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Program Description
Date Broadcast
Program Length

Arthur Eve on Attica

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Oct. 22, 1971
69 mins
Archive Number: BC0362
Title: Arthur Eve on Attica / interviewed by Rob Crocker.
Place: Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1971.
Length: 1 reel (69 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.
Body: N.Y. assemblyman discusses his experiences dealing with the A Attica State Prison riot.
BROADCAST: WBAI, 22 Oct.1971.
Search: Eve, Arthur.
Prison riots -- Attica (N.Y.).
Arthur Eve on Attica / interviewed by Rob Crocker.

Remember Attica ~ Part 1:
The Rebellion

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Nov. 1, 1971
72 mins

Archive Number: BC0378.01
Title: The Rebellion / produced by Bruce Soloway, Paul Fischer, and
Deloris Costello.
Place: Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1971.
SERIES: Remember Attica ; no. 1.
Length: 1 reel (72 min.): 7 1/2 ips, mono.
Total: 72:00
Body: Documentary on the inmate rebellion at Atticaprison. Inlcudes interviews of administrators, negotiators, hostages, and inmates. THE REBELLION / produced by Deloris Costello, Bruce Soloway, and Paul Fischer.
SERIES: Remember Attica no. 1- Documentary on the inmate rebellion at Attica prison. Includes interviews of administrators, negotiators, hostages, and inmates. Also, includes tapes recorded at negotiating sessions and in the prison yard during the rebellion. Contains sensitive language.
RECORDED: at Attica State Prison, New York, 9 Sept. 1971.
BROADCAST: WBAI, 1 Nov. 1971.
RECORDED: 13 Sept. 1971.
Search: Costello, Deloris.
Fischer, Paul, 1948-
Prison riots -- Attica (N.Y.).
Rebellion / produced by Bruce Soloway, Paul Fischer, and
Deloris Costello.

Remember Attica ~ Part 2:
The Invasion


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Nov. 2, 1971
43 mins

Archive Number: BC0378.02
Title: The Day the Attica rebellion ended : the invasion / produced
by Bruce Soloway, Paul Fischer, and Deloris Costello.
Place: Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1971.
SERIES: Remember Attica ; no. 2.
Length: 1 reel (43 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono. 43:00
Total: 43:00
Body: Documentary on the assault by over a thousand state police, sheriffs,and national guardsmen upon the prison inmates and their hostages. THE DAY THE ATTICA REBELLION ENDED : THE INVASION / produced by Bruce Soloway, Paul Fischer, and Deloris Costello.
SERIES: Remember Attica
RECORDED: 13 Sept. 1971.
BROADCAST: WBAI, 2 Nov. 1971.
RECORDED: 13 Sept. 1971.
Search: Soloway,Bruce.
Fischer, Paul, 1948-
Police -- New York -- Complaints against.
Prison riots -- Attica (N.Y.).
Day the Attica rebellion ended : the invasion / produced by Bruce Soloway, Paul Fischer, and Deloris Costello
.

Remember Attica ~ Part 3:
The Blackout


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Nov. 3, 1971
64 mins

Archive Number: BC0378.03
Title: Blackout / produced by Bruce Soloway, Paul Fischer, and Deloris Costello.
Place: Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1971.
SERIES: Remember Attica ; no. 3.
Length: 64 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.
Body: Examination of the news blackout which followed the storming of Attica prison. After the New York State Correction Department recaptured Attica State Prison, killing over 40 people in the process, a news blackout was imposed by state officials. Despite efforts by reporters, lawyers, and medical teams to penetrate the prison walls, news from attica was confined to evasive official press conferences and fragmentary reports from eyewitnesses. Paul Fischer and Bruce Soloway worked to piece the story together in Attica and Buffalo. A compilation of their findings fromm the days immediately after the killings.
remastered 2/1999.
Subject-Keyword ATTICA
PRISONS & PRISONERS
RIOTS
POLICE BRUTALITY
RECORDED: 13 Sept. 1971.
BROADCAST: WBAI, 3 Nov. 1971.
Search: Fischer, Paul, 1948-
Costello, Deloris.
Prison riots -- Attica (N.Y.).
Press and politics -- United Stats.
Blackout / produced by Bruce Soloway, Paul Fischer, and
Deloris Costello.

Remember Attica ~ Part 4:
Black Friday


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Nov. 4, 1971
67 mins

Archive Number: BC0378.04
Title: Black Friday / produced by Bruce Soloway, Paul Fischer, and Deloris Costello.
Place: Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1971.
SERIES: Remember Attica ; no. 4.
Length: 1 reel (67 min.) :7 1/2 ips, mono.
Body: Report on the memorial ceremonies held in Attica and Buffalo in sympathy for the 40 killed during the assault. Includes statements by the prison chaplains, James Forman, and Elise Galotti.
BROADCAST: WBAI, 4 Nov. 1971.
Search: Costello, Deloris.
Fischer, Paul, 1948-
Prison riots -- Attica (N.Y.).
Protests,demonstrations, vigils, etc. -- New York -- 1971.
Black Friday / produced by Bruce Soloway, Paul Fischer, and Deloris Costello.

Remember Attica ~ Part 5: Reconstruction, Reflection,Reaction

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Nov. 5, 1971
79 mins

Archive Number: BC0378.05
Title: Reconstruction, reflection, reaction / produced by Bruce
Soloway, Paul Fischer, and Deloris Costello.
Place: Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1971.
SERIES: Remember Attica ; no. 5.
Length: 1 reel (79 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.
Body: Examination of the government investigations, community
reactions and demonstrations, the lawsuits, and allegations of
murder and repression.
BROADCAST: WBAI, 5 Nov. 1971.
Search: Fischer, Paul, 1948-
Costello, Deloris.
Prison riots -- Attica (N.Y.).
Reconstruction, reflection, reaction/ produced by Bruce Soloway, Paul Fischer, and Deloris Costello.

We are Attica

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March 20, 1972
81 mins

Archive Number: BC0837
Title: We are Attica / produced by Bruce Soloway.
Place: Los Angeles: Pacifica Radio Archive, 1972.
Length: 1 reel (81 min.): 7 1/2 ips, mono.
Body: Prisoners discuss their view of the Attica rebellion and its violent conclusion.
See: Inside Attica archive no. IZ0606.03
RECORDED: Attica State Prison, New York, Feb. 1972.
BROADCAST: WBAI, 30 Mar. 1972.
Search: Attica prison rebellion, 1971 -- Personal narratives. Prisoners -- Personal narratives. We are Attica / produced by Bruce Soloway.

 

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