Melville, Samuel

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"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 hel…

A white, working-class revolutionary, Sam Melville's guerrilla bombings set in motion a flood of armed radical actions across the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Once imprisoned, Melville became a key organizer and a crucial element of the notorious Attica priso…