racist       
       administrative network       

654
00:33:14,867 --> 00:33:17,370
           of this prison           
        throughout the years.       

655
00:33:17,412 --> 00:33:19,205
        We want the governor        
            to guarantee            

656
00:33:19,247 --> 00:33:21,499
         that there will be         
            no reprisals,           

657
00:33:21,541 --> 00:33:24,127
       and we want all facets       
            of the media            

658
00:33:24,168 --> 00:33:26,546
         to articulate this.        

659
00:33:26,587 --> 00:33:29,215
    We needed the media in there    
          because we needed         

660
00:33:29,257 --> 00:33:31,884
        to let the world know       
         what was happening.        

661
00:33:33,594 --> 00:33:36,389
       [Schwartz]   This is one       
         of the turning points       

662
00:33:36,431 --> 00:33:37,724
          in the whole thing.        

663
00:33:40,643 --> 00:33:42,979
        We would like the press      
              to come in,            

664
00:33:43,021 --> 00:33:46,441
               including             
        the television cameras.      

665
00:33:48,067 --> 00:33:51,237
   That transformed everything...   

666
00:33:53,281 --> 00:33:57,243
    ...because now the prisoners    
      had a worldwide audience.     

667
00:33:59,495 --> 00:34:02,040
        Whatever happens here       
      at Attica State Prison...     

668
00:34:02,081 --> 00:34:03,875
      I'm not sure how they heard    

669
00:34:03,916 --> 00:34:07,336
           that there was           
     a Black journalist outside,    

670
00:34:07,378 --> 00:34:10,256
         that they wanted me        

671
00:34:10,298 --> 00:34:14,427
         to be on the group         
      that went in with Oswald.     

672
00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:17,513
         Suddenly, I'm on--         
           in this group,           

673
00:34:17,555 --> 00:34:19,724
       going into the prison,       

674
00:34:19,766 --> 00:34:23,728
           with this head           
        of the prison system.       

675
00:34:23,770 --> 00:34:27,607
        I was surprised that        
       they had asked for me.       

676
00:34:27,648 --> 00:34:30,276
   But I guess because of the fact 

677
00:34:30,318 --> 00:34:33,362
   that they had watched the news, 

678
00:34:33,404 --> 00:34:36,365
      my reports were factual,      

679
00:34:36,407 --> 00:34:40,119
            and I was not           
        taking anybody's side       

680
00:34:40,161 --> 00:34:41,454
         in the whole thing.        

681
00:34:44,123 --> 00:34:46,042
              [Johnson]             
              We went in,            

682
00:34:46,084 --> 00:34:50,671
     and it was completely surreal. 

683
00:34:50,713 --> 00:34:53,508
          Like, you're walking       
             down a tunnel,          

684
00:34:53,549 --> 00:34:57,678
            and suddenly,           
    you walk into this huge yard    

685
00:34:57,720 --> 00:34:59,931
          where there are men        
              everywhere--           

686
00:34:59,972 --> 00:35:03,267
        like, thousands of men.      

687
00:35:03,309 --> 00:35:06,354
             And I remember          

688
00:35:06,395 --> 00:35:09,565
          some people yelling,       
               "Hey, JJ."            

689
00:35:09,607 --> 00:35:12,443
       I said hello to people       
             that I knew            

690
00:35:12,485 --> 00:35:17,156
      from Bed-Stuy and Harlem,     
      and they were in Attica.      

691
00:35:21,202 --> 00:35:23,162
         [Dan]   Once inside,         
         we were brought along       

692
00:35:23,204 --> 00:35:25,832
     through the yard with a member 
      of the inmate security force   

693
00:35:25,873 --> 00:35:28,167
        constantly at our side.      

694
00:35:28,209 --> 00:35:31,003
         We were allowed to go       
       where they told us to go.     

695
00:35:31,045 --> 00:35:32,630
        We were allowed to film      

696
00:35:32,672 --> 00:35:35,174
        only when the prisoners      
           told us we could.         

697
00:35:35,216 --> 00:35:36,676
      Inmates' faces were covered    

698
00:35:36,717 --> 00:35:39,178
             so as to keep           
        their identities secret.     

699
00:35:39,220 --> 00:35:41,305
     Our first concern on entering   

700
00:35:41,347 --> 00:35:43,641
              was to learn           
         how the hostages were.      

701
00:35:43,683 --> 00:35:44,809
              [Oswald]              
    We want to see your hostages.   

702
00:35:44,851 --> 00:35:46,185
      Show the hostages first.      

703
00:35:46,227 --> 00:35:50,982
   I was able to ask one question   

704
00:35:51,023 --> 00:35:55,069
           before I was moved        
       to the negotiation table.     

705
00:35:55,111 --> 00:35:56,612
       Been treated all right?      

706
00:35:56,654 --> 00:35:58,239
         Yes, I have so far         
       been treated very good.      

707
00:35:58,281 --> 00:35:59,532
        -[Dan] No complaints?       
                -No.                

708
00:35:59,574 --> 00:36:01,450
                [Dan]               
       But no problems so far?      

709
00:36:01,492 --> 00:36:04,162
   So far, been treated very good. 

710
00:36:04,203 --> 00:36:07,456
         Shortly thereafter,        
         one of the inmates,        

711
00:36:07,498 --> 00:36:11,752
             a young man            
    by the name of L.D. Barkley,    

712
00:36:11,794 --> 00:36:14,755
    started to read the demands.    

713
00:36:14,797 --> 00:36:16,799
    The entire prison populace--    

714
00:36:16,841 --> 00:36:19,093
      that means each and every     
          one of us here--          

715
00:36:19,135 --> 00:36:22,221
           have set forth           
          to change forever         

716
00:36:22,263 --> 00:36:24,182
     the ruthless brutalization     

717
00:36:24,223 --> 00:36:26,851
     and disregard for the lives    
        of the prisoners here       

718
00:36:26,893 --> 00:36:28,811
           and throughout           
         the United States.         

719
00:36:28,853 --> 00:36:31,856
      He was saying what we all     
          wanted to scream.         

720
00:36:31,898 --> 00:36:33,816
      But he was explaining it      

721
00:36:33,858 --> 00:36:35,860
          so that everybody         
          could understand,         

722
00:36:35,902 --> 00:36:38,362
    so that when you were sitting   
        in your living room,        

723
00:36:38,404 --> 00:36:40,740
           you could say,           
    "Well, the guy's a criminal.    

724
00:36:40,781 --> 00:36:42,700
       Yeah, but he is saying       
         something that's...        

725
00:36:45,912 --> 00:36:48,456
        ...that I understand.       
       How could we do that?"       

726
00:36:48,497 --> 00:36:51,459
              You know?             
      He was waking up America.     

727
00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:52,919
       And he was the best one      
              to do it.             

728
00:36:53,753 --> 00:36:55,796
             We are men!            

729
00:36:55,838 --> 00:36:58,049
         We are not beasts,         
        and we do not intend        

730
00:36:58,090 --> 00:37:00,218
   to be beaten or driven as such. 

731
00:37:00,259 --> 00:37:02,720
      LD was only gonna be here     
            for 90 days.            

732
00:37:02,762 --> 00:37:04,222
        He'll be getting out.       

733
00:37:04,263 --> 00:37:06,599
   But he wanted the outside world 
           to know that...          

734
00:37:08,726 --> 00:37:10,686
    ...the prisons were inhumane.   

735
00:37:10,728 --> 00:37:13,689
       What has happened here       
          is but the sound          

736
00:37:13,731 --> 00:37:16,859
      before the fury of those      
         who are oppressed.         

737
00:37:16,901 --> 00:37:19,695
       We will not compromise       
            on any terms            

738
00:37:19,737 --> 00:37:23,449
         except those terms         
      that are agreeable to us.     

739
00:37:23,491 --> 00:37:25,159
          We call upon all...        

740
00:37:25,201 --> 00:37:27,995
        [prisoners shouting]        

741
00:37:29,538 --> 00:37:31,415
              [Larkins]             
              You felt it.           

742
00:37:34,126 --> 00:37:38,881
         And at that moment,        
     I heard it, and I seen it.     

743
00:37:38,923 --> 00:37:42,593
         And that reaffirmed        
          why we was there.         

744
00:37:42,635 --> 00:37:44,303
            Why I was there.         

745
00:37:48,224 --> 00:37:51,018
         There was a feeling        
         that this was big.         

746
00:37:51,060 --> 00:37:52,728
           This was huge.           

747
00:37:56,983 --> 00:37:59,443
   Corrections Commissioner Oswald 

748
00:37:59,485 --> 00:38:04,365
     maintained that he had done    

749
00:38:04,407 --> 00:38:06,993
      quite a bit of the things     

750
00:38:07,034 --> 00:38:10,162
   that the inmates had requested. 

751
00:38:10,204 --> 00:38:14,500
         I've, uh, complied         

752
00:38:14,542 --> 00:38:18,546
       with the several things      
    I said I would do as my part.   

753
00:38:18,587 --> 00:38:20,548
       I've brought the press       

754
00:38:20,589 --> 00:38:24,051
       and other media in here      

755
00:38:24,093 --> 00:38:25,845
        to listen as we talk.       

756
00:38:25,886 --> 00:38:28,431
      And now, my question is--     

757
00:38:28,472 --> 00:38:31,392
          I asked earlier,          

758
00:38:31,434 --> 00:38:33,227
         when will you release       
             the hostages?           

759
00:38:35,479 --> 00:38:38,149
              [Nieves]              
     But now, the table was turned, 

760
00:38:38,190 --> 00:38:41,485
         and we had the power.       

761
00:38:41,527 --> 00:38:43,112
          So when we asked him       
             for something,          

762
00:38:43,154 --> 00:38:44,864
        he had to give it to us      

763
00:38:44,905 --> 00:38:46,407
        'cause he didn't have       
             no choice.             

764
00:38:46,449 --> 00:38:48,617
      We wanted some assurance      

765
00:38:48,659 --> 00:38:52,496
      that we weren't gonna be      
         retaliated against.        

766
00:38:52,538 --> 00:38:54,874
     So we asked Herman Schwartz    

767
00:38:54,915 --> 00:38:58,753
       to go to District Court      
             in New York            

768
00:38:58,794 --> 00:39:03,299
        and get an injunction       
        that would assure us        

769
00:39:03,341 --> 00:39:05,676
         that we wouldn't be        
         retaliated against.        

770
00:39:05,718 --> 00:39:09,930
        I sat down and wrote        
            an injunction           

771
00:39:09,972 --> 00:39:13,726
            which barred            
      any kind of retaliation.      

772
00:39:14,852 --> 00:39:16,854
           It had been agreed        
          that there would be        

773
00:39:16,896 --> 00:39:18,898
            another meeting          
           the next morning.         

774
00:39:21,067 --> 00:39:23,235
     [reporter]   The time is now     
         ten minutes of eight.       

775
00:39:23,277 --> 00:39:26,572
     We've been shooting this tape   
      for approximately two hours.   

776
00:39:26,614 --> 00:39:28,407
       We started about 6:00 p.m.    

777
00:39:30,493 --> 00:39:32,703
     The light is almost gone now.   

778
00:39:32,745 --> 00:39:36,665
           We can see lights         
            in cell block D.         

779
00:39:36,707 --> 00:39:39,668
          singers vocalizing       

780
00:39:39,710 --> 00:39:42,505
         soulful doo-wop music      
               playing              

781
00:39:42,546 --> 00:39:45,299
                                  

782
00:39:45,341 --> 00:39:48,010
     [Roche]   The guy next to me     
        was named Raymond White.     

783
00:39:50,346 --> 00:39:53,265
       He was walking around,       
       looking up in the air.       

784
00:39:53,307 --> 00:39:55,768
             It's dark.             
     I said, "Yo, Raymond White.    

785
00:39:55,810 --> 00:39:58,896
      Yo, Ray, you all right?"      

786
00:39:58,938 --> 00:40:03,109
   He said, "Man, I ain't been out 
      after dark in 22 years."      

787
00:40:05,653 --> 00:40:06,862
             [Killebrew]            
          And we was talking,        

788
00:40:06,904 --> 00:40:10,074
            singing songs--          
        it was a festive night.      

789
00:40:10,116 --> 00:40:11,117
       I loved it. I loved it.      

790
00:40:11,158 --> 00:40:13,411
           Man, I was out           
          in the nighttime,         

791
00:40:13,452 --> 00:40:14,995
        looking at the stars.       

792
00:40:15,037 --> 00:40:16,539
      I was drunk. I was happy.     

793
00:40:16,580 --> 00:40:18,124
    You know, I was--I liked it,    
              you know.             

794
00:40:18,165 --> 00:40:19,583
      I was having a good time.     

795
00:40:19,625 --> 00:40:22,503
    And it was good. I felt free.   

796
00:40:22,545 --> 00:40:24,171
          You know, I mean,         
          prison was there,         

797
00:40:24,213 --> 00:40:26,382
     but, you know, I felt free.    

798
00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:29,218
        I didn't have to hear       

799
00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:31,679
         the doors locking.         

800
00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:33,597
    And if--it was a good feeling   

801
00:40:33,639 --> 00:40:37,143
          at that first night.       

802
00:40:37,184 --> 00:40:39,770
     [Asbury]   When it got dark,     
       and everybody was talking     

803
00:40:39,812 --> 00:40:41,439
        about finding somewhere      
               to sleep--            

804
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,274
             but, you know,          
           don't sleep alone,        

805
00:40:43,315 --> 00:40:45,025
             and, you know,          
          that type of thing.        

806
00:40:45,067 --> 00:40:47,903
    There's a lot of psychopaths    
           and sociopaths           

807
00:40:47,945 --> 00:40:49,947
        in those facilities,        
            so, you know,           

808
00:40:49,989 --> 00:40:53,951
     you had to protect yourself    
       from your peers, even.       

809
00:40:53,993 --> 00:40:58,831
                                  

810
00:41:01,459 --> 00:41:03,335
     [Sharif]   I knew this wasn't    
          gonna last forever.        

811
00:41:05,212 --> 00:41:09,341
          I knew there would--       
     there would be an end to this. 

812
00:41:09,383 --> 00:41:10,843
          But just because          
         we was incarcerated        

813
00:41:10,885 --> 00:41:13,679
      didn't mean that we were      
          less than human.          

814
00:41:16,015 --> 00:41:18,017
     Somebody had to take a stand.   

815
00:41:22,855 --> 00:41:25,733
       foreboding music playing    

816
00:41:25,774 --> 00:41:27,985
                                  

817
00:41:28,027 --> 00:41:30,321
    [reporter]   At dawn, as smoke    
         from yesterday's fires      

818
00:41:30,362 --> 00:41:31,989
      lingered over prison walls,    

819
00:41:32,031 --> 00:41:34,074
          a federal injunction       
              was obtained           

820
00:41:34,116 --> 00:41:36,035
     prohibiting physical reprisal   

821
00:41:36,076 --> 00:41:37,578
         against those involved      
              in the riot.           

822
00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:42,625
    [Schwartz]   When I brought in    
            the injunction,          

823
00:41:42,666 --> 00:41:46,670
       we talked to the prisoners    
            at opposite ends         

824
00:41:46,712 --> 00:41:50,591
        of a rather long tunnel.     

825
00:41:50,633 --> 00:41:53,260
             They said,             
   "Where are the administrators?" 

826
00:41:53,302 --> 00:41:54,845
       I said, "I don't know.       

827
00:41:54,887 --> 00:41:56,931
     I'm here, but I don't know     
          where they are."          

828
00:41:56,972 --> 00:42:01,101
        Finally, at ten o'clock,     
     Oswald and the others show up. 

829
00:42:03,270 --> 00:42:05,397
     The prisoners were furious.    

830
00:42:05,439 --> 00:42:10,402
           They had been,           
    as they would put it, dissed.   

831
00:42:10,444 --> 00:42:12,571
     They were supposed to meet     
     at seven or eight o'clock,     

832
00:42:12,613 --> 00:42:16,075
       and it was very clear--      

833
00:42:16,116 --> 00:42:17,993
        the air was very tense.      

834
00:42:19,954 --> 00:42:23,582
     You had the tables spread out. 

835
00:42:23,624 --> 00:42:26,418
          We were on one side.       

836
00:42:26,460 --> 00:42:30,589
     The inmates were on the other. 

837
00:42:30,631 --> 00:42:33,717
      And I gave them the document   
       that the judge had signed.    

838
00:42:33,759 --> 00:42:37,429
          This is nothing.          

839
00:42:37,471 --> 00:42:40,849
        [Schwartz] I'm sorry,       
      I spent seven hours of--      

840
00:42:40,891 --> 00:42:43,644
          and got no sleep,         
           and traveled...          

841
00:42:43,686 --> 00:42:46,397
     He claimed that the federal    
          judge signed off          

842
00:42:46,438 --> 00:42:50,192
    on an injunction saying that    
    there would be no reprisals.    

843
00:42:50,234 --> 00:42:55,030
        And he came back in,        
         waving that at us,         

844
00:42:55,072 --> 00:42:57,324
       and Jerry the Jew said,      
         "Where's the seal?"        

845
00:42:57,366 --> 00:43:00,327
      There is no judicial seal     
              on this.              

846
00:43:00,369 --> 00:43:04,248
     I have received injunctions    
     from the Southern District     

847
00:43:04,290 --> 00:43:06,041
      which had judicial seals.     

848
00:43:06,083 --> 00:43:08,460
   This paper is an empty gesture. 

849
00:43:08,502 --> 00:43:11,046
      [Larkins]   Jerry the Jew.      
         That was his nickname.      

850
00:43:11,088 --> 00:43:13,799
           Jerry Rosenberg          
        was a hell of a guy.        

851
00:43:13,841 --> 00:43:15,467
     And he was well-respected.     

852
00:43:15,509 --> 00:43:17,970
        He had a law degree.        

853
00:43:18,012 --> 00:43:20,639
          And he knew law.          
   He would help all the inmates.   

854
00:43:20,681 --> 00:43:22,850
     He was a jailhouse lawyer.     

855
00:43:23,434 --> 00:43:26,895
       You can take this piece      
     of paper and throw it away,    

856
00:43:26,937 --> 00:43:28,314
   because this is no protection.   

857
00:43:28,355 --> 00:43:30,983
   Jerry Rosenberg, God bless him, 

858
00:43:31,025 --> 00:43:34,820
              say, uh,              
      "Judge ain't signed this.     

859
00:43:34,862 --> 00:43:38,824
             There's no             
    Western District Court stamp    

860
00:43:38,866 --> 00:43:42,036
    on this document saying that,   
           you know what,           

861
00:43:42,077 --> 00:43:46,832
     nothing will happen to us,"    
           and tore it up.          

862
00:43:46,874 --> 00:43:49,043
   Herman, we know you mean well,   

863
00:43:49,084 --> 00:43:51,879
         but, uh, don't come        
      with the bullshit, Herm.      

864
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,922
       We want a judicial seal      

865
00:43:53,964 --> 00:43:56,008
          and a continuing          
          restraining order         

866
00:43:56,050 --> 00:43:58,510
        until the litigation        
          is finally ended,         

867
00:43:58,552 --> 00:44:00,929
        without any reprisals       
            or brutality            

868
00:44:00,971 --> 00:44:03,432
         against any inmates        
        of this institution.        

869
00:44:03,474 --> 00:44:06,352
        [prisoners cheering]        

870
00:44:13,734 --> 00:44:16,862
    Well, lawyers know that seals   

871
00:44:16,904 --> 00:44:19,323
        don't mean anything,        

872
00:44:19,365 --> 00:44:22,451
    uh, so long as the signature    
              is there.             

873
00:44:23,243 --> 00:44:25,704
            I could have            
         kicked Jerry's ass.        

874
00:44:25,746 --> 00:44:27,873
         And I should have.         

875
00:44:27,915 --> 00:44:32,169
       Really, 'cause he just       
       started to grandstand.       

876
00:44:32,211 --> 00:44:34,588
     You know, he was caught up     
           in the moment.           

877
00:44:37,257 --> 00:44:40,094
            Smart as he is,          
        and as shrewd as he is,      

878
00:44:40,135 --> 00:44:42,805
            he overreacted,          

879
00:44:42,846 --> 00:44:45,432
              and we lost            
         an opportunity there.       

880
00:44:45,474 --> 00:44:49,144
       And then somebody said,      
          "Let's hold them.         

881
00:44:49,186 --> 00:44:51,689
              Let's add             
       to the hostage count."       

882
00:44:54,274 --> 00:44:57,820
    [inmate] I hope I'm speaking    
       for every brother here.      

883
00:44:57,861 --> 00:45:00,280
       I want to address this       
           to you, Oswald.          

884
00:45:00,322 --> 00:45:02,950
          You come in here          
         popping that game.         

885
00:45:02,991 --> 00:45:04,326
    I know you don't give a fuck    

886
00:45:04,368 --> 00:45:05,744
      about none of them hacks      
             out there.             

887
00:45:05,786 --> 00:45:07,037
     Let me tell you something.     

888
00:45:07,079 --> 00:45:09,164
   I don't give a fuck about you.   
              Nothing.              

889
00:45:09,206 --> 00:45:11,125
    I know them people don't mean   
           nothing to you.          

890
00:45:11,166 --> 00:45:12,918
              Nothing.              

891
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,337
      And I'ma tell you before      
    you leave here--if you leave.   

892
00:45:15,379 --> 00:45:19,049
     Mr. Oswald, it seems to me     
      that you weren't honest.      

893
00:45:19,091 --> 00:45:23,262
   It seems to me that you weren't 
      honest at prevarications.     

894
00:45:23,303 --> 00:45:26,765
           I bear witness           
   to your evil deeds, Mr. Oswald. 

895
00:45:26,807 --> 00:45:30,227
           Now, I repeat,           
      as I told you yesterday,      

896
00:45:30,269 --> 00:45:32,688
    we're being lenient with you.   

897
00:45:32,730 --> 00:45:35,691
         We're negotiating.         
           We are talking.          

898
00:45:35,733 --> 00:45:38,861
          We shouldn't be.          
       We should be demanding.      

899
00:45:38,902 --> 00:45:40,195
                Why?                

900
00:45:40,237 --> 00:45:43,949
      Because we have 35 lives,     
            not hostages.           

901
00:45:43,991 --> 00:45:46,201
      And I repeat, Mr. Oswald,     

902
00:45:46,243 --> 00:45:49,747
        a moment's hesitation       
     will cause you their lives.    

903
00:45:49,788 --> 00:45:52,916
        [Nieves]   The meeting        
       in the yard got very tense    

904
00:45:52,958 --> 00:45:55,586
             because Oswald          
           would talk to you         

905
00:45:55,627 --> 00:45:57,588
      from one side of his mouth,    

906
00:45:57,629 --> 00:45:59,965
     and then when he left the yard 
            and go outside,          

907
00:46:00,007 --> 00:46:01,800
      he talks from the other side   
             of the mouth.           

908
00:46:01,842 --> 00:46:03,010
             [reporter]             
        Have the inmates made       

909
00:46:03,051 --> 00:46:04,678
    any demands that you know of?   

910
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:06,221
         There are all kinds        
        of demands, you know,       

911
00:46:06,263 --> 00:46:09,099
         for the change in--        
     change in the whole world.     

912
00:46:09,141 --> 00:46:13,937
     But what he forgot was that    
      he was being seen on TV.      

913
00:46:13,979 --> 00:46:18,275
   Come on. How could he do that?   
         We're watching you.        

914
00:46:18,317 --> 00:46:20,986
     [inmate]   And you stated it     
      yesterday on the news media,   

915
00:46:21,028 --> 00:46:22,738
         in a huff, in a panic.      

916
00:46:22,780 --> 00:46:24,740
    You said, "Well, I don't know   
           what they want.          

917
00:46:24,782 --> 00:46:26,825
        They want the world."       
     And you left it like that.     

918
00:46:26,867 --> 00:46:28,118
           You walked away          
         from the reporters.        

919
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:29,828
      Would you reply to that,      
             Mr. Oswald?            

920
00:46:29,870 --> 00:46:31,497
              [Oswald]              
        Yes, I did say that.        

921
00:46:31,538 --> 00:46:32,623
     [inmate] No, we didn't ask     
    you that, because we didn't--   

922
00:46:32,664 --> 00:46:33,832
              [inmate]              
       Let him finish, please.      

923
00:46:33,874 --> 00:46:35,334
              [Oswald]              
           I did say that.          

924
00:46:35,375 --> 00:46:37,252
              [Larkins]             
     Can't bullshit a bullshitter.   

925
00:46:37,294 --> 00:46:39,171
           You can't do that.        

926
00:46:39,213 --> 00:46:41,632
     The first time he came in,     
           "I'ma do this,           

927
00:46:41,673 --> 00:46:45,302
        A, B, C, D, E, F, G,"       
        and people was happy.       

928
00:46:45,344 --> 00:46:47,054
       "All right, go on about      
    your business, get it done."    

929
00:46:47,095 --> 00:46:50,474
      Came back in and started      
         talking, you know--        

930
00:46:50,516 --> 00:46:52,100
       you know, he was going       
          roundabout there          

931
00:46:52,142 --> 00:46:53,811
        and roundabout there,       
           and they said,           

932
00:46:53,852 --> 00:46:56,271
   "No, don't let the hostages go. 

933
00:46:56,313 --> 00:46:58,106
        All right, how about        
         you be a hostage?"         

934
00:46:58,148 --> 00:47:03,028
    We have been asking for over    
    29 hours for food and water.    

935
00:47:03,070 --> 00:47:05,447
        We haven't got none.        
   We're gonna keep Mr. Russell--   

936
00:47:05,489 --> 00:47:07,074
       Russell G. Oswald here       

937
00:47:07,115 --> 00:47:08,617
            until we get            
        some food and water.        

938
00:47:08,659 --> 00:47:10,702
         [inmates cheering]         

939
00:47:10,744 --> 00:47:12,120
      [Victory]   "No, we're not      
        letting him out of here.     

940
00:47:12,162 --> 00:47:14,039
      We're keeping him hostage."    

941
00:47:14,081 --> 00:47:16,250
     We all--we shut that down.     

942
00:47:16,291 --> 00:47:19,169
    We're not gonna be like them.   
   We're not gonna break our word. 

943
00:47:19,211 --> 00:47:20,879
            And he says,            
       "Well, inmates would be      

944
00:47:20,921 --> 00:47:21,964
     more honorable than them?"     

945
00:47:22,005 --> 00:47:24,132
            Yes, we were.           

946
00:47:24,174 --> 00:47:26,552
      'Cause we gave them our word   
     nothing would happen to them.   

947
00:47:26,593 --> 00:47:29,513
        [prisoners shouting]        

948
00:47:34,893 --> 00:47:36,562
      [Sheppard]   And everybody      
           started screaming,        

949
00:47:36,603 --> 00:47:39,314
       "Let him go! Let him go!"     

950
00:47:39,356 --> 00:47:40,691
     [inmate] Security, please.     

951
00:47:42,651 --> 00:47:44,319
          Security, please.         

952
00:47:45,404 --> 00:47:48,073
      And he got out of Dodge,      
       and he never came back.      

953
00:47:53,537 --> 00:47:55,706
    [reporter]   In New York state,   
            some 500 inmates         

954
00:47:55,747 --> 00:47:58,959
     of the Attica Maximum Security 
      Prison are still in revolt.    

955
00:47:59,001 --> 00:48:01,169
          Authorities tried         
       unsuccessfully to reach      

956
00:48:01,211 --> 00:48:04,214
   a settlement with the prisoners 
      over demands for reforms      

957
00:48:04,256 --> 00:48:06,758
        and to obtain release       
      of more than 30 hostages.     

958
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,886
     We have a report on what's     
      been happening at Attica      

959
00:48:08,927 --> 00:48:10,929
      from ABC's John Johnson.      

960
00:48:10,971 --> 00:48:12,055
              [Johnson]             
        Fires were still burning     

961
00:48:12,097 --> 00:48:13,974
        at Attica State Prison.      

962
00:48:14,016 --> 00:48:17,102
     Despite a small army of police 
          and state troopers,        

963
00:48:17,144 --> 00:48:20,564
         the prisoners continue      
      to call the shots at Attica.   

964
00:48:20,606 --> 00:48:23,859
     Commissioner Oswald announced   
         that prison officials       

965
00:48:23,901 --> 00:48:25,944
            were attempting          
         to bring to the prison      

966
00:48:25,986 --> 00:48:29,865
         those people requested      
           by the prisoners.         

967
00:48:29,907 --> 00:48:34,244
   The group was basically people   

968
00:48:34,286 --> 00:48:35,996
           whom they knew.          

969
00:48:36,038 --> 00:48:38,165
        People like Tom Wicker,      

970
00:48:38,206 --> 00:48:41,376
        who had written a column     
            about prisoners.         

971
00:48:41,418 --> 00:48:43,462
           Senator John Dunne        

972
00:48:43,503 --> 00:48:45,714
              was chairman           
        of the Prisons Committee     

973
00:48:45,756 --> 00:48:47,215
          and sympathetic.          

974
00:48:47,257 --> 00:48:49,384
        He was asked to come.       

975
00:48:49,426 --> 00:48:53,764
        Bill Kunstler, a lawyer      
         for the Chicago Seven.      

976
00:48:53,805 --> 00:48:55,724
         Asked him to come in.       

977
00:48:55,766 --> 00:48:58,101
          And Clarence Jones,        

978
00:48:58,143 --> 00:49:00,812
               publisher             
         of the   Amsterdam News.      

979
00:49:00,854 --> 00:49:03,732
      apprehensive music playing  

980
00:49:03,774 --> 00:49:05,442
                                  

981
00:49:05,484 --> 00:49:06,777
       [Jones]   I have a driver      
          who's driving me up        

982
00:49:06,818 --> 00:49:08,362
         to the   Amsterdam News.      

983
00:49:08,403 --> 00:49:10,030
      And the driver says, "Boss!    

984
00:49:10,072 --> 00:49:11,281
      They're calling your name     
           on the radio."           

985
00:49:11,323 --> 00:49:13,367
      I said, "What you mean?"      

986
00:49:13,408 --> 00:49:16,203
          Called Rockefeller,        
           and lo and behold,        

987
00:49:16,244 --> 00:49:17,955
              the governor           
          picked up the phone.       

988
00:49:17,996 --> 00:49:22,000
    He said, "Thank you so much,    
             Mr. Jones.             

989
00:49:22,042 --> 00:49:23,794
     We have a major situation.     

990
00:49:25,504 --> 00:49:28,840
        A number of the inmates      
         have called your name.      

991
00:49:30,884 --> 00:49:32,970
      We'll have a car pick you up   

992
00:49:33,011 --> 00:49:35,347
              and take you           
        to a private airport...      

993
00:49:37,265 --> 00:49:39,810
     ...where a state private plane 
          is waiting for you."       

994
00:49:42,062 --> 00:49:45,857
     And there, I'm off to Attica,   

995
00:49:45,899 --> 00:49:49,486
               to be part            
      of the observers committee.    

996
00:49:51,780 --> 00:49:55,283
       My wife and I were off       
     on a vacation at the time,     

997
00:49:55,325 --> 00:49:57,452
     and we got a call that they    
     had asked me to come there,    

998
00:49:57,494 --> 00:49:59,663
          and I felt that,          
      with my prior experience      

999
00:49:59,705 --> 00:50:01,206
       and my responsibilities      

1000
00:50:01,248 --> 00:50:02,708
           as the chairman          
      of the Prison Committee,      

1001
00:50:02,749 --> 00:50:04,042
          I ought to be there.       

1002
00:50:06,169 --> 00:50:07,838
           I was optimistic.         

1003
00:50:07,879 --> 00:50:11,258
      I thought, "Give it a shot."   

1004
00:50:11,299 --> 00:50:13,010
      [reporter]   For the rebel      
          prisoners of Attica,       

1005
00:50:13,051 --> 00:50:15,512
     the encouraging appearance of   
     people they consider friends,   

1006
00:50:15,554 --> 00:50:17,305
     a 30-man mediation committee,   

1007
00:50:17,347 --> 00:50:19,474
        including a congressman,     
             four newsmen,           

1008
00:50:19,516 --> 00:50:22,310
         and most importantly,       
        lawyer William Kunstler.     

1009
00:50:22,352 --> 00:50:23,520
              [Johnson]             
       Have you heard anything      

1010
00:50:23,562 --> 00:50:25,105
     from Governor Rockefeller's    
               office?              

1011
00:50:25,147 --> 00:50:28,650
     I mean, has he put any time    
    limit on these negotiations?    

1012
00:50:28,692 --> 00:50:32,279
        No, but I understand        
    that there is no present plan   

1013
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,240
    to use force in this prison,    
     and I hope that continues.     

1014
00:50:35,282 --> 00:50:37,367
     I just hope that they realize   
              that this is           

1015
00:50:37,409 --> 00:50:41,079
          a unique situation,        
       and that it may take time,    

1016
00:50:41,121 --> 00:50:43,248
         and that if everyone's      
             in good faith,          

1017
00:50:43,290 --> 00:50:44,791
        something will work out.     

1018
00:50:47,085 --> 00:50:49,713
     [Rothenberg]   It was scary.     
      The tension was tremendous.    

1019
00:50:49,755 --> 00:50:52,007
     You could have cut the air     
            with a knife.           

1020
00:50:52,049 --> 00:50:54,092
         It was terrifying.         

1021
00:50:54,134 --> 00:50:56,928
   I remember going into the yard   
      and saying to Mel Rivers,     

1022
00:50:56,970 --> 00:50:58,597
     "Do you have a cigarette?"     

1023
00:50:58,638 --> 00:51:00,515
     And he said, "You have one     
     in your--one in your hand,     

1024
00:51:00,557 --> 00:51:03,101
         one in your mouth,         
        and one in your ear."       

1025
00:51:03,143 --> 00:51:05,771
             I was scared.           

1026
00:51:05,812 --> 00:51:07,939
          When you see a tower       
       with people with rifles--     

1027
00:51:07,981 --> 00:51:09,399
             [chuckles]             

1028
00:51:09,441 --> 00:51:12,611
        I kept thinking, um,        
        we should stay close        

1029
00:51:12,652 --> 00:51:14,279
            to Tom Wicker           
         and Herman Badillo,        

1030
00:51:14,321 --> 00:51:16,823
        because they would be       
    the least likely to be shot.    

1031
00:51:19,326 --> 00:51:21,787
        Frank "Big Black" Smith      

1032
00:51:21,828 --> 00:51:25,624
            was the overall          
            security leader.         

1033
00:51:25,665 --> 00:51:28,126
     He took that job on himself    
              already.              

1034
00:51:28,168 --> 00:51:30,629
           He was the guy.          

1035
00:51:30,670 --> 00:51:32,339
          [Nieves laughing]         
          He was the big man.        

1036
00:51:32,380 --> 00:51:35,008
      I mean, this fella was big.    

1037
00:51:35,050 --> 00:51:37,427
          They was responsible       
          to making sure that        

1038
00:51:37,469 --> 00:51:41,223
    the observers that came in--    

1039
00:51:41,264 --> 00:51:43,308
      the same way they came in     

1040
00:51:43,350 --> 00:51:45,227
     is the same way they left.     

1041
00:51:45,268 --> 00:51:48,105
   You know, no harm come to them. 

1042
00:51:48,146 --> 00:51:52,025
    He said, "Well, we gotta have   
      a inmate security force."     

1043
00:51:52,067 --> 00:51:54,736
          Said, "All right.         
    We're looking for volunteers.   

1044
00:51:54,778 --> 00:51:58,532
      You, you, you, you, you,      
     y'all on the inmate force.     

1045
00:51:58,573 --> 00:52:00,659
   And it can't be all Black guys. 

1046
00:52:00,700 --> 00:52:03,495
   We need Black guys, white guys, 
         and Puerto Ricans."        

1047
00:52:06,873 --> 00:52:10,001
      [Brosig]   We would line up     
         and create a corridor,      

1048
00:52:10,043 --> 00:52:12,504
      and they would walk down      
     the middle of the corridor,    

1049
00:52:12,546 --> 00:52:16,424
       with us being a barrier      
     between general population     

1050
00:52:16,466 --> 00:52:18,009
        and the negotiators.        

1051
00:52:18,051 --> 00:52:20,846
         So we would just stand      
          shoulder to shoulder       

1052
00:52:20,887 --> 00:52:24,349
     and give them that safe space   
            to walk through.         

1053
00:52:28,687 --> 00:52:29,855
               [Scott]              
     We began to talk to with them   

1054
00:52:29,896 --> 00:52:32,107
        about what they wanted.      

1055
00:52:32,149 --> 00:52:36,528
       And they had their list      
              of things             

1056
00:52:36,570 --> 00:52:39,114
          that they wanted          
          already written.          

1057
00:52:39,156 --> 00:52:42,033
              You know,             
     everybody wanted a voice--     

1058
00:52:42,075 --> 00:52:44,411
   good, bad, and the whacked out. 

1059
00:52:44,452 --> 00:52:47,747
        So nothing went easy,       
            but it went.            

1060
00:52:47,789 --> 00:52:49,916
   We got to a point where we had   

1061
00:52:49,958 --> 00:52:53,545
           what we thought          
         might be possible.         

1062
00:52:53,587 --> 00:52:56,298
    Their demands were, you know,   

1063
00:52:56,339 --> 00:52:59,676
         reasonable demands         
      about living conditions.      

1064
00:52:59,718 --> 00:53:02,804
      They wanted medical care,     

1065
00:53:02,846 --> 00:53:06,057
          uh, decent food,          

1066
00:53:06,099 --> 00:53:10,270
   uh, fair disciplinary hearings. 

1067
00:53:13,356 --> 00:53:16,359
       Basically, they wanted       
            to be treated           

1068
00:53:16,401 --> 00:53:19,571
         like human beings.         

1069
00:53:19,613 --> 00:53:20,864
             [reporter]             
       Prisoners late last night     

1070
00:53:20,906 --> 00:53:23,241
          met with a 30-member       
           civilian committee        

1071
00:53:23,283 --> 00:53:25,243
             in an attempt           
           to clarify demands        

1072
00:53:25,285 --> 00:53:27,537
          ranging from better        
         prison life conditions      

1073
00:53:27,579 --> 00:53:29,664
           to more religious         
         and political freedom.      

1074
00:53:29,706 --> 00:53:33,001
     I injected into the demands    

1075
00:53:33,043 --> 00:53:36,755
        for some people to go       
   to a non-imperialistic country, 

1076
00:53:36,796 --> 00:53:39,382
     you know, to be flied out.     

1077
00:53:39,424 --> 00:53:42,177
           We thought Cuba          
     was gonna come and get us.     

1078
00:53:42,219 --> 00:53:46,389
     You ship troops to Vietnam,    
          to Santo Domingo,         

1079
00:53:46,431 --> 00:53:49,351
   to all these foreign countries, 
      to oppress the brothers.      

1080
00:53:49,392 --> 00:53:51,478
     You can bring one of these     
         helicopters in here        

1081
00:53:51,519 --> 00:53:53,563
             and ship us            
       on out of this country.      

1082
00:53:53,605 --> 00:53:55,690
         [inmates cheering]         

1083
00:53:55,732 --> 00:53:58,526
     We done seen people snatch     
     airplanes and all like that    

1084
00:53:58,568 --> 00:54:01,238
     and go to Cuba and Algiers     
        and all other places.       

1085
00:54:01,279 --> 00:54:03,114
      Why not get out of jail?      

1086
00:54:03,156 --> 00:54:06,117
   An Air France jet was hijacked   
      by Palestinian guerillas.     

1087
00:54:06,159 --> 00:54:10,330
         A 17-year-old girl         
   hijacked a TWA jetliner on a... 

1088
00:54:10,372 --> 00:54:12,707
         I had four years in        
      on a 25-to-life sentence.     

1089
00:54:12,749 --> 00:54:14,918
      Why not get out of jail?      

1090
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:16,419
              Why not?              

1091
00:54:16,461 --> 00:54:20,131
       Well, we all knew that       
      that wasn't gonna happen.     

1092
00:54:20,173 --> 00:54:24,761
   We weren't gonna go to Algeria   
    in their plane, I knew that.    

1093
00:54:24,803 --> 00:54:27,889
         Everybody, the back        
     of their minds, knew that.     

1094
00:54:27,931 --> 00:54:29,307
       But we needed amnesty.       

1095
00:54:31,810 --> 00:54:33,395
              [inmate]              
     We want the federal judiciary   

1096
00:54:33,436 --> 00:54:35,480
     to guarantee complete amnesty   

1097
00:54:35,522 --> 00:54:38,149
     to each and every one of us    
         that has taken part        

1098
00:54:38,191 --> 00:54:42,070
   in the struggle here at Attica, 
     to ensure that this amnesty    

1099
00:54:42,112 --> 00:54:44,531
             will not be            
     just a groping in the wind,    

1100
00:54:44,572 --> 00:54:48,493
         but a reality for each      
          and every one of us.       

1101
00:54:48,535 --> 00:54:50,537
    [Dunne]   They were not looking   
             to be relieved          

1102
00:54:50,578 --> 00:54:53,415
       of the prison sentences      
     to which they had been sent    

1103
00:54:53,456 --> 00:54:55,792
            by the courts           
       after being convicted.       

1104
00:54:55,834 --> 00:54:59,921
    They were looking to be freed   
        from any prosecution        

1105
00:54:59,963 --> 00:55:03,633
          or any penalties          
   for their engaging in the riot. 

1106
00:55:06,678 --> 00:55:09,806
     Besides the normal beatings    
         and everything else        

1107
00:55:09,848 --> 00:55:14,811
    that they're gonna do to us,    
   which is, you know, automatic,   

1108
00:55:14,853 --> 00:55:17,856
    we knew that they could also    
   take us and bring us to courts   

1109
00:55:17,897 --> 00:55:22,193
     and, you know, and turn us     
      into the monster inmates      

1110
00:55:22,235 --> 00:55:24,988
      who took over the prison.     

1111
00:55:25,030 --> 00:55:28,366
         [inmate]   We are not        
          advocating violence.       

1112
00:55:28,408 --> 00:55:30,702
          We all want to live.       

1113
00:55:32,912 --> 00:55:35,665
             All of us.             

1114
00:55:35,707 --> 00:55:37,751
       If any of you gentlemen      
             own dogs...            

1115
00:55:39,794 --> 00:55:42,922
     You're treating them better    
      than we have been treated     

1116
00:55:42,964 --> 00:55:45,133
           the last year.           

1117
00:55:45,175 --> 00:55:47,719
           [inmates cheer]          

1118
00:55:47,761 --> 00:55:49,721
               [Jones]              
       They were fiercely trying     

1119
00:55:49,763 --> 00:55:52,432
     to convince prison authorities 

1120
00:55:52,474 --> 00:55:55,602
         that they didn't cease      
          being a human being        

1121
00:55:55,643 --> 00:55:59,689
           merely by the fact        
      that they were incarcerated    

1122
00:55:59,731 --> 00:56:03,526
        because they had broken      
           a law of society.         

1123
00:56:03,568 --> 00:56:05,695
    Now, that's a profound thing.   

1124
00:56:05,737 --> 00:56:08,698
           "I am somebody.          

1125
00:56:08,740 --> 00:56:11,076
          I'm not a thing.          

1126
00:56:11,117 --> 00:56:14,621
   You can't treat me like a dog.   

1127
00:56:14,662 --> 00:56:18,249
        I may be a prisoner,        
        but I have dignity."        

1128
00:56:18,291 --> 00:56:21,503
    And that's what they insisted   

1129
00:56:21,544 --> 00:56:24,506
          on getting the...         

1130
00:56:24,547 --> 00:56:28,885
      power structure of Attica     
           to recognize--           

1131
00:56:28,927 --> 00:56:32,931
         that they continued        
           to be somebody.          

1132
00:56:35,642 --> 00:56:39,145
       [Nieves]   The observers,      
     they all were listening to us. 

1133
00:56:39,187 --> 00:56:43,274
            I feel that they         
          were supporting us.        

1134
00:56:43,316 --> 00:56:46,444
                You see,             
      and that meant a lot to us.    

1135
00:56:48,530 --> 00:56:50,907
       "This is our situation.      
        Please listen to us."       

1136
00:56:50,949 --> 00:56:53,284
 And that's what they were doing. 
        They were listening.        

1137
00:56:53,326 --> 00:56:55,495
   It felt like there was somebody 
        that believed in us.        

1138
00:56:55,537 --> 00:56:57,288
          It felt that way.         

1139
00:56:57,330 --> 00:56:58,665
    That somebody believed that,    

1140
00:56:58,706 --> 00:57:00,542
              you know,             
      you did have some rights,     

1141
00:57:00,583 --> 00:57:02,460
        even though you were        
   a convicted felon of whatever.   

1142
00:57:04,796 --> 00:57:08,133
     We'd be able to get better     
         mailing privileges,        

1143
00:57:08,174 --> 00:57:09,926
     better medical privileges.     

1144
00:57:09,968 --> 00:57:13,847
      We tried to nail it down      
     to that which was realistic    

1145
00:57:13,888 --> 00:57:17,600
            and possible,           
     distinguished from a plane     

1146
00:57:17,642 --> 00:57:20,645
           waiting for us           
       outside the cell block,      

1147
00:57:20,687 --> 00:57:22,981
         flying us to Cuba.         

1148
00:57:23,022 --> 00:57:24,816
         That's what it was.        

1149
00:57:24,858 --> 00:57:28,194
    It was realism from fantasy.    

1150
00:57:29,946 --> 00:57:32,365
        We want to be treated       
          as human beings.          

1151
00:57:33,741 --> 00:57:37,829
         We will be treated         
          as human beings.          

1152
00:57:37,871 --> 00:57:39,664
            We have come            
        to the conclusion...        

1153
00:57:41,458 --> 00:57:44,627
        ...after close study,       

1154
00:57:44,669 --> 00:57:47,881
        after much suffering,       

1155
00:57:47,922 --> 00:57:51,217
      after much consideration,     

1156
00:57:51,259 --> 00:57:56,306
          that if we cannot         
           live as people,          

1157
00:57:56,347 --> 00:58:00,226
        then we will at least       
        try to die like men.        

1158
00:58:00,268 --> 00:58:04,272
         [inmates cheering]         

1159
00:58:04,314 --> 00:58:08,359
      That statement resounded      
             everywhere.            

1160
00:58:14,115 --> 00:58:16,284
            In that yard,           
         when he said that,         

1161
00:58:16,326 --> 00:58:19,704
    a roar went up like no other.   

1162
00:58:19,746 --> 00:58:21,498
        This was their stand.       

1163
00:58:21,539 --> 00:58:24,459
        I saw that I really--       

1164
00:58:24,501 --> 00:58:26,753
             none of us             
      were gonna be observers.      

1165
00:58:26,794 --> 00:58:28,796
     We were gonna be mediators.    

1166
00:58:28,838 --> 00:58:31,591
          Whether we wanted         
       to be mediators or not,      

1167
00:58:31,633 --> 00:58:35,512
      whether we were called up     
          to be mediators,          

1168
00:58:35,553 --> 00:58:39,766
        this prison uprising        
         had to be mediated.        

1169
00:58:39,807 --> 00:58:42,727
     Otherwise, it was gonna end    
            in disaster.            

1170
00:58:44,437 --> 00:58:48,274
            If you people           
         do not understand,         

1171
00:58:48,316 --> 00:58:51,903
            if you people           
        do not stick with us,       

1172
00:58:51,945 --> 00:58:53,947
      if you people cannot make     
           the commitment           

1173
00:58:53,988 --> 00:58:55,406
      that we have made here...     

1174
00:58:57,742 --> 00:59:00,036
           ...we are dead.          

1175
00:59:00,078 --> 00:59:03,957
      I appeal, beseech you all     

1176
00:59:03,998 --> 00:59:05,959
          to stand with us,         

1177
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,503
            walk with us,           

1178
00:59:08,545 --> 00:59:10,713
     die with us, if necessary!     

1179
00:59:10,755 --> 00:59:13,591
        -[inmate] I hear you!       
      -You and all the people!      

1180
00:59:13,633 --> 00:59:16,553
            Power to you            
         and all the people!        

1181
00:59:16,594 --> 00:59:18,763
         [inmates cheering]         

1182
00:59:30,316 --> 00:59:33,194
      suspenseful music playing    

1183
00:59:33,236 --> 00:59:38,116
                                  

1184
00:59:40,326 --> 00:59:43,955
    [Johnson]   Things were growing   
            on the outside.          

1185
00:59:43,997 --> 00:59:45,665
          Don't tape this.          

1186
00:59:48,334 --> 00:59:50,378
              [Johnson]             
      There were more journalists.   

1187
00:59:50,420 --> 00:59:53,423
        There were more police.      

1188
00:59:53,464 --> 00:59:55,758
     And it was just getting bigger 

1189
00:59:55,800 --> 01:00:00,013
         and bigger and bigger.      

1190
01:00:00,054 --> 01:00:02,974
          People are coming         
           night and day,           

1191
01:00:03,016 --> 01:00:07,562
   vans with reporters and police, 
     and things are building up.    

1192
01:00:11,065 --> 01:00:12,358
             [reporter]             
      Among those keeping a vigil    

1193
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:14,110
       outside the prison walls,     

1194
01:00:14,152 --> 01:00:16,863
          the families of some       
      of the 38 men held hostage.    

1195
01:00:16,904 --> 01:00:19,741
          I was just home,          
          watching the TV.          

1196
01:00:19,782 --> 01:00:23,745
          I just kept looking        
            for my husband.          

1197
01:00:23,786 --> 01:00:27,040
          Maybe he'd be killed       
       or brutalized in some way,    

1198
01:00:27,081 --> 01:00:28,916
          because the inmates        
              at that time           

1199
01:00:28,958 --> 01:00:30,918
     had the power there, you know. 

1200
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:34,547
       And if they didn't like      
     somebody, or who knew what,    

1201
01:00:34,589 --> 01:00:36,966
        you were just scared        
      to death that, you know,      

1202
01:00:37,008 --> 01:00:38,968
      they'd just kill them all     
            or something            

1203
01:00:39,010 --> 01:00:40,511
    if they didn't get their way.   

1204
01:00:42,472 --> 01:00:44,223
             [reporter]             
      Families of the 31 hostages    

1205
01:00:44,265 --> 01:00:46,059
         wait for word as part       
             of the prison           

1206
01:00:46,100 --> 01:00:48,144
           remains in control        
            of the inmates.          

1207
01:00:48,186 --> 01:00:53,149
                                  

1208
01:00:54,651 --> 01:00:55,943
           [Quinn Miller]           
            They were upset,         

1209
01:00:55,985 --> 01:00:58,029
            they were angry,         
         and they were scared,       

1210
01:00:58,071 --> 01:01:00,698
           standing out there        

1211
01:01:00,740 --> 01:01:03,993
         while their loved ones      
        are being held hostage,      

1212
01:01:04,035 --> 01:01:05,703
        and they are waiting        

1213
01:01:05,745 --> 01:01:09,207
    for any scrap of information,   

1214
01:01:09,248 --> 01:01:11,376
         to hear something.         

1215
01:01:13,086 --> 01:01:15,546
       And many of those families    

1216
01:01:15,588 --> 01:01:17,548
              stood vigil            
        day and night out there.     

1217
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:22,387
          [Maryann Valone]          
       A bunch of people crying,     

1218
01:01:22,428 --> 01:01:25,723
         the wives and brothers      
              and fathers,           

1219
01:01:25,765 --> 01:01:27,517
             freaking out.           

1220
01:01:27,558 --> 01:01:29,560
              Just panic.            

1221
01:01:29,602 --> 01:01:32,021
     People were afraid to talk     
         in the parking lot         

1222
01:01:32,063 --> 01:01:34,399
     because they thought that--    

1223
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:36,943
    to any reporters or anybody,    
                even.               

1224
01:01:36,984 --> 01:01:38,945
     They did it all in privacy     

1225
01:01:38,986 --> 01:01:41,155
      because they didn't want      
      their relatives targeted,     

1226
01:01:41,197 --> 01:01:43,032
      singled out by the inmates.    

1227
01:01:54,627 --> 01:01:56,546
      I had sympathy for them.      

1228
01:01:56,587 --> 01:01:59,590
          They--where else          
      were you gonna get a job      

1229
01:01:59,632 --> 01:02:03,261
     if you lived in that area?     

1230
01:02:03,302 --> 01:02:06,097
       And you had no training      

1231
01:02:06,139 --> 01:02:09,016
        and no understanding        

1232
01:02:09,058 --> 01:02:11,018
         of what it was like        

1233
01:02:11,060 --> 01:02:14,272
        to grow up in a poor,       

1234
01:02:14,313 --> 01:02:17,942
         Black, urban area.         

1235
01:02:17,984 --> 01:02:21,112
       You--these were aliens.      

1236
01:02:21,154 --> 01:02:24,198
          These were people         
       from a different world.      

1237
01:02:26,492 --> 01:02:29,787
       And your family members      

1238
01:02:29,829 --> 01:02:34,584
     maybe are gonna get killed     
          because of them?          

1239
01:02:34,625 --> 01:02:38,045
       Sure, you were infuriated.    

1240
01:02:40,256 --> 01:02:42,925
       All these dogs up there      
        with all those rifles       

1241
01:02:42,967 --> 01:02:44,844
       are trying to kill us.       

1242
01:02:44,886 --> 01:02:46,512
     Well, we ain't gonna quit.     

1243
01:02:46,554 --> 01:02:49,640
        The inmates that were       
      given microphones on TV,      

1244
01:02:49,682 --> 01:02:51,851
       I mean--very upsetting.      

1245
01:02:53,394 --> 01:02:55,021
            They should have         
        resolved it right away.      

1246
01:02:55,062 --> 01:02:58,357
        It just went on too far.     
     We all just wanted it to end.   

1247
01:03:00,777 --> 01:03:04,906
          What I would hear         
           over the radio           

1248
01:03:04,947 --> 01:03:06,783
             and the TV             

1249
01:03:06,824 --> 01:03:09,368
         was not satisfying         
            to me at all,           

1250
01:03:09,410 --> 01:03:13,331
       because it seemed to me      
      that what I was hearing,      

1251
01:03:13,372 --> 01:03:16,501
          I didn't think was--       

1252
01:03:16,542 --> 01:03:18,920
            they were doing          
            the right thing.         

1253
01:03:18,961 --> 01:03:22,173
             It just seemed          
          sort of limp to me.        

1254
01:03:22,215 --> 01:03:23,549
       And that was frustrating.     

1255
01:03:25,718 --> 01:03:27,345
           [Jaime Valone]           
     You'd hear stuff from people.   

1256
01:03:27,386 --> 01:03:29,138
          That's where it got        
          a little scary, too,       

1257
01:03:29,180 --> 01:03:32,266
      'cause you could see how      
    the inmates were considered,    

1258
01:03:32,308 --> 01:03:35,520
       like, less than human,       
        kind of like animals.       

1259
01:03:35,561 --> 01:03:37,939
      There was people saying,      
              you know,             

1260
01:03:37,980 --> 01:03:39,482
    "Don't worry about your dad."   

1261
01:03:39,524 --> 01:03:42,235
   You know, "they'll get theirs"   
             type thing.            

1262
01:03:42,276 --> 01:03:45,404
     And so that kind of made it    
          even more scary.          

1263
01:03:45,446 --> 01:03:47,657
              You realize            
        how emotionally charged      

1264
01:03:47,698 --> 01:03:49,826
        the community's getting.     

1265
01:03:49,867 --> 01:03:52,036
         The tensions got worse      
          and worse and worse.       

1266
01:03:52,078 --> 01:03:53,996
           Emotions got worse        
          and worse and worse.       

1267
01:03:56,123 --> 01:03:59,001
         solemn music playing      

1268
01:03:59,043 --> 01:04:04,131
                                  

1269
01:04:04,173 --> 01:04:06,634
         [Asbury]   Saturday,         
         I think that the hope       

1270
01:04:06,676 --> 01:04:10,429
      was stronger than the doubt,   
       because after three days,     

1271
01:04:10,471 --> 01:04:13,891
         you know, Thursday,        
        Friday, and Saturday,       

1272
01:04:13,933 --> 01:04:15,560
     they hadn't came in there.     

1273
01:04:15,601 --> 01:04:17,061
      We had, like, 30 demands,     

1274
01:04:17,103 --> 01:04:22,191
   and most of them were possible. 

1275
01:04:22,233 --> 01:04:25,319
         And we were exuberant       
               about it.             

1276
01:04:25,361 --> 01:04:28,072
           I've never seen          
         anything like this.        

1277
01:04:28,114 --> 01:04:30,408
         The people in here         
       are treated like dogs.       

1278
01:04:30,449 --> 01:04:33,327
        Not only the Black--        
   the Puerto Rican and the white. 

1279
01:04:33,369 --> 01:04:34,912
         And we're gonna get        
           what we demand,          

1280
01:04:34,954 --> 01:04:36,747
       or we gonna die trying.      

1281
01:04:36,789 --> 01:04:38,833
             Thank you.             

1282
01:04:38,875 --> 01:04:40,626
     [Victory]   We thought that,     
           whatever happened,        

1283
01:04:40,668 --> 01:04:42,920
             we could maybe          
            really walk away         

1284
01:04:42,962 --> 01:04:44,589
         with some improvement       
             in our lives.           

1285
01:04:47,216 --> 01:04:50,595
          Point was is that         
         whatever happened,         

1286
01:04:50,636 --> 01:04:53,389
         it just had to make        
            a difference.           

1287
01:04:53,431 --> 01:04:56,309
         Change had to happen.       
        You had to embrace hope.     

1288
01:05:02,231 --> 01:05:04,775
    There's a report that prison    
       officials have yielded       

1289
01:05:04,817 --> 01:05:07,236
       to most of the demands       
      by the rebelling inmates      

1290
01:05:07,278 --> 01:05:09,405
     at the Attica State Prison     
            in New York,            

1291
01:05:09,447 --> 01:05:11,449
     where more than 30 persons     
       have been held hostage       

1292
01:05:11,490 --> 01:05:13,993
           for three days.          

1293
01:05:14,035 --> 01:05:16,787
        [Oswald] As you know,       
         during this ordeal,        

1294
01:05:16,829 --> 01:05:19,749
        I have personally met       
            with inmates            

1295
01:05:19,790 --> 01:05:23,502
        on several occasions        
    in areas under their control,   

1296
01:05:23,544 --> 01:05:26,589
        and have demonstrated       
            my commitment           

1297
01:05:26,631 --> 01:05:29,634
       to deal with the issues      
          they have raised          

1298
01:05:29,675 --> 01:05:33,304
      by accepting 28 of the 30     

1299
01:05:33,346 --> 01:05:35,640
       major inmate proposals.      

1300
01:05:35,681 --> 01:05:38,809
    Mr. Kunstler, can you tell me   
      what's gonna happen now?      

1301
01:05:38,851 --> 01:05:42,730
     Well, we hope negotiations     
      will start this afternoon     

1302
01:05:42,772 --> 01:05:44,649
            and continue            
    until they reach a solution.    

1303
01:05:44,690 --> 01:05:46,734
             [reporter]             
   Is Huey Newton or Bobby Seale,   

1304
01:05:46,776 --> 01:05:48,736
          are they coming?          
        They were asked for.        

1305
01:05:48,778 --> 01:05:50,071
       [Kunstler]   We hope so,       
           and we understood         

1306
01:05:50,112 --> 01:05:51,656
        that they were en route.     

1307
01:05:51,697 --> 01:05:54,033
               [Dunne]              
       We had kind of settled in     

1308
01:05:54,075 --> 01:05:55,826
            on the demands,          

1309
01:05:55,868 --> 01:06:00,289
         and we had negotiated       
     with Oswald for his commitment 

1310
01:06:00,331 --> 01:06:02,333
             to 28 of them.          

1311
01:06:04,710 --> 01:06:07,254
          And the whole point        
     of Bobby Seale's coming there   

1312
01:06:07,296 --> 01:06:10,091
          would be for him          
        to bless and support        

1313
01:06:10,132 --> 01:06:12,635
        and urge the inmates        
           to accept them.          

1314
01:06:12,677 --> 01:06:17,807
                                  

1315
01:06:18,265 --> 01:06:20,142
              [Asbury]              
   Bobby Seale was our hero,        

1316
01:06:20,184 --> 01:06:22,812
      because he was speaking out    
          about the brutality        

1317
01:06:22,853 --> 01:06:25,314
         that was happening         
        in the prison system.       

1318
01:06:25,356 --> 01:06:27,817
            He was doing            
    what we were trying to live.    

1319
01:06:27,858 --> 01:06:30,987
          He was a Panther,         
       the second-in-command.       

1320
01:06:31,028 --> 01:06:33,197
            I really thought         
       he was gonna help us out.     

1321
01:06:33,239 --> 01:06:36,701
     Every demand. Every demand.    

1322
01:06:36,742 --> 01:06:38,995
         [continues speaking        
            indistinctly]           

1323
01:06:39,036 --> 01:06:42,081
       Bobby didn't stay long.      
       Bobby didn't stay long.      

1324
01:06:42,123 --> 01:06:44,500
          Came up to where          
     the negotiating table was,     

1325
01:06:44,542 --> 01:06:45,835
        made his little speech.      

1326
01:06:45,876 --> 01:06:47,628
     He ain't walk around the yard. 

1327
01:06:49,088 --> 01:06:50,798
         Bobby walked right up       
             out the jail.           

1328
01:06:54,301 --> 01:06:56,303
              [Larkins]             
        It was quite a letdown.      

1329
01:06:56,345 --> 01:06:58,806
              Let's go.             
         Let's go, big man.         

1330
01:06:58,848 --> 01:07:00,850
         [Larkins]   He stayed        
        all about three minutes.     

1331
01:07:03,561 --> 01:07:06,981
           At that point,           
    everybody just sitting around   

1332
01:07:07,023 --> 01:07:09,025
               waiting              
      for something to happen.      

1333
01:07:13,237 --> 01:07:17,366
             [Schwartz]             
       But then Billy Quinn died,    

1334
01:07:17,408 --> 01:07:19,869
          and that transformed       
              everything.            

1335
01:07:19,910 --> 01:07:21,537
     [reporter]   The State Prison    
          in Attica, New York,       

1336
01:07:21,579 --> 01:07:23,330
        is at the crisis point.      

1337
01:07:23,372 --> 01:07:25,875
     The death of one of the guards 
       has hardened the position     

1338
01:07:25,916 --> 01:07:28,044
          of prison officials,       
        and there are strong...      

1339
01:07:28,085 --> 01:07:30,046
        You don't get amnesty       
            for a murder.           

1340
01:07:30,087 --> 01:07:31,630
        I immediately knew...       

1341
01:07:35,718 --> 01:07:39,638
         ...that the process        
           of negotiations          

1342
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:43,017
   just became far more difficult. 

1343
01:07:43,059 --> 01:07:45,644
        I knew that was, uh,        

1344
01:07:45,686 --> 01:07:48,898
     that was the worst possible    
      thing that could happen.      

1345
01:07:48,939 --> 01:07:53,319
             How could they          
          peacefully negotiate       

1346
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:56,155
              with inmates           
       who they held responsible     

1347
01:07:56,197 --> 01:07:57,865
       for the death of a guard?     

1348
01:08:01,327 --> 01:08:05,122
      Prior to his passing on,      

1349
01:08:05,164 --> 01:08:09,085
          there was a hope          
      and even an expectation,      

1350
01:08:09,126 --> 01:08:11,921
     because people were listening, 

1351
01:08:11,962 --> 01:08:13,255
           people were coming        
             to understand           

1352
01:08:13,297 --> 01:08:16,300
            what we had been         
             living through          

1353
01:08:16,342 --> 01:08:18,803
             and suffering           
          as prisoners there.        

1354
01:08:20,554 --> 01:08:23,474
              We knew that           
         it was a new ballgame.      

1355
01:08:23,516 --> 01:08:28,187
     It was depression and fear...   

1356
01:08:28,229 --> 01:08:32,233
       and, you know, anxiety,      
             and, yeah,             

1357
01:08:32,274 --> 01:08:34,110
    everything you could imagine.   

1358
01:08:34,151 --> 01:08:37,196
   We had to drop a lot of issues   

1359
01:08:37,238 --> 01:08:40,366
    and focus on amnesty as one,    

1360
01:08:40,407 --> 01:08:42,535
         as the main issue,         

1361
01:08:42,576 --> 01:08:47,414
       because we didn't want       
     to be charged with murder.     

1362
01:08:47,456 --> 01:08:50,292
       We said, as a group...       

1363
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:56,799
     ...that we was gonna stand     
    in solidarity with everyone.    

1364
01:08:58,551 --> 01:09:01,053
   If they could not give amnesty   
            to everybody,           

1365
01:09:01,095 --> 01:09:03,848
     then we was not gonna leave    
        anyone in the clutch        

1366
01:09:03,889 --> 01:09:06,642
          or in--to take--          
   or throw anybody under the bus, 

1367
01:09:06,684 --> 01:09:08,269
     so to speak, to take this.     

1368
01:09:08,310 --> 01:09:10,271
         We acted together.         

1369
01:09:10,312 --> 01:09:14,108
   We understood that this was us, 

1370
01:09:14,150 --> 01:09:16,110
          that if we didn't         
         stand together now,        

1371
01:09:16,152 --> 01:09:18,154
   we never would, and it would--   

1372
01:09:18,195 --> 01:09:21,365
       we would live like dogs      
     for the rest of our lives.     

1373
01:09:23,576 --> 01:09:25,953
         We understood that.        

1374
01:09:25,995 --> 01:09:29,373
      Did I wish that we could      
         somehow back away?         

1375
01:09:29,415 --> 01:09:30,708
      But not without amnesty.      

1376
01:09:30,749 --> 01:09:31,834
             [reporter]             
       How do the inmates feel      

1377
01:09:31,876 --> 01:09:33,586
    about the current situation?    

1378
01:09:33,627 --> 01:09:36,714
        A group of us were in       
          with the inmates.         

1379
01:09:36,755 --> 01:09:39,049
          We met with them.         

1380
01:09:39,091 --> 01:09:42,803
    We had two and a half hours.    
    Some of the people are here.    

1381
01:09:42,845 --> 01:09:44,471
         But we really have         
       nothing to say about it      

1382
01:09:44,513 --> 01:09:47,975
    except they are firm in their   
       demands, and that's it.      

1383
01:09:48,017 --> 01:09:49,894
     In other words, they're not    
      gonna let the hostages go     

1384
01:09:49,935 --> 01:09:51,645
        until they're granted       
           total amnesty.           

1385
01:09:51,687 --> 01:09:53,522
    That was their last position.   

1386
01:09:59,111 --> 01:10:00,738
             [reporter]             
         The flag at half staff      

1387
01:10:00,779 --> 01:10:02,698
         for the injured guard       
     who had died the night before   

1388
01:10:02,740 --> 01:10:04,408
       set the mood this morning.    

1389
01:10:04,450 --> 01:10:05,784
     It was clear that the troubles 
        of this troubled prison      

1390
01:10:05,826 --> 01:10:07,661
            had grown worse.         

1391
01:10:07,703 --> 01:10:10,664
   [Larkins]   That Sunday, you had   
        that fog that came over,     

1392
01:10:10,706 --> 01:10:13,083
     and it was a certain chill     
             in the air.            

1393
01:10:13,125 --> 01:10:15,628
         You know, something        
         didn't feel right.         

1394
01:10:15,669 --> 01:10:17,963
        It didn't feel right.       

1395
01:10:18,005 --> 01:10:19,673
        [reporter]   There are        
       strong indications tonight    

1396
01:10:19,715 --> 01:10:21,508
        that police will be sent     
          into the cell block        

1397
01:10:21,550 --> 01:10:23,177
        in an attempt to rescue      

1398
01:10:23,219 --> 01:10:25,596
        the rest of the hostages     
               by force.             

1399
01:10:25,638 --> 01:10:29,683
                                  

1400
01:10:29,725 --> 01:10:31,560
              [Sharif]              
           Water was cut off.        

1401
01:10:31,602 --> 01:10:33,854
        Food was getting scarce.     

1402
01:10:33,896 --> 01:10:36,190
      Patience was getting short.    

1403
01:10:36,232 --> 01:10:39,109
       And people were totally      
              wondering             

1404
01:10:39,151 --> 01:10:42,112
          what is gonna be          
    the outcome of the situation.   

1405
01:10:50,579 --> 01:10:52,122
               [Dunne]              
      There was enormous pressure,   

1406
01:10:52,164 --> 01:10:55,000
           and I witnessed it        
          as I took a breather       

1407
01:10:55,042 --> 01:10:58,796
              and went out           
          to the public space,       

1408
01:10:58,837 --> 01:11:00,631
        just outside the prison,     

1409
01:11:00,673 --> 01:11:02,967
             where a lot of          
          correction officers,       

1410
01:11:03,008 --> 01:11:04,969
      their families, troopers,     

1411
01:11:05,010 --> 01:11:06,804
         and other officials        
       were gathered together.      

1412
01:11:09,181 --> 01:11:11,976
      [Gaynes]   I mean, the news     
      was completely about that--    

1413
01:11:12,017 --> 01:11:13,644
               you know,             
        that the state troopers      

1414
01:11:13,686 --> 01:11:17,648
       and everybody were poised     
        on the top, looking in.      

1415
01:11:17,690 --> 01:11:20,651
    It was all about these rumors   

1416
01:11:20,693 --> 01:11:23,612
         that the prisoners         

1417
01:11:23,654 --> 01:11:27,074
    were castrating the hostages,   

1418
01:11:27,116 --> 01:11:30,452
   that they were torturing them,   

1419
01:11:30,494 --> 01:11:32,830
           and it's gonna end        
             in bloodshed.           

1420
01:11:32,871 --> 01:11:37,668
       And that was the storyline    
      that was terrifying people.    

1421
01:11:37,710 --> 01:11:39,253
      [reporter] Could you turn     
   around this way, to the camera? 

1422
01:11:39,295 --> 01:11:42,381
          [Johnson]   I think         
        I did a few interviews,      

1423
01:11:42,423 --> 01:11:45,551
        and the people were--       
         made it very clear         

1424
01:11:45,592 --> 01:11:48,220
      that these are bad people     
              in there,             

1425
01:11:48,262 --> 01:11:51,640
         and they shouldn't         
           be doing this,           

1426
01:11:51,682 --> 01:11:53,767
        you know, they should       
          be taken care of.         

1427
01:11:53,809 --> 01:11:55,436
        You know what I mean.       
       They should hang them.       

1428
01:11:55,477 --> 01:11:58,063
          And crazy stuff.          

1429
01:11:58,105 --> 01:12:00,858
               I mean,              
      it was just really crazy.     

1430
01:12:00,899 --> 01:12:03,444
        It was a very hostile       
            environment.            

1431
01:12:03,485 --> 01:12:05,779
        I'd like to show them       
         a little brutality.        

1432
01:12:05,821 --> 01:12:08,866
        Is this being brutal        
            to us or not?           

1433
01:12:08,907 --> 01:12:11,994
    Don't point that bitch at me.   
     I'll stick it up your ass!     

1434
01:12:12,036 --> 01:12:14,038
   I'm a father of eight children, 

1435
01:12:14,079 --> 01:12:15,831
     and Michael is the oldest,     

1436
01:12:15,873 --> 01:12:18,709
     and I wouldn't want to see     
        any one of them die.        

1437
01:12:18,751 --> 01:12:20,878
       But if he is gonna die,      

1438
01:12:20,919 --> 01:12:24,298
    I want that whole damn thing    
     bombed right the hell off.     

1439
01:12:26,884 --> 01:12:28,052
             [reporter]             
       While the talking went on,    

1440
01:12:28,093 --> 01:12:30,054
            the state police         
           kept reinforcing.         

1441
01:12:30,095 --> 01:12:32,890
            At least 500 men         
        in and out of the walls.     

1442
01:12:32,931 --> 01:12:35,309
         No indication that any      
      of this force will be used,    

1443
01:12:35,351 --> 01:12:37,644
       but the police are ready.     

1444
01:12:37,686 --> 01:12:39,772
               [Steel]              
        Well, any time you went      

1445
01:12:39,813 --> 01:12:43,692
       in and out of the prison,     
           there was an army,        

1446
01:12:43,734 --> 01:12:45,444
          and they were armed        

1447
01:12:45,486 --> 01:12:49,573
         with every conceivable      
            type of weapon.          

1448
01:12:49,615 --> 01:12:54,078
      And it really looked like     

1449
01:12:54,119 --> 01:12:56,622
         they wanted to use         
           those weapons.           

1450
01:12:56,663 --> 01:12:59,750
          You had the sense         
           of their anger,          

1451
01:12:59,792 --> 01:13:01,877
     and they'd been held back,     
               and...               

1452
01:13:05,589 --> 01:13:07,091
       ...they wanted to move.      

1453
01:13:07,132 --> 01:13:11,095
     They wanted to--to attack.     

1454
01:13:15,557 --> 01:13:17,893
       [Dunne]   Yeah, they were      
            very impatient.          

1455
01:13:17,935 --> 01:13:20,020
             Very unhappy.           

1456
01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:23,232
        They were all thrown        
          into a situation          

1457
01:13:23,273 --> 01:13:25,609
           which they were          
          not prepared for,         

1458
01:13:25,651 --> 01:13:29,822
        and about which they had     
        basically an animosity.      

1459
01:13:33,992 --> 01:13:35,786
       [Cunningham]   I wish you      
       would take any of the men     

1460
01:13:35,828 --> 01:13:37,621
           that belongs to us        
             off the roof,           

1461
01:13:37,663 --> 01:13:39,748
       and any of the troopers      
            out of here,            

1462
01:13:39,790 --> 01:13:42,334
         because if you get         
    these shaky guys shooting off   

1463
01:13:42,376 --> 01:13:44,795
      or getting up in a goober     
           over something,          

1464
01:13:44,837 --> 01:13:48,298
    somebody's gonna get excited,   
    and then we're all gonna pay.   

1465
01:13:48,340 --> 01:13:50,426
      Now, this is not a joke.      

1466
01:13:50,467 --> 01:13:52,845
           This is not a--          

1467
01:13:52,886 --> 01:13:55,806
   some kind of a little tea party 
            we got here.            

1468
01:13:55,848 --> 01:13:57,933
         [Smith]   I just hope        
         that the commissioner       

1469
01:13:57,975 --> 01:13:59,518
          and the other people       
            in the committee         

1470
01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:02,187
   that they've gathered together   

1471
01:14:02,229 --> 01:14:05,023
     can come up with a solution    

1472
01:14:05,065 --> 01:14:09,194
           to solve these           
    people's problems, and ours.    

1473
01:14:09,236 --> 01:14:10,988
             [reporter]             
        Thank you very much.        

1474
01:14:14,741 --> 01:14:17,995
               [Dunne]              
         Late Sunday afternoon,      

1475
01:14:18,036 --> 01:14:20,330
          Commissioner Oswald        
           and the officials         

1476
01:14:20,372 --> 01:14:23,834
             were prepared           
       and intended to retaking.     

1477
01:14:25,878 --> 01:14:29,798
        But I pressed Oswald        
        to agree to give them       

1478
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:32,342
         until seven o'clock        
         on Monday morning.         

1479
01:14:32,384 --> 01:14:35,512
         By Sunday morning,         
     everything else had failed.    

1480
01:14:35,554 --> 01:14:38,182
            And so the--            

1481
01:14:38,223 --> 01:14:41,310
           the final shot           

1482
01:14:41,351 --> 01:14:45,355
           was going to be          
    to try to get to Rockefeller.   

1483
01:14:45,397 --> 01:14:49,985
    And there was a committee of    
   people put together to do that. 

1484
01:14:50,027 --> 01:14:52,488
       Good morning, Governor.      

1485
01:14:52,529 --> 01:14:55,449
   [Dunne]   We wanted four friends   
            of the governor          

1486
01:14:55,491 --> 01:14:58,160
            to call him and,         
        "Please, as your friend,     

1487
01:14:58,202 --> 01:15:00,913
             let me ask you          
           to come to Attica.        

1488
01:15:00,954 --> 01:15:02,581
   Not to meet with the prisoners, 

1489
01:15:02,623 --> 01:15:07,127
    but to come and lay your hand   
    on approving these measures."   

1490
01:15:07,169 --> 01:15:11,089
      Sergeant Cunningham, now,     
     would you give us a message    

1491
01:15:11,131 --> 01:15:14,343
            for Governor            
         Nelson Rockefeller?        

1492
01:15:14,384 --> 01:15:15,761
         I certainly would.         

1493
01:15:15,802 --> 01:15:17,304
   One of the recommendations is,   

1494
01:15:17,346 --> 01:15:19,890
   "And if he says no, I'm dead."   

1495
01:15:19,932 --> 01:15:21,975
   I and some of my fellow members 

1496
01:15:22,017 --> 01:15:24,895
     of the observers committee     
         felt very strongly         

1497
01:15:24,937 --> 01:15:27,731
    that if Governor Rockefeller    
           were to come to          

1498
01:15:27,773 --> 01:15:30,734
            and identify            
      with finding a solution,      

1499
01:15:30,776 --> 01:15:33,862
        it might have broken        
             the logjam.            

1500
01:15:33,904 --> 01:15:36,031
           So I placed a call        
        to Governor Rockefeller      

1501
01:15:36,073 --> 01:15:37,741
            somewhere around         
             three o'clock.          

1502
01:15:37,783 --> 01:15:41,495
      Governor, what about your     
    personal feelings right now?    

1503
01:15:41,537 --> 01:15:44,039
        [Steel]   On one level,       
          it was a Hail Mary.        

1504
01:15:44,081 --> 01:15:46,959
          On the other level,        
     it was more than a Hail Mary.   

1505
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:51,129
      These were prominent people.   

1506
01:15:51,171 --> 01:15:53,382
      People that you would think    

1507
01:15:53,423 --> 01:15:56,343
         Rockefeller respected,      

1508
01:15:56,385 --> 01:15:59,012
       making a sincere pitch.      

1509
01:15:59,054 --> 01:16:01,682
           "Come up here.           
      You don't have to go in.      

1510
01:16:01,723 --> 01:16:03,559
       You don't have to agree      
            to anything.            

1511
01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:06,395
            Your presence           
         will have meaning."        

1512
01:16:06,436 --> 01:16:09,648
           Maybe if he came,         
        that would be an opening     

1513
01:16:09,690 --> 01:16:12,985
     that would have allowed us     
            to negotiate.           

1514
01:16:13,026 --> 01:16:17,406
    Maybe some other negotiators    

1515
01:16:17,447 --> 01:16:20,617
         could be brought in        
   who would help the negotiation. 

1516
01:16:20,659 --> 01:16:23,954
        Maybe, maybe, maybe,        
            maybe, maybe.           

1517
01:16:23,996 --> 01:16:26,832
        But "no, no, no, no"        

1518
01:16:26,873 --> 01:16:29,751
                meant               
    "death, death, death, death."   

1519
01:16:29,793 --> 01:16:31,461
            [Rockefeller]           
    Prisoners had been demanding    

1520
01:16:31,503 --> 01:16:33,630
       from the very beginning      
     that I come into the yard,     

1521
01:16:33,672 --> 01:16:38,260
       and I frankly felt that      
       the idea of governors--      

1522
01:16:38,302 --> 01:16:40,220
   any time there was an uprising   

1523
01:16:40,262 --> 01:16:42,723
             or any time            
    there was a prisoner taken--    

1524
01:16:42,764 --> 01:16:44,808
           not a prisoner,          
        but a hostage taken--       

1525
01:16:44,850 --> 01:16:46,935
           being involved           
        in the negotiation--        

1526
01:16:46,977 --> 01:16:48,270
      the next thing would be,      
    "We don't want the governor.    

1527
01:16:48,312 --> 01:16:49,896
       We want the president."      

1528
01:16:49,938 --> 01:16:51,523
     Then we get to a situation     

1529
01:16:51,565 --> 01:16:53,150
     which is an impossible one     
          for this country.         

1530
01:16:53,191 --> 01:16:54,860
   By the time they spoke to him,   

1531
01:16:54,901 --> 01:16:57,279
      he had made up his mind.      

1532
01:16:57,321 --> 01:17:01,074
       He listened carefully,       
        he listened politely,       

1533
01:17:01,116 --> 01:17:03,327
              but by then,           
        he had made up his mind.     

1534
01:17:05,454 --> 01:17:07,623
        We didn't understand        
           the background           

1535
01:17:07,664 --> 01:17:11,043
      of his having consulted,      
        on an ongoing basis,        

1536
01:17:11,084 --> 01:17:14,171
         during those days,         
        with the White House.       

1537
01:17:14,212 --> 01:17:17,424
         The administration         
   in Washington encouraged Rocky   

1538
01:17:17,466 --> 01:17:20,344
          to take a strong,         
         hardline position,         

1539
01:17:20,385 --> 01:17:23,013
       which was unfortunate.       

1540
01:17:23,055 --> 01:17:24,848
           It was all a part         
          of President Nixon's       

1541
01:17:24,890 --> 01:17:26,350
         law and order agenda.       

1542
01:17:37,903 --> 01:17:40,906
     [Scott]   Rockefeller wasn't     
           calling the shots,        

1543
01:17:40,947 --> 01:17:44,451
      because he was on the phone    

1544
01:17:44,493 --> 01:17:46,286
          with Richard Nixon.        

1545
01:17:48,580 --> 01:17:51,166
         Rockefeller wanted         
         to be president...         

1546
01:17:52,584 --> 01:17:56,505
       ...but the word on him was    
     that he was too soft on crime. 

1547
01:18:07,641 --> 01:18:11,728
            And if he wanted         
          the support of Nixon       

1548
01:18:11,770 --> 01:18:13,772
       and the Republican Party,     

1549
01:18:13,814 --> 01:18:17,943
     then he needed to go along.    

1550
01:18:17,984 --> 01:18:20,028
      And so he wouldn't come.      

1551
01:18:20,070 --> 01:18:22,989
         tense music playing       

1552
01:18:23,031 --> 01:18:25,909
                                  

1553
01:18:25,951 --> 01:18:27,202
         [Nieves]   You know,         
          now that Rockefeller       

1554
01:18:27,244 --> 01:18:28,870
          wasn't coming in...        

1555
01:18:31,331 --> 01:18:34,084
        ...it's like slamming       
          the door on you.          

1556
01:18:34,126 --> 01:18:35,752
              You know,             
       they slammed the door,       

1557
01:18:35,794 --> 01:18:38,422
   and we was locked in this room   
   and we didn't know what to do.   

1558
01:18:40,048 --> 01:18:42,759
           [Dunne]   We were          
      to a great degree despondent   

1559
01:18:42,801 --> 01:18:45,595
              that we had            
          no solution to this.       

1560
01:18:45,637 --> 01:18:48,181
     We didn't know what to do.     

1561
01:18:48,223 --> 01:18:49,725
        We made one last chance      

1562
01:18:49,766 --> 01:18:52,769
        to convince the inmates      
             to surrender.           

1563
01:18:58,692 --> 01:19:01,445
       [Jones]   That last night      
           in cell block D...        

1564
01:19:03,363 --> 01:19:06,992
        ...as we were trying        
            to negotiate            

1565
01:19:07,033 --> 01:19:11,747
       demands that we thought      
          were realistic...         

1566
01:19:15,167 --> 01:19:19,629
   ...was a come-to-Jesus moment.   

1567
01:19:21,256 --> 01:19:24,676
       "This is what you wanted--    
              the demands.           

1568
01:19:24,718 --> 01:19:26,803
          This is what we were       
            able to achieve.         

1569
01:19:26,845 --> 01:19:29,848
      This is where we stand now.    

1570
01:19:32,100 --> 01:19:34,561
      I'm not gonna mislead you     

1571
01:19:34,603 --> 01:19:37,773
      and believe that you can      
        get anything better.        

1572
01:19:37,814 --> 01:19:40,609
          I do not believe          
    you can get anything better.    

1573
01:19:43,195 --> 01:19:46,990
       I think we have to make      
     a peaceful accommodation...    

1574
01:19:48,909 --> 01:19:50,911
           ...rather than be         
         shot down like dogs."       

1575
01:19:53,288 --> 01:19:56,041
               I said,              
     "This is what we achieved.     

1576
01:19:56,082 --> 01:19:58,251
                Okay?               

1577
01:19:58,293 --> 01:20:00,545
      And turn around and look.     

1578
01:20:00,587 --> 01:20:02,672
            Cell block--            
       you see all those guns?      

1579
01:20:02,714 --> 01:20:04,883
        They're just waiting        
             to kill us.            

1580
01:20:04,925 --> 01:20:07,552
        They want to kill us.       
       Do you understand that?      

1581
01:20:07,594 --> 01:20:10,847
          They want to show         
      that they have the power      

1582
01:20:10,889 --> 01:20:12,140
      from the barrel of a gun.     

1583
01:20:12,182 --> 01:20:13,266
    That's what they want to do."   

1584
01:20:16,728 --> 01:20:19,523
      [Victory]   We were warned      
            by the observers         

1585
01:20:19,564 --> 01:20:23,735
        that if we didn't settle     
       even without the amnesty,     

1586
01:20:23,777 --> 01:20:27,531
      they were gonna come in,      
     and it could get very bad.     

1587
01:20:29,241 --> 01:20:32,285
       And, of course, we talked     
           amongst ourselves,        

1588
01:20:32,327 --> 01:20:36,206
       and we just couldn't go      
        without the amnesty,        

1589
01:20:36,248 --> 01:20:38,375
      'cause it would have been     
              literally             

1590
01:20:38,416 --> 01:20:41,503
     sending all our leaders...     

1591
01:20:41,545 --> 01:20:44,965
    to the dogs, to be tortured,    

1592
01:20:45,006 --> 01:20:48,927
            murdered, uh,           
        convicted of crimes,        

1593
01:20:48,969 --> 01:20:51,221
      and who knows what else?      

1594
01:20:51,263 --> 01:20:54,683
           We had observed          
          the organization          

1595
01:20:54,724 --> 01:20:57,227
           and preparation          
      of the troopers to enter,     

1596
01:20:57,269 --> 01:21:00,146
          hundreds of them,         
        with their shotguns,        

1597
01:21:00,188 --> 01:21:04,192
            just outside            
    the immediate area of D yard.   

1598
01:21:04,234 --> 01:21:07,571
      We witnessed the stationing    
            of sharpshooters         

1599
01:21:07,612 --> 01:21:12,576
          on one of the ledges       
       looking down into D yard.     

1600
01:21:12,617 --> 01:21:16,913
             Fear overtook           
        the observers committee.     

1601
01:21:19,875 --> 01:21:21,209
              [Sharif]              
        It seemed like they felt     

1602
01:21:21,251 --> 01:21:23,003
      something was gonna happen.    

1603
01:21:23,044 --> 01:21:25,505
           They were more...         

1604
01:21:25,547 --> 01:21:27,215
           hesitant to leave.        

1605
01:21:27,257 --> 01:21:28,592
     They leave with a solemn mood. 

1606
01:21:28,633 --> 01:21:30,176
              They left us           
          with a solemn mood.        

1607
01:21:30,218 --> 01:21:33,889
       It was like, "Brothers,      

1608
01:21:33,930 --> 01:21:36,099
          just be careful,          
          just take care."          

1609
01:21:38,476 --> 01:21:41,271
         [Nieves]   I remember        
     seeing them leaving, you know, 

1610
01:21:41,313 --> 01:21:44,816
       and it was a scary moment     
          to see them leaving,       

1611
01:21:44,858 --> 01:21:47,319
       you know, knowing that       
      they wasn't coming back.      

1612
01:21:50,947 --> 01:21:53,116
               [Scott]              
      I remember Big Black saying,   

1613
01:21:53,158 --> 01:21:56,119
          "I want to thank you       
     for what you guys tried to do. 

1614
01:21:56,161 --> 01:21:57,746
       We really appreciate it."     

1615
01:21:57,787 --> 01:22:00,457
      So there was a lot of that.    

1616
01:22:00,498 --> 01:22:03,084
    When we went out of that yard   
            that night...           

1617
01:22:05,003 --> 01:22:06,963
        ...there were tears.        

1618
01:22:07,005 --> 01:22:08,256
          There were tears.         

1619
01:22:10,592 --> 01:22:13,470
        And I think all of us       
             were hoping            

1620
01:22:13,511 --> 01:22:17,849
       that something happened      
   at the last minute to stop it.   

1621
01:22:19,935 --> 01:22:23,563
               [Jones]              
        I felt complete failure.     

1622
01:22:23,605 --> 01:22:27,984
               A failure             
       that I had let them down.     

1623
01:22:28,026 --> 01:22:31,321
   One of the most painful things   

1624
01:22:31,363 --> 01:22:34,157
     is when inmates began to...    

1625
01:22:34,199 --> 01:22:36,660
       hand me written notes,       

1626
01:22:36,701 --> 01:22:39,913
   the telephone number of their-- 

1627
01:22:39,955 --> 01:22:44,376
        of their next of kin,       

1628
01:22:44,417 --> 01:22:46,461
    in case they didn't make it.    

1629
01:22:46,503 --> 01:22:47,504
                Okay?               

1630
01:22:47,545 --> 01:22:50,465
       They wanted me--I mean,      

1631
01:22:50,507 --> 01:22:53,468
     a couple of them looked me     
       in the eye with tears.       

1632
01:22:53,510 --> 01:22:55,971
           "Brother Jones,          
         if I don't make it,        

1633
01:22:56,012 --> 01:22:57,180
     you're gonna call, right?"     

1634
01:22:57,222 --> 01:22:59,933
     I said, "You have my word.     

1635
01:22:59,975 --> 01:23:02,394
            I will call."           

1636
01:23:02,435 --> 01:23:04,980
             [reporter]             
     Are you any way optimistic     

1637
01:23:05,021 --> 01:23:07,190
   that this thing can be settled   
        by sometime tomorrow?       

1638
01:23:07,232 --> 01:23:08,650
     I think I'm much too tired     

1639
01:23:08,692 --> 01:23:10,276
       to be either optimistic      
           or pessimistic.          

1640
01:23:10,318 --> 01:23:13,363
           At the moment,           
    I'm kind of just freaked out.   

1641
01:23:13,405 --> 01:23:16,324
         [thunder rumbling]         

1642
01:23:24,541 --> 01:23:26,501
        It rained all night.        

1643
01:23:26,543 --> 01:23:28,878
       It didn't stop raining       
             till about             

1644
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:31,214
         six in the morning.        

1645
01:23:31,256 --> 01:23:34,884
        Cold, mountain rain.        

1646
01:23:34,926 --> 01:23:37,554
           And we were not          
          prepared for it.          

1647
01:23:37,595 --> 01:23:40,598
          Those little hooches       
              that we had,           

1648
01:23:40,640 --> 01:23:44,561
     them tents that people had dug 
      the yard up and everything,    

1649
01:23:44,602 --> 01:23:46,688
      all them started collapsing.   

1650
01:23:46,730 --> 01:23:50,859
         And you had to get         
          on solid ground,          

1651
01:23:50,900 --> 01:23:54,404
   concrete, and huddle together,   

1652
01:23:54,446 --> 01:23:57,699
   'cause everybody was shivering   
        and everything else.        

1653
01:23:57,741 --> 01:23:59,284
      It was a miserable night.     

1654
01:23:59,325 --> 01:24:03,413
   One of the miserable-est nights 
      I ever spent in my life.      

1655
01:24:05,915 --> 01:24:07,667
        [Sharif]   I could feel       
        the tension in the air.      

1656
01:24:07,709 --> 01:24:09,461
       The tension was so strong     

1657
01:24:09,502 --> 01:24:13,298
      that I could just basically    
       grab it and hold on to it.    

1658
01:24:13,339 --> 01:24:16,593
          "Am I gonna make it?       
     Am I gonna live through this?" 

1659
01:24:16,634 --> 01:24:20,055
   And that tension was so strong, 
          I could touch it,         

1660
01:24:20,096 --> 01:24:22,265
             I could cut            
       and hold it in my hand.      

1661
01:24:24,976 --> 01:24:26,936
     Death was written in the air.   

1662
01:24:26,978 --> 01:24:31,941
                                  

1663
01:24:31,983 --> 01:24:34,110
        [Harrison]   We've been       
     out there for about four days. 

1664
01:24:34,152 --> 01:24:35,945
        We wake up that morning,     

1665
01:24:35,987 --> 01:24:39,032
       and it's wet and dreary      
             out there.             

1666
01:24:39,074 --> 01:24:41,409
       And you could always smell    

1667
01:24:41,451 --> 01:24:44,412
        the fumes of guys' body      

1668
01:24:44,454 --> 01:24:46,581
             in that trench          
        that we dug in the yard      

1669
01:24:46,623 --> 01:24:50,085
          to use the bathroom,       
      right there in front of us,    

1670
01:24:50,126 --> 01:24:52,587
    so you breathing this shit in   
      all day, so you want out.     

1671
01:24:56,549 --> 01:24:58,426
             [Killebrew]            
      The weather was really bad.    

1672
01:24:58,468 --> 01:25:01,554
    People's moods was that way,    
             and, uh...             

1673
01:25:01,596 --> 01:25:03,223
           it was cloudy.           

1674
01:25:03,264 --> 01:25:05,183
         It started to rain         
            a little bit.           

1675
01:25:05,225 --> 01:25:07,685
       You know, it was dark.       
       The sky was dark gray.       

1676
01:25:12,315 --> 01:25:13,608
             [Crawford]             
     We heard that we would be part 

1677
01:25:13,650 --> 01:25:16,486
        of a medical evacuation.     

1678
01:25:16,528 --> 01:25:19,114
      And early on Monday morning,   

1679
01:25:19,155 --> 01:25:21,491
         we loaded into trucks       
     and headed for Attica prison.   

1680
01:25:24,702 --> 01:25:26,704
    In the three years that I was   
       in the National Guard,       

1681
01:25:26,746 --> 01:25:29,124
           I had not seen           
         any kind of action         

1682
01:25:29,165 --> 01:25:31,668
   in which violence was involved. 

1683
01:25:31,709 --> 01:25:34,003
      But we had a sense of dread,   

1684
01:25:34,045 --> 01:25:37,632
           and we had a wish         
     that we could kind of not go.   

1685
01:25:37,674 --> 01:25:40,301
        And there was the hope,      
        even at the last minute,     

1686
01:25:40,343 --> 01:25:43,555
         that by some miracle,       

1687
01:25:43,596 --> 01:25:45,807
          maybe Rockefeller         
          would intervene.          

1688
01:25:48,726 --> 01:25:51,521
       [Kunstler]   His refusal       
     to come here is a monstrosity, 

1689
01:25:51,563 --> 01:25:53,022
    because what he is saying is,   

1690
01:25:53,064 --> 01:25:56,192
          "Kill these men.          
         I have no concern.         

1691
01:25:56,234 --> 01:25:59,571
          All I want to do          
     is restore law and order."     

1692
01:25:59,612 --> 01:26:02,198
         And I think that's         
    a rotten exchange for lives.    

1693
01:26:03,867 --> 01:26:05,994
             [Callaghan]            
       When we got to the prison     

1694
01:26:06,035 --> 01:26:08,955
           and saw the lines         
           of state troopers         

1695
01:26:08,997 --> 01:26:11,833
            and deputies            
       with their raincoats on      

1696
01:26:11,875 --> 01:26:16,171
     and their weapons in hand,     
       they looked exhausted.       

1697
01:26:16,212 --> 01:26:17,589
          They had been there,       
             many of them,           

1698
01:26:17,630 --> 01:26:20,341
         for a couple of days,       
               at least,             

1699
01:26:20,383 --> 01:26:22,510
         and they really didn't      
          look up to the task        

1700
01:26:22,552 --> 01:26:23,970
        that was given to them.      

1701
01:26:24,012 --> 01:26:28,266
                                  

1702
01:26:31,144 --> 01:26:32,020
             [Killebrew]            
       I knew they was coming in.    

1703
01:26:32,061 --> 01:26:33,688
            You could tell.          

1704
01:26:33,730 --> 01:26:35,356
      You could see them starting    
          to get more people.        

1705
01:26:35,398 --> 01:26:36,649
       I was in A block corridor.    

1706
01:26:38,443 --> 01:26:39,944
          All I saw was blue.        

1707
01:26:43,823 --> 01:26:46,492
       We got another mattress      
       to put up on that table      

1708
01:26:46,534 --> 01:26:48,828
     'cause we thought they was     
     gonna shoot rubber bullets.    

1709
01:26:48,870 --> 01:26:52,707
         And that's--that's         
         what the word was.         

1710
01:26:55,627 --> 01:26:57,086
             [Harrison]             
     I thought there were gonna be   

1711
01:26:57,128 --> 01:26:58,463
         a real, old-fashioned       
              gang fight,            

1712
01:26:58,504 --> 01:26:59,547
             if that's what          
          you want to call it.       

1713
01:26:59,589 --> 01:27:01,216
      You know, them versus us.     

1714
01:27:01,257 --> 01:27:03,468
    They got those clubs, we got    
    a few bats and stuff in here,   

1715
01:27:03,509 --> 01:27:07,096
     so we're gonna--best guy win.   

1716
01:27:09,933 --> 01:27:12,727
              [Asbury]              
     We started making preparations 

1717
01:27:12,769 --> 01:27:15,480
        and putting Vaseline        
     on every part of our bodies    

1718
01:27:15,521 --> 01:27:17,106
    that could be exposed to gas    

1719
01:27:17,148 --> 01:27:19,776
       and get burnt and stuff      
             like that,             

1720
01:27:19,817 --> 01:27:22,153
   padding ourselves with clothes. 

1721
01:27:26,199 --> 01:27:27,742
        Some brothers saying,       
       "If they come in here,       

1722
01:27:27,784 --> 01:27:29,494
          then that's good,         
      because I know my shit."      

1723
01:27:29,535 --> 01:27:30,662
                [laughs]             

1724
01:27:32,205 --> 01:27:34,374
              [Oswald]              
        It became apparent to me     

1725
01:27:34,415 --> 01:27:37,669
         that the situation         
    was seriously deteriorating,    

1726
01:27:37,710 --> 01:27:40,463
        and that the inmates,       
      many of whom are confined     

1727
01:27:40,505 --> 01:27:43,007
               to this              
      maximum-security facility     

1728
01:27:43,049 --> 01:27:46,386
   under life and long sentences,   

1729
01:27:46,427 --> 01:27:50,765
    were not going to participate   
     in reasonable negotiation.     

1730
01:27:50,807 --> 01:27:54,894
      Tensions within the walls     
      have steadily increased.      

1731
01:27:54,936 --> 01:27:57,647
             [reporter]             
        The action now underway      

1732
01:27:57,689 --> 01:28:00,900
             was initiated           
        with extreme reluctance,     

1733
01:28:00,942 --> 01:28:03,069
        only after all attempts      

1734
01:28:03,111 --> 01:28:07,323
               to achieve            
      a peaceful solution failed.    

1735
01:28:09,284 --> 01:28:11,536
    [Callaghan]   We were told that   
       our mission was protection    

1736
01:28:11,577 --> 01:28:13,162
       for the medical battalion.    

1737
01:28:13,204 --> 01:28:16,582
         During the commander's      
      briefing, we were told that,   

1738
01:28:16,624 --> 01:28:20,878
           to our knowledge,         
        the inmates had no guns.     

1739
01:28:20,920 --> 01:28:24,716
          They had spears,          
        they had some knives,       

1740
01:28:24,757 --> 01:28:28,386
           they had pipes           
   that they were using as clubs,   

1741
01:28:28,428 --> 01:28:31,055
        but that was the extent      
             of the threat.          

1742
01:28:31,097 --> 01:28:32,807
       So we knew that going in.     

1743
01:28:35,018 --> 01:28:37,353
          [police officer]          
       10:05 a.m., September 13.     

1744
01:28:37,395 --> 01:28:40,356
     We're on the roof of A block,   

1745
01:28:40,398 --> 01:28:43,276
        waiting for the assault      
               to begin.             

1746
01:28:43,318 --> 01:28:46,779
             This is a team          
        of .270 rifle shooters.      

1747
01:28:46,821 --> 01:28:48,865
       The center of our picture     

1748
01:28:48,906 --> 01:28:53,578
      is men distributing baseball   
      bats to the other prisoners.   

1749
01:28:53,619 --> 01:28:56,622
           We had no guns.          
       We had no real weapons.      

1750
01:28:56,664 --> 01:29:01,210
   We had bullshit pieces of stick 
         or a piece of iron         

1751
01:29:01,252 --> 01:29:05,631
   or a shank that somebody made,   
     rubbing it on the sidewalk.    

1752
01:29:05,673 --> 01:29:07,550
      It was--it was pathetic.      

1753
01:29:08,676 --> 01:29:11,054
      [reporter]   Just four days     
          almost to the minute       

1754
01:29:11,095 --> 01:29:13,556
     after the convict insurrection 
                started.             

1755
01:29:13,598 --> 01:29:16,059
      State police, reinforced      
       by sheriff's deputies,       

1756
01:29:16,100 --> 01:29:17,727
         National Guardsmen,        

1757
01:29:17,769 --> 01:29:20,355
       and correction officers      
      moving in on the prison.      

1758
01:29:20,396 --> 01:29:22,732
          [police officer]          
           Time is 1:55 p.m.         

1759
01:29:22,774 --> 01:29:25,401
     We're on the roof of C block,   

1760
01:29:25,443 --> 01:29:28,946
          looking at a detail        
           of .270 marksmen,         

1761
01:29:28,988 --> 01:29:33,826
       with instructions to clear    
       the catwalks upon command.    

1762
01:29:33,868 --> 01:29:36,037
              [Victory]             
     They took some of the hostages 

1763
01:29:36,079 --> 01:29:38,664
        on top of the catwalks,      

1764
01:29:38,706 --> 01:29:40,792
            which is on top          
            of the hallways,         

1765
01:29:40,833 --> 01:29:44,921
       and some of the inmates      
     held knives to their neck,     

1766
01:29:44,962 --> 01:29:49,634
         as an--in an effort        
     to try to stop the assault.    

1767
01:29:49,675 --> 01:29:51,594
    [police officer]   The hostages   
          are on the catwalks        

1768
01:29:51,636 --> 01:29:53,805
     with knives at their throats.   

1769
01:29:53,846 --> 01:29:57,058
              [Victory]             
         It was all just a show      

1770
01:29:57,100 --> 01:29:59,060
       to try to get them to say,    
          "Oh, wait a minute!        

1771
01:29:59,102 --> 01:30:00,728
     That's my cousin, my brother." 

1772
01:30:00,770 --> 01:30:03,189
          All these guards...        

1773
01:30:03,231 --> 01:30:05,274
           we were hopeful          
       that if they saw this,       

1774
01:30:05,316 --> 01:30:09,153
         they would back off        
       and try to renegotiate       

1775
01:30:09,195 --> 01:30:11,072
        so they could protect       
          their own people.         

1776
01:30:13,533 --> 01:30:16,744
             [Whiteman]             
        The notion of sending in     

1777
01:30:16,786 --> 01:30:19,080
         correctional officers,      

1778
01:30:19,122 --> 01:30:22,125
    who didn't love the prisoners   
           to begin with,           

1779
01:30:22,166 --> 01:30:24,836
          and state police,         
       who were stressed out,       

1780
01:30:24,877 --> 01:30:26,629
    was a serious miscalculation.   

1781
01:30:26,671 --> 01:30:29,006
     Somebody should have said,     
   "Wait a second, wait a second.   

1782
01:30:29,048 --> 01:30:31,759
      These people are on edge.     

1783
01:30:31,801 --> 01:30:34,137
         There's hostility.         

1784
01:30:37,348 --> 01:30:40,393
   It's gonna get out of control." 

1785
01:30:40,435 --> 01:30:42,728
          We know that now.         

1786
01:30:42,770 --> 01:30:45,189
   Did we know that in real time?   

1787
01:30:47,567 --> 01:30:49,652
            I guess not.            

1788
01:30:52,321 --> 01:30:56,826
        [Brosig]   I seen this        
          as a glorious fight.       

1789
01:30:56,868 --> 01:30:59,787
     They would come in with batons 
          and stuff like that,       

1790
01:30:59,829 --> 01:31:02,832
        and we would be fighting     

1791
01:31:02,874 --> 01:31:04,917
            the brave battle         
           with baseball bats        

1792
01:31:04,959 --> 01:31:06,419
          and stuff like that.       

1793
01:31:06,461 --> 01:31:08,004
                I...                

1794
01:31:08,045 --> 01:31:09,797
               [sobs]               

1795
01:31:09,839 --> 01:31:14,719
                                  

1796
01:31:19,223 --> 01:31:20,433
          [voice breaking]          
              I just--              

1797
01:31:25,813 --> 01:31:27,690
      I just never expected...      

1798
01:31:29,901 --> 01:31:31,694
           ...the carnage           
     that would actually happen.    

1799
01:31:31,736 --> 01:31:33,070
             I'm sorry.             

1800
01:31:48,461 --> 01:31:50,004
             [reporter]             
     Here come the helicopters.     

1801
01:31:50,046 --> 01:31:53,382
        They are now heading        
           for the prison.          

1802
01:31:55,301 --> 01:31:57,428
          One of the large          
          army helicopters          

1803
01:31:57,470 --> 01:31:59,096
         now going overhead         
         and over the wall,         

1804
01:31:59,138 --> 01:32:00,389
          into the prison.          

1805
01:32:02,266 --> 01:32:05,978
         It just gets quiet,        
    and the sky was getting dark.   

1806
01:32:06,020 --> 01:32:07,813
          And then we heard         
          the helicopters.          

1807
01:32:07,855 --> 01:32:10,441
       And I said, "Damn, man.      
      This is fucking strange."     

1808
01:32:14,612 --> 01:32:17,323
       [Brosig]   The helicopter      
        comes up over the wall,      

1809
01:32:17,365 --> 01:32:18,991
          and it's hovering         
           over the yard.           

1810
01:32:23,204 --> 01:32:26,082
            I seen this--           
     I thought it was a monster.    

1811
01:32:26,123 --> 01:32:28,668
        It was a helicopter,        
         a green helicopter,        

1812
01:32:28,709 --> 01:32:30,253
       and it was flying low.       

1813
01:32:35,091 --> 01:32:37,677
              [Larkins]             
           And you see this--        

1814
01:32:37,718 --> 01:32:40,721
      it's like a sickly green gas   

1815
01:32:40,763 --> 01:32:44,600
       with sparkly stuff in it,     
              coming down.           

1816
01:32:44,642 --> 01:32:46,852
         It tightens your chest      

1817
01:32:46,894 --> 01:32:48,980
     where you can hardly breathe.   

1818
01:32:49,021 --> 01:32:52,191
      That gas knocked me down.     

1819
01:32:52,233 --> 01:32:55,152
      I don't know what that was.    

1820
01:32:55,194 --> 01:32:57,905
        And it had me so weak       
          I could not move.         

1821
01:32:57,947 --> 01:33:01,409
   Your eyes are just all burning. 

1822
01:33:01,450 --> 01:33:03,995
        Your nose is burning.       
       Your mouth is burning.       

1823
01:33:04,036 --> 01:33:05,162
          [police officer]          
          Place your hands          

1824
01:33:05,204 --> 01:33:07,331
         on top of your head        

1825
01:33:07,373 --> 01:33:10,668
    and surrender to an officer.    

1826
01:33:10,710 --> 01:33:14,046
              I repeat:             
       you will not be harmed.      

1827
01:33:14,088 --> 01:33:17,258
          Place your hands          
        on top of your head.        

1828
01:33:17,300 --> 01:33:18,968
       [Harrison]   And they got      
           on the microphone.        

1829
01:33:19,010 --> 01:33:22,722
     "Everybody in D block yard,    
     put your hands in the air,     

1830
01:33:22,763 --> 01:33:24,599
    and you will not be harmed."    

1831
01:33:24,640 --> 01:33:27,643
         "Go to the nearest         
        state police officer,       

1832
01:33:27,685 --> 01:33:29,478
    and you will not be harmed."    

1833
01:33:29,520 --> 01:33:32,648
     -"You will not be harmed."     
     -"You will not be harmed."     

1834
01:33:32,690 --> 01:33:35,443
      "You will not be harmed."     
       But that was bullshit.       

1835
01:33:35,484 --> 01:33:38,404
              [gunfire]             

1836
01:33:44,368 --> 01:33:46,412
     And dudes were standing up     
             doing this             

1837
01:33:46,454 --> 01:33:48,914
       and getting blown away.      

1838
01:33:48,956 --> 01:33:52,293
    They blew a dude's head off,    
       and I'm looking at it.       

1839
01:33:52,335 --> 01:33:53,753
              [Brosig]              
       And it's all of a sudden,     

1840
01:33:53,794 --> 01:33:57,673
       there was all this popping    
             all around us.          

1841
01:33:57,715 --> 01:33:59,842
       And all these little pops     
             all around us           

1842
01:33:59,884 --> 01:34:01,636
         were actually bullets.      

1843
01:34:01,677 --> 01:34:04,680
     [police officer] Surrender.    
       You will not be harmed.      

1844
01:34:04,722 --> 01:34:07,767
     And you couldn't really see    
     because the CO2 pepper gas     

1845
01:34:07,808 --> 01:34:09,977
           had you blind,           

1846
01:34:10,019 --> 01:34:13,314
    but you can hear the bullets    
         going by your head.        

1847
01:34:13,356 --> 01:34:14,857
          [police officer]          
       You will not be harmed.      

1848
01:34:17,360 --> 01:34:19,820
       [reporter]   The hostages      
           can't be seen now.        

1849
01:34:19,862 --> 01:34:22,657
          [police officer]          
    Repeat: surrender peacefully.   

1850
01:34:22,698 --> 01:34:24,367
         And I'm just trying        
       to stay on the ground,       

1851
01:34:24,408 --> 01:34:26,535
         as low as possible.        

1852
01:34:26,577 --> 01:34:28,996
      It was just like they was     
     shooting down in a barrel.     

1853
01:34:29,038 --> 01:34:30,539
     They just started shooting     
         point blank range,         

1854
01:34:30,581 --> 01:34:32,541
         blowing guys away.         

1855
01:34:32,583 --> 01:34:34,710
   I got shot in the arm up there. 

1856
01:34:34,752 --> 01:34:36,462
       Right through the back       
    of my fucking arm and stuff.    

1857
01:34:36,504 --> 01:34:40,049
              [gunfire]             

1858
01:34:40,091 --> 01:34:43,302
     [police officer] I repeat:     
       you will not be harmed.      

1859
01:34:43,344 --> 01:34:47,556
     I felt something go through    
        my head, at my skull,       

1860
01:34:47,598 --> 01:34:50,893
         and it was burning,        
       and I knew I was shot.       

1861
01:34:50,935 --> 01:34:53,854
    I felt something hit my arm,    

1862
01:34:53,896 --> 01:34:55,898
        and my arm went numb,       

1863
01:34:55,940 --> 01:34:58,651
        and I realized later        
   I had got shot in the left arm, 

1864
01:34:58,693 --> 01:35:00,361
   about two inches from my heart. 

1865
01:35:00,403 --> 01:35:03,572
         And I saw one kid,         
    he had a football helmet on.    

1866
01:35:03,614 --> 01:35:05,074
            Spanish kid.            

1867
01:35:05,116 --> 01:35:07,868
            Now, the guards          
         was up on the catwalk,      

1868
01:35:07,910 --> 01:35:10,746
     and he jumps out with a hammer 
           and throws it up,         

1869
01:35:10,788 --> 01:35:13,040
        and it hits the catwalk,     

1870
01:35:13,082 --> 01:35:14,709
           and you could hear        
           the sound--clink--        

1871
01:35:14,750 --> 01:35:17,461
       and all of them turned,      
           looked at him,           

1872
01:35:17,503 --> 01:35:19,505
           and all of them          
      turned their guns on him.     

1873
01:35:19,547 --> 01:35:22,007
        And they just riddled       
          that boy's body.          

1874
01:35:22,049 --> 01:35:25,219
      I'm assuming he got shot      
    anywhere from 20 to 50 shots,   

1875
01:35:25,261 --> 01:35:27,304
           'cause his body          
      was just doing like that.     

1876
01:35:27,346 --> 01:35:28,848
         Like, I never seen         
         no shit like that.         

1877
01:35:28,889 --> 01:35:30,766
       I seen some nasty shit       
           in the streets.          

1878
01:35:30,808 --> 01:35:32,893
   I never seen nothing like that. 

1879
01:35:32,935 --> 01:35:36,230
     [police officer] I repeat:     
       you will not be harmed.      

1880
01:35:36,272 --> 01:35:38,774
          Place your hands          
        on top of your head.        

1881
01:35:38,816 --> 01:35:41,068
         This was a holiday         
           for the police.          

1882
01:35:41,110 --> 01:35:44,113
        We ain't got no guns        
           to shoot back.           

1883
01:35:44,155 --> 01:35:45,781
         You know what it is        
          to shoot somebody         

1884
01:35:45,823 --> 01:35:47,366
     and they can't shoot back?     

1885
01:35:47,408 --> 01:35:49,660
      That's--that's a holiday.     

1886
01:35:49,702 --> 01:35:51,203
          Lord have mercy.          

1887
01:35:51,245 --> 01:35:54,123
    And all they was saying was,    
         "Save me a nigger."        

1888
01:35:55,833 --> 01:35:58,586
   That's what they was hollering   
           to each other.           

1889
01:35:58,627 --> 01:36:01,630
            I was scared.           

1890
01:36:01,672 --> 01:36:04,300
        I've done bad things,       
   but I never did shit this bad.   

1891
01:36:04,341 --> 01:36:06,844
      I said, "Now, these guys      

1892
01:36:06,886 --> 01:36:09,805
          are real fucking          
   cold-blooded killers and shit." 

1893
01:36:12,016 --> 01:36:15,728
      Until that moment came...     

1894
01:36:15,770 --> 01:36:17,938
          where the killing         
           really started,          

1895
01:36:17,980 --> 01:36:20,274
        when I realized that,       

1896
01:36:20,316 --> 01:36:22,693
      "You're not that fucking      
        bad guy no more, man.       

1897
01:36:22,735 --> 01:36:23,986
         These motherfuckers        
         is worse than you."        

1898
01:36:24,028 --> 01:36:27,239
   Every bullet that whizzed by me 

1899
01:36:27,281 --> 01:36:31,994
     or hit the mud close to me,    
              I winced.             

1900
01:36:36,081 --> 01:36:38,667
         Then all of a sudden,       
            it just stopped.         

1901
01:36:38,709 --> 01:36:40,711
          [police officer]          
      Surrender to an officer.      

1902
01:36:42,588 --> 01:36:45,925
              I repeat:             
       you will not be harmed.      

1903
01:36:53,474 --> 01:36:57,394
     [Johnson]   There are people     
     throwing off their smoke gear. 

1904
01:36:57,436 --> 01:37:01,190
       They ran out screaming,      
    "Niggers, niggers, niggers,"    

1905
01:37:01,232 --> 01:37:04,985
           and two of them          
      pointed their guns at me,     

1906
01:37:05,027 --> 01:37:07,780
     saying, "Niggers, niggers,"    
      and I said, "Don't shoot.     

1907
01:37:07,822 --> 01:37:10,699
     Don't shoot. Don't shoot,"     
         while I'm coughing.        

1908
01:37:10,741 --> 01:37:13,202
       We've all been gassed.       

1909
01:37:13,244 --> 01:37:16,872
          I've been gassed.         
        It's an awful scene.        

1910
01:37:16,914 --> 01:37:21,168
      William Kunstler has said     

1911
01:37:21,210 --> 01:37:23,712
   that people are dying in there, 
               and...               

1912
01:37:23,754 --> 01:37:25,589
         [distant gunshots]         

1913
01:37:25,631 --> 01:37:27,132
      ...and I agree with that.     

1914
01:37:27,174 --> 01:37:28,884
    I think that there are people   
           dying in there.          

1915
01:37:28,926 --> 01:37:32,304
    The shooting went on forever.   

1916
01:37:32,346 --> 01:37:35,850
        And then it was like        
       the shooting subsided,       

1917
01:37:35,891 --> 01:37:38,435
       and then I heard some--      

1918
01:37:38,477 --> 01:37:40,980
       after the big shooting       
              subsided,             

1919
01:37:41,021 --> 01:37:43,399
     I heard some single shots.     

1920
01:37:43,440 --> 01:37:47,570
           Bang! And bang!          

1921
01:37:47,611 --> 01:37:50,489
         tense music playing       

1922
01:37:50,531 --> 01:37:55,703
                                  

1923
01:37:55,744 --> 01:37:58,330
   [Victory]   After they took over   
              the prison,            

1924
01:37:58,372 --> 01:38:02,167
     all those folks that had been   
        speaking to the cameras      

1925
01:38:02,209 --> 01:38:05,796
           were all targeted         
             and tortured.           

1926
01:38:05,838 --> 01:38:08,883
       So, yes, yes, yes, yes,      
         they were targeted.        

1927
01:38:11,302 --> 01:38:16,181
        [Scott]   L.D. Barkley,       
      they were calling his name,    

1928
01:38:16,223 --> 01:38:19,184
       going through that fog,      
          looking for him,          

1929
01:38:19,226 --> 01:38:20,978
         and threatening him        

1930
01:38:21,020 --> 01:38:23,689
      with what they were gonna     
              do to him             

1931
01:38:23,731 --> 01:38:25,357
        when they found him.        

1932
01:38:25,399 --> 01:38:26,942
         And they found him.        

1933
01:38:26,984 --> 01:38:31,155
    And he was yelling, "No, no,"   

1934
01:38:31,196 --> 01:38:33,198
     but it's too fucking late;     
         they had him then.         

1935
01:38:33,240 --> 01:38:35,743
        I seen them dragging him     
          towards the A block        

1936
01:38:35,784 --> 01:38:38,454
          far yard over there.       

1937
01:38:38,495 --> 01:38:40,414
            He was hollering         
             and screaming.          

1938
01:38:40,456 --> 01:38:41,707
          And they killed him.       

1939
01:38:53,010 --> 01:38:56,513
          You can't see it,         
    because the gas is so thick.    

1940
01:38:56,555 --> 01:38:57,973
        But all of a sudden,        

1941
01:38:58,015 --> 01:39:00,476
        a puff of wind comes        

1942
01:39:00,517 --> 01:39:03,270
       and disperses the gas,       

1943
01:39:03,312 --> 01:39:05,648
        and then I could see.       

1944
01:39:05,689 --> 01:39:07,274
   And what I saw was frightening. 

1945
01:39:09,485 --> 01:39:13,614
           Hundreds of bodies        
           just laying there.        

1946
01:39:13,656 --> 01:39:16,241
           Some were moaning.        
          Some wasn't moving.        

1947
01:39:16,283 --> 01:39:17,952
         Blood was everywhere.       

1948
01:39:23,791 --> 01:39:26,085
             [Crawford]             
        We were given stretchers     

1949
01:39:26,126 --> 01:39:29,296
             and told to go          
            into the prison.         

1950
01:39:29,338 --> 01:39:31,465
             It was really           
         an unthinkable scene.       

1951
01:39:31,507 --> 01:39:33,801
        It was dead and wounded,     

1952
01:39:33,842 --> 01:39:35,678
          and simply starting        
           to carry them out.        

1953
01:39:37,721 --> 01:39:41,225
           It was far beyond         
        anything I had imagined      

1954
01:39:41,266 --> 01:39:44,269
        when they said we would      
      be doing medical evacuation.   

1955
01:39:44,311 --> 01:39:48,899
     We were basically civilians    
        put into a situation        

1956
01:39:48,941 --> 01:39:51,235
          where state trooper        
        and correction officers      

1957
01:39:51,276 --> 01:39:53,112
        had created a war zone.      

1958
01:39:55,239 --> 01:39:59,284
      There was a pile of bodies,    
       maybe eight or ten people,    

1959
01:39:59,326 --> 01:40:02,579
           and the man on top        
       had had his eyes shot out.    

1960
01:40:02,621 --> 01:40:07,543
                                  

1961
01:40:25,060 --> 01:40:27,646
     [Callaghan]   Right below us,    
         there was a huge pool       

1962
01:40:27,688 --> 01:40:31,859
            of rainwater,           
        and it was blood red.       

1963
01:40:31,900 --> 01:40:36,655
      And I looked down at it,      
             and I said,            

1964
01:40:36,697 --> 01:40:38,907
       "Those are false teeth       
     down there, aren't there?"     

1965
01:40:38,949 --> 01:40:40,576
     And somebody said, "Yeah."     

1966
01:40:44,663 --> 01:40:46,707
             [Crawford]             
       The attitude of the people    

1967
01:40:46,749 --> 01:40:49,543
   who should have been concerned   

1968
01:40:49,585 --> 01:40:51,420
       about what had happened      

1969
01:40:51,462 --> 01:40:56,216
      was simply that they were     
   pleased with what had happened, 

1970
01:40:56,258 --> 01:40:59,928
           and had no qualms         
           or second thoughts        

1971
01:40:59,970 --> 01:41:01,597
     or anything but satisfaction.   

1972
01:41:03,265 --> 01:41:05,893
      Walker wants to go back.      

1973
01:41:05,934 --> 01:41:08,729
        [cheers and applause]       

1974
01:41:08,771 --> 01:41:11,690
        [indistinct shouting]       

1975
01:41:11,732 --> 01:41:13,942
            -White power!           
            -White power!           

1976
01:41:13,984 --> 01:41:16,737
             -[all] Hey!            
            -White power!           

1977
01:41:16,779 --> 01:41:19,615
         solemn music playing      

1978
01:41:19,656 --> 01:41:21,909
                                  

1979
01:41:21,950 --> 01:41:24,286
              [Brosig]              
           They had control,         

1980
01:41:24,328 --> 01:41:26,121
       and once they had control,    

1981
01:41:26,163 --> 01:41:29,625
     you would think that things    
         would have stopped.        

1982
01:41:29,666 --> 01:41:31,126
              They didn't.           

1983
01:41:34,505 --> 01:41:35,964
             [Callaghan]            
           It was clear that,        

1984
01:41:36,006 --> 01:41:37,966
             at that point,          
       it was all about revenge.     

1985
01:41:38,008 --> 01:41:40,010
            It was all about         
             reestablishing          

1986
01:41:40,052 --> 01:41:41,595
           who was in charge         

1987
01:41:41,637 --> 01:41:43,597
             in the most            
       violent ways possible.       

1988
01:41:52,523 --> 01:41:54,942
      [Harrison]   Everybody had      
         to crawl through shit.      

1989
01:41:54,983 --> 01:41:56,652
              Human waste.           

1990
01:42:00,531 --> 01:42:02,825
          But what do you do?        

1991
01:42:02,866 --> 01:42:05,953
   Do you live to tell your story, 
        like I'm doing today,       

1992
01:42:05,994 --> 01:42:08,497
       or do you fucking die?       

1993
01:42:08,539 --> 01:42:10,165
          I made a choice.          
          I wanted to live.         

1994
01:42:14,670 --> 01:42:18,882
       "Crawl, nigger, crawl.       
         Crawl. Like a dog."        

1995
01:42:23,303 --> 01:42:24,847
             [Sheppard]             
        "If you look up, nigger,     

1996
01:42:24,888 --> 01:42:27,015
             I'll blow your          
       motherfucking brains out."    

1997
01:42:28,642 --> 01:42:32,020
       What the fuck they care      
     about calling you a nigger?    

1998
01:42:32,062 --> 01:42:35,357
    That was your name that day.    

1999
01:42:35,399 --> 01:42:38,193
     They had us marching around    
         the yard with our--        

2000
01:42:38,235 --> 01:42:41,822
     with our hands interlocked     
   like this, on top of our heads. 

2001
01:42:41,864 --> 01:42:43,574
          Abject surrender.         

2002
01:42:43,615 --> 01:42:48,537
                                  

2003
01:42:56,461 --> 01:42:59,131
               [Scott]              
     When I saw these naked bodies   

2004
01:42:59,173 --> 01:43:02,426
               lined up,             
        snaked around the area,      

2005
01:43:02,467 --> 01:43:07,139
      it reminded me of portrayals   
          of African Americans       

2006
01:43:07,181 --> 01:43:09,683
     being herded onto slave ships. 

2007
01:43:09,725 --> 01:43:11,351
        It was just horrendous.      

2008
01:43:11,393 --> 01:43:13,395
         It was just horrible,       
               horrible.             

2009
01:43:23,780 --> 01:43:25,240
             [Harrison]             
            And we're naked          

2010
01:43:25,282 --> 01:43:27,409
             in the middle           
          of the fucking yard,       

2011
01:43:27,451 --> 01:43:30,412
          guards going around        
         with, like, baby bats.      

2012
01:43:30,454 --> 01:43:32,414
        They was shoving them up     
              guys' asses.           

2013
01:43:32,456 --> 01:43:33,832
            I'm laying here,         

2014
01:43:33,874 --> 01:43:35,918
             and I'm hoping          
        they don't come my way.      

2015
01:43:49,389 --> 01:43:52,517
       [Victory]   Frank Smith,       
     Big Black, was put on a table   

2016
01:43:52,559 --> 01:43:54,728
            with a football          
           under his throat.         

2017
01:43:59,024 --> 01:44:00,734
             [Crawford]             
       People stood up above him     

2018
01:44:00,776 --> 01:44:03,237
            on the catwalk,          
     aiming their guns down at him, 

2019
01:44:03,278 --> 01:44:06,949
            throwing cigars          
      and cigarette butts on him,    

2020
01:44:06,990 --> 01:44:08,367
             and they said,          

2021
01:44:08,408 --> 01:44:10,118
        "If that football falls,     
                nigger,              

2022
01:44:10,160 --> 01:44:11,745
        we're gonna shoot you."      

2023
01:44:15,040 --> 01:44:17,417
       [Callaghan]   He was told      
          to get to his feet.        

2024
01:44:17,459 --> 01:44:20,295
         He tried. He stumbled.      
                He fell.             

2025
01:44:20,337 --> 01:44:22,464
         He was hit with clubs       

2026
01:44:22,506 --> 01:44:26,051
     on his back, between his legs. 

2027
01:44:26,093 --> 01:44:29,638
         And he was crying out,      
               you know,             

2028
01:44:29,680 --> 01:44:31,974
            "Don't do this.          
            Don't do this."          

2029
01:44:32,015 --> 01:44:34,142
      And then you could hear him    
               screaming             

2030
01:44:34,184 --> 01:44:37,187
             as he went up           
          through the prison.        

2031
01:44:42,359 --> 01:44:45,612
    [Harrison]   It felt good that    
       I had survived this shit.     

2032
01:44:45,654 --> 01:44:48,657
       And now, I gotta look out,    

2033
01:44:48,699 --> 01:44:51,076
         because some more shit      
               is coming.            

2034
01:44:51,118 --> 01:44:56,290
                                  

2035
01:44:57,291 --> 01:44:59,793
      The inmates were entering     
           these corridors          

2036
01:44:59,835 --> 01:45:04,506
          off of the yard,          
        and the guards were,        

2037
01:45:04,548 --> 01:45:07,843
    like, five or six feet apart,   
          with their clubs.         

2038
01:45:07,884 --> 01:45:11,096
        And they would hit them      
           against the walls.        

2039
01:45:11,138 --> 01:45:14,933
           And there was just        
       this dull drum-like sound.    

2040
01:45:14,975 --> 01:45:16,685
           And then they were        
          hitting the inmates        

2041
01:45:16,727 --> 01:45:18,812
        as they ran a gauntlet.      

2042
01:45:23,108 --> 01:45:25,736
      We could hear the screams     
             coming out,            

2043
01:45:25,777 --> 01:45:29,281
        so that we knew that        
      they were being tortured,     

2044
01:45:29,323 --> 01:45:33,785
     and that we were somehow part   
       of this unthinkable scene,    

2045
01:45:33,827 --> 01:45:35,704
             that there was          
           no escaping from,         

2046
01:45:35,746 --> 01:45:37,539
       but was completely wrong.     

2047
01:45:41,251 --> 01:45:43,170
              [Brosig]              
     They had guards on both sides, 

2048
01:45:43,211 --> 01:45:45,714
     and they would be hitting you   
      as you were running through,   

2049
01:45:45,756 --> 01:45:48,300
       beating you with hoses       
             and batons             

2050
01:45:48,342 --> 01:45:50,093
        and whatever they had       
           in their hands.          

2051
01:45:50,135 --> 01:45:52,012
            I'm ducking,            
       trying to get through,       

2052
01:45:52,054 --> 01:45:53,597
         protecting my head.        

2053
01:45:53,638 --> 01:45:55,432
        My shoulders got hit,       
           all on my arms,          

2054
01:45:55,474 --> 01:45:58,018
        my elbows, my knees.        
          They still hurt.          

2055
01:45:58,060 --> 01:46:01,188
    Beating you after making you    
      run through the gauntlet,     

2056
01:46:01,229 --> 01:46:03,148
    where they took all the glass   
       out the fucking windows      

2057
01:46:03,190 --> 01:46:04,816
             and put it             
     in the middle of the floor,    

2058
01:46:04,858 --> 01:46:06,443
   so you had to run through glass 
           with bare feet.          

2059
01:46:06,485 --> 01:46:08,945
    Nobody came out of that yard    

2060
01:46:08,987 --> 01:46:11,740
        with--with--picking--       

2061
01:46:11,782 --> 01:46:14,409
    without having to pick glass    
     out of your feet for weeks.    

2062
01:46:16,078 --> 01:46:19,581
           Couldn't walk.           
      Nobody can walk anymore.      

2063
01:46:19,623 --> 01:46:22,125
         But we had to run,         
     because if you didn't run,     

2064
01:46:22,167 --> 01:46:24,419
     they just kept beating you     
          with these clubs.         

2065
01:46:34,054 --> 01:46:35,764
             [reporter]             
     The families of the hostages,   

2066
01:46:35,806 --> 01:46:39,601
          a lot of them waited       
     just outside the prison wall.   

2067
01:46:39,643 --> 01:46:43,105
     -They're gonna get him out.    
             -[sobbing]             

2068
01:46:43,146 --> 01:46:45,941
     [reporter]   Then news began     
        to filter out of Attica.     

2069
01:46:45,982 --> 01:46:49,194
      Names of freed hostages were   
     called out to the loved ones.   

2070
01:46:49,236 --> 01:46:50,612
          [police officer]          
   Bob Curtis! Lieutenant Curtis.   

2071
01:46:50,654 --> 01:46:52,072
          [police officer]          
               Curtis!              

2072
01:46:52,114 --> 01:46:55,367
        Al Robbin. Al Robbin.       

2073
01:46:57,953 --> 01:47:00,038
     [reporter]   Some didn't see     
          their men come out.        

2074
01:47:00,080 --> 01:47:01,873
     All they learned was the name   
            of the hospital          

2075
01:47:01,915 --> 01:47:03,875
          where the survivors        
          were being treated.        

2076
01:47:03,917 --> 01:47:07,003
       There was no time to wait.    
     They ran off to see their men. 

2077
01:47:07,045 --> 01:47:10,549
                                  

2078
01:47:10,590 --> 01:47:13,135
       Some people couldn't seem     
          to run fast enough.        

2079
01:47:17,389 --> 01:47:18,348
           [Jaime Valone]           
           My mom came home,         

2080
01:47:18,390 --> 01:47:19,891
      and she was with her sister,   

2081
01:47:19,933 --> 01:47:22,185
         and my mom was crying,      
            obviously upset.         

2082
01:47:25,397 --> 01:47:27,441
           I was outside,           
     sitting on the front porch,    

2083
01:47:27,482 --> 01:47:30,735
   you know, praying and worrying. 
         And "where's Dad?"         

2084
01:47:30,777 --> 01:47:32,696
           I expected him           
        to show up, you know.       

2085
01:47:32,737 --> 01:47:35,282
          And, um, I kept,          

2086
01:47:35,323 --> 01:47:37,993
       "Mom, Mom, where's Dad?      

2087
01:47:38,034 --> 01:47:40,245
     What's--why are you crying?    
          What's going on?"         

2088
01:47:40,287 --> 01:47:44,166
      When my mother came back      
    in the house, and, you know,    

2089
01:47:44,207 --> 01:47:46,710
             she said--             
   now she had to fight with me--   

2090
01:47:46,751 --> 01:47:49,004
      argue, I mean, you know,      

2091
01:47:49,045 --> 01:47:50,547
        because I didn't want       
           to believe it.           

2092
01:47:50,589 --> 01:47:52,757
        And she finally said,       

2093
01:47:52,799 --> 01:47:57,262
       "I saw him. I saw him!"      

2094
01:48:01,183 --> 01:48:02,601
           [Jaime Valone]           
      Finally, she blurted it out.   

2095
01:48:02,642 --> 01:48:05,395
         "Your father's dead."       

2096
01:48:05,437 --> 01:48:07,105
               So I ran.             

2097
01:48:10,609 --> 01:48:13,612
         I ran for a while,         
          and I came back,          

2098
01:48:13,653 --> 01:48:15,155
          and I was sitting         
         on the front porch,        

2099
01:48:15,197 --> 01:48:18,241
         trying to be strong        
            and not cry,            

2100
01:48:18,283 --> 01:48:21,161
     and I could hear everybody     
        in the house crying.        

2101
01:48:21,203 --> 01:48:24,039
          And I was trying          
       to be so tough, and...       

2102
01:48:25,874 --> 01:48:27,000
               [sighs]              

2103
01:48:31,922 --> 01:48:34,716
             I'm sorry.             
            God damn it.            

2104
01:48:39,054 --> 01:48:41,890
         solemn music playing      

2105
01:48:41,932 --> 01:48:46,853
                                  

2106
01:48:49,940 --> 01:48:51,316
       The National Guardsmen       
              were told             

2107
01:48:51,358 --> 01:48:53,610
    to get back in their trucks,    

2108
01:48:53,652 --> 01:48:56,947
      and we did that and were      
   taken out to the parking area.   

2109
01:48:56,988 --> 01:48:59,699
    And a colonel then addressed    
           the battalion,           

2110
01:48:59,741 --> 01:49:02,244
     maybe several hundred men.     

2111
01:49:02,285 --> 01:49:04,329
      And he said, essentially,     

2112
01:49:04,371 --> 01:49:09,125
      "You saw things that were     
     excessive and wrong today,     

2113
01:49:09,167 --> 01:49:12,921
        and I have to ask you       
   not to speak of this to anyone, 

2114
01:49:12,963 --> 01:49:15,257
          because the world         
         will not understand        

2115
01:49:15,298 --> 01:49:17,092
     what happened here today."     

2116
01:49:19,511 --> 01:49:21,096
             [reporter]             
       The most violent rebellion    

2117
01:49:21,137 --> 01:49:22,556
           in modern American        
             penal history           

2118
01:49:22,597 --> 01:49:24,391
          came to an end today       

2119
01:49:24,432 --> 01:49:26,643
     at the maximum-security prison 
          in Attica, New York.       

2120
01:49:26,685 --> 01:49:27,894
         In the final hours         
           of the revolt,           

2121
01:49:27,936 --> 01:49:29,771
      led primarily by Blacks,      

2122
01:49:29,813 --> 01:49:32,649
      the inmates murdered nine     
      of their white hostages.      

2123
01:49:32,691 --> 01:49:34,734
       28 convicts were killed      
          by state troopers         

2124
01:49:34,776 --> 01:49:36,027
       and sheriff's deputies,      

2125
01:49:36,069 --> 01:49:38,238
        who regained control        
           of the prison.           

2126
01:49:38,280 --> 01:49:40,156
     The storming of the prison     
        had the full approval       

2127
01:49:40,198 --> 01:49:41,866
            of New York's           
        Governor Rockefeller,       

2128
01:49:41,908 --> 01:49:43,994
      who earlier had rejected      
          a prisoner demand         

2129
01:49:44,035 --> 01:49:45,829
       for complete clemency.       

2130
01:49:45,870 --> 01:49:48,832
     The White House said that,     
    after the prison was retaken,   

2131
01:49:48,873 --> 01:49:50,834
            President Nixon          
        telephoned the governor      

2132
01:49:50,875 --> 01:49:53,712
        to express his approval      
        of Rockefeller's action.     

2133
01:50:46,514 --> 01:50:48,808
        [reporter]   Yesterday,       
        officials at the prison      

2134
01:50:48,850 --> 01:50:52,187
       said eight of the hostages    
       had had their throats cut.    

2135
01:50:52,228 --> 01:50:54,731
      But today, the Monroe County   
           medical examiner,         

2136
01:50:54,773 --> 01:50:56,691
      having looked at the bodies,   

2137
01:50:56,733 --> 01:50:59,110
        said no throats were cut     
                at all.              

2138
01:50:59,152 --> 01:51:01,154
          The Medical Examiner       
           says the hostages         

2139
01:51:01,196 --> 01:51:04,491
       were apparently killed       
     by large-caliber ammunition    

2140
01:51:04,532 --> 01:51:07,327
         and shotgun blasts,        
          from a distance,          

2141
01:51:07,369 --> 01:51:09,537
      which immediately raised      
           the possibility          

2142
01:51:09,579 --> 01:51:12,707
   that some of the hostages may,   
    in fact, have been shot down    

2143
01:51:12,749 --> 01:51:16,002
     by the lawmen who broke in     
           to rescue them.          

2144
01:51:16,044 --> 01:51:19,381
    [Brosig]   Some of the hostages   
           were actually shot        

2145
01:51:19,422 --> 01:51:21,716
           running towards          
         the state troopers,        

2146
01:51:21,758 --> 01:51:24,552
              thinking,             
       "I'm saved. I'm saved."      

2147
01:51:25,261 --> 01:51:28,765
     And the hostages were dressed   
     the same way the inmates were. 

2148
01:51:30,767 --> 01:51:33,144
           Anything that had         
           inmate garb on it,        

2149
01:51:33,186 --> 01:51:35,480
           they just started         
            shooting at you.         

2150
01:51:38,108 --> 01:51:40,694
       What Rockefeller had done     

2151
01:51:40,735 --> 01:51:45,657
       was treat the hostages       

2152
01:51:45,699 --> 01:51:50,745
          as no more real,          
          live human beings         

2153
01:51:50,787 --> 01:51:54,874
    who deserved to be respected    
         than the prisoners.        

2154
01:51:54,916 --> 01:51:59,379
       And so you kill them all,     
         and you restore order,      

2155
01:51:59,421 --> 01:52:04,342
            and you make me          
          into a major figure        

2156
01:52:04,384 --> 01:52:07,137
     who believes in law and order   

2157
01:52:07,178 --> 01:52:10,181
               at a time             
           when that concept         

2158
01:52:10,223 --> 01:52:14,269
              is beginning           
          to really take hold.       

2159
01:52:14,310 --> 01:52:19,190
                                  

2160
01:52:37,167 --> 01:52:40,628
    [Jones]   It should have ended    
      in a negotiated settlement.    

2161
01:52:40,670 --> 01:52:42,130
      No, they weren't interested    
                in that.             

2162
01:52:42,172 --> 01:52:44,257
         They were interesting       
               in showing            

2163
01:52:44,299 --> 01:52:46,009
        the naked fist of power.     

2164
01:52:46,050 --> 01:52:49,220
             Law and order.          

2165
01:52:49,262 --> 01:52:50,472
          The national mindset       
             of the nation           

2166
01:52:50,513 --> 01:52:53,057
           was law and order.        

2167
01:52:53,099 --> 01:52:57,061
          And law and order         
           does not permit          

2168
01:52:57,103 --> 01:53:00,440
            any challenge           

2169
01:53:00,482 --> 01:53:02,984
    to its authority whatsoever.    

2170
01:53:03,026 --> 01:53:05,111
   God willing, a few more months, 
             in January,            

2171
01:53:05,153 --> 01:53:07,655
        I'll be 90 years old.       

2172
01:53:07,697 --> 01:53:10,658
   I will never, ever, ever, ever, 

2173
01:53:10,700 --> 01:53:15,580
   ever, ever, ever forget Attica. 

2174
01:53:15,622 --> 01:53:19,417
                Ever.               

2175
01:53:19,459 --> 01:53:23,963
   It didn't have to be that way.   

2176
01:53:24,005 --> 01:53:28,885
                                  

2177
01:53:57,205 --> 01:53:59,999
         soulful doo-wop music      
               playing              

2178
01:54:00,041 --> 01:54:05,004
                                  

2179
01:54:06,422 --> 01:54:09,342
           All eight cases          

2180
01:54:09,384 --> 01:54:13,429
       died of gunshot wounds.      

2181
01:54:13,471 --> 01:54:16,349
        There was no evidence       
         of slashed throats.        

2182
01:54:16,391 --> 01:54:21,271
                                  

2183
01:54:38,538 --> 01:54:40,498
   I've never received an apology. 

2184
01:54:41,833 --> 01:54:43,501
   I've never received an apology, 

2185
01:54:43,543 --> 01:54:44,878
             and for me,            
      that's a pretty big deal.     

2186
01:54:44,919 --> 01:54:46,921
                                  

2187
01:54:46,963 --> 01:54:50,758
               So come             

2188
01:54:50,800 --> 01:54:53,553
                To me              

2189
01:54:53,595 --> 01:54:57,181
         What does money do         
    when you don't have your dad,   

2190
01:54:57,223 --> 01:54:59,601
            or your brother,         
             or your uncle?          

2191
01:55:02,770 --> 01:55:05,857
             How does that           
           replace anything?         

2192
01:55:05,899 --> 01:55:09,819
           And I think it was        
       the state's way of saying,    

2193
01:55:09,861 --> 01:55:11,321
        "We're gonna give you       
             this money,            

2194
01:55:11,362 --> 01:55:13,156
    and we want you to go away."    

2195
01:55:13,197 --> 01:55:18,077
           Beyond the blue         

2196
01:55:18,119 --> 01:55:21,831
               Then my             

2197
01:55:21,873 --> 01:55:25,919
              True love            

2198
01:55:25,960 --> 01:55:30,924
      Will come shining through    

2199
01:55:30,965 --> 01:55:32,592
             [reporter]             
          For nearly 30 years,       

2200
01:55:32,634 --> 01:55:35,553
         former Attica inmates       
        have waited for justice.     

2201
01:55:35,595 --> 01:55:37,305
         Today, it finally came      

2202
01:55:37,347 --> 01:55:40,558
              in the form            
      of a $12 million settlement.   

2203
01:55:40,600 --> 01:55:43,353
              - And be             
              - And be             

2204
01:55:43,394 --> 01:55:45,980
               My love             

2205
01:55:46,022 --> 01:55:48,900
              [Nieves]              
        There was never justice.     

2206
01:55:48,942 --> 01:55:50,902
         All we got was money.       

2207
01:55:50,944 --> 01:55:53,446
        And money wasn't enough.     

2208
01:55:53,488 --> 01:55:55,031
       Then you can't justify       
          all the killings          

2209
01:55:55,073 --> 01:55:56,658
      that happened in Attica.      

2210
01:55:56,699 --> 01:55:58,451
        You can't justify it.       

2211
01:55:58,493 --> 01:56:01,079
     And so there's no justice.     
      There was never justice.      

2212
01:56:01,120 --> 01:56:04,165
               The sun             

2213
01:56:04,207 --> 01:56:08,169
              Will shine           

2214
01:56:08,211 --> 01:56:12,006
                Beyond             

2215
01:56:12,048 --> 01:56:15,760
               The blue            

2216
01:56:15,802 --> 01:56:19,472
               Then my             

2217
01:56:19,514 --> 01:56:23,309
              True love            

2218
01:56:23,351 --> 01:56:28,189
      Will come shining through    

2219
01:56:30,566 --> 01:56:35,071
              - So come            
           - So come to me         

2220
01:56:35,113 --> 01:56:37,532
            On bended knee         

2221
01:56:37,573 --> 01:56:41,077
              - And be             
              - And be             

2222
01:56:41,119 --> 01:56:44,872
               My love             

2223
01:56:44,914 --> 01:56:49,293
            - For as long          
      - For just as long, baby     

2224
01:56:49,335 --> 01:56:52,714
           As you are mine         

2225
01:56:52,755 --> 01:56:55,133
            I know the sun         

2226
01:56:55,174 --> 01:56:58,469
              Will shine           

2227
01:56:58,511 --> 01:57:03,391