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Betrayal at Attica

More than half of thoseinterviewed told the Commission they had not wanted to bethere, but...

More than half of those
interviewed told the Commission they had not wanted to be
there, but couldn't leave

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More than half of those interviewed told the Commission
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they had not wanted to be there, but couldn't leave.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:37:42
Uploaded
May 24, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Fifth Column Films,HBO,HBO Documentary Films

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Movie Summary

On September 13, 1971 the State of New York shot and killed 39 of its own citizens, injured hundreds more, and tortured the survivors. The plan to retake D Yard led to one of the bloodiest days in American history, and set the sta...
Inmates made rules against using drugs, - Betrayal at Attica 00:06
Inmates made rules against using drugs,
Some of them built defenses or looked for food and fuel, - Betrayal at Attica 00:08
Some of them built defenses or looked for food and fuel,
- [Reporter] How do the inmates feel - Betrayal at Attica 00:04
- [Reporter] How do the inmates feel
- A group of us were in with the inmates, - Betrayal at Attica 00:08
- A group of us were in with the inmates,
But we really have nothing to say about it, - Betrayal at Attica 00:06
But we really have nothing to say about it,
- It was Bill's finest hour, Kunstler, in some ways, - Betrayal at Attica 00:06
- It was Bill's finest hour, Kunstler, in some ways,
No one told the Attica Brothers - Betrayal at Attica 00:06
No one told the Attica Brothers
They didn't tell them that there were all these - Betrayal at Attica 00:09
They didn't tell them that there were all these
- [Narrator] As negotiations stalled, - Betrayal at Attica 00:11
- [Narrator] As negotiations stalled,
- [Narrator] Do you think Rockefeller - Betrayal at Attica 00:06
- [Narrator] Do you think Rockefeller
- The Rockefeller thing, he was just horrified - Betrayal at Attica 00:07
- The Rockefeller thing, he was just horrified
And that's one of the main reasons why he killed them all, - Betrayal at Attica 00:07
And that's one of the main reasons why he killed them a...
(somber haunting music) - Betrayal at Attica 00:04
(somber haunting music)
"You think we're not gonna blow you away?" - Betrayal at Attica 00:05
"You think we're not gonna blow you away?"
He thought that they were gonna come down - Betrayal at Attica 00:08
He thought that they were gonna come down
And that is what the National Guard wanted to do. - Betrayal at Attica 00:05
And that is what the National Guard wanted to do.
They wanted to come out of a helicopter, - Betrayal at Attica 00:10
They wanted to come out of a helicopter,
- [Elizabeth] Here you have a captain in the state police - Betrayal at Attica 00:09
- [Elizabeth] Here you have a captain in the state police
The only thing they do up there is run up and down - Betrayal at Attica 00:06
The only thing they do up there is run up and down
They are not ordinarily assigned to military operations. - Betrayal at Attica 00:05
They are not ordinarily assigned to military operations.