Overview of the Records
Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
This series includes audio tape recordings and transcripts of public hearings of the New York State Special Commission on
Attica. Transcripts include testimony before the commission of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, Robert R. Douglass (secretary
to the governor), T. Norman Hurd (Director of State Operations), Major General A.C. O'Hara (military chief of staff to the
governor), Howard Shapiro (first assistant counsel to the governor), and Michael Whiteman (counsel to the governor). Audio
tapes include testimony of State Assemblyman Arthur O. Eve, Lynn Johnson (correction officer and hostage), William Kunstler
(defense attorney for prisoners), State Senator John Dunne, Russel Oswald (Commissioner of the Department of Correctional
Services), and Walter Dunbar (Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services).
Creator:
Title:
Special Commission on Attica audiotapes and transcripts of commission hearings
Quantity:
6.75 cubic feet
including 47 audio tapes
1972
Series Number:
B1341