Letters from Attica

by Melville, Samuel

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Title Statements

Full title :Letters from Attica / Samuel Melville.

Summary

"In June 1970, Sam Melville pleased guilty to a series of politically motivated bombings in New York City and was sentenced from 13 to 18 years in jail, His prison odyssey took him from the Federal House of Detention to the Tombs to Sing Sing, and finally to Attica, where he helped lead the massive rebellion of September 9, 1971, and where, four days later, he was shot to death by state police...During nearly two years in prison, Sam wrote letters to his friends, his attorneys, his former wife, his young son. Collected after his death, these letters were not written for publication, To read them is to eavesdrop on a man's soul. Determinedly honest and deeply moving, they reveal much about Sam and evoke sharply the suffering of prisoners in America."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1972.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Morrow
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1972.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 181 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0688060315, 9780688060312
oclc:ocm00277343
LC Classification:HV9475.N716
Dewey Decimal:365/.6/0924

Foreword / by William Kunstler -- Profile of Sam Melville / by Jane Alpert -- Introduction / by John Cohen -- Letters / by Samuel Melville. Federal House of Detention, West Street ; The Tombs ; Sing Sing ; Attica --The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-depression Platform.

Subjects

Attica Correctional Facility Autobiographies Biographies Melville, Samuel New York (State) Personal correspondence Prisoners Prisoners -- Biography. -- New York (St… Prisonniers -- Biographies. -- New York…