Encore | Witness to History | Attica: Beyond the Riot, Part 2

The Encore series of the Precinct 444 Podcast is an engaging look back at past Museum programs to find insight into historical and contemporary matters facing law enforcement.In this episode, a revisit of a 2011 Witness to History program, discuss the violent events at Attica Correctional Facility. Scholars and participants are still unravelling the fallout and meaning of the 1971 Attica prison riot.This program has been split into two parts. Part 1 details the growing concerns of prisons across the United States leading up to the Attica Prison Riot, including detailed, first-hand accounts of the early moments by Attica corrections officers, Michael Smith and Donald Almeter. Part 2 continues the experiences of those corrections officers and additional comments from historian and author, Heather Ann Thompson.Part 2 also includes an audio recording between then Governor Nelson Rockefeller and former President Richard Nixon. Featuring:Frank Bond, Former anchor at WUSA-TV in Washington, DCDonald Almeter, corrections officer at Attica PrisonMichael Smith, corrections officer at Attica PrisonHeather Ann Thompson, professor of African-American Studies and History at Temple University, author of Blood In The Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacyhttps://nleomf.org/museum/precinct-444/