Big Story Shapes Career Earlier that year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that busing was required to end racial segregation in public schools throughout the country. Demonstrators were protesting the Vietnam War on city streets, and 12,000 of them were arrested during a mass march on Washington, D.C. Daniel Ellsberg was arrested for leaking the Pentagon Papers to the media. Tensions were pulling families apart as the World War II generation was being confronted by the anti-establishment beliefs of its own children. Each day, the Attica riot dominated the national news cycle with banner headlines and lengthy re-
The helicopter that shot tear gas into the prison yard heads in. por ts on the evening news. The riot quick ly became a stand-of f between the inmates and Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s administration. Inmates presented demands. Along with safe passage out of the prison for their leaders, they wanted frequent showers and more than one roll of toilet paper a week. State officials refused to budge, especially following the death of guard Billy Quinn, who had been beaten in the first minutes of the riot. On Saturday, in part because of demands by the inmates for outside witnesses, celebrity activists began showing up at the prison to act as mediators. Civil rights lawyer William Kunstler, Black Panther Bobby
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