Attica Interviews (1971)

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Runtime : 30M

Synopsis

Portable Channel, a community documentary group in Rochester, New York, was one of the first small format video centers to have an ongoing relationship with a PBS affiliate (WXXI). Portapakers interviewed Sinclair Scott, a member of the negotiating team that went into Attica when the prisoners' rebelled at the federal prison in September 1971.

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Sinclair Scott
Sinclair Scott

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