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Attica Hostages Were Caught in Crossfire Claims
Gov Rockefeller says the nine hostages who died in the Attica prison raid were killed by crossfire from state police and inmates. He maintains the shootings were morally justified and not indiscriminate, while investigations and hearings continue into the five day riot and takeover that left 38 inmates and prison workers dead.
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Attica
N.Y
Cupi
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Safe State Prison
Wnr
Albany
Rockefeller
Claude Pepper
Dala
House Select Committee On Crime
Joseph J. Ricotta
James P. Walkins
Buffalo
Walkins
Robert E. Fischer
Proin
Yacia
Fischer
Watkins
Adlore