Attica: 40 years later, historians debate blame, controversy

"They thought he was some kind of agitator, he was some kind of communist," [Michael Baden] said. "I said, 'I know [John Edland] from Friends of Pathology meetings.' If anything, he was the most conservative of the Friends of Pathology." "I said, 'I can't...

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Published inGannett News Service
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published McLean USA Today, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc 03.09.2011
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Baden, Michael
Cooper, Richard
Edland, John
Lupo, Carl
Rockefeller, Nelson
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Summary:"They thought he was some kind of agitator, he was some kind of communist," [Michael Baden] said. "I said, 'I know [John Edland] from Friends of Pathology meetings.' If anything, he was the most conservative of the Friends of Pathology." "I said, 'I can't just come up here and do autopsies on the corrections guards,' " Baden said. "Part of the reason for the goddamned uprising was the poor way the prisoners felt they were treated in the prison." "We've got a little problem of identification as to how the people were killed," [Nelson Rockefeller] said. "It now looks as though there's some question as to (whether) some of them weren't shot by the troopers."