In January 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed their protest song “Attica State” on The David Frost Show, sparking a rare live debate with the studio audience. The historic exchange, centered on ...

Lawyer Malcolm Bell was tasked with the prosecution of state police and others who may have committed crimes, including murder, during the violent and deadly retaking of Attica prison on Sept. 13, ...

Robert Douglass served as Counsel and later Secretary to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller from 1965 to 1972. At Rockefeller's request, he was sent to Attica during the uprising to represent the governor ...

ATTICA, N.Y. – On the 18th day of the prison guard strike, a special moment was witnessed outside the walls of the Attica prison. It was a meeting at the prison strike camp with two guards returning ...

John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman has been transferred from the prison where he's spent the last 30 years. Chapman was moved from Attica Correctional Facility to another maximum security jail in ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — More than 40 years after the nation’s bloodiest prison rebellion, newly released documents contain accounts, some never before seen publicly, from National Guardsmen and a doctor ...

John Lennon in 1977 in New York City. In September 1971, the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York became the site of the largest prison uprising in U.S. history. After years of brutal ...

The first episode of MSNBC’s 'David Frost Vs' spotlights John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s heated debate with a studio audience over the deadly Attica prison riots Vinnie Zuffante/Getty In September 1971, ...