blood-stained items from attica prison riot recall nightmare - blank brass name plates

AUBURN, N. Y. --
Forty-three years later, Raymond Bogart finally recovered his prison guard hat, followed by a large memory of being held hostage during the infamous Attica prison uprising.
Navy blue hat, stained, no sides, and a piece of paper on the liner with Boga's handwritten name written on it.
"I was surprised because the riot was so bad that a lot of people survived. . . .
"It's too bad," 78-year-
Old Bogart was beaten up by a group of prisoners during the five-day uprising in 1971.
Ray Bogart, a former correctional officer who was taken hostage during the Attica prison riot, took the remainder of the uniforms hat worn in the riot that was recently returned to him, New York, October. 7, 2014.
Auburn retiree Heather Ainsworth/Associated Press is one of a dozen state employees or one of their survivors who recently received items collected after the riots, resulting in 11 staff members and
The popular news of Kennedy's death Trump group summoned the full verdict of the Chinese customs officer Eric Ghana, more than 2,000 clothes, badges, glasses, letters and weapons were taken from the mud and blood of Attica and used as evidence in decades of investigation and litigation.
Although they are still in a state of discovery, in some cases they are covered with blood and a faint smell of tear gas, they are physical reminders of the beginning of violence and fear.
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Security prison in rural West New York
The siege is over.
When the national police and guards rushed into the prison, hundreds of bullets were fired into the prison yard, attacking staff and prisoners.
Vickie Smith Menz holds uniform pants worn by her late father, Art Smith, Attica prison guard, while Smith's shirt hangs behind her, at Menz's house in Henrietta, New York, and much more. 30, 2014.
Heather Ainsworth/AP, after catalogued the items at the State Museum in New York, looked at displaying some of them, and corrective officials used the ceremony last month to celebrate the anniversary of the riot, 66 items were provided privately to 12 state employees or their survivors.
It is also planned to return items for prisoners.
The owner's items are placed in oak boxes with brass nameplates.
Items that were not contacted with a specific person, including heating, car keys, locker keys, and wallets, were displayed, hoping that the family would recognize and claim them.
Vickie Menz said her prison caretaker father Arthur Smith, who died in 1995, did not talk about his experience as a hostage.
He only told his family his story once, describing how the prisoner captured him, beat him, threw him in the ditch with others, threatened to douse them with gasoline, and set them on fire.
His story is vivid to Menz as his box contains his navy blue uniform pants, covered with mud, still smells of tear gas, and a torn one
Colored shirts with some buttons torn off.
"It's back to the five days of fear and fear," she said . ".
On October, at the home of Auburn Bogart in New York, former correctional officer Ray Bogart, who was taken hostage during the Attica prison riot, wore and belonged to his badge. 7, 2014.
Heather Ainsworth/AP di Quinn Miller, daughter of correction officer William Quinn, died two days after being injured in the riots without any impact, but worked with the state for two years, help return items to other families.
She said it was difficult to understand their presence and it shocked her to see them for the first time.
"It's absolutely terrible to pick up a shirt and know that the person was hit on the back with bullet holes, blood and mud," Miller said . ".
Other items returned to bojia include his old badge with No engraved on it.
13. His colleagues
The workers often make fun of his bad luck.
Bogart is not superstitious, but he believes that although guilt still makes him cry, he is lucky to survive if there is one.
"Me and this badge, we made it," he said at home while holding a copper shield.
"Thank God.