Show Notes
When inmates riot at Attica prison in September 1971, 47 hostages are seized in a standoff that lasts for days. With no guidelines in place for negotiations, over 30 intermediaries scramble to make a deal that neither side is willing to accept. After Governor Rockefeller decides that the time for talking is over, 39 people are killed and 89 wounded in the brutal retaking of the prison
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