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American Time Bomb: Attica, Sam Melville, and a Son's Search for Answers
By Melville, Joshua
- ISBN
- 9781641605458
- Publisher
- Chicago Review
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Reviewed on August 13, 2021 | Law & Crime
Melville, a record producer who writes about the music industry under the pseudonym Moses Avalon, turns to the subject of his father, Sam Melville, who joined the antiwar movement and helped orchestrate a series of bombings in New York City in 1969. Sam was convicted and imprisoned at Attica; in 1971 he was killed by state police during the infamous Attica Prison uprising. Melville's memories o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
