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Betrayal at Attica

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Duration
4 seconds
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20
Timestamp in Movie
00:39:42
Uploaded
May 24, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Fifth Column Films,HBO,HBO Documentary Films

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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...
"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.
- All right, go right around to the supply truck - Betrayal at Attica 00:04
- All right, go right around to the supply truck
- It's a situation in which lives are at stake. - Betrayal at Attica 00:06
- It's a situation in which lives are at stake.
And my own personal opinion is that if lives are at stake - Betrayal at Attica 00:10
And my own personal opinion is that if lives are at stake
If the state takes the position - Betrayal at Attica 00:07
If the state takes the position
- There has been some of the prison personnel - Betrayal at Attica 00:05
- There has been some of the prison personnel
And we certainly don't wanna see any of our people hurt. - Betrayal at Attica 00:05
And we certainly don't wanna see any of our people hurt...
They knew full well that there was no one injured, - Betrayal at Attica 00:06
They knew full well that there was no one injured,
- Your instructions are - Betrayal at Attica 00:07
- Your instructions are
- [Elizabeth] They chose the state police, - Betrayal at Attica 00:05
- [Elizabeth] They chose the state police,
- [Officer] The hostages are on catwalks - Betrayal at Attica 00:05
- [Officer] The hostages are on catwalks
- [Elizabeth] This was a wholesale murder. - Betrayal at Attica 00:05
- [Elizabeth] This was a wholesale murder.
The head of the state police was on vacation - Betrayal at Attica 00:07
The head of the state police was on vacation
So there was absolutely no reason for him to be there - Betrayal at Attica 00:07
So there was absolutely no reason for him to be there